How come the celestial technique I stole is so powerful?!

The Seventh Prince’s eyes lit up: "It’s a matter of time, but when, where, and how you act, it’s all within your control, right?"

"Exactly! In warfare, the last thing you want is to be led by the nose," Lin Xiaosu said. "Before the fifteenth day of the first month, I will stand by; after that, I shall enter Lanzhou!"

"Enter Lanzhou? Or head to the battlefield?" the Seventh Prince asked.

"I have requested a decree from His Majesty to inspect the sects in Lanzhou, but Zheyuntai is right there in Lanzhou—let them guess..."

"Marquis Su, a new year brings a new challenge upon your head!" the Seventh Prince declared. "Tomorrow, I also plan to lead my troops southward. You take the north, I’ll take the south, and we’ll echo each other from a distance."

"Your Highness is heading south too?" Lin Xiaosu asked.

"Yes, I have received the Holy Decree, and was supposed to set out three days ago. I delayed just to see you before leaving."

"Alright, Your Highness heads south, I will go north, and we’ll echo each other from afar!" Lin Xiaosu stood up.

The Seventh Prince also rose: "Today we toast with tea to our familiar battlefield campaigns, and with wine from the pot, we shall celebrate our victorious return one day!"

The two teacups gently clinked, marking the opening scene of their camaraderie on the battlefield.

The Seventh Prince took his leave.

Lin Xiaosu bowed to send him off at the Gauze Pavilion.

The silhouette of the Seventh Prince disappeared at the corner of the courtyard wall, Lin Xiaosu raised his gaze, quietly observing the three handwritten characters above him: Gauze Pavilion.

Qing Ying exhaled lightly: "In a year of great contention, heroes rise. The Marquis ascends in this era of intrigue, as the times drive this prince, who has guarded the Northern Territory for eleven years, to march south again. There is also another newly risen person who visited the Marquis’s residence yesterday, but you were not in."

"Oh? Who is it?" Lin Xiaosu asked.

"This person seems gentle and refined, but his steps are unsteady, and it’s hard to discern his cultivation. However, his emergence was astonishing, regarded as the second dark horse in the Great Wilderness Dynasty, besides the Marquis," Qing Ying said.

"What were his achievements?"

"Within the Great Wilderness, there were originally eight Heart Pavilions. The Marquis personally dismantled two of them; the remaining six, this person eradicated them all, the six Pavilion Masters perished, and the people in the Pavilion were subdued by him using a Secret Technique, all pledging allegiance to him," Qing Ying’s voice was very mysterious.

Lin Xiaosu’s heart raced: "What’s the background of this person?"

With his current cultivation, he didn’t care much about the Heart Pavilions. If he acted, wiping out six Heart Pavilions would be easy. But destroying and subduing them were two entirely different concepts.

Even for him, subduing the core members of the Heart Path, who had been entrenched in the Great Wilderness for many years with Subdivine Skill, was quite unimaginable.

However, he hadn’t acted, yet someone else did, someone who seemed unsteady and with undiscernible cultivation.

Who could it be?

"This person’s surname is Lin, a name with some ancient significance, a double name ’Weiyang.’"

Lin Xiaosu’s eyes suddenly widened.

Lin Weiyang!

The professor from the past?

Within Daxia Country, among his former acquaintances, there were only two people he couldn’t see through.

One was Lu Yun.

The other was Lin Weiyang.

This Lin Weiyang, in many matters, seemed like his opponent. For example, when he targeted the Changsheng Group, Li Changsheng’s daughter Li Ziyan was a disciple of Lin Weiyang.

Li Ziyan was wanted and had long been hiding in his "Bai Shan Residence."

For example, when he sought one of the Sub-god Three Treasures, the "Moon Lotus," in the Middle East and played political games with various factions until chaos ensued, Lin Weiyang casually plucked this peach in the Moon Lotus struggle and took advantage of Lin Xiaosu as a pawn.

But later, he and Lin Weiyang ended up on the same path.

Lin Weiyang, under the name "Six-Eared Left Holder," provided valuable information to Qianlong.

He became an effective ally in his contest against the Nine Headed Snake.

During the Ancient Wilderness’s Breaking Realm, Lin Weiyang always stood on their side, formulating war plans, and even directly intervening in the battlefield, personally killing the Utopia Venerable Master who broke out of the Earth Core...

This Lin Weiyang appearing suddenly in the Great Wilderness Dynasty, is it the same Lin Weiyang?

His actions were once again in total alignment with his own, eradicating the six Heart Pavilions, but what was the intention?

"Where is this person?" Lin Xiaosu asked.

Qing Ying replied: "This person eradicated the six Heart Pavilions and presented the Heart Pavilion’s accumulated thirty million Desert Gold and countless jewels to His Majesty, just like the Marquis. His Majesty was very pleased, appointed him as Deputy Director of the Fourth Department under Zhen Heaven Pavilion’s Xin Hall, granted him a fifth rank title, and tasked him with leading the seven hundred experts who surrendered. He should be in Zhen Heaven Pavilion now."

"It’s almost noon, so I won’t discuss it further. Tomorrow, come with me to Zhen Heaven Pavilion!" Lin Xiaosu said.

"Yes!"

Lin Xiaosu got up and left the Gauze Pavilion, entering his study.

Qing Ying stood outside the study, peering through the slit in the door to see Lin Xiaosu inside, writing with flair, unable to discern from this angle what he was writing.

Qing Ying gazed at the face, increasingly handsome and elegant after months of absence, and felt a growing infatuation.

For someone working in intelligence, the more you look at people, the clearer they usually become. Many legendary leaders, when approached, give a feeling of "so, they’re just an ordinary person."

But this was quite the opposite for their own Marquis.

At first glance, he seemed like just an ordinary person, perhaps a bit more handsome, with a bit more literary talent.

However, the longer you observed and the closer you got, the more enigmatic he became.

His magic had never been in just one area.