CHAPTER 66 - ABANDONED CHILD
Translated by Luxican
Yujing City, the capital of the Great Zhou Kingdom, was the largest city of the southwestern region of the Wu Ji Continent.
Thousands of years ago, the Great Zhou Empire was founded by martial arts, and martial arts were always the foundation of the Great Zhou Empire. Therefore, in its earlier years, the military officers were the majority. So, there numerous military and civil officials.
Among them, the civil servants were led by Cheng Ge and the Zhao University scholars, and the military officials were led by Wei Yuan Hou and General Wu Sheng.
"Informing the emperor, there are many refugees in the Great Zhou Empire, and we have no way of settling it," Cheng Ge, the head of the civil servants, stepped forward. At this morning the atmosphere was somewhat unusual.
"Order all the officials all over the kingdom to help resettle the refugees nearby, they must not be driven out indiscriminately. Have we figured out the reason for the refugee tide yet?"
"This minister has ordered people to investigate, it's probably that the Beast Blood Clouds became more active in the recent years. The area where the Beast Blood Cloud appeared recently was the Bi Zhou Village in the central region. It is the territory of General Wu Sheng, it was attacked by the Beast Blood Cloud, so General Wu Sheng has inescapable responsibility," Cheng Ge pointed out, directing the attention towards Wu Sheng.
The implication was that General Wu Sheng was bad at monitoring and couldn't control his own territory.
Cheng Ge was very prestigious among the civil servants. After he finished speaking, a few civil servants, he had won admiration from, stepped forward to discuss with each other.
He glanced at Wei Yuan Hou, who was appointed by the old Emperor, and Zhao Xue Shi, who was gloating at General Wu Sheng's misfortune.
"General Wu Sheng... General Wu Sheng," a group of civil servants said dryly, for a long time, the old general Wu Sheng did not respond.
Only a slight snoring sound was heard.
The snoring came from a 70-year-old man. The old man was tall, with eyebrows as fierce as a tiger's and a head like a mighty lion's, and had a white beard.
He was the famous General Wu Sheng.
In the entire Great Zhou Empire, there was only this general who dared fall asleep at a officials' gathering.
Zhou Di Ye began to cough loudly, and General Yun Bahe's beard shook lightly. He woke up and said loudly: "There is something to play, nothing to retreat, no matter how old. The old is old, it's not appropriate to stand for a long time. I'd like to retreat early and ask the Emperor to investigate!"
Yun Bahe said, and was already retreating.
Cheng Ge was left to stare stunned," "Yun Bahe, you dare?!" Cheng Ge was so angry that he would have liked to yank that old man back by his beard.
But he could only glare. Who made General Wu Sheng the best martial artist of the Great Zhou Empire for several generations? Even the current emperor and princes were all personally taught martial arts by the old general.
Although the old general was getting older and older over the years, his reputation was still there.
But the Yun Family had been declining for many years. There was only a crippled son and a widowed daughter left.
Wei Yuan Hou stood up, "Your Majesty, this minister thinks that we should take care of the Beast Blood Cloud. I heard that the Magic Temple and even mercenaries are already moving, it is rumored that even several other countries are tracking the whereabouts of the Beast Blood Clouds. We should not fall behind on this matter."
With the increasing activity of the Beast Blood Cloud, there was a rumor on the mainland. It was said that the power of the demon beast in the Beast Blood Cloud was extraordinary, and its flesh and Soulstone became an extremely valuable thing, that all magicians and martial artist sought.
The group of civil servants listened and sneered, "Take care, you said it so easily, the Beast Blood Cloud is powerful, and its whereabouts are ever changing. If the general has the ability, he can send people to search for it."
Wei Yuan Hou waited for a while.
Needles to say the Beast Blood Cloud inhibited an extremely dangerous demon beast. They heard that the Magic Temple even sent a Magic Sage to kill it.
Although the Great Zhou Empire had no shortage of warriors capable of competing with the Beast Blood Cloud, but most of them didn't take orders from the Emperor.
There were also some powerful people in the palace, but those were responsible for the safety of the Imperial Family, they would never leave the Imperial Capital lightly.
Now only the few military ministers were left to think of a solution.
Wei Yuan Hou had only his wife but no children. He was the leader of the Imperial Guard and also couldn't leave easily.
General Wu Sheng was old and not suitable for this mission.
They had no one to send.
It was unknown who it was that suddenly said: "If only General Yun was still here."
The faces of Wei Yuan Hou and Zhou Di darkened.
General Wu Sheng had originally two sons and one daughter, but said General Yun was the second son of the Yun Family, Yun Canglang.
It was known that the Yun Family had two sons, one was a magician, the other a warrior.
Due to tradition, magicians were always rare in the Great Zhou Empire.
Yun Canghai was the youngest Magic Sage in the history of the Great Zhou Empire, but it was a pity that he cut-off his father-son relationship with General Wu Sheng for a woman. It was said that he was hiding in the countryside.
A talented Magic Sage could greatly improve the Great Zhou Kingdom's position on the mainland.
After Yun Canghai left, the second son of the Yun Family was deprived of his arms by the enemy on the battlefield and reduced to a waste person.
Yun Family, which was originally the greatest power of the Great Zhou Empire, had since declined. General Yun Beha had also grown old. The Yun Family had lost a lot of its former glory.
A decade had passed, but they still dared not talk about this in front of General Wu Sheng.
"Your Majesty, the director of the Wu Xuan Peerless Hall wishes to enter the hall!" A eunuch walked in, breaking the dull atmosphere in the hall.
"Let him in!"
Wu Xuan Peerless Hall, the first Martial Arts Hall of the Great Zhou Empire, the director actually came personally, it must be about the Beast Blood Cloud.
A middle-aged man with wide brows strode into the hall, and behind him there was also someone else.
When he saw the man, Emperor Zhou Di Ye's hand on the dragon chair couldn't help but tremble.
The hundred officials of in Hall were also astonished.
He!
It was him!
What was he doing here?
The Emperor of the Great Zhou Empire showed a little awkwardness.
This son, he did not like him since he was born, especially after listening to the predictions by Xia Shiming, a great figure of the Magic Temple.
"It's not Lord Ming Wang Xing," the officials began to debate.
In black clothes, the beautiful Ye Beiming walked before the Emperor, he had a heroic air around him, elegant eyebrows, and a pair of gray eyes.
As soon as he appeared, the officials were in an uproar, even Wei Yuan Hou could not look away. This was the one. It was said that the blind prince, who was the most unloved, had been confined in the Cold Palace!
Prince Beiming was confined in the Cold Palace in the name of blindness and sickness.
His eyes?!
This was the first time after many years that the Emperor and the officials of the Great Zhou Empire, had seen Ye Beiming again.
His former dull and blind eyes were now shining brightly.
Gray, the mist that had covered his eyes had dissipated.
His eyes, were the color between right and evil, black and white, gray.
Before the Emperor, Prince Ye Beiming knelt down and shouted loudly: " I beg father to send this son, to take care of the Beast Blood Cloud!"
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