Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 724 - 452 Volume

Chapter 724: Chapter 452 Volume

The inner courtyard of the Prime Minister’s Mansion was not very large, but that was in comparison to the outer courtyard that occupied several blocks, the overall area still amounted to at least two or three acres.

Unable to utilize Origin Qi for cultivation and with no entertainment facilities within the inner courtyard of the Prime Minister’s Mansion, Xu Yuan bid farewell to Xu Changge after learning about the current situation of Tianyan, humming a tune from his hometown as he strolled to his father’s study.

The red sandalwood door under the swallow-tailed eaves was adorned with elegant and restrained carvings.

Standing at the door, Xu Yuan took a quick glance and noticed that even such an important place still had not adopted the habit of locking.

He pushed the door open casually and entered, the familiar and unchanged elegant layout of the room bringing an involuntary smile to his lips.

Upon opening the door, his eyes first met a silk screen embroidered with ink-wash landscapes. Stepping past it, he saw a massive purple sandalwood desk at the deepest part of the room.

Although his father had some understanding of painting and calligraphy, it was just a tool he used to curry favor with his superiors before he came into power and not an interest of his.

Consequently, the walls of the study were not adorned with any antique paintings or calligraphy, only various bookshelves filled with different types of documents.

The soft footsteps of boots hitting the floor rang through the room as Xu Yuan took a seat at his father’s desk, his gaze sweeping over the entire study.

The subtle fragrance of incense mingled with the scent of scrolls, making the room quiet and tranquil, as if it could isolate all the noise of the outside world.

For some reason,

every time he took this seat, he always felt as if he had ascended the golden throne.

"...."

Shaking his head, Xu Yuan cast this thought from his mind, slightly raising his hand to use Origin Qi as he remembered, drawing a stack of paper scrolls from the first bookshelf on his right.

Since the study was where his father dealt with government affairs at home, the more than a dozen bookshelves in the room held no cultivation techniques or books, and aside from his father’s occasional use of a wolf-hair brush to write, they were filled with documents related to government secrets.

The first bookshelf on the right contained confidential reports organized and presented by his subordinates from the past month.

With this in mind, Xu Yuan couldn’t help but feel a tinge of doubt.

Why was it that when he used to sneak into the study to steal things, he could only find his father’s paintings and calligraphy, yet had never seen any of these secret reports?

His thoughts drifting to this, Xu Yuan suddenly chuckled and shook his head.

He had thought he was being secretive back then; it turned out his father had tacitly allowed it all along...

With the room’s incense wafting, Xu Yuan began to sift through the documents in his hand.

One after another.

Until he came across one edged with gold, and after skimming a few lines, Xu Yuan’s brows furrowed.

It was a report about the war in the Northern Frontier.

Having read it thoroughly, his brow furrowed deeply.

The content of the first report was quite explosive.

The terrifying disease released from within Wanyao Valley had spread from within the major Sects of the Fengbei Continent, affecting everyone from the high-ranking members of the Northern Border Sects to the commoners at the bottom, turning them into ghastly spirits driven by desire upon infection.

And those infected commoners and warriors, as well as the high-ranking Cultivators, had already swarmed like a tidal wave, striking down towns and counties everywhere.

The number of infected had reached the tens of millions.

Looking at this information, Xu Yuan immediately identified the most critical piece of information.

The Fengbei Continent was nearly a third overrun by this plague.

And more so,

apart from the heavily afflicted Fengbei Continent, which was at the northernmost edge of the Dayan, reports of the plague had begun to emerge sporadically across the other two continents.

The situation in the Northern Frontier was spiraling out of control.

And the orders passed down from the court were simple,

there was no mercy, nor was there any waiting for a cure to restore these stricken commoners.

Just one word, kill.

Directly exterminate.

This indicated that Li Zhaoyuan and Wanyao Valley had achieved the objectives of one phase of their stratagem....

"......."

The study was silent, with only the gentle trails of incense lingering.

Clutching the report slightly tighter in his hand, Xu Yuan remained silent for a long time before finally setting the document down and quietly opening the second one.

This one too was about the Northern Frontier warfare.

However, the date signed at the bottom was much more recent than the previous one, having been submitted just two days ago.

After reading the contents of this report, Xu Yuan took a deep breath and slowly stood up, walking unconsciously around the study.

In his past life, when he watched videos about World War II and saw the death tolls of various countries in the war, his heart would stir, but ultimately, peace had prevailed for a long time, and the war had happened nearly a century ago, so he could not truly grasp the meaning behind those numbers.

But now, this report made him understand.

As he and Lou Ji had initially speculated,

though the infected Cultivators and low-ranking warriors were fearless in death, they had no Formation skills and faced a one-sided slaughter under the ruthless military might of the Yan Dynasty court.

With the court’s orders carried out, the terrifying disease had begun to be preliminarily contained within a mere twenty days.

The cost was a death toll in the tens of millions.

The original wording of the report said,

[Beneath the cities, limbs and flesh piled like mountains, the tens of millions of frenzied onslaught have all been put to death]

In just twenty days,

the various military leaders in charge of the Northern Frontier had exterminated those large crowds besieging the counties and towns.

It was a race of slaughter.

Li Zhaoyuan, Li Qingyan, Marquis Wucheng, and Zong Qingsheng were all involved.

And among them, the unmistakable victor was Second Prince Li Zhaoyuan, with the assistance of Wanyao Valley.