C19

"After those people were killed, they were brought here to be buried. In order to prevent others from getting sick, Xiao Ruo Ao ordered the burning of all the houses, from then on, the mountain Yin Village became a wasteland, although this temple escaped the fire, it was also abandoned and no one worshipped it ever again."

"Xiao Ruo Ao casually mentioned this to me three years ago. He probably won't be able to guess that we would hide here for a while;

When Dong Fang Su nodded, she suddenly asked, "Can I ask you a question?"

"Me?" Dong Fang Su pointed to himself, "What do you want to know?"

"Legend has it that when the first emperor of the Northern Week founded his country, he formed a mysterious army of shadows. Each of them were experts, and they have been helping him stabilize the Northern Week for many years, controlling the situation of the dynasty and even the borders; more than twenty years later, when the old emperor passed away, the Camping did not disappear, but instead became a sharp sword in the hands of another emperor; the sword is said to be invincible; when I established the Artemisia annulata Lam, I built it according to it, but because the time I set up it was too short, plus the people I recruited from Jianghu could not be compared to the Camping."

"I have heard of this rumor as well, but in all these years, I have never really seen it. It can be seen that the Camping does not even exist." Dong Fang Su lowered his head and fiddled with the fire, his expression could not be seen.

"The Camping is very mysterious. Throughout the generations, other than the Northern Week's current emperor, no one else knew anything about them, not even the crown prince. However, there seems to be something different about this dynasty."

Dong Fang Su frowned, "Oh, what's the difference?"

"Other than Emperor Zhou, there are also Prince s you know about, and they can even be used against Camping s." Dong Fang Su's actions of adding firewood slowed down and returned to normal. He raised his eyebrows and said: "Does Princess think that Shi Wu and the rest are from Camping?"

Dong Fang Su looked at her for a while, then shook his head: "I don't know why Princess had such an idea, but Shi Wu and the others are all orphans I took in by accident once in my early years. There are only a few of them, and they have nothing to do with Camping.

"Perhaps their answers are the same as the Prince's, but this will not affect my opinion, they are definitely from there."

After a brief moment of silence, Dong Fang Su asked, "Why is Princess so certain?"

"When I first recruited Yan Zhong Shan, I spoke to him for a while. He told me that starting from the age of five to six, Shi Wu practiced martial arts hard every day, until he was thirty years old, he had mastered it, and this is even under the condition that he has good Innate Ability. If it was an ordinary person, at most, he would have attained it at the age of thirty, and the eleven people you brought were around twenty years old, yet their martial arts were all inferior to Yan Zhong Shan's.

"Just because of this?"

"One more thing. When we were escaping from the capital, I told you to instruct seventeen to be in charge of preventing any trouble. He should understand that this is a certain death situation, but he did not show any signs of fear or hesitation."

Dong Fang Su looked at Mu Qian Xue darkly, "The things you see are the best, and you're good at anticipating the enemy's advance, so there's nothing left to consider. No wonder he wanted you dead!"

Mu Qian Xue's heart twitched, she knew who this "he" was referring to, "Am I right?"

Dong Fang Su slightly clenched his teeth, and said seriously: "That's right, Shi Wu and the others are The people of the god's camp."

The corner of Mu Qian Xue's mouth curved slightly, "Even though today was tough, being able to meet the legendary Camping is still a pleasant surprise."

Dong Fang Su's eyes became as profound as water, "You... Can you keep this secret for me? "

Mu Qian Xue could sense the problem in his words, "Is there anything else?"

Dong Fang Su nodded, "In fact, you are the first one to know that the Camping is in my hands after royal father passed away."

Mu Qian Xue carefully chewed it for a while before asking in astonishment, "You don't even know about Emperor Zhou?"

"Yes, when royal father is about to die, he gave me the Camping to command. He also made me swear not to let anyone know that the Camping was in my hands, even royal brother was no exception."

Mu Qian Xue frowned: "Why would Emperor Cheng do such a thing?" The Emperor Cheng was the official title of the previous emperor of the Northern Week.

Although outsiders knew very little about the Camping, but they had always known one thing, and that was that ever since the Northern Week was established, the Camping had always been a sharp sword in the hands of those in power, and only those in power have the qualifications to control it.

"I also asked royal father, but he refused to say anything. He only told me to guard this secret properly, and that I couldn't reveal even a single word of it to the matriarch." As he spoke till here, Dong Fang Su said with a wry smile: "However, royal father never expected that you would be able to see through it with one glance."

"I still need you to avenge me, so I will naturally keep this a secret for you. I'm only afraid that I'm not the only one who saw through the identity of your guards."

"Nope." Dong Fang Su answered too quickly. Curiosity surfaced in his heart, "Why are you so sure?"

"In fact, after I took over the Camping two years ago, other than Shi Jiu, this was the first time I saw anyone else, and Shi Jiu had never shown his skills in front of anyone else."

Mu Qian Xue asked in surprise: "Are you saying that before coming to the West Chu, you have never used the Camping?"

In these two years, if I did not see Shi Jiu frequently, I would have forgotten about the matter regarding him, until a few days ago, Brother Mu came to me for help. Although brother Mu promised me that she would send Jiang Yue to get him, but since Xiao Ruo Ao had annihilated the entire Nanzhao, how could I let you go? Even if he fears the might of the Northern Week and does not dare to openly offend Shi Jiu, he still has a lot of excuses. "

"So you transferred the Camping?"

"Brother Mu and I are close friends, I don't want him to lose even her one and only kin; but this time it's really dangerous, if not for your arrangement long ago, using Jiang Yue to lure Yan Zhong Shan away, we would already be surrounded by the Artemisia annulata Lam and it would be difficult for us to leave the Ying Tian."

Just as Yan Zhong Shan had thought, whether it was Jiang Yue or the disguised gate warden, both were arranged by him.