Chapter 1 The Great Dao Has Flaws

"What's wrong? Seeing me, are you flustered?" Ye Chuxiao played with the wine glass in his hand. Although he was revisiting an old place, his mentality was completely different.

At this time, Ye Chuxiao already had the capital to overturn the table. Although he didn't act recklessly, it didn't mean he couldn't do so.

After the little eunuch Jixiang panicked, he勉强 recovered, maintained his expression, and said somewhat stiffly, "When did you return, my lord? This servant didn't even know, truly derelict in my duty. I only ask that you be merciful and don't inform the Grand Eunuch in the manor about this matter, otherwise this servant will inevitably be punished. You are kind-hearted, my lord, and would not want to see such a thing happen."

Looking at Jixiang, who was lowering his eyebrows and folding his hands, as if begging for mercy, Ye Chuxiao smiled, "What a cunning and venomous slave! Do you think that just because you are an inner attendant in the royal manor, I wouldn't dare do anything to you? That I would try to smooth things over and make them small? You even dare to use your status as a servant to suppress me?"

Jixiang still had a submissive look, lowering his head and saying, "Why do you say that, my lord? This servant kindly sent you up the mountain to soak in the hot springs, but unexpectedly, I was driven away by the嬷嬷 (momos) from the palace afterwards. Although I was unable to bring you back, it was not this servant's fault. Even if the matter is brought before the Prince, this servant has a reasonable explanation."

Involving the Eldest Princess, if things really escalated to Zhao Wang's (Prince Zhao) level, Ye Chuxiao's situation would definitely be more awkward than Jixiang's.

Jixiang was precisely seizing this point, wanting to force Ye Chuxiao to give up at this point and stop pursuing the matter.

Unfortunately, he had chosen the wrong target.

Ye Chuxiao's smile became even brighter, "Heh! You dare threaten me? You think you've got me now?"

"You're not even worth anything. I won't waste my breath arguing with you. Tell me the whole story honestly!" As soon as the words fell, the Intent Realm directly enveloped and pressed down on Jixiang.

Ye Chuxiao's display of Intent Realm means that he never intended to let this little eunuch live.

The Intent Realm, among those of the same level, is an all-round collision of will, aura, ability, and energy.

But dealing with those below the Intent Realm, the effect is even more overbearing. It is 'control,' control over everything about the other party. The lower the controlled person's realm, the more obvious and stronger this control effect.

Jixiang has some cultivation, at the peak of the Wonderful Realm, which can be considered a small expert in the martial world.

But for Ye Chuxiao, it was completely insignificant.

"It...it was Grand Eunuch who ordered it." Jixiang's initial reply was somewhat勉强, but then it became smooth, but his face and eyes were filled with fear.

"Grand Eunuch? Which Grand Eunuch in the palace?" Ye Chuxiao asked.

Ye Chuxiao still remembered that there was an old eunuch, Zhenhai Gong, in the palace, whose cultivation seemed quite high.

Perhaps even Wu Ding (Unfixed), but it was only suspected.

From Ye Chuxiao's current understanding, due to differences in methods and accumulation, even within the Intent Realm, sometimes the differences are extremely large.

It is reasonable for a lower-level Intent Realm to mistake a higher-level Intent Realm for Wu Ding.

After all, the Wu Ding Realm does not have a fixed standard. People standing at a low place always add a few layers of filters when looking up at a high place.

Ye Chuxiao is not an ordinary Intent Realm. Back in the Immortal Treasure Realm, he slaughtered Intent Realm Divine Craftsmen like dogs. Perhaps after a while in the Immortal Treasure Realm, he would also become Wu Ding.

Back to the present, although he doesn't know why he would have a feud with a Grand Eunuch in the palace, everything comes back to the same origin.

Located in Da Heng, the core conflicts surrounding Ye Chuxiao are actually only three. The most obvious is the power struggle formed by the apparent discord between the Empress Dowager and the Emperor. As a member of the Six Doors, Ye Chuxiao has an unusual friendship with Shi Huang and Yuan Shen, and may be seen as a pawn in the power struggle. Then there is the Mind Elixir dispute involving Ye Chuxiao, Jin Buyi, and Ying Shu, as well as the century-old unresolved mystery involving the late Emperor and Chen Wang (Prince Chen) Xiao Chi.

These three core conflicts, with Ye Chuxiao's continuous in-depth exploration, and the 'special' clues provided by his cheap younger brother Ye Chuqi, have traces of being mixed and integrated together, which makes them seem even more chaotic.

As for the many other events, they are just specific traces that revolve around these core conflicts.

If one ignores the small questions and results of specific events and sees these as a whole as clues.

Then, in fact, many conclusions can be drawn.

Ye Chuxiao's original somewhat floating plan now has more details.

Some people he had intersected with suddenly took on new faces in his mind.

"It's not the Grand Eunuch in the palace, but Huang Grand Eunuch of the Hidden Court..." When Jixiang said this, his face suddenly turned red, as if he was about to burn in the next second.

In fact, if it weren't for Ye Chuxiao's domain covering him, isolating the interference of external aura, he would have been completely ignited.

"I expected there to be a restriction. Suppress it for me!" Ye Chuxiao stretched out his hand and pretended to grasp. Some restrictions and curses that had long been lurking in Jixiang's body were temporarily suppressed, making it difficult for them to take effect.

To be on the safe side, Ye Chuxiao even threw out the divine artifact pagoda.

With the characteristics of the pagoda, it is even more difficult for external factors to interfere and intrude within the domain.

"Tell me about the Hidden Court in detail!" Ye Chuxiao knew that he had grasped a key point.

It may not be the core yet, but it is not far from the core. As long as he firmly pulls it, he can pull out the hidden monsters behind it.

"This servant doesn't know much. When the late Emperor was still alive, this servant was secretly sent into the Hidden Court to receive training and guidance. However, those who were trained at the same time were not only palace eunuchs, but also some official prostitutes from the Jiaofang Division, frustrated scholars, and fallen aristocratic children."

"Our training places are different, and the content of our training is mostly inconsistent, but we occasionally meet in the central courtyard." Although Jixiang was unwilling, he still truthfully revealed everything under Ye Chuxiao's control.

"The central courtyard...! So you have a secret society place?"

"Where is it?" Ye Chuxiao asked.

Jixiang said, "I don't know. We were all sent to the training place after our five senses were closed. I only remember that the sun there sometimes glows with a blue light."

"Tell me about the Huang Grand Eunuch of the Hidden Court. Have you seen him?" Ye Chuxiao asked again.

Jixiang said, "I haven't seen him. Huang Grand Eunuch will contact me through yellow paper figures. Actually...this servant calls him Huang Grand Eunuch only because the paper figures are yellow. Who the Grand Eunuch is, what his name is, what his surname is, this servant doesn't know at all."

Perhaps because he had revealed basically everything that should not have been revealed, Jixiang's resistance was extremely weak, and he even had a tendency to cooperate proactively.

"What else do you know? Tell me everything!" Ye Chuxiao knew that 'small characters' like Jixiang might know something, but what they knew should also be extremely limited. For a moment, he couldn't think of a direction to continue asking, so he simply let him play freely.

Jixiang said, "Huang Grand Eunuch contacts this servant in the middle of each month to assign tasks. If the task is completed, this servant will light a stick of incense in the house and pray to the Zhenggong Goddess to report."

"There is also a 'Zhenggong Goddess'? I haven't heard of such a deity in Da Heng!" Ye Chuxiao thought.

Da Heng has religions, and most of them are established by the Buddhas and Dao Lords of the Buddhist and Taoist families. In remote and desolate places, there are also some more ignorant and primitive worships, but these are all in the past and do not occupy the mainstream.

The reason for this is not only the natural restrictions of the cultivators, but also because before Tang Sudong sacrificed himself to the Dao, the defect of the world where Da Heng was located was that the higher the cultivation, the more indifferent one became.

People's hearts are indifferent, even to the point where they are indifferent to their own life and death, and interactions with relatives and friends are extremely rare. How can they care about religious beliefs?

Not to mention giving birth to faith in gods because of this.

Therefore, the land of Da Heng was originally a desert for faith and gods to survive.

The Buddhist and Taoist families can have a place only because they not only provide religious beliefs, but also have the nature of cultivation sects.

"Tasks are issued in the middle of each month. What is the date of Da Heng now?" Ye Chuxiao opened his mouth and asked, throwing the question to Jixiang.

Jixiang said, "Qingfeng Year Two, September seventeenth."

"Hmm! Hmm?" Ye Chuxiao smiled.

"Isn't this where the clue comes from?"

"Bringing me to the royal manor is the result of communication between Shi Huang and Zhao Wang. That is to say, there must still be people from the Hidden Court around Shi Huang and Zhao Wang, and their status is not low."

"Alas...thinking too much, I feel like my brain is about to grow." Ye Chuxiao signaled Jixiang to continue.

However, most of what Jixiang said next was of little value.

After all, he was just a small character.

Speaking of setting up Ye Chuxiao this time, if it really went according to the originally designed direction, this Jixiang would definitely be abandoned.

As for guarding Jixiang and ambushing an attempt to silence him, I'm afraid it won't work.

He knows too little, his status is too low, he can't operate remotely, and it is more likely that he will be directly abandoned.

Ye Chuxiao guarding him is not much different from waiting for a rabbit to bump into a tree.

Retracting the domain covering Jixiang, Jixiang recovered, suddenly thought of something, and before he could beg Ye Chuxiao for mercy or help.

An invisible poisonous fire quickly burned out from his body, burning him into焦灰 (charred ash) all over the ground in the blink of an eye.

Ye Chuxiao watched this scene, intercepted a trace of the poisonous fire aura to keep, and then shouted loudly, "Who is it? Who is acting presumptuously, how dare you kill someone in the royal manor?"

A loud shout instantly awakened the manor that seemed to be still sound asleep.

The first to wake up were the two dragons.

Dragon King Yuan Jia and Dragon Queen Yuan Meng turned over and got up, and subconsciously wiped the possible dragon saliva on their faces, revealing embarrassed expressions.

Then, they both stared at Ye Chuxiao who was shouting.

"Little...Chief Ye, what happened?" Yuan Jia asked Ye Chuxiao.

Although the Ye Chuxiao in front of him still looked the same, for some reason, this little 'Wonderful Realm' actually gave Yuan Jia a feeling of fear.

"Is he still not sober from the wine?" Yuan Jia thought.

Ye Chuxiao heard the change in Yuan Jia's tone, his heart moved, and he restrained his own aura a bit more, and the few traces of dragon evil attached to it because he had killed dragons were also quietly dispelled.

Yuan Jia looked at Ye Chuxiao again, and the feeling of fear had disappeared.

"It really was an illusion! Drinking really ruins things."

"This Hanlong Incense...is something you can't touch either." Thinking this, Yuan Jia subconsciously went to touch the remaining Hanlong Incense.

This thing is naturally attractive to the dragon race.

Like catnip to kittens.

Pa!

Yuan Jia's dragon claw was slapped away by Yuan Meng's claw.

The remaining Hanlong Incense all fell into Yuan Meng's hands.

"An inner attendant is dead, turning into charred ash in front of me."

"I just asked him a few questions, and he..." Saying this, Ye Chuxiao shook his head.

"When Shi Detective arrives, I will tell you what happened in detail!" Ye Chuxiao said.

Shi Huang and Zhao Wang arrived very quickly. About three minutes after Ye Chuxiao shouted, they both arrived at the scene.

Looking at the charred blackness on the ground, although the expressions of the two did not change, Ye Chuxiao had been staring at them and still noticed a slight mess in their aura.

This shows that they are not unfamiliar with this method of death and it is not the first time they have seen it.

They even know something about the Hidden Court.

"The founder of the Hidden Court must be the late Emperor...that is, Chen Wang Xiao Chi. There is no doubt about this. Only those who hold the artifact of a country can quietly set up such an organization in the Divine Capital."

"It is not surprising that emperors set up secret agencies to work for themselves. What is surprising is that this agency has not transitioned to the current emperor's hands, but instead seems to be 'out of control' and unusually active...This is very interesting." Ye Chuxiao thought.

"Chen Wang Xiao Chi! What the hell are you doing?" After learning so much, Ye Chuxiao believed that Chen Wang Xiao Chi would never really be dead and buried in the imperial mausoleum.

It's just that Ye Chuxiao hasn't grasped the key point...the purpose!

Chen Wang Xiao Chi turned around and did so much, what is the purpose?

What can he gain?

"Ye Yingzhang, what happened?" Shi Huang asked Ye Chuxiao.

Ye Chuxiao repeated what he had said before, and then took out a dagger as black as ink and shaped like a tusk.

This dagger carried an evil curse power that made the two dragons feel creepy.

Yuan Jia completely lost his doubts. There was a reason why he felt frightened when he looked at Ye Chuxiao before...it was because of this dagger.

"This...is a vicious magic weapon with a dragon blood poison curse. The magic weapon itself is already extraordinary, and it also contains a highly poisonous poison made with dragon blood as the main material. If a member of the dragon race is stabbed in a vital point, even..." Shi Huang glanced at the Dragon King and Dragon Queen and also felt lingering fear.

"What a vicious mind, they want to wipe us out in one fell swoop!" Zhao Wang was so angry that the fat on his body kept shaking, and there was a bit more gratitude in his eyes when he looked at Ye Chuxiao.

The two dragons were invited by Zhao Wang, and he ordered people to use Hanlong Incense.

If the two dragons fell because of this, it would not only be a problem of the Yunmengze aquatic tribe being out of control.

The entire eight states around Yunmengze would become Da Heng's largest恶地 (evil land), transforming from Da Heng's granary because of the loss of the Dragon King to regulate water vapor.

At that time, there would be starvation for thousands of miles and famine victims everywhere.

Even the foundation of the country would be shaken.

"Thieves! What a poisonous heart!"

"We can't tolerate them!" Zhao Wang gritted his teeth.

Ye Chuxiao heard this and thought, "As expected."

Shi Huang glanced at Zhao Wang and said vaguely, "This matter...still needs to be considered carefully."

"This dagger, first give it to this old man, and take it to the Ministry of Works to have a famous craftsman check it."

Shi Huang did not suspect that Ye Chuxiao took it out. After all, generally speaking, how could a small Wonderful Realm cultivator have such a powerful magic weapon?

It's just that checking the craftsmanship can start from the manufacturer's side as a clue direction.

After all, in the land of Da Heng, the annual output of such high-quality magic weapons is extremely limited.

But the truth is that this thing was made by Ye Chuxiao himself on the Ark of Creation.

He absorbed a lot of the memories and Dao rhymes of the Divine Craftsmen. Except for the lack of hands-on experience, in all aspects, he is a high-end version of the Divine Craftsman.

It is easy to create such a dagger.