In the fifteenth year of Jinglong.
Yu Su was reinstated and promoted to Minister of War, reviewing the Capital Garrison on the Son of Heaven's behalf.
A month later, Prince Dongyang, the commander of the Capital Garrison, requested leave to resign, and Minister Yu's prestige was unrivaled for a time.
Zhou Yi silently delivered meals in the prison. In the years that followed, they had no further contact, and their friendship gradually faded.
The world would not revolve around any one person, nor would time halt for anyone.
Everyone was busy.
Ten years flashed by.
Zhou Yi's Chess Pieces each met with their own fortunes.
Yan Wu had died three years earlier. A Chess Piece in whom Zhou Yi had placed great hopes had fallen into an ambush while carrying out a mission, dying before he could even avenge his great hatred.
Whether it had truly been an ambush, Zhou Yi could not be bothered to investigate.
He had only heard that Yan Wu possessed extraordinary talent and advanced at a breathtaking pace. His superior had grown jealous and sent him to investigate the military situation of Great Yong.
Ye Xiong successfully took revenge. After eliminating the Brocade Guard Centurion who had killed his parents, he cherished his life and no longer dared cultivate the demon art, gradually becoming indistinguishable from the masses.
Zhou Yi did not coerce him, lest thirty years in the east river become thirty years in the west river.
Out of more than thirty Chess Pieces in total, only four had become Centurions, and only one had risen to Thousand-Household Commander.
Yuan Shun possessed average talent and a slick, worldly nature. Originally, he had been the heir to a small gang in Xuzhou.
When Zhou Yi taught him the Heaven Devouring Demon Art, that fellow had