Chapter 39

Food for Thought!
Black Ho narrowed his eyes at the sight of me tying the note around Jeon Seo-gu’s ankle as he flapped his wings.
“Why do you suddenly need a messenger?”
“Because I have suspicious circumstances and can’t leave it alone?”
“Are you suspicious of …… Mrs. Tang?”
“Yes.”
“We can’t be sure of anything yet.”
“So, suspicion, not certainty, suspicion.”
I didn’t feel the need to respond to that, but I’ll say it anyway, because Black Ho seemed worried that my suspicions were making a big deal out of things.
“It’s better to confirm a suspicion than to leave it as a suspicion, and it’s better to confirm it with your own two eyes than to let it go unchecked, or else you’ll be nervous about doing something.”
They say to knock on a stone bridge before you cross it. My greatest weaknesses now were Walli and my mother, Mrs. Baek, and if the seeds of unrest I had left in the South Palace reached them, I would fall apart.
“I’m afraid that ……will only make them more vigilant.”
“I wrote so hard not to. Is this how it’s supposed to be?”
The person who should have received this note was Namgung Yeoul. There was only one person I could trust in the Southern Palace, Master, and that was Nan Gongyue.
“…… million days.”
I raised my head at Black Lake’s words.
“What if Mrs. Tang is indeed plotting this, or if she is doing it out of her own greed?”
“What can I do.”
What more could I say.
“Show her who she’s dealing with.”
“…… But.”
Black Ho couldn’t get the words out of his mouth. What could the Grand Duke do when he was being punished by him?
With Iron-blooded An Baek following along, he felt helpless.
“Black Tiger, don’t worry. I’m not the one to deal with them directly.”
I said kindly to Black Ho.
“What do you mean…….”
He looked at me.
“This guy’s at it again.
What a look. It’s too much for a fifteen-year-old boy to say.
Black Ho stuck his tongue out at the depths of his thoughts.
“We should just use the ones closest to us, we don’t need to bother moving.”
Throughout the battlefield, I’ve had to devise countless plans and strategies. The opponents were formidable, both in numbers and in their willingness to fight.
Nevertheless, I had to wrap my head around the situation. They fought a civil war that blinded them to their own exploits, and they made some decent gains along the way.
“You know what they say about being a fish out of water, but not a man out of water,” I said, ”they all think differently, and if you scratch the right spot, they’re all going to come around.”
I wasn’t going to sit back and take it.
Dang Miyun is a poisonous flower.
If she was really behind it, she was just one of the sources of the family’s illness. I was going to bind her, ensnare her, and make her feel whoever she dared to touch.
* * *
A dark, damp, foul-smelling place that never let in a single ray of light.
There was a man writhing in a cold cage, barely crawling on the ground, moistening his throat with a drop or two of dripping water.
“……krrrr.”
It was Namgungsoon, who only a few days ago had held a revered position as the eighth elder of the Changcheon Namgung Clan.
Not a trace of the vastness of his body could be felt, and the black aura that had penetrated his throat, heart, and mingqi was continuing to eat away at him.
“I will not …… kill you, for now is the time for killing.”
Ever since the Black Tiger’s energy had invaded, Nam Gongsun had been dying at a slow pace.
He felt sorry for himself as he struggled and died. He was just an unattended man who dreamed of a high position under the same sky.
“You don’t think you’ve chosen the wrong path. If you had truly chosen the path of supporting and pushing others, this wouldn’t have happened.”
Yuck. ZERBUCK.
The figure speaks to Namgungsoon from a blackened window, where not a single ray of sunlight enters.
“This is Elder …….”
“This elder has come and gone.”
“…….”
Namgung Yeowol stirred and met Namgung Sun’s gaze, who could barely raise his head.
“Even in death, it shouldn’t bother you. Elder Eight.”
At those words.
At the words of the Eighth Elder.
Namgung Sun felt the dew running down his cheeks. He had never been so miserable in his life.
A martial artist of his caliber.
In a position where no one else could.
A line that no one should have dared to cross.
You dared to cross the line.
He regretted and regretted his futile choices. And so, from the mouth of a man who had become a mere scribe, a self-help voice flowed.
“……What do you want?”
Nam Gung-soon’s strangled voice echoed through the blackness.
“A drive-by killing.”
Namgung Yue’er’s calm words made Namgung Sun laugh in vain.
“Elder Sun has changed a lot. The disciple I gained in my later years was so good.”
“I’ve always had a disciple. What can I say?”
Namgungsoon, who had been pondering for a while, barely raised his head. He was desperate to look at Namgung Yeoul’s face.
“……I ask for a granddaughter.”
Elder Eight’s voice sounded so regretful, but why should he accept Namgung Yeoul’s offer?
“Don’t worry, I’ve already secured a recruit.”
“Thank you.”
He, too, was someone who loved my flesh and blood.
“How is the Grand Duke?”
“Fortunately, he is unharmed. They say he was close to death.”
I see.
If the Grand Duke was in trouble, Elder Sun wouldn’t have come all the way here to make this offer.
“At any rate, seeing that Elder Sun is taking matters into his own hands, his political sense must not be dead.”
“What are you talking about?”
The corners of Nangong Yue’s mouth curled into a smile.
“It’s from the mind of the child you tried to kill.”
She left an eternal burn mark on his heart. Even in death, he would never forget.
* * *
Quang!
The tabletop snapped in two, sending up a wind of dust, but Elder Namgungun was unperturbed. Chewing on his lower lip, he locked eyes with the two elders in front of him.
“……now.”
Elder Six and Elder Seven avoided his gaze.
“So. You’re saying that you’re going to put all the poison on me and you’re going to run away, is that what you’re saying?”
“Elder Four, what are you talking about?”
“Hehe, Elder Four, calm down.”
Unable to meet Elder Shi’s fierce gaze, the two elders continued to talk back and forth.
“Who would have thought. Elder Eight would be the one to step on Elder Four’s toes.”
“The uproar left behind by Mr. and Mrs. Fang…… or Mrs. Fang hasn’t even died down, so why did you stick with this elder without telling us?”
Hearing the words of the Sixth Elder and the Seventh Elder, the Fourth Elder laughed in disbelief. How could they be so shameless while wearing human disguises?
It was literally a human face.
“Who would ever sleep with this elder, and besides, it wasn’t something we both agreed to.”
“Well, Elder Four, what does it matter? What matters is that Elder Eight named you and Elder Four before he died.”
True to his word, Elder Eight died. His crime of slandering and attacking the Grand Duke was irreparable. He was immediately thrown into a black dungeon and wriggled like a worm until he died.
The question came next.
“I have been robbed by a duke, and though I intended to die in silence, the injustice is too great for me to let it go.
Don’t believe this elder and the four elders. ”
Finally, Elder Eight said that he had been manipulated by Elder Yi and Elder Four, which immediately caused the Southern Palace to freeze.
As a result, the Southern Palace Mu Bai imprisoned Elder Li and Elder Four. At the same time, he restored the power of all the elders.
“Nothing will be done without my approval, and if anyone does, they will have to face my wrath. Also, know that there will always be space for you to repent of your sins. ”
Nangong Mu Bai released all of his hidden power.
Yun Gang, Fei Ying, Fei Yi, and the other two moved, and at the same time, behind Nangong Mu Bai were First Elder Nangong Yue and Ninth Elder Nangong Shu. Elder Ten followed closely behind.
“Elder Four, there’s only one way to live.”
After coughing a few times, Sixth Elder Southern Archer turned to face Fourth Elder Southern Archer with a serious look in his eyes.
“Let’s talk about what this elder did and what he proposed to us first. If you speak out, you will have your limbs chopped off, one by one.”
“Yes, sir. Elder Four. Not if we don’t move quickly.”
The Four Elders shuddered as they looked at the two trembling elders, as if they were about to be set on fire themselves.
What the hell.
He had traveled all the way here, trusting them to make him rich.
The four elders’ faces were aging rapidly. He couldn’t overcome the emptiness in his heart.
At the same time, Elder Li was also moving.
Elder Li Nangong.
“……I don’t think I’ll die alone. Elder Sam, Elder Wu.”
Elder Li’s expression turned cold as he looked at Elders Namgung Hua Min and Namgung Duck. The two elders in front of him were frowning.
“But what can we do, Elder Lee? We are only guilty of following you.”
“If you say otherwise, your sins will only increase, so take responsibility and pay the price.”
Elder Namgungduk lowered his head and spoke quietly.
“If you say so, we will do everything in our power to help you recover quickly. We have a long-standing relationship.”
Elder Namgungbon’s teeth gently grinded at those words, his eyes reflecting the two elders’ grim faces.
“I’ll take care of it. Wait.”
Elder Elder Nan Gongbon managed to suppress the anger that was raging inside of him and barely left the elders’ room.
…… And so, slowly, a ripple in the Southern Palace, a ripple that had begun with a mere pebble of a boy, had spread far and wide, engulfing the Southern Palace, a ripple that would not end easily.