Chapter 889: Chapter 644: Breaking the Game
Gloomy, cramped, and accompanied by a piercing stench, Nalan Shuo tucked his legs in, curling up in the narrow coffin.
He did not, like Fang Zhou Lou Huixiang, flee to the Fu Jue Temple, largely due to the injury on his leg.
While dodging the carriage, he accidentally injured his leg, and he was also aware that under Ancestor’s threat, even if he called out for Fang Zhou Lou Huixiang’s help, the two would not bother with him, so he rolled directly into the nearby mud pit and hid.
Seizing the opportunity when the Ancestor was breaking out of the coffin to chase and kill the two, he crawled out of the mud pit at the fastest pace he could manage, limping over, steeled his heart to hide in a coffin, and flipped the overturned coffin lid back in place.
At this moment, Nalan Shuo sat uncomfortably against one corner of the coffin, and at the other end of the coffin, a blackish face appeared.
It was Prince Qi, the clothes on his body could prove this, he was tied up tightly, his mouth stuffed, only now, he was already dead.
There were no excess external injuries on the body, it was clear that he died from poisoning, a huge Luminous Pearl embedded atop the crown Prince Qi was wearing, illuminating that dreadful dead face.
Prince Qi’s head drooped slightly, his eyes wide open, filled with bloodshot, showing an unwillingness to die, it seems until the very end, he couldn’t figure out how his noble status as a prince could end at the hands of these petty people in Earl Mansion, how they dare.
This evil entity would not attack the dead, so Prince Qi was not devoured, the plan of Earl Mansion had already failed.
Nalan Shuo was certain that before being put into the coffin, Prince Qi was still alive, but he was secretly poisoned by someone, and after the coffin was sealed, he died from the poison not long after.
Also inside the coffin, Nalan Shuo found two items, one was a Divine Turtle Shell, and the other, a hand carefully wrapped in many layers, a left hand.
Picking up the Divine Turtle Fragment, the texture felt different from before, borrowing the dim light from the Luminous Pearl, he unexpectedly pulled out a crumpled piece of cloth from the turtle shell.
When he spread the cloth in front of the Luminous Pearl, inside was actually a blood-written talisman:
"To get through this calamity, to protect the common people, I heed my master’s orders, in the death chamber of Earl Mansion today, seven people from my sect all perished here, fulfilling our wish."
At this moment, Nalan Shuo finally understood, he finally realized why the Divine Turtle Shell failed to suppress Ancestor, because this thing was a fake from the start, someone had switched the Crown Prince with a fake, replacing the real turtle shell with a fake, and the only one capable of doing this was the Feng Shui Master behind Earl Mansion.
The effeminate man and the people from the sect of the Feng Shui Master joined forces to stage a painful ruse, any rebellion and betrayal were all fake, no wonder these Feng Shui Masters that even Xiang Fengchen greatly revered were so easily captured by the people of Earl Mansion, it was all to create an opportunity for the "traitor" in the death chamber of Earl Mansion to gain trust, to carry out the final plan.
The Feng Shui Master who suicided in front of them was an indispensable part of the plan, being there to force all of them into the game.
It must have been the idea of their master, with the Divine Turtle Shell in hand, this Fengshui Master with sky-reaching abilities must have figured out the way to break this catastrophe and how it was related to these "foreigners."
The Feng Shui Master who "fortunately" escaped tricked them into the game, the "traitor" who infiltrated the Earl Mansion fooled the people of Earl Mansion into the game, these seven Feng Shui Masters sacrificed their entire sect’s existence to set this trap within a trap.
Ironically, a hundred years ago, the people of Earl Mansion used a painful deception and the trickery of exchanging the Crown Prince with a fake to deceive the late Emperor who usurped the throne, preserving the last bloodline of the previous dynasty, and now, after a hundred years, this lineage of Feng Shui Masters similarly destroyed the Earl Mansion’s hundred-year plan with a painful deception and fake replacement, manipulating everyone in their palms.
What goes around comes around, the dreams of becoming Emperor for Earl Mansion were crushed, Nalan Shuo knew, it wouldn’t be long before this evil entity returned to Fushou Manor, without the nourishment of Prince Qi’s bloodline, the primary target of this evil entity would change to Earl Mansion, connected by their shared bloodline.
The people on Earl Mansion’s estate would be slaughtered, and even the people on Fushou Manor might not be spared, this was also a disaster.
The severed hand in the coffin was the real suppressing item, but this thing could only suppress the Ancestor temporarily, just enough for the Ancestor to leave Earl Mansion and exit Fushou Manor, all of this was calculated, they used the Divine Turtle Shell as bait to force Earl Mansion to act, creating what seemed to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Thinking back on it now, some of the nonsensical behaviors of the Magician who gifted Fang Zhou Lou Huixiang the Divine Turtle Shell also make sense, these people are too sinister, they must have realized that among this group of people, there was also an expert, that old fellow Xiang Fengchen, if he were still alive, he would definitely be able to see through these people’s schemes, so they decided to strike first, conspiring together to get rid of Xiang Fengchen, and then the remaining people posed no threat to them.
At this moment, Nalan Shuo also finally understood the last words shouted by Xiang Fengchen before his death, they were not alarmist, he screamed for Yang Xiao to exchange his life to save him, he said if he wasn’t saved, everyone would die, bluntly stating that our lineage of Magicians are exceptional, a once-in-eternity great setup, a once-in-eternity great setup!
These words were not false, presumably, before he died, he saw through the maze set up by these Feng Shui Masters, but he refused to speak, since he himself could not live, he dragged everyone to be buried with him, this was very much in line with the character of that old fellow, back when I chased him, he had not hesitated to use his apprentices to shield himself, otherwise he would not have lived until now.
