pjbooks Chapter 39 The Terrifying Dark Pavilion
Chapter 39 The Terrifying Dark Pavilion
Ying Chen nodded and said, "General Chen Cong is a pillar of our Great Qin, and I have long admired him. Therefore, after the crisis at Zhenman Pass was resolved, I proposed to recruit him. However, your father did not give me an answer immediately, but said that he would give me an answer after he had thought it over..."
Ying Chen shook his head with some regret.
"Oh dear! Father is so foolish!"
Why hesitate when you have such a great opportunity?
"Your Highness, rest assured, I will certainly persuade my father to join your ranks as soon as possible..."
Chen Feng first regretted his father's foolishness, and then assured Ying Chen.
Ying Chen nodded in satisfaction, patted Chen Cong on the shoulder, and said, "Of course I believe in you..."
"Once you win over your father, I will host a welcome banquet for you both!"
"Yes, Your Highness! I will certainly live up to Your Highness's expectations!"
Chen Feng quickly bowed and greeted him.
"Alright! Go! I will send the Imperial Guards to escort you back to Zhenman Pass..."
Ying Chen nodded and said with a smile.
"Your subordinate takes his leave!"
Chen Feng slowly left the study. Outside, dozens of Imperial Guards were already waiting.
"Greetings, General Chen!"
When the Imperial Guards saw Chen Feng come out, they clasped their hands in greeting.
"We have received orders to escort General Chen to Zhenman Pass..."
Chen Feng looked curious. He was very curious about this special organization under Ying Chen's command. As far as he knew, Lu Bing, who had accompanied him back, was the leader of this organization, and Lu Bing was a super strong expert at the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm...
Therefore, the Embroidered Uniform Guard he commanded must have been very powerful...
He stared intently, and saw that all the dozens of Imperial Guards present were at the late Foundation Establishment stage, roughly the same level as he had been before...
This made him gasp in astonishment. How did the King of Liang manage to do this? Not only did he have 200,000 late-stage Foundation Establishment cavalry, but even ordinary members of other forces possessed this level of cultivation...
At this moment, he felt even more keenly the unfathomable depths of the King of Liang...
He felt even greater awe towards it, and dared not harbor the slightest dissent...
Chen Feng nodded and said, "Thank you all for your trouble. Let's go! We'll complete His Highness's mission as soon as possible and return to report back to him..."
The Imperial Guard nodded, then took out a flying boat from his storage ring, gestured for Chen Feng to board, and said, "General Chen, please board the flying boat!"
Chen Feng directly channeled his spiritual power and flew onto the flying boat. The Imperial Guards followed one after another, and soon the flying boat slowly rose into the air and flew rapidly towards Zhenman Pass.
Not long after Chen Feng left the study, Lu Bing returned.
"Your Highness, I have already sent the old eunuch onto the flying ship, and it has already set off back to the capital..."
Lu Bing said to Ying Chen.
Ying Chen nodded and said, "I really didn't expect an old eunuch in the palace to be able to produce 100,000 mid-grade spirit stones. I really underestimated the money-making ability of those people in the capital..."
Ying Chen said with a cold smile.
Even when he was the sixth prince in the capital, he didn't have 100,000 mid-grade spirit stones in savings, which shows how greedy this old eunuch was...
They were even richer than the princes.
"By the way, how's the Dark Pavilion doing?"
Suddenly, Ying Chen seemed to have thought of something and spoke up.
"These past few days, the Embroidered Uniform Guard has destroyed many branches of the Dark Pavilion. The Dark Pavilion's headquarters in the Qin Dynasty can no longer sit idly by and has dispatched many powerful individuals. Based on the tracks of those individuals, they have already located the Dark Pavilion's headquarters in the Qin Dynasty..."
Lu Bing said respectfully.
"Oh? Where is it?"
Ying Chen looked up and asked.
"In a mountain range in Qizhou, a place rarely visited by people, it is an ideal hiding place for the Dark Pavilion's headquarters..."
Lu Bing replied respectfully.
"Qizhou?"
Ying Chen felt that Quanzhou was somewhat familiar, as if he had heard of it somewhere before.
Suddenly, a thought flashed through Ying Chen's mind: it seemed that the ancestral home of the Qi family, one of the three great families of the Great Qin Dynasty and the maternal clan of the Second Prince Ying Luo, was in Quanzhou...
The three great families of Qin have profound foundations, and none of them can rival the royal family. However, if the three families join forces, even the royal family will have to think twice.
Because each of the three major families has a Nascent Soul stage expert in charge, there are at least three Nascent Soul stage experts in total. And this is only the number on the surface; behind the scenes, no one knows whether they have any more Nascent Soul stage experts...
Therefore, the royal family generally doesn't oppose the three major families, and women from these families often marry into the royal family. For example, the Crown Prince's wife is the eldest daughter of the Su family, one of the three major families, and Ying Chen's adoptive father even married women from all three families...
This is also why he was able to ascend to the throne of Qin Shi Huang; with the support of the three major families, even the royal patriarch had to take him seriously...
"Is there any connection between this secret chamber and the Qi family...?"
Ying Chen said in a deep voice.
"Your Highness is wise!"
Lu Bing flattered, "According to the investigation by the Embroidered Uniform Guard, the Dark Pavilion does indeed have some shady dealings with the Qi family. The Qi family provides the Dark Pavilion with a base, while the Dark Pavilion helps the Qi family eliminate those who pose a threat to the Qi family..."
"Qizhou wasn't originally called Qizhou; it was called Quanzhou. However, when the imperial court sent officials to Quanzhou, those who weren't members of the Qi family all died inexplicably. The court had no choice but to appoint members of the Qi family to important military and political positions in Quanzhou. Gradually, the entire Quanzhou came under the control of the Qi family, and eventually, it was even renamed Qizhou..."
"In Qizhou, the Qi family's orders even supersede imperial authority..."
Lu Bing recounted all the intelligence gathered by the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
Ying Chen frowned slightly. He hadn't expected the Qi family to have such methods. No wonder they were one of the three great families of Qin.
"How many Nascent Soul stage experts does the Qi family and the Dark Pavilion have in total?"
Then, Ying Chen asked another question, which was also the question he cared about the most.
After pondering for a moment, Lu Bing said, "The Qi family has a powerful expert at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm on the surface, but according to the investigation by the Embroidered Uniform Guard, there is also an ancestor at the middle stage of the Nascent Soul realm in the Qi family's ancestral land."
"The Dark Pavilion has three Nascent Soul experts, two of whom are at the early Nascent Soul stage and one at the middle Nascent Soul stage."
Ying Chen's pupils constricted slightly, somewhat surprised. He hadn't expected the Dark Pavilion to possess such strength. Just one branch in the Great Qin Dynasty had three Nascent Soul experts! Keep in mind, the Dark Pavilion was spread across several dynasties! If every dynasty had this kind of setup as the Great Qin, the total number of Nascent Soul experts in the Dark Pavilion would be astonishing, and there was even a high possibility of Void Refinement experts among them. Truly worthy of being the number one assassin organization in the Xuanxing Domain...
However, Ying Chen was not afraid. He now had six powerful experts at the late Nascent Soul stage, enough to wipe out the Dark Pavilion of Great Qin. As for the other Dark Pavilion members, who knew when they would arrive after receiving the news? By then, his strength would have increased, and he could kill as many as they came...