Chapter 772 - Plan

Chapter 772 - Plan

“How did Xuan Pin die? What happened to them while I was fighting Ma Tuo?”

Li Huowang wanted to know urgently. Did Xuan Pin and the others fight against the other Simings even though they were weak, or was it another ambush from the Dharma Sect?

Both scenarios were possible, but the former was less probable.

Xuan Pin was the Chief of the Surveillance Bureau. He clearly knew about the Simings' strength, and they were not idiots who would charge into the Baiyu Capital to fight the Simings.

Li Huowang was worried that the Dharma Sect had ambushed Xuan Pin. He never thought the Dharma Sect would have the power to both summon Ma Tuo to distract him and ambush Xuan Pin.

If that was the case, the Dharma Sect’s strength had far exceeded everyone’s expectations. They could swoop in and kill everyone if they wanted.

It would also mean that the Dharma Sect retreated not because they were defeated, but rather because they wanted to regroup and recover their strength. That way, they could destroy the Liang Kingdom in one fell swoop.

They really couldn’t lose now. Si Qi, Qing Qiu, Hou Shu, and the Liang Kingdom were all allied now. If they lost, the Dharma Sect would dominate the entire land, and they would end up like the Qi Kingdom.

The deputy chief did not reply to Li Huowang’s question. They whispered among each other while looking at Gao Zhijian from time to time to ask for permission.

“Let me tell you what happened. The deputy chiefs don’t know what happened because there were certain things that even Xuan Pin did not tell them.”

An unfamiliar voice came from the group of people. Li Huowang stood up and noticed a man sitting in the corner. The man was wearing an oversized Nuo opera mask.

Li Huowang recognized the massive Nuo opera mask depicting two distorted faces stacked on top of one another. It was the Chief of Hou Shu’s Surveillance Bureau, Zhang Tan. He had survived since he hadn’t gone with Xuan Pin.

“Xuan Pin observed earthly and celestial signs to predict that there would be chaos in the Baiyu Capital. He came up with a plan to use three Dragon Veins as the base of an array to help the Simings fight against god Yu’er. Don’t ask me how—I don’t know how he did it. Xuan Pin’s techniques are very mysterious.”

“Wait, which Simings did he try to help?”

“Did the Lamas have a method to defeat the Dharma Sect?”

Li Huowang drank his cold tea as he looked at the Lamas heading out to find someone.

“Senior Li, why are you wearing Xuan Pin’s robes?” Bai Lingmiao asked curiously.

Li Huowang felt the robes on his body and pondered before saying, “They’re thick and don’t burn up.”

Li Huowang touched the flowing runes on the red robes gently. “Xuan Pin is already dead, so he does not need them anyway.”

He wasn’t superstitious, so he didn’t mind wearing a dead person's clothes as long as they held value to him.

The robes could also shrink or enlarge freely, and there was the added benefit of fooling the Dharma Sect into thinking that Xuan Pin was still alive.

The Lama brought someone into the inner palace while Li Huowang placed his teacup down. The Lama had brought in an old man with white eyes. He held onto a white banner and trembled every time he walked forward.

Li Huowang stared without any reservation but found nothing special about the old man.

He was still thinking about what was happening when the blind old man kneeled on the ground and kowtowed to the direction Gao Zhijian was in with the help of a eunuch. The old man then took out an old tortoise shell scribbled with various runes from his bag.

The old man fished out several coins and threw them into the tortoise shell while he chanted mysteriously. He then shook the tortoise shell with the coins clinking inside.

Once he was done, he swung the tortoise shell downwards. Eight coins flew out, with six facing heads up and two facing tails up.

The blind man touched the coins with his wrinkled hands and revealed a joyous expression. He kneeled on the ground and started kowtowing in a random direction. “Your Highness! This is the divination of great fortune!”

“Oh my god!” Li Huowang pressed his temples with pain and stood up. “What the fuck are you guys doing? The situation is dire! Can you stop being superstitious? Can you really kill the Dharma Sect with your divination?!”