"Your subject obeys!"
Zheng Shi, Commander of the Northern Office, hurried off to carry out the order.
This would be an extremely difficult matter to investigate. In this incident today, Cui Zhu had used his own death to strike at the Qi Monarch. Heaven knew how many years of preparation lay behind it.
How could the person pulling the strings have left traces so easily?
Cui Zhu had died without a trace, his Divine Soul shattered as well. There was no way to obtain any information from him now.
And for him to enter an elite Qi army like the Lightning Jailer Army, to rise to the position of deputy general among the fearsome Nine Legions of Qi, and to earn the esteem of its commander, Xiu Yuan... none of that could have been achieved overnight.
His making it onto the final list for the Yellow River Assembly was even more remarkable.
This required more than strength. His background had to be clean, too.
Even the ordinary citizens who had come to watch the ceremony had to be Qi people with clean family records going back several generations. If Jiang Wang hadn't had the Chongxuan Family vouch for him and Yan Fu champion his cause, it would have been extremely difficult for him to make the list.
After all, if a nation's prodigy was disloyal to his country, he would become a laughingstock.
Cui Zhu had made it to where he was today, finding an opportunity to hurl that spear at the Qi Emperor.
Someone could have interfered in any of the countless steps along the way. That was why the Qi Emperor was furious, and why the civil and military officials were terrified. To the former, every step that might have been tampered with could conceal a member of