Chapter 858

Zhang Ning, sitting in front of Duan Yu, looked back at Duan Yu with a slightly uneasy expression.

Duan Yu nodded with a smile and said: "Don't worry, I am here."

A simple "I am here" immediately made Zhang Ning's hanging heart feel as if it had landed.

Outside the tent, the small and large Qu-commanders of the Heishan Camp and the Bohai Camp, led by Zhang Niujiao, Chu Yan, Zhang Baiqi, Guan Hai, Guan Cheng, and others, lined up in two rows.

And Cheng Yu, who had been disguised as the Dongjun Huang Jin Army, was also among them.

If Cheng Yu didn't say it himself, anyone who saw the eight-foot-tall Cheng Yu would think he was a martial general.

Adding Jia Dong and others, they were divided into three rows and walked into the tent.

When the people who walked into the tent saw Zhang Ning, they knelt on the ground one after another and saluted Zhang Ning.

"We pay our respects to the Saintess!"

"We pay our respects to the Saintess!"

"We pay our respects to the Saintess!"

Zhang Ning nodded slightly, then raised her hand and rolled up the sleeve of her yellow dress: "All of you, rise."

The generals then rose one after another.

After the generals rose, their gazes all skipped over Zhang Ning and fell on Duan Yu.

There was no way around it; Duan Yu's physique and the aura he emitted were too eye-catching.

Just that nine-foot physique, even though he was sitting there, emitted an extremely powerful sense of oppression.

And the generals present, not to mention being battle-hardened, were all people who had experienced life and death and had fought on the battlefield.

Such people often had very sensitive intuition.

The aura emitted by Duan Yu undoubtedly told everyone.

This man sitting there, who seemed as if he were asleep, had an extremely dangerous aura.

"Calling everyone here today is actually to announce two important things."

Zhang Ning took a deep breath, her eyes a bit sad.

As soon as Zhang Ning spoke, the generals' gazes were withdrawn and looked at Zhang Ning again.

"My father..."

"Your Great Virtuous Teacher..."

"Has passed away."

After saying this, Zhang Ning closed her eyes, and tears slid down from the corners of her eyes.

Once these words were spoken, it was as if there was not even the sound of breathing in the entire tent.

In an instant, everyone widened their eyes and opened their mouths.

It was not until several breaths later that the standing generals reacted.

"Great Virtuous Teacher..."

Zhang Niujiao widened his eyes and looked at Zhang Ning: "Great Virtuous Teacher... has the Great Virtuous Teacher passed away?"

Zhang Ning nodded painfully.

How could this be!

Zhang Niujiao thought he had heard wrong.

Beside Zhang Niujiao, Guan Hai knelt on the ground with a thud.

His eyes were dull.

It was as if his spirit and energy had been drained in an instant.

Muttering in his mouth: "Great Virtuous Teacher..."

Jia Dong, standing in front of Cheng Yu, wiped away his tears at this time and also knelt on the ground.

"The Great Virtuous Teacher sacrificed to the Yellow Heaven with his heart's blood, exhausting his lifespan to point out the way forward for us; how great he is."

"Great Virtuous Teacher!" Jia Dong cried while shouting: "It is we who have implicated you."

Guan Ning, behind Guan Hai, including Zhang Niujiao and others, all knelt on the ground at once.

Zhang Ning, with teary eyes, reached out and pulled off the white cloth covering something raised on the table in front of her.

It was Zhang Jiao's spirit tablet carved from purple sandalwood.

At the very top of the spirit tablet, three characters were carved horizontally.

Taiping Dao.

Below that, in order: Spirit Tablet of the Great Virtuous Teacher Zhang Jiao.

Such things were not a joke.

Moreover, the person who said this was Zhang Jiao's daughter.

Zhang Ning collected her grief and said: "Actually, Father passed away on the night after the sacrifice."

"The reason why the death was kept secret was because Father was worried, worried that after the news of his death spread, it would be unfavorable for the Taiping Dao believers to migrate to Liangzhou."

Zhang Ning's words quickly caused the generals to think.

Being able to serve as a Qu-commander of tens of thousands of people, commanding them, could be said to have a certain element of luck.

But it was impossible to rely entirely on luck.

If one said that everyone was as extremely smart as Jia Xu and Li Ru, that was pure nonsense.

But at the very least, these people were not stupid.

Just as Zhang Ning said, if the news of Zhang Jiao's death had been announced at that time in Xiaquyang, it would have definitely caused chaos.