Chapter 108: Together Always
They could hear Lin Haoqing coughing before he even entered the door.
"Shunde killed her brother and ascended the throne." Lin Haoqing was still coughing non-stop.
"She's gone mad. She's been using the forbidden arts and devoured the spiritual power of many disciples of the Grand Master's house. The court is now just a one man show. There will be countless refugees fleeing over to the north soon, so get ready."
Kongming was in disbelief. "Impossible, how come we haven't received any news on this?"
"Siyu is my demon servant, her real body is here with me." Lin Haoqing touched the sword at his side and continued, "She can contact me instantly. These things just happened in the capital, so your messengers are probably still on their way."
Ji Yunhe frowned, "Princess Shunde has the power of the jade phoenix and the Grand Master, I'm afraid no one can take her on."
Lin Haoqing coughed again. "It's my fault. I didn't think this would happen."
"No one expected this," Ji Yunhe said to Lin Haoqing.
"It's useless to blame yourself. Let's try to find a way to defeat her. You gave her the pill to refine humans into demons, is there anything we can do?"
"If only she had used Ji Chengyu and another demon for sacrifice, it would've been easy to deal with her. But the jade phoenix..."
"Who?" Kongming suddenly interrupted Lin Haoqing.
"Ji Chengyu…" Ji Yunhe said. Lin Haoqing looked at Ji Yunhe and Kongming. Even though he did not know Ji Chengyu personally, he could guess that his relationship with them was not ordinary.
"Yes. Shunde's subordinate, Zhu Ling, was a long time friend of his. He helped trick him into her trap."
Zhu Ling...
Ji Yunhe still remembered when she and Changyi left the Demon Valley six years ago, it was Zhu Ling and Ji Chengyu who had come to pick them up. The two of them had very different personalities at the time, but one could still see Zhu Ling's admiration for Ji Chengyu. Who knew their friendship would end like this...
Ji Yunhe felt sorry for Ji Chengyu while Kongming went silent. Then the monk turned around and walked out the door, bumping into Luo Jinsang outside.
"Baldy, where are you going? … Baldy? Wait for me..."
Just as Ji Yunhe was feeling disheartened over the current situation, her hand was taken into someone else's. She looked at Changyi, and his calm, blue eyes took in all of her worries and stress. She tightened her grip on his hand and reminded herself that no matter what, she was no longer alone.
Her chaotic emotions calmed down, and she quieted her mind. Ji Yunhe looked at Lin Haoqing again.
"I remember you telling me about tampering with the medicine you gave Shunde with a spell. So now that it's been broken and can no longer kill her, might it still cause her some damage?"
"Or delay her from coming north," Changyi said.
"It will take some time to settle the refugees flooding in." Lin Haoqing frowned.
"I shouldn't be telling you what to do in the north, but with all due respect, I didn't inform you of this matter so that you can take in the refugees."
Lin Haoqing continued, "Shunde is now stuck in the capital trying to fuse and control the powers inside her body. Once she succeeds, she will come full force in the blink of an eye.
However, the power of the jade phoenix and the Grand Master are too strong, to completely fuse them together is not an easy task. The Northlands can take advantage of this opportunity to set up a magic boundary at the border in defense. The resources here are already scarce, admitting too many refugees will just add to the strain, and intensify the conflicts between the residents."