Yin Jiao clutched his mother's sleeve tightly, his voice still trembling with lingering fear.
"Mother, what exactly is going on? If you are here, then who was it that died in the prison that day...?"
Yin Hong nodded quickly as well, his face filled with both confusion and astonishment.
The two brothers had endured countless hardships along the way, their hearts consumed by the Obsession of avenging their mother. Now that they suddenly learned she had never died, all their grief, rage, flight, and slaughter felt like meaningless toil.
Everything they had done before—had they taken revenge for nothing?
Seeing the stunned looks on her two grandsons' faces, Jiang Huanchu could not help bursting into hearty laughter.
"Ha ha ha! Those were merely substitutes conjured by two immortals using great divine powers, a trick to fool the eyes and deceive the whole world!"
Yin Jiao and Yin Hong were completely dumbfounded. They exchanged a glance before blurting out together,
"Then why did you put on this whole act?"
Since their mother had not died and Jiang Huanchu was safe and sound, why go to such lengths to lay out such an enormous scheme, throwing the court and the people into turmoil and even shaking the very foundations of Great Shang?
The two brothers were full of confusion. The more they thought about this chain of events, the stranger it seemed, and the less they could make sense of it.
Seeing this, Kong Xuan blurted out, "For God Conferment!"
When he saw that Yin Jiao and Yin Hong were still completely bewildered, Kong Xuan slowly began to explain the origins of the God Conferment tribulation, as well as the grand immortal scheme soon to unfold in Great Shang's court and across the lands of mortals.
The more the brothers heard, the