Immortality Path: From the Blind Man at the Pharmacy
Chapter 278 - 157, 158. The Imperial Capital Changes Sky, Are They... My People? (Major Chapter - Requesting Subscriptions)_4

Chapter 278: 157, 158. The Imperial Capital Changes Sky, Are They... My People? (Major Chapter - Requesting Subscriptions)_4

Thus, Song Cheng would visit about two or three times in a week.

And on yet another day, after his arrival, he saw Yan Baixiang clutching a letter, looking at it excitedly, praising it, muttering to himself, "How dare he? How dare he?"

Song Cheng wrote, "What happened?"

Yan Baixiang hurriedly showed him the letter, saying as he read, "Foster father, Zhao Hua is your sworn brother, isn’t he?"

Song Cheng nodded, and the contents of the letter also shocked him.

He knew that Zhao Hua had led troops into the Imperial Capital.

But this, he hadn’t known.

About a month earlier, at the Imperial Capital’s end-of-year sacrifices, Zhao Hua took the entire city’s civil and military officials, leaders of the major forces of the Imperial Capital, and even the Empress Dowager who had become a nun, along with the new Emperor to the banks of the Wu River to sacrifice to the traditional "Wu River God".

The legend of the "Wu River God" had a long history, seemingly established by the founder of the Dashang Dynasty.

But this tradition had gradually been abandoned.

However, Zhao Hua had revived it.

Everyone thought he just wanted to demonstrate his power as a great minister, so they all agreed to the invitation.

And then... a huge battle erupted right there on the banks of the Wu River.

As a result, those who could fight were killed by Zhao Hua’s Tiger Leopard Cavalry, while those who couldn’t were forced to "seek the River God in the Wu River, and then they never returned".

The entire civil and military officialdom, ministers, and leaders of forces were wiped out... and all at once, everything was emptied out.

The critical point was that Zhao Hua hadn’t killed indiscriminately without preparation.

Before doing this, he accepted a few marriage alliances, and then, just like with Ouyang Chuchu of the Ouyang Family before, he quickly sowed his seeds on the wedding night, leaving behind offspring.

Then, during the "Wu River Massacre", he specifically did not kill those few families he was allied with in marriage... Now, they were completely in disorder.

At the Wu River banks, the nun-like Empress Dowager pleaded bitterly with him, saying all kind of nice things, yet she was still thrown into the Wu River by Zhao Hua.

After this incident, Zhao Hua immediately held the Emperor hostage to order the feudal lords around, quickly gained control of the Imperial Capital’s army, and then took people to the Holy Bright Temple in the Imperial Capital to offer incense and worship Buddha...

After a series of moves, he placed his confidants in control of the court, and then he himself quickly left the Imperial Capital with the Tiger Leopard Cavalry and the elite troops of the Imperial Capital, claiming that he had to confront the Six Towns because something of this nature had happened in the Imperial Capital, the Six Towns would certainly become restless.

Nobody knew just how strong Zhao Hua’s Tiger Leopard Cavalry was, only that he had brazenly barged into the Imperial Capital and then killed all the military and civil leaders of the major forces.

And no one would know how strong Zhao Hua’s Tiger Leopard Cavalry really was, or how many people it had... because Zhao Hua withdrew very quickly.

He charged into the Imperial Capital with an unstoppable force and withdrew in time, remotely controlling the movements of the Imperial Capital with his confidants and Medicinal Humans, like a blade hanging over the heads of the officials and nobles of the entire Imperial Capital.

After finishing the letter, Song Cheng’s expression was quite complex...

Because the letter also recorded some of the details; overall... it meant that Zhao Hua was shameless, treating promises like farts, deceiving many people with a sincere face, but showing no mercy when it came to killing.

He finally understood why there had been no contact from Zhao Hua’s side during this time.

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Song Cheng decided to go to the Imperial Capital and see for himself.

After all... it was a significant matter.

And in Thundercloud State, there happened to be a secret spy.

So, Yan Baixiang had the secret spy visualize Song Cheng.

A month later, the spy quietly infiltrated the Imperial Capital and visualized Song Cheng.

Song Cheng took a quick look around and was extremely surprised to find that many of those now in high positions, wielding great power in the Imperial Capital... were in fact his Medicinal Humans, with goodwill levels all at 100.

Suddenly, he understood.

Zhao Hua... had never betrayed him.

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Medicinal Humans...

required material.

The material, mostly derived from the True Selves of Noble Family Children.

The completed Medicinal Humans first obeyed the one who provided the medicine, but at the root, they were completely subservient to "the original owner who was the source of the material".

After marrying into the Qi Family of East Sea State, Zhao Hua naturally obtained some Medicinal Human Material from them, but... up to this day, he had still been using the material given to him by his brother far away in Northern Snow State.

The current Zhao Hua naturally knew that the Ghostly Fox painting his brother had shown him was his brother’s True Self.

That Medicinal Human Material was also made from his brother’s hair ground into a powder.

That was why all the Medicinal Humans under Zhao Hua’s control... were all originally from Song Cheng.

The reasons were complex, and perhaps Zhao Hua himself wasn’t entirely clear.

Maybe the brother’s Medicinal Human Material was easier to use, producing stronger Medicinal Humans;

Maybe he knew the brother was ambitionless, thus having the brother ultimately control these Medicinal Humans was the safest, the least likely to cause conflict with him; using the Qi Family would not be acceptable;

Maybe he had once promised his brother that if he ever took the Imperial Capital, if his brother wanted to become the Emperor, then he could;

Maybe his affection for his brother was profound...

Zhao Hua had killed and committed arson in his lifetime, did all kinds of evil, treated women as clothes, viewed his children as tools, scheming and plotting, hands stained with blood, mouth full of lies.

He let down many, many people, but... he never let down Song Cheng.

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PS: When it rains, it pours. My computer’s hard drive failed, difficult to recover. I got a new hard drive, but all the desktop settings... were gone. I can only reorganize and recreate...

I strive to recover by tomorrow, even make up for the missing word count.

My apologies!