Chapter 69

Or was it because Su Xuan had revealed the truth about Liu Yi's death, and Ji Wuye, as the mastermind, had become angry from embarrassment, so he prepared to kill to silence him?

If Mo Ya's assassination attempt had succeeded, it would naturally have been a good thing for Ji Wuye.

But it had failed.

This made him extremely passive for a moment.

No, to be precise, from the moment Su Xuan entered the palace, he had been in a passive state.

Passively abandoning Jade Tiger, passively bearing the charge of murdering Liu Yi.

Such things, in the past, would have been impossible to happen.

Night falls over the State of Han; he is the master of the Night, the emperor in the darkness of this country. Anyone who dares to defy his will can be killed or spared by him.

"Su Xuan, Su Xuan..."

Ji Wuye kept muttering this name, his posture one of gnashing his teeth.

However, at this moment, he could only gnash his teeth like this.

Mo Ya was the leader of the Hundred Birds organization, with considerable strength, and even he had died at Su Xuan's hands. Relying solely on the remaining few of the Hundred Birds to deal with Su Xuan was clearly a pipe dream.

In other words, he didn't have any experts under his command capable of killing Su Xuan.

According to this trash Bai Feng, Su Xuan had killed Mo Ya with one sword, and the Vulture had also died at Su Xuan's hands earlier.

Su Xuan's strength made Ji Wuye quite alarmed.

"Let you be proud for a few days; you won't be proud for long!"

Ji Wuye thought to himself.

After Liu Yi died, he had already sent a message to the Blood-Clad Marquis, Bai Yifei.

Liu Yi, as the Left Sima, was a high-ranking military and political official. His death had weakened Ji Wuye's influence in the court, especially over the military, so he had to recall his most capable assistant to reverse the disadvantage.

The Blood-Clad Marquis, Bai Yifei, was already on his way back to the capital.

As long as Bai Yifei returned, the only thing waiting for Su Xuan would be defeat and death.

However, before that, he still had to do one thing: deal with the Han Wang's interrogation.

Su Xuan was intercepted and killed on his way back to the palace, and the interceptor was his subordinate. This matter, in terms of reason and logic, had to be given an explanation to the Han Wang.

Thinking of this, Ji Wuye looked at Bai Feng with anger again.

It was all because of this trash!

As Ji Wuye expected, the Han Wang's interrogation arrived unexpectedly.

When Su Xuan and Han Jiuli and the others returned to the palace with the Vulture's corpse.

The Han Wang was first excited that Su Xuan had killed the Vulture at Liu Yi's residence.

The Vulture's death meant that Liu Yi's case could be closed.

The murderer hidden in the shadows had been eradicated; it was truly a joyous and congratulatory thing.

Immediately after, he learned that Su Xuan had been ambushed on his way back to the palace, and the person who intercepted Su Xuan was Mo Ya, the leader of the Hundred Birds organization who had entered the palace earlier to be interrogated.

This was a personal guard under Ji Wuye's command.

He appeared abruptly to intercept Su Xuan—what was his intention?

For a moment, the Han Wang was both fearful, worried that something might happen to Su Xuan, and couldn't help but suspect: could Liu Yi's death really be related to Ji Wuye?

The Vulture who murdered Liu Yi was Ji Wuye's subordinate.

Now, after the Vulture was killed by Su Xuan, Ji Wuye's people came to intercept Su Xuan.

This really looked like killing to silence!

Because Su Xuan was by his side, the Han Wang immediately promised to seek justice for Su Xuan. He wanted to see what Ji Wuye really wanted to do.

He immediately sent an envoy to Ji Wuye's mansion to interrogate him.

Not long after, the envoy brought back Ji Wuye's words.

The meaning was roughly that he had been lax in discipline; Mo Ya and the Vulture had long been in collusion, intending to plot for Liu Yi's wealth. Today in the palace, Mo Ya claimed the Vulture had escaped, but in reality, it was he who had secretly reported the news, which allowed the Vulture to escape.

After Ji Wuye returned, he discovered the clues, but before he could deal with Mo Ya, Mo Ya had already made his move.

Perhaps it was because he saw the Vulture killed by Su Xuan, and in his grief and indignation, he chose to intercept Su Xuan.

Because in his view, the matter he and the Vulture had plotted was originally foolproof, and it was all Su Xuan who ruined their good deeds.

Dead people cannot speak.

Even if Mo Ya had worked hard for Ji Wuye in the past and was a subordinate Ji Wuye valued, once he was dead, he lost all value. Facing the Han Wang's interrogation, Ji Wuye simply pushed all the blame onto Mo Ya.

As for Su Xuan mastering the art of communicating with the netherworld and being able to summon ghosts to answer questions?

For ordinary people, the art of communicating with the netherworld is extremely mysterious.

But Ji Wuye, as the initial mastermind of the Ghost Soldier case, knew very well that there were never any ghost soldiers, so Su Xuan's art of communicating with the netherworld was completely a scam, and he didn't care if this statement was exposed.

In the final analysis, all the Han Wang needed was an answer.

The facts were indeed so.

After receiving Ji Wuye's reply, although the Han Wang still showed anger in front of Su Xuan, he did not excessively pursue Ji Wuye's guilt.

Everything was settled and quieted down.

Su Xuan also noticed this.

"It seems that even the Han Wang is extremely wary of Ji Wuye and does not favor him as much as it appears on the surface!"

Why does the Han Wang favor Ji Wuye?

Isn't it because Ji Wuye's power is too great? If he offends Ji Wuye too much, the loss will outweigh the gain.

Therefore, the Han Wang pretends to favor Ji Wuye on one hand, while secretly supporting the opposition led by Zhang Kaidi on the other, to achieve a balance of power, thereby restraining Ji Wuye, and at the same time, not missing any opportunity to strike at Ji Wuye's forces.

Su Xuan, at this moment, has seen the truth.

The Han Wang, although seemingly stupid and incompetent, is after all a king. Having sat in that position for so many years, he ultimately has some depth of character. ===== CHAPTER 71 =====