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Chapter 627 - 401 This is No Longer Just Talent

Chapter 627: Chapter 401 This is No Longer Just Talent

"Lu Yongping, Professor of Archaeology at Northwest University, keynote speaker at the Hundred Schools Forum, renowned scholar..."

Glancing at the old man’s facial recognition identity, he was surprised to find that he wasn’t just some unknown individual.

It seems this Eight Diagrams gossip might have some credibility after all.

It’s just that he didn’t know whether the Huayan Sutra inside the Buddha head was actually copied by Wu Zetian for that Xue Huaiyi...

"Strange, how come there’s not a single piece of news about this Buddha head from the brothers?"

Meng Lang touched his chin in puzzlement.

He had clearly noted this matter in the ’To-Do’ section of his memo pad, yet it seemed that in the recent updates, there had been no news about the "Buddha head."

He remembered the last recorded appearance of the Buddha head was in the Stone Records.

However, since the next installment written by Lin Haitang, Love Song, the matter had fallen into silence...

It’s not like the brothers had collectively experienced some supernatural amnesia event, right?

After a bit of analysis, he felt that there were several possibilities for this situation.

First is that the brothers got their hands on it, but that copy of the Huayan Sutra turned out to be just an ordinary handwritten scripture, not worth the ink to report.

Second is that the brothers saw the Eight Diagrams but lacked any spirit to share.

That possibility was rather small, after all, he knew himself; as a successor to communalism, to have gossip and not share it was like walking invisibly in the dark of night...

Third is that everyone who read that Scripture thereafter chose to forget, like the memory eraser flash of the Men in Black?

That just sounded ridiculous.

The last possibility was that the brothers simply hadn’t managed to get a hold of it at all, hence their embarrassment to speak of it...

Meng Lang couldn’t help but turn his gaze back to the family information of Iwazaki Yuhei.

The Iwazaki family, a distinguished family from Capital City.

The family history could be traced back to a lineage of monks during the Nara period of Fusang Country, and rumors had it that they might even be a cadet branch of the Imperial Family, once a prominent nobility centuries ago.

From the information, the purported descendant of ’Si Tuo’ that they mentioned seemed somewhat credible.

By the 21st century, the general public might no longer recognize this family, but mention of a name would certainly be met with awe.

That would be the founder of Fusang’s foremost zaibatsu, the Mitsubishi Group – Iwasaki Yataro!

After their defeat in World War II, the Fusang zaibatsu were ordered to disband, and Mitsubishi Company was split into 139 separate entities, but even so, the Iwasaki family still retained a 47.8% share in Mitsubishi’s numerous companies.

Following the outbreak of war on the Korean Peninsula, the economic restrictions on Fusang began to ease, and the zaibatsu groups rose again.

In 1954, "Mitsubishi Corporation" was reborn.

The Mitsubishi Group logo, so familiar to us today, actually includes the Iwasaki family crest – "Three Diamonds".

According to data collected by Zero, a rough estimate places the value of shares controlled by the Iwasaki family in the Mitsubishi Group at over 10 trillion RMB.

Family assets are scattered across various major companies in Fusang, and the invisible overseas assets are incalculable.

Not to be overlooked is the family’s quite secretive influence within Fusang’s political scene.

Simply put, it’s what you’d call a "shadow government".

Perhaps only the upper echelons of Fusang society know just how terrifying the sprawling power of this family is behind the scenes...

"Intimidating as it looks, but after all, this is our home turf, how could we possibly fumble?"

Although the Iwasaki family could rival a country in wealth, Meng Lang still felt the chances of capsizing in a gutter were rather low.

Previously he had been careless; this time he had already lain in wait like a hunter for his prey, there was no reason to let them succeed.

As a "Book Warrior," how could he be defeated by the same move twice?

Relying on his ability to infiltrate any information network, omniscience might be an exaggeration.

But for merely a human family to repeatedly cause trouble right under his nose seemed highly unscientific.

It wasn’t that he was arrogant; it was mainly because he was cheating.

Compared to the formidable mountain that was the Night Demon Clan, the Iwasaki family amounted to little more than a pebble in the road.

If he couldn’t even handle such minor characters in the future, then what was the point in talking about confronting the Night Demon Clan?

He might as well go back home and cultivate sweet potatoes, comfortably living out his years...

Meng Lang scrolled the mouse, and a moment later, he found a "family portrait" in the documents.

It was a photo from Iwazaki Yuhei’s social media account, with dozens of people young and old standing in a Japanese-style villa courtyard, each one dressed to the nines.

Seated at the heart of the group, there was a silver-haired elder holding a walking cane, dressed in a black kimono.

"Iwazaki Hanzo..."

The Iwazaki Family Head’s information was quite interesting too.

According to public records, he seemed keen on collecting Huaxia antiques and cultural relics.

The well-known Jingjia Hall Library in Fusang Country was the private property of Iwazaki Hanzo, housing a vast collection of ancient Huaxia books that was still expanding.

From this point of view, it wasn’t far-fetched to assume that they had learned of the secret of the "Buddha’s Hidden Scripture" from some ancient book and then tried everything to acquire it.

After all, the Fusang people’s "collecting obsession" is hard to explain.

Some people become so fixated, they could even produce a string of serial killings...

"I don’t believe it, we’re in the 21st century, yet a few old books can still run wild in Huaxia Land?"

Meng Lang decided that this time, he must make a ruthless move!

...

A few days later, in Northern Country.

"Zheng, are you really not going to reconsider my suggestion?"