“When he mentioned this to me, I became suspicious. After some investigation, I guessed that perhaps Yuwen Sheng was not dead at all, and that the strange-looking prince of Ye was clearly Yuwen Sheng in disguise.”
The cause and effect of this statement sound coherent, but where does the reasoning and certainty in this process come from?
"Then how did you find out?" Pu Jiadi was confused.
"It's quite a coincidence, wasn't I abandoned on the border of the Northern Abyss Kingdom back then?" Hou Feiqing didn't want to go into too much detail, but without tracing the origins of this matter, it was impossible to explain it clearly in a short time.
He sighed softly and, under their gaze, said uncomfortably, "More than ten years ago... I secretly went to search for my origins. Because my appearance is different from ordinary people, I thought of looking towards the outer regions. It was at that time that I met Chief Kezhu. I saved his life. At that time, he was very open with me and mentioned that there was a traitor in their clan who planted the Phoenix Tear on the previous chief. Then that traitor fled to the Central Plains, and they have been trying to find him."
"Later, the traitor was captured and also revealed that the Phoenix Tear's Gu-planting technique had been obtained by a general from the Ye Kingdom. Chief Kezhu was unwilling for his clan's secret Gu technique to fall into the hands of others, so he went to try to silence the man. Unfortunately, the other party was too powerful, and they had difficulty even getting close, so they had to return empty-handed."
"General of Ye Kingdom... Could this general be Yuwen Sheng's father?" Pu Jiadi asked in surprise.
Hou Feiqing nodded and said, "Yes, back then, the identity of Yuwen Sheng's illegitimate child caused a great uproar in Ye Kingdom. Everyone speculated that this child was born from an extramarital affair. I guess Yuwen Han probably hated him more and more because of his love for him, so he planted the Phoenix Tear in Yuwen Sheng's heart."
Pu Jiadi was a little older than Hou Feiqing, and he had heard some of the various rumors circulating in Ye Kingdom back then.
"Since he dislikes Yuwen Sheng, he should just be killed. Why bother planting the Phoenix Tear?"
Pu Jiadi knew Yuwen Han; he was loyal and upright, not some sinister or wicked person. His pride and dignity had been hurt, so he naturally couldn't tolerate this bastard. But killing him was fine; he didn't need to poison a child and keep him to torture him slowly.
"This Phoenix Tear is no ordinary poison. It is extremely vicious. In the early stages, a person will maintain a certain level of rationality. To avoid going mad, the only way is to use the blood of their closest relatives to alleviate the symptoms, and the dosage will increase with each use. In the end, after all the relatives around them have died, the person will completely fall into a state of madness and become a killing machine until they are exhausted and die from broken tendons."
Pu Jiadi was stunned for a long time after hearing this: "So, he not only wants Yuwen Sheng dead, but also wants revenge..."
"That's right, because the most crucial success or failure in Phoenix Tears requires the use of a human Gu. He was quite ruthless; instead of sacrificing others, he carved himself into a human pig and used his hatred to create a human Gu."
Back then, Yuwen Han's death was suspicious, and everyone thought that his tragic and cruel death was revenge by the enemy. But now that Hou Feiqing has learned the truth, he immediately understands the truth.
Hearing him say it like that made things clear all at once.
“No wonder I always felt that Yuwen Sheng’s condition on the battlefield was very abnormal. Sometimes when I looked at him, it was like seeing a madman who only knew how to kill.” Pu Jiadi narrowed his eyes coldly.
Hou Feiqing said, "He will eventually perish in extreme madness."
"You just said that you had the Kezhu tribe plot against Yuwen Sheng, forcing the Phoenix Tear that was suppressed within him to mature. He should have lost his mind by now, right?"
Regarding this matter, Hou Feiqing was somewhat unsure: "That's right, he should be going mad now, bloodthirsty and out of control due to the influence of the Phoenix Tears... but the radical actions of the Ye Army now are something I can't understand."
Pu Jiadi snorted, "The Ye army intends to use him as a lifeline, so he must be sober. Could it be that he has already cured the Phoenix Tears?"
"Impossible. Le Tai wouldn't dare betray me unless he wanted to exterminate his clan, and no one else could possibly know how to cure the Phoenix Tear." Hou Feiqing was absolutely confident about this.
Seeing Hou Feiqing's confident words, Pu Jiadi stroked his chin: "So they've temporarily suppressed the spread of the Gu poison using other methods. In that case, the longer it drags on, the better for us."
"The reason they're so eager for us to hand over the Kezhu tribe members must be to save Yuwen Sheng," Hou Feiqing said.
During their discussion, Gongshu Jiru remained silent. When he learned that Yuwen Sheng was still alive, his eyes became extremely deep and cold.
Back then, even when he joined forces with Mo Ye of Julu Kingdom, they couldn't kill him. Was it really because he was lucky, or did they fall for his scheme from the very beginning?
Previously, he had only heard that Yuwen Sheng was a living Yama, with superb martial arts skills and brilliant military strategy. Beyond that, he was also known for his terrifying methods of killing enemies, which were often bloody and brutal. But now it seemed that compared to these, his cunning and wisdom were even more frightening.
"Hou Feiqing, given your character, you shouldn't do such a despicable thing. Who are you trying to take the blame for?" he suddenly asked.
Although Hou Feiqing has a lot of flaws, his only redeeming quality is his strong sense of principle.
Judging from what he just said, when he learned that Yuwen Sheng was not dead but had been poisoned by Phoenix Tears, his first action was not to report it to the authorities, but to secretly conspire with the barbarians to devise a poisonous plan to eliminate Yuwen Sheng through assassination. No matter how you look at it, this kind of behavior does not seem like something Hou Feiqing would do.
Hou Feiqing was taken aback, but quickly masked his surprise: "Who did this... is irrelevant now. The most important thing is how we deal with the Ye army next."
Pujadi didn't care about these things; he was the type who didn't care about the process as long as the goal was achieved.
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