Absolute Double Power
Verse-55

At the foot of Mount Kaida…

The mysterious girl brought Hua Zu into the cave at the foot of the mountain, where Hua Zu once practiced sword until he was almost lost.

He placed Hua Zu's body on the floor of the cave and sealed the cave hole with a dense dark energy so that anyone who looked into the cave could see nothing but complete darkness.

Hua Zu's eyelids trembled weakly as he tried to focus his gaze on the look of the face that was bent over his body.

The mysterious girl clasped the handle of the dagger that stuck in Hua Zu's neck, but instead of pulling out the dagger, the girl pressed it deeper and deeper until Hua Zu was stunned and his body floundered, then it drooped without a sign of life.

A few moments later, the cave was suddenly bright.

Hua Zu flinched and sat down while looking around. His panicked eyes swept around and found a small black-haired cat on the cave floor by his side.

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In the square of Prisoner's Hall, the old city of Zhujia…

The crowd began to partially disperse, but Hua Zu's supporters and his students still held on despite the soldiers pushing them by force.

"Dissolve! Out now!" The loud screams of the soldiers echoed in the square.

The crowd moved out jostling.

"General!" A man shouted against the crowd while raising his hand high. Oscillating among all those who jostle. On his high-raised hand, there was a piece of document he was trying to show Tio Jun. "I came in the name of Pao Lu!" his yell.

Several soldiers stomped towards the man and opened the crowd to give him a way.

"Please read this!" The man approached Tio Jun in a hurry.

The commander of the force took the document from the man's hand and then thrust it at Tio Jun who was already perched on his horse.

Tio Jun snatched the document and read it.

Xi Xia and Consort Yuwen watched them as they drowned themselves into the crowd.

The man was a spiritual expert at the governor's palace, one of Hua Zu's supporters was golden-haired but was stealthy out of fear of the Yuoji nation's elders.

"You gave up your own tomb for the Naseli?" Tio Jun asked shortly afterwards.

Not far from that place, there was a burial garden belonging to the spiritual expert's family. One of his empty tombs was his - a new tomb specially prepared to bury him later. The man asked Pao Lu to let Hua Zu's body down and bury him there.

Pao Lu approved his request.

Then the man came to that place.

"What is he important to you?" Tio Jun asked again.

Kai Fang also came with the spiritual expert.

Kai Fang is one of the elder monks better known as Monk Fang. The venerable Hall of Protective Spirits. The man carried a mixture of myrrh oil with agarwood oil, about fifty catties in weight.

Tio Jun looked at him in surprise. "Elder Ma decided to finish him off! You're also part of the board, right?" Tio Jun asked Monk Fang.

"Yes" replied Monk Fang.

"Your brothers are insulting this man" continued Tio Jun a little cynical. "And you're mourning?"

"He is very special," explained Monk Fang, raising one hand in front of his chest while the other hand held his big stick, then bowed to Tio Jun while using the typical words of buddhaism.

"You mean.. She really is Mi Sai Ya?" Tio Jun frowned.

"You tested me, Prince?" Kai Fang asked back.

And the young man closed his mouth.

The commander beside him let out a short sigh as he turned his attention away from the stream of crowd flowing out. His head was filled with worry and consideration. His common sense wandered far in search of answers, while his conscience kept talking giving explanations.

She's she?

Special?

Whatdoes thatmean?

The Guardian Spirit Hall decided to finish him off because he claimed himself Mi Sai Ya.

But one of them appeared here secretly and said that he was special.

God-is he?

Why just this?

The commander looked at Hua Zu's pole. "Today is very strange" he murmured. "I think something's wrong!"

Tio Jun hurriedly straightened his body to its original position. "You mean the earthquake?" He asked, looking at the commander standing at the side of his horse.

"Not only that," the commander said. "It's also too dark, too" he said, looking up at the sky, then turning to Tio Jun.

Tio Jun snorted thinly while watching the crowd of people who were coming out.

"The great earthquake occurred when the Naseli Man exhaled his last breath" the commander murmured.

"It was just a coincidence!" sergeant Tio Jun.

"He spoke to the god of the Yuoji people" the commander said. "This man is innocent!"

Tio Jun raised next to his eyebrows, feeling a little irritated.

The commander was silent.

The darkness that covered the entire place began to thin, but the sky still remained cloudy.

The wind blew thinly as Tio Jun shouted into the hill of slaughter. "Go back to your officers!" tio Jun's orders to the soldiers who took care of Hua Zu's body. "He's already taken care of it."

The soldiers immediately moved. Monk Fang and the governor's spiritual expert then replaced them.

Hua Zu's supporters - especially his students - simultaneously gathered around them with the resurrected women.

Xi Xia did not join them. Together with her stepmother, the girl sneaks out of her group, then mingles among the crowd that moves out.

Tio Jun watched them with eyes squinted.

After everyone left the square, the soldiers also gradually left.

Tio Jun also started moving out.

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The Governor's Palace, Yeliushen…

"Father has made a big mistake," Xi Xia poured out his anger and disappointment at his father. "Father has freed the wronged and punished the innocent" he lamented with a breath of breath.

Pao Lu tried to calm his daughter down. "It wasn't me who determined it, Xi Xia!" he said defend himself.

"Then who?" sue Xi Xia with a high voice and gasp.

"Their laws determine!" sergeant Pao Lu.

Xi Xia snorted as he snatched the hood of his robe from his head then threw away his robe in a stern manner. Then back to crying.

Pao Lu scanned the hooded robe with his eyebrows intertwined, then looked at his daughter. "You... go to the Hill of Massacres?"

"Yes," Xi Xia replied quickly. "I'm the governor's daughter, remember?"

Pao Lu was silent.

Xi Xia was right, he thought. She is the daughter of a governor—his daughter. As a family member of a trustee, he or she should indeed have an interest in anything. After all Pao Lu did not hate Hua Zu, the Yuoji people themselves hated him.

Xi Xia never knew that Pao Lu had an inner struggle before the legal verdict against Hua Zu was taken-even after.

He himself had examined it, and from the mistakes that the elders of the Yuoji people had accused him of, none of it was found on him. And neither did the Emperor, that's why he sent it back to Pao Lu. Nothing he does is worth the death penalty.