Chapter 633 - A Hidden Backer
Lin Mu was surprised that the other council members had accepted Jingming Shang’s words so quickly.
’So the saying merchants will sell their mothers and children if it bring them fortune is true, huh...’ Lin Mu thought to himself.
Putting these thoughts aside for now, Lin Mu focused on the task at hand and continued to observe the council.
"Well, then who wants to start first?" Jingming Shang questioned.
He gazed around at the council and finally settled on the old man who had spoken the first time.
"Why doesn’t senior Shantung start first? You are the oldest of us all, so this honor should go to you," Jingming Shang said with a thin smile.
The old man who was named Shantung didn’t mind Jingming Shang pushing him at the front and took it with ease.
"So I’ll reveal to you all that we have a backer currently willing to get a seat in the merchant council. While we could add another seat while keeping the Mu clan in there, getting the approval from the royal family will be difficult." Shantung said.
"Is that why you want to remove the Mu clan from the council?" One of the middle aged men who wore a single earring on his right ear asked.
"If it was like that, I would have long since done it. But no... the backer wants something else... they want the seat of the Mu clan specifically. In simple words, they do not want the Mu Clan to exist." Shantung revealed.
"Miss Fen... you must have had a reason to act in favor of the Mu clan, right? What was it? We know Senior Shantung’s side and now let’s see yours." Jingming Shang questioned.
Miss Fen, who had a slightly lost look on her face, looked at Jingming Shang and the rest of the council before taking a deep breath.
"The reason why I acted in favor of the Mu clan was because of a rumor..." Miss Fen stated.
"A rumor? What kind of a rumor?" the council members asked.
"A few years ago, I heard a rumor about the Mu clan. It is said that their clan is actually an offshoot of an ancient clan of the continent. I don’t know how much you all know about the history of the world... about the five great continents." Miss Fen replied.
"The five great continents... You mean before the unification of the Great Zhou Empire?" Jingming Shang questioned.
"YES!" Miss Fen responded. "As the history goes, there were once five great continents in this world of ours, the northern, the eastern, the western, the southern and the central continent. Among these five continents, the great Zhou empire is currently composed of only three of them.
Namely, the southern continent, the eastern continent and the central continent. The northern continent is the territory of the Northern tribes while the western continent... it doesn’t exist anymore." Miss Fen revealed.
"What?! Is this really true? I’ve never heard of this before." The middle aged man with the earring said feeling shocked.
Jingming Shang didn’t say anything and sat in silence. Nobody knew what was going on in his mind right now. Lin Mu was intrigued by hearing this all as well and wondered what else he would find out.
’This is the first time I’m seeing someone else other than Jing Wei speaking about the history of this world. So for no other person I met knows much about the existence of the five continents...’ Lin Mu thought.
Lin Mu was even more intrigued due to the fact that the Mu clan was rumored to be the offshoot of an ancient clan. He wanted to know what kind of a clan could they be from that Miss Fen was willing to help them.