Even Tang Changsheng understood that much. Outsiders could not come between kin!
As Tang Changsheng considered the plan, all the questions that had troubled him from the start fell into place.
So that was it. They had put on that performance before Marquis Wu to win his trust—and to find an excuse to send him grain and supplies...
Now that he saw it clearly, the plan was not especially clever, but it was not without a chance of success.
If it succeeded and they gained control of the entire Wu Hou State, the benefits would be endless. But if it failed...
"If something goes wrong, I'll simply take you all overseas," Lu Yuanzhen said mildly. "Surely these feudal lords can't pursue us across the sea?"
That settled it. As long as they had a way out, Tang Changsheng did not care whether it led overseas.
The three discussed the details of the operation. Lu Yuanzhen also passed on many of the Primordial Yang Abbey's Secret Arts to Tang Changsheng, including the complete Method for purifying Incense and Fire Prayer Power. At last, Tang Changsheng saw the light.
"This Evil God is..." Tang Changsheng recalled the wooden image of an Evil God that Madam Hu had given him. Crudely carved, it had an air of the untamed wilderness. One glance told him it had not come from the Central Plains.
When Lu Yuanzhen saw it, a strange light flashed in his eyes. "So there really were good things in Marquis Wu's treasury. This must be an Evil God worshipped by one of the Barbarian Caves in the south..."
The remote lands of the Wu Hou State south of the Suxu River bordered the territory of the Southern Barbarians. There, the mountains were perilous, the vast marshes thick with poisonous miasma, and