"Your Majesty, rest assured. I have a plan for this matter, and I believe the National Master has personally gone to investigate. When he returns, I am confident he will have a foolproof thod."
Upon hearing the first half, the young emperor was indeed relieved, but upon hearing the second half... his confidence wavered.
"Those children are locked in the cellar in the backyard of Philanthropist Xu’s house in Nanyang Town. Why don’t we rescue them first? That way, they won’t be able to conduct their heavenly sacrifice, and their plan will be thwarted!"
"Your Majesty, if it were that simple, surely you would have done so the mont you received the news?"
The young emperor was speechless.
He touched his nose. Wasn’t he just afraid that the National Master’s Power might not asure up to that undying old man from Nanjiang? If we had received the news earlier, the National Master might have been able to ask his sect for help. Perhaps even a high-ranking Profound Sect Grandmaster could have assisted. But the news they received was simply too late. Considering the depth of the Great Wizard’s Power from Nanjiang, he himself was breaking out in a cold sweat for the National Master!
"It’s not that I don’t want to capture the Great Wizard of Nanjiang and resolve this once and for all. The problem is, apart from the National Master, no one else around understands such Profound Sect techniques. You esteed recluses all consider yourselves above worldly affairs, unwilling to serve the imperial court. Now I have no one capable to turn to."
The young emperor suddenly started complaining to Ji Youyuan. This implicitly dropped the matter of his earlier insistence on punishing the Ji Family for the cri of deceiving the emperor.
Ji Youyuan narrowed his eyes, not intending to respond.
However, the young emperor kept staring at his legs, the look in his eyes exceedingly complex.
"I heard that after your leg injury, you can no longer use Illusion Techniques, nor can you engage in martial arts. Is that true?"
"It’s true!" Ji Youyuan answered without a mont’s hesitation.
The young emperor fell silent.
All hope was lost... National Master! I can’t help you. I’ll just have to look forward to your performance tomorrow!
"Your Majesty! Suisui’s identity... can you help conceal it from the National Master?"
This was Ji Youyuan’s primary objective. If the little girl ca to the National Master’s attention, it would be tantamount to exposing her to the entire world.
"I can! But you must promise that the Ji Family will continue as before. When the court needs you, you absolutely cannot shirk your duty!"
Ji Youyuan nodded. "Naturally. Besides, hasn’t my youngest brother already taken the imperial examinations this year?"
"Hmm! He’s a good lad, indeed. Unlike you, you ungrateful fellow. I had hoped so much for you to return to the capital and lend a hand, but you... Ah, forget it. Let’s not speak of this anymore. You must fight well in tomorrow’s battle!"
"Your Majesty, there’s still the National Master!"
"Sigh! It’s not that I don’t trust the National Master’s capabilities; it’s just that old undying fellow from Nanjiang has lived far too long."
The Nanjiang Great Wizard’s line of succession and Cultivation Techniques differ from other sects. The inheritances of the major sects in the Central Plains require disciples to cultivate step by step, accumulating Power bit by bit from a young age. In Nanjiang, however, the Great Wizard directly infuses all his Power into a chosen successor, one with exceptional innate talent and constitution. Therefore, Nanjiang’s Great Wizards can be said to be born with decades, or even centuries, of Power.
After Ji Youyuan finished speaking with the young emperor, Xiaosuisui ca running over, clutching two lotus flowers. Her clothes were soaked, and her face was sared with mud.
"Uncle! Lotuses, pretty!"
Ji Youyuan used a handkerchief to wipe the mud from her face. "How did you get so dirty? Did you fall in?"
Hearing Ji Youyuan’s question, the hidden guard who had accompanied Xiaosuisui to pick flowers trembled. He had been protecting her carefully, but in the blink of an eye, the little girl had fallen in.
He couldn’t shake the feeling that the little girl had jumped in herself. But he hadn’t been paying close attention at that exact mont and hadn’t seen clearly, so he couldn’t be certain.
"I went for a swim! Uncle, this Lotus Pond is no good, the water isn’t clean!"
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