Chapter 79

After the King of Han died and Grand General Ji Ji Wuye was killed by Su Xuan on the main street.

The vast Han Guo fell into deep sorrow.

In a short span of time, they had lost their King, lost the country's most solid protector, their God of War.

However, for the common people of this country, the suffering did not end there.

The envoy from Qin Guo, upon arriving at the capital of Han Guo, Xinzheng, was murdered on the main street; the perpetrator was none other than Tian Ze, who had stirred up a storm throughout the city earlier.

It was only after Tian Ze appeared and killed the Qin Guo envoy that the Crown Prince of Han Guo, who was temporarily acting as the sovereign, remembered that the calamity of Tian Ze was not yet over.

Although Han Fei did not know what means he had used to rescue his younger sister Hong Hong Lian, Tian Ze had never been brought to justice and remained at large.

It was also because of the major events that had occurred in succession recently—first the death of the King of Han, then the public killing of Grand General Ji Ji Wuye by Su Xuan—that everyone's hatred had shifted toward Su Xuan, and in their intent to search for Su Xuan's whereabouts, they had overlooked Tian Ze.

However, even if they remembered Tian Ze, it was of no use.

The Qin Guo envoy had already been killed by Tian Ze.

This was not good news for Han Guo.

When the late King was alive and Ji Ji Wuye was still around, Han Guo could not afford to provoke Qin Guo, let alone Han Guo after suffering such turmoil.

At the thought of facing the wrath of Qin Guo.

The Crown Prince of Han Guo could only send people to hurry and apprehend Tian Ze, who had killed the Qin Guo envoy, in preparation to give Qin Guo an explanation.

However, before they could even find Tian Ze's whereabouts.

Another piece of bad news arrived: a new envoy from Qin Guo had already set out and would arrive in Xinzheng in at most two days.

In two days' time, could they catch Tian Ze?

The answer was clearly no.

From the time Tian Ze first appeared and set a great fire in the city until now, they had not been able to catch him, let alone now that Grand General Ji Ji Wuye was dead and the whereabouts of the Blood-Clad Marquis were unknown.

Not to mention the Crown Prince of Han Guo and Chancellor Zhang Kaidi, who were burning with anxiety.

At this moment, Su Xuan was lording it over everyone in one of Ji Ji Wuye's private residences.

Whether the Straw-Cloaked Guest was truly willing to submit or only pretending.

At the very least, the moment he chose to submit, he had already made a compromise, proving that he cared for his own life, and as long as the Straw-Cloaked Guest had no antidote for Lady Mingzhu's gu, it would remain something that kept him in check.

Under the cover of the Night organization, it was basically impossible for the Crown Prince of Han Guo to find Su Xuan's whereabouts.

As for trying to find the whereabouts of Tian Ze, the murderer of the Qin Guo envoy?

That was likely impossible as well.

According to what Su Xuan knew, after killing the Qin Guo envoy, Tian Ze had already led Corpse-Driving Demon, Hundred-Poison King, and Peerless Ghost to leave Xinzheng, preparing to depart Han Guo and return to Regarding Baiyue.

Why did Su Xuan know such things?

Naturally, Yan Yan Lingji had told him.

In the original story, Tian Ze's motive for killing the Qin Guo envoy was hard to say, but right now, his motive was not difficult to understand.

It was nothing more than the fact that his two great enemies, Tian Ze and Ji Ji Wuye, had died one after another, and the King of Han had also died.

All his few enemies were dead, and he could not find a target for his revenge.

But to just give up on revenge, he was somewhat unwilling.

And so, after excluding these enemies, he placed the target of his revenge on the entire Han Guo.

With the strength of one person, he could not destroy Han Guo, but he could bring some trouble to it.

For example, by provoking Qin Guo!

In the private residence, Su Xuan looked at a scroll in his hand, then looked up and glanced at Yan Yan Lingji.

"In other words, he feels that his revenge against Han Guo is about finished, so he chose to return to Regarding Baiyue, preparing to recruit troops there? To take revenge on the King of Regarding Baiyue?"

"Yes." Yan Yan Lingji's expression was somewhat complex; Tian Ze returning to Regarding Baiyue meant he had ultimately not taken her with him.

This meant that Tian Ze had tacitly accepted her becoming Su Xuan's person.

Was this not also Tian Ze recognizing reality?

Whether it was witnessing Su Xuan kill Bai Bai Yifei with his own eyes, or observing Su Xuan slaughter Ji Ji Wuye in secret.

Su Xuan's strength had already filled Tian Ze with genuine fear.

This was a person one could only befriend, not offend.

And in fact, besides this thought, he did indeed harbor gratitude toward Su Xuan.

"He asked me to thank you; if you hadn't killed Bai Bai Yifei, he would never have found the antidote for the gu-insect in Snow-Clad Castle. At the same time, he also wants to thank you for helping him get his revenge."

"Before returning to Regarding Baiyue, he felt this thing was of no use in his hands, so he asked me to pass it to you as a thank-you gift."

"If it were you, perhaps you might be able to find what is on it!"

Yan Yan Lingji slowly relayed Tian Ze's words, and at the same time, she spoke of the object involved in the scroll in her hand.

The four words "Canglong Canglong Qisu" (Seven Residences of the Azure Dragon) were something those in the dark had never heard of, but for those in the know, this secret was of immense importance.

When Tian Ze had just come out of the death row, he had thought of searching for the Canglong Canglong Qisu as capital for his rise.

He had the Corpse-Driving Demon dig up the corpse of Vulture, learned some clues from Vulture's mouth, and then, combined with the secrets he knew, determined the whereabouts of this scroll.

That night, besides attempting to rescue Yan Yan Lingji, having his hands broken by Su Xuan, and kidnapping Princess Hong Hong Lian out of spite, he had actually gone to the cold palace of Zheng Guo before rescuing Yan Yan Lingji and found this map.

After Bai Bai Yifei died, besides healing his wounds and secretly going to Snow-Clad Castle to find the gu antidote, he had also studied this scroll, but in the end, he was disappointed.

Many years had passed since Duke Zhuang of Zheng used the Canglong Canglong Qisu to become a minor hegemon of the Spring and Autumn period.

Before Zheng Guo was destroyed, this scroll had always been in the hands of the Zheng royal family, yet they never managed to fathom its mysteries. Was this because the Zheng royal family were all mediocre and stupid people?

Perhaps there were some stupid ones, but it was impossible for all of them to be fools.

This meant that the mystery of this map could not be fathomed in a short time; there must be other things needed to complement it, and the people of the Zheng royal family back then might have already lost those complementary items.

Tian Ze was a pragmatic person.

Since the Canglong Canglong Qisu could no longer be found, keeping this map in his hands had no value, so he simply gave it to Su Xuan as a thank-you gift.

Su Xuan was skilled in the way of gods and ghosts, and his methods were unfathomable; if it were him, perhaps he could fathom the secrets within.