The Human Emperor (1-200)

C112: Ire of the Barbaric God

It was as if the heavens and the earth were torn apart. Nothing could explain the shock Yao Guang Yi was feeling.

As though a clown, he was played in the hands of another by the border. Yao Guang Yi always thought that a master strategist has rendered his help to the Wang Clan, allowing them to see through his ploy in advance.

And it was because of this ‘master strategist’ that Yao Guang Yi suffered from a lack of appetite and insomnia.

It wasn’t a formidable adversary that was fearsome. What was fearsome was an adversary hidden in the shadows. Thus, before this hidden master strategist was found, Yao Guang Yi couldn’t recover from this blow

This was the knot in his heart!

If it wasn’t untied, he would never return to that wise and intelligent strategist he was before.

Just that, despite Yao Guang Yi’s intelligence, he couldn’t have expected that his opponent, the seemingly omniscient ‘master strategist’, was actually a fifteen-year-old child of the Wang Clan, and an unimpressive profligate scion on top of that!

As an important official of the royal court who prided himself on his intelligence, how could Yao Guang Yi accept this?

“Father, how can you be so certain that it was that lad who did me in?”

Yao Guang Yi asked

Under usual circumstances, he would have never dared doubt his father’s words. However, this matter was simply too important to him. If he didn’t untie this knot, it would continue to plague him for life.

“Heh, you still can’t understand it?”

Old Master Yao placed the wooden box on the table in the drawer. With a calm and casual expression, he spoke as though he was revealing the answer to an insignificant matter.

“Given that such a huge matter involving the Wang Clan had occurred by the border and a ‘formidable expert’ had appeared within the Wang Clan, do you think that King Song can resist taking a look?”

“But isn’t it possible for him to know of the matter in advance?”

Yao Guang Yi asked.

Old Master Yao shook his head. If it was the past Yao Guang Yi, he should have long understood the situation by now. However, the matter by the border has crushed his confidence. He was no longer the intelligent general that he once was.

“Think carefully about it. If the Wang Clan had a formidable expert and King Song knew of the matter in advance, do you think that King Qi and your plan would have worked? Do you think that it would have been possible for you two to poach so many people over?”

Hong!

The Old Master Yao’s voice was neither loud nor soft, and it was extremely casual. But to Yao Guang Yi, they sounded like the words of a sage. In an instant, countless lights and thoughts flashed across his head, and suddenly, all of those unsolvable mysteries which had baffled him for a very long time became clear.

“So, the person who meets King Song last at Duke Jiu’s birthday banquet is the person we are looking for!”

“Un.”

Gladdened, Old Master Yao nodded his head. At least this child wasn’t too dumb to be able to understand this.

“Li Chengqi is a smart person, but smart people often get blinded by their own intelligence. He wanted to protect that child, but he didn’t know that in the end, he was the one who revealed to us who it was that did you in.”