Dumbfounded! Everyone was dumbfounded!
This was especially so for Mister Taijia and Ghostly Hands. The two of them couldn't even speak a word.
"Taijia, what is going on? Didn't you say that this place is still undeveloped? Does no one know about it other than us? "
Ghosthand's expression was cold as he gritted his teeth and spat out word by word.
"That's impossible!"
Mister Taijia took a few steps forward. He didn't hear Ghostly Hands' voice at all. At this moment, he was even more shocked than Ghostly Hands.
His divination divination had already reached an extremely high level ten years ago. In the entire capital, there were only a handful of people who could match up to him in divination.
Based on his divination, there was no one who knew about this place. Other than him, it was impossible for anyone to have arrived before him.
But the truth was right before his eyes.
There was no doubt that someone had discovered this place earlier than him. The buildings were connected to one another, and they were beautifully constructed. It was impossible for such a complex to be constructed within a short period of time.
"Mister, is it possible that they haven't discovered it yet?"
A guard beside the Third Prince asked with a sliver of hope in his eyes.
"Impossible!"
Mister Taijia refuted without any hesitation.
"This place is remote, and it's separated from the main road. If they hadn't discovered something, they wouldn't have constructed such a huge structure here. "
"But is it possible that they are just here to enjoy the scenery?"
"Impossible. Have you forgotten about the venomous snakes along the way? "
This time, even the guard who had asked the question fell silent.
Along the way, the crowd had thought of all sorts of possibilities. They had thought that it was impossible to find it, and Mister Taijia had made a mistake in his divination. But what they didn't expect was that... someone had arrived before them.
Upon seeing the rows of buildings at the peak of the mountain, everyone's heart turned cold.
"Mister Taijia, is this the spirit vein that you divined for me?"
Ghostly Hands asked coldly. His triangular eyes were burning with rage. If not for the Third Prince's extreme respect for him, he would have killed him just by looking at the scene in front of him.
"This is indeed a spirit vein..."
Mister Taijia said. But before he could finish his words, Ghostly Hands interrupted him coldly.
"Why don't you try divining again?"
Whoosh!
Without needing Ghostly Hands to say anything, Mister Taijia raised his hand, and the golden double-layered compass on the ground flew into Mister Taijia's hand.
Casually plucking a leaf near the spirit vein, Mister Taijia began his divination once more.
"How did this happen?"
The sudden appearance of a completely different divination left Mister Taijia dumbstruck. His face had already turned pale after a few days of calculations.
But now, his face became even paler.
Mister Taijia had immersed himself in divination for more than half of his life, so he was confident in his divination.
But at this very moment, Taijia realized that his divination was completely ineffective.
In his entire life, this was the first time he had encountered a situation where he was completely wrong.
"What's going on? What's going on?"
Master Taijia's body trembled as he muttered under his breath. The confidence that he had built up for most of his life was suddenly shattered at this moment.
"Baleful Yin, Baleful Yin … It's not just the effect of Baleful Yin. The Yin Specters could not have interfered so much with me, there must be other reasons. The fog blocked the river, the fog blocked the river … This was the interference of external forces. The wind blew and the clouds surged, changing constantly. Who in the world built these palaces and interfered with my divination? "
Mister Taijia looked at the palaces in the clouds, and his mind was in a state of chaos.
The divination result on the compass was' Fog Blocking the River '. This was a divination that would only appear when one's fate was extremely resilient, making it difficult for one to divine them.
However, with his divination cultivation, he had divined countless people, from nobles to ministers, but he had never encountered such a situation.
Gazing at the misty spirit vein in the distance, Taijia unhesitatingly divined the location of the person who beat him to it.
No matter what, he had to know who the owner of the palaces was. Who was it that had snatched it away from him? Even his divination had been disturbed.
Weng!
As though a huge boulder had fallen from the sky, Master Taijia felt an incomparably heavy pressure weighing down on him. The resilience of the other party's fate was far more difficult to divine than he had imagined.
"Who in the world is that person?"
Master Taijia felt a chill run down his spine. He had just started divining, but he already felt as though he was shouldering a mountain. He had never encountered such a situation before.
But the more he felt this way, the more he wanted to know.
The Third Prince had placed great importance on this operation, so he had to get an answer no matter what.
"Boom!"
Just as Mister Taijia was about to harden his heart and continue his divination, a powerful force suddenly struck him like a bolt of lightning.
Master Taijia felt a sharp pain in his heart, and two streams of blood flowed from his nose. The consecutive days of divination had already left his face pale and fatigued. Adding another injury to his injuries, his vision darkened, and he fell backward.
"Mister Taijia!"
"Mister Taijia!"
"Mister! … "
Alarmed, the crowd hurriedly rushed forward to catch Master Taijia.
"Lord, what do we do?"
The crowd turned to look at the elder known as Phantom Hands.
"I'm fine. I just fainted from the exhaustion."
Phantom Hands placed his finger on Master Taijia's neck to check his pulse. Even though he wasn't proficient in divination, he had learned from the Third Prince that divination was extremely taxing on one's mental energy as well.
The more unfamiliar and detailed the divination was, the more mental energy and effort one would have to expend.
Clearly, Master Taijia had overexerted himself and fainted.
"I'll let you off lightly then."
Phantom Hands stood up and said. He was initially filled with rage, but with Master Taijia unconscious, there was nowhere for him to vent his anger.
"Lord, what should we do now? His Highness has high expectations for this operation. Why don't we kill everyone on the mountain right now? As long as we move swiftly, we won't be able to leave any traces behind. "
Seeing that Master Taijia had fainted, one of the Third Prince's guards suddenly stepped forward and said. As he spoke, he even made a cutting motion with his sword.
They were the Third Prince's trusted guards, and as long as he commanded them to stay, it wouldn't be too difficult for them to slaughter everyone on the mountain.
"Wait a moment!"
Phantom Hands wasn't as reckless as the other party, but he had the same thought as well.
"There's no need to rush this matter. Let's check with the Court of Judicial Review first to see if this land is ownerless or not. If it is, we'll buy it right away. By then, no matter how many buildings they build, they will all belong to us. "
"However, if the other party is prepared, they should have already sold it. Let's find the buyer first. If it's an unknown individual or a wealthy merchant without any backing, we'll have to negotiate with them. We'll use the Third Prince's name to get them to give up the land. "
"If the other party doesn't know what's good for them, we'll kill them. After which, we'll come back here and get rid of them. "
Phantom Hands' thoughts were logical, and it was clear that this wasn't his first time doing such a thing.
"… But what if the other party has backing?"
One of the guards asked.
"Hmph!"
Phantom Hands sneered disdainfully, and a bone-chilling glint gleamed in his eyes.
"Do you think that there's a backing greater than the Third Prince?"
"I understand."
Everyone lowered their heads, tacitly understanding.
Without alerting anyone, they brought Mister Taijia with them and retreated silently.
Unbeknownst to them, several li away from them, a pair of eyes was silently watching them. Only after they left with Mister Taijia did the Evil Emperor heave a sigh of relief and slowly close his eyes.
…
The investigation into the Court of Judicial Review went much smoother than they had expected. In the Court of Judicial Review, there was a miniature map of the mountains and rivers around the capital.
All they had to do was point out the location of the mountain to obtain the information they wanted.
Phantom Hands and the others had imagined all sorts of possibilities beforehand, but when they finally found out who the owner of the spirit vein was, they were all dumbfounded.
"Wang Chong?"
"The person who alarmed the Holy Emperor with the regional commanders incident and flipped the entire royal court upside down?"
"Duke Jiu's grandson?"
"Someone from the Wang Clan?"
…
Upon hearing the answer, everyone, including the awakened Mister Taijia, was dumbfounded.
A behemoth!
No one could have imagined that it would be someone from the Wang Clan. Upon hearing the name of the owner of the spirit vein, this was the only name that came to everyone's mind.
The Third Prince was an offspring of the royal family, the successor to the throne in everyone's eyes. In a place like the Central Plains, any power or background was nothing more than a joke before the Third Prince.
This was also the reason why Phantom Hands wasn't afraid of the background of the other party.
But the Wang Clan …
This was an answer that no one could have imagined.
The Wang Clan wasn't a noble clan, but they were even more powerful than one. When the Holy Emperor was still young, the Old Master of the Wang Clan was one of the greatest contributors to his rise to the throne.
The Holy Emperor had said many times before his officials that if not for the Old Master of the Wang Clan, the person known as Duke Jiu, he wouldn't have been able to reach his current heights.
Even the Tang dynasty wouldn't have been as powerful as it was today!
In fact, after the Old Master of the Wang Clan retired, the emperor even opened a Four Quarters Embassy to house the Old Master of the Wang Clan.
From this, one could imagine the relationship between the two.
If the Old Master of the Wang Clan were to run to the Holy Emperor and lodge a complaint against the Third Prince, the Third Prince would be in trouble.
All of a sudden, everyone felt apprehensive.
They mustn't touch the Wang Clan!
They mustn't touch the Wang Clan!
Even if the Third Prince were to learn of it, he wouldn't allow them to do something so risky.
"What's going on? How did that lad know of the existence of the spirit vein? Is that son of the Wang Clan actually so powerful? "
Phantom Hands, who wouldn't make a sound even if a blade was pressed against his neck, suddenly frowned. This matter was extremely troublesome.
"Lord, what do we do now?"
The leader of the guards from before said.
"Don't act recklessly. We mustn't touch the Wang Clan at this moment. We can only think of another way. "
Phantom Hands said with a pained expression.
Never would he have thought that the item that he and the Third Prince had set their eyes on would be taken by Wang Chong.
"So, he's the owner of the palace?"
At this moment, Taijia, who had just woken up not too long ago, was also deep in thought.
For most of his life, he had been either a noble, an official, or a descendant of the royal family like the Third Prince. But at this moment, he suddenly felt a strong interest in this fifteen-year-old young man whom he had never heard of in the capital.
The person who could cause him to suffer a backlash from the heavens while divining was definitely not an ordinary person. No matter what, he had to uncover the secrets that the young man was hiding.
With this thought in mind, Taijia, Phantom Hands, and the others left the Court of Judicial Review.
…
Three days later, a shocking piece of news shook the entire capital.
Amidst the mountains outside the capital, at a location less than thirty li away, an unprecedented massive spirit vein was discovered.
The concentration of spiritual energy in this spirit vein was more than ten times that of the three newly constructed Shenwei, Longwei, and Kunwu Training Camps. It was also far more concentrated than any of the spirit veins in the capital.
Even across the entire world, there were few that could match up to this newly discovered spirit vein.
Ten days of cultivation on this spirit vein was equivalent to several months of hard work.
As the news spread, the entire capital was in an uproar.
And along with the news, a name also appeared in everyone's ears, and that was …
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