After Yao Yuzhi left, Duanmu Chun wrote a message and sent it out.
Naturally, he was informing the Tyrant Lotus Venerable behind them about their determination to protect Sikong Jing at all costs, attaching the Blood-Refining Battle-Slaying Diagram as well...
Once that was done, Duanmu Chun returned to his office.
The room was large. One of its doors led to the East Tyrant Courtyard's front yard, connecting to the shops outside and so on.
There was no one in his room. Returning to his desk, he stared fixedly at the black jade sheet before him...
It was precisely the black jade sheet inscribed with a battle-slaying diagram.
This was a fragmentary battle-slaying diagram, and it was exactly why he had been utterly exhausted earlier.
Taking a deep breath, Duanmu Chun pulled himself together and sent his consciousness into the fragmentary battle-slaying diagram. Yet after merely ten breaths, he withdrew again and could not help cursing, "Isn't this fragmentary diagram even more deranged than the Tyrant Soul Endgame?"
He simply could not unravel the fragmentary diagram's secret. He could not make heads or tails of it at all.
Duanmu Chun was formidable in both martial arts and military formations. He was himself an imperial lower-rank military formation master, yet he was completely helpless before this Black Jade Fragmentary Diagram. After pacing back and forth for a while, he suddenly called out, "Someone, come in..."
The door connecting to the shops opened gently, and a clean-shaven middle-aged man entered. "Chief Duanmu, what is it?"
"Di Geng, what exactly did the person who brought this fragmentary diagram say?" Duanmu Chun asked.
Di Geng was Duanmu Chun's assistant and also the Eastern Tyrant Branch's Tyrant Arbiter. He was mainly responsible for the shops' business as well.
People called him Chief Steward Di...
"He merely