The meeting between Earl Dai and Xie Baochai made Zheng Ya understand many things.
At this moment, Zheng Ya was hidden directly opposite Xie Baochai and Dai Bojue, who were talking sideways, only three meters away.
By closely observing the dynamics of the two people's interaction, they were able to uncover the secret communication methods of the five tribes.
Simultaneously testing the second spiritual technique of spatial abilities, Void Concealment.
This was an inspiration Zheng Ya drew from Wu Wei's complete invisibility, which almost led to his downfall at Wu Wei's hands. Possessing time and space abilities, plus a mental planning ability, and the potential to completely invisibly move through space, adjust time at any time, and plan to change the situation, why not develop and utilize it?
Thus, the Void Concealment Technique came into being!
The Void Concealment Technique relies on space to hide one's form and aura. It is based on traversing subspace and uses time manipulation abilities to accelerate and stop time for planning and maintenance. It is a three-in-one technique that combines invisibility and traversing space, and applies multiple abilities.
At that moment, Zheng Ya appeared out of thin air and arrived within three meters of Xie Baochai and Dai Bojue. The two of them were completely unaware of him, which pleased Zheng Ya greatly.
The Void Concealment Technique is amazing!
Xie Baochai's attempts to probe Dai Bojue failed, so she switched to telepathy, her lips moving as she said, "Uncle, you must have had no choice but to come here to see your niece."
"Chai'er, are you taking your uncle too seriously?" Earl Dai didn't dare linger at Linjiang Tower for too long. To prevent Prince Rong's guards from chasing after them and ruining things, he went straight to the point.
Zheng Ya couldn't hear what the two were saying, but he could tell they were communicating through lip reading.
In essence, telepathy is still a form of conversation, which inevitably involves the use of energy to compress the lips and teeth in order to transmit the sound. This process of compressing sentences and transmitting them naturally includes the details of lip reading.
However, lip-reading for communication involves slightly more lip and teeth movements than normal speaking.
But does that prevent Zheng Ya from understanding their lip movements?
Moreover, they could clearly see the details of the two communicating through telepathy while exchanging coded signals with hand gestures. They were indeed extraordinary!
Using coded language and gestures for communication allows for both strict identification and clandestine communication.
This is a communication method for the puppet pill substitute and to impersonate someone to prevent outsiders from spying on the secrets of the five major families.
This broadened Zheng Ya's horizons!
The connections between the five major families may never have been broken, and they have been secretly plotting to become the biggest winner.
Zheng Ya felt that this scene was getting better and better?
Xie Baochai transmitted her voice in coded language: "Uncle, the Xie family suffered suppression from the Emperor Emeritus and abuse from Prince Rong, who tortured my father to death. The help from the other four clans was merely a few words of greeting..."
“Chai’er, when your uncle’s Dai family fell on hard times, wasn’t it the same?”
"Besides, apart from your father who was killed by Prince Rong, almost the entire Xie family survived. Do you think that your uncle didn't help, and that Prince Rong didn't exterminate the Xie family because he wanted to find out the whereabouts of the key?" Earl Dai stated a fact.
The five families are closely connected. The Xie family has been severely suppressed by the retired emperor. If the other four families take any action to rescue them, it would be tantamount to rebellion.
The most taboo thing for a dynasty is forming factions.
Even in a marriage alliance, one cannot openly support the emperor or oppose his authority.
At best, they could only seek a breakthrough, advise the retired emperor, and take a roundabout approach to ensure the survival of the Xie family.
As the saying goes, imperial power lasts a hundred years, while aristocratic families last a thousand.
The powerful alliances and complex relationships among aristocratic families were so intertwined that no emperor dared to sever them with his sword. This could lead to a sense of shared vulnerability and trigger a united counterattack from the families. An emperor could not afford to be the sole ruler and could not withstand the backlash from the aristocratic families.
The interests of powerful families are paramount. If the emperor cannot bring them benefits and a sense of security, then it's better to replace him with a different emperor.
Therefore, Prince Rong ultimately placed the Xie family under house arrest, and the other four major families tacitly accepted this, which can be seen as giving the retired emperor a chance to revive the dynasty. The failure to find the whereabouts of the imperial seal was an explanation for the dereliction of duty by the five major families, and a disguised punishment.
The clash of interests involved is no less intense than a battle between thousands of troops.
Xie Baochai was only fourteen or fifteen years old. She had been under the house arrest of Prince Rong for a long time, and she had been involved in building her own power base and carrying out intelligence gathering. She had experienced a lot, but her knowledge was limited to intelligence planning. She was not familiar with the tricks of power struggles in the imperial court.
Before the decline of the Dai family, Xie Baochai could not forgive the other four major families for ignoring the fact that the Xie family had fallen into decline. Now, when Earl Dai mentioned the decline of the Dai family again, the Xie clan elders sent people to give money to bribe officials and contacted officials in the court to submit a memorial to Emperor Chengping, requesting that Emperor Chengping rescue the Dai family.
This is the rule that the five major families help each other openly and secretly.
The real head of the household and the matriarch secretly send people to communicate using coded signals; this is the core secret.
Xie Baochai had seen her mother send out items with secret marks before. After this escape, Xie Qianshi revealed the secret marks and codes, and Xie Baochai finally understood the implications.
Otherwise, Xie Baochai wouldn't have been shocked to return home after her mother sent someone to deliver a message.
At this moment, Xie Baochai could understand the original intention of the five major families to cooperate in planning the seal, but she was also in a state of confusion and said, "Uncle, the five major families are now falling apart and can't even protect themselves, so how can we talk about cooperation and win-win?"
“Chai’er, just say what you have to say. Don’t try to fool your uncle. Your uncle doesn’t have time to linger at Linjiang Tower. Be careful that nothing goes wrong, or neither of us will be in a good position, right?” Earl Dai knew that the mother and her two children were in a bad situation, so he gave them a warning and pressure.
Zheng Ya was unaware of the implied division among the five major families, but he gleaned some clues from their lip-reading.
In fact, the five families each won consecutive victories and went off to pursue their own futures.
Fu Zhen abducted Wang and Qian!
Fu She had long since become the Emperor Emeritus's loyal henchman, openly and secretly exposing the secrets of the five major families.
Fortunately, Fu She was unaware of the secret codes and symbols among the five major families; otherwise, the Emperor Emeritus would have already uncovered the secret of their cooperation!
Even so, the people that the retired emperor had placed within the five major families still managed to split them apart.
Divide and weaken them – this was the Emperor Emeritus's covert strategy against the five major families.
If it weren't for the intervention of the four transmigrators, Wu Wei, Xie Ming, Sheng Xiang, and Zheng Ya, who thwarted the Emperor Emeritus's plan to counter the five major families, the Emperor Emeritus would have eventually seized all the spoils of war and obtained the imperial seal; it was only a matter of time.
The secrets hidden within are unknown to outsiders.
Zheng Ya was unaware of the details, but by following the lip-reading between Xie Baochai and Dai Bojue, he went straight to the point and took a shortcut. Wasn't that better?
Defeated by Earl Dai's imposing manner, Xie Baochai compromised and said, "Does Uncle mean there's a way to turn the tide?"
"Young lady, the key is safe and sound. Your uncle has a way to turn things around, right?" Earl Dai asked excitedly, but his words were meant to comfort her.
At first glance, it doesn't sound like a concerned greeting from an elder to their niece, nor does it sound like a promise of reassurance.
Xie Baochai's heart tightened upon hearing this, but she stubbornly refused to reveal the secret. She pressed on, "Uncle, do you have any way to turn things around? Tell your niece."
This indirectly answers the question: the key is indeed in the hands of the Xie family.
Earl Dai became inexplicably excited, almost unable to resist taking action against Xie Baochai and the other two, forcefully snatching the key. He rationally suppressed his impulse and smiled, "Baochai, it's confirmed that Zheng Ya stole the key. There's great potential here..."
"Holy crap..." Zheng Ya's anger flared even more. How dare this ingrate scheme against him...
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