Chapter 302 - 242, Secret Passage
Next to the window lattice, Chen Ji’s expression was grave.
The siege of Jing Dynasty is imminent, but the secret passage is just a ruse used by Dragon Gate Inn for backstabbing, leaving no way out.
At this moment, Xiao Man and Zhang Zheng were still bickering, and Zhang Xia, unable to persuade them, simply stood up and moved farther away.
She approached Chen Ji and asked curiously, "What are you thinking about?"
Chen Ji suddenly asked, "Second Miss Zhang, after Jing Dynasty breaches the city, is there a possibility of a massacre?"
Zhang Xia was silent for a moment: "Jing Yuan Sect once personally led troops to Guyuan and was ambushed at Long Mountain, shot by an arrow and fled. The arrowhead was poisoned, and even the monks from Kujue Temple couldn’t save him, passing away two months later. On his deathbed, he left an edict ’If heaven favors my son, he must take all of Guyuan’s land, exterminate the survivors, construct imperial temples, and let their bones cover the fields, rendering a thousand miles of red earth.’"
Chen Ji felt a chill in his heart, even Xiao Man and Zhang Zheng stopped bickering, looking towards Zhang Xia with unease.
Xiao Man looked towards Chen Ji worriedly, "My lord, Guyuan has never been lost for hundreds of years. It should hold this time too, right?"
Chen Ji did not answer, nor could he.
The events that occurred in Luocheng City seemed like a distant past, but Prince Jing’s death was like a butterfly flapping its wings on the other side of the ocean, stirring up a storm towards the unknown. He did not know how many within the Guyuan Border Army wanted vengeance for Prince Jing, and how many were scheming treason or conspiring with the enemy.
Guyuan had never been breached before, but now no one dared to be certain.