Innate Talent

With a crash, Jian Zhongyi had skilled men escort him away and lock him in the prison.

The previously quiet hall instantly erupted into an uproar, voices breaking out in heated discussion.

Ran Zhongshi looked toward Xu Yuelong.

The matter of the Hua Zhu County dike collapse had long since been set in stone, and the punishment handed down would not change. Today, most of the River Conservancy Office had turned out merely to hold the fort, serve as witnesses, and join the commotion. Yet somehow, as they watched, a major event had emerged?

Blue Lake lay at the border between Great Snow Mountain and the territory actually controlled by Da Shun. Each side held half of it. It was in the upper reaches of the Huai River and was the lake with the largest area of water.

If something happened to it, the pollution would flow downstream and contaminate the entire Huai River. That was no empty threat.

Great Snow Mountain actually harbored such wolfish ambitions! That freezing, impoverished land had silently held in a colossal fart! "Is there really no one but Jian Zhongyi who can remove Great Snow Mountain's sinister methods?" someone questioned. "Is he planning to trade his death for restitution, then earn merit while bearing his crimes?"

"Great Snow Mountain's cultivation Dharma Gates are unusual, and the methods they lay down contain many mysteries. They will not be easy to handle. I think it is not that Jian Zhongyi is absolutely indispensable, but that without him to deal with it, progress will be much slower. If some accident occurs, no one can bear the consequences!"

Consequences—two words that weighed a thousand pounds.

Counting its tributaries large and small, the Huai River covered an enormous expanse, and the people who lived by its waters were countless.