Chapter 83 83: Commander Xu Shan

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An unknown amount of time had passed since Yu Ming's body was buried in the Sacred Sanctum on the Solace Mountain where every family member of the Yu Family was buried, including all the previous Palace Masters.

It was a completely isolated place. And not many people could reach this place, since only people with the Yu Family's Bloodline could reach this place.

Many great ancestors of the Celestial Palace were buried in this place, who used to be the strongest warriors of their time at a time. It was said that their strength wasn't weaker than the overlords of the Celestial Realm at all.

The reason Celestial Palace had risen so much, was greatly thanks to their efforts as well.

The Sanctum was often unchanging and silent. However, something was changing here at the moment.

Yu Ming's body was lying lifelessly. He had no storage rings or treasures on his body. However, despite that, there was a strange aura surrounding him.

A pitch black light was covering his entire body. The pitch black light gathered above Yu Ming, condensing into a pitch black book that floated above his head.

Unfortunately, there was no one here to be able to see that change. No one knew what changes the Sanctum was going through.

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In another place, the discussion and the planned strategy was completed. The Celestial Palace Master was somewhat unconvinced, since most of the ideas that they adopted were given to them by Xu Shan.

He couldn't find any flaws in those plans, but he still felt a little awkward that he was letting a youngster influence the plans to such an extent.

Unfortunately for him, throughout the meeting, the Eternal Emperor maintained a calm expression on his face, as if he was willing to let Xu Shan play around. In any case, he didn't worry about anything. He had faith in his strength.

Surprisingly, many strange decisions were also taken in that meeting which no one knew about. And one such decision was something that the Celestial Palace Master still couldn't believe he approved.

According to what was agreed upon, the Celestial Palace wasn't going to attack the Qin Dynasty! Not all of them, at least.

The Celestial Palace forces were to be split in two. It was the same case for the Eternal Palace forces. And thus, four smaller armies were created.

However, what was truly crazy was that the control of two of these four forces was handed over to Xu Shan! For some reason, the Eternal Emperor placed a lot of trust in his son.

The Celestial Palace Master really wanted to say no to this. Unfortunately, the plan that Xu Shan came up with, left him no room. However, he still made sure to get the First Great Elder of the Celestial Palace to enter Xu Shan's team.

Xu Shan didn't have strength. However, the thinking abilities that he revealed were enough to make him a commander. On the other hand, the First Elder of the Celestial Palace, and Ye Han were the deputy commanders of the two forces.

What was even more shocking was that the two forces that Xu Shan asked for, were the weakest out of the four that were created!

Even though the plan appeared to make sense, the Celestial Palace Master was still convinced that something was amiss. That's why he assigned the First Great Elder to accompany Xu Shan to keep an eye on him, and keep reporting back to him.

On the other hand, the Eternal Emperor assigned Ye Han to Xu Shan's forces for the same reason, along with making sure that Xu Shan was protected at all cost!

In fact, strangely enough, without Xu Shan's knowledge, he had also assigned some great Generals to keep Xu Shan safe, without revealing themselves.

Their purpose wasn't to get involved in the war, but only to protect Xu Shan, whenever his life was in danger.

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"Are you sure you want to move forward with this plan?"

It was midnight. Xu Shan was walking in the Celestial Palace, accompanying his father.

Now that his father was here, and he was allied with the Celestial Palace, he had all the access that he could've asked for. There were no Celestial Palace people keeping an eye on him anymore.

Moreover, now there was no Disciple in the Celestial Palace who even dared to look down on Xu Shan. If anything, even the Great Elders of the Celestial Palace had to be careful when talking to Xu Shan, since they had seen how much the Eternal Emperor favored the Third Son of his.

There were already rumors about this, but they realized that the rumors had underestimated the Emperor's love towards his son.

Xu Shan nodded in response to his father's question.

"This is the only way we will win that war against him," Xu Shan spoke. Initially, he didn't want to reveal his skills or that would've made his father suspicious.

However, he had no choice. He couldn't take the risk anymore since his future was on the line! He had to end this war within two weeks and then leave to retrieve the Celestial Lotus!

He couldn't leave this to his Father and the Celestial Palace Master. Since Qin Ye had the Book of Destiny, he could always realize their plans.

The only thing that countered the Book of Destiny, was his Book of Desires. Even though Qin Ye could still see the future, but Xu Shan was a variable. And this variable was what he was planning to use to win this war!

He was sure that only he could defeat Emperor Qin in the Celestial Realm!

The Eternal Emperor gazed at his son for quite some time, but didn't speak anything.

In fact, Xu Shan already expected him to ask about his sudden changes. However, the Eternal Emperor didn't ask anything.

He already knew that Qin Ye wasn't the one who had kidnapped the Saintess in the Eternal Dynasty. It was his son at that time. However, he didn't ask about that either.

Even Xu Shan wanted to ask him why he wasn't asking any questions. However, he remained silent as well, as if they had an understanding of some kind.

"If there are any dangers, just retreat. Don't risk your life..." The Emperor commented.

Xu Shan smiled in response, nodding. Everything he was doing was to survive. Everyone who had enmity with him, everyone who could become a threat in the future for him, everyone who wanted him dead....he wanted to remove all of them while they were still weak!

In this life, he only had one goal... To survive!