Sand Grandmother wanted to hold him, but her hands passed through Xiang Tianyu’s body, holding nothing but air.
Indeed, her son had already died long ago.
The small body gradually grew cold.
She cried desperately, trying every means but failing to bring him back to life.
This time, what returned was her son’s soul.
She used a little mana, held onto her son’s soul, still the same as before, a small child.
Sand Grandmother cried out loud, tightly embracing him in her arms.
"Tianyu, mother has been thinking of you every day for the past thirty years, always looking for you. I have searched all over the underworld but could never find you!"
She was overwhelmed with grief, and the grievances and hardships of the past thirty years were released at this moment.
Chen Shi quietly left the room, leaving them, mother and son. At this point, it was best to let them express the pain of separation.
As he turned around, he saw Chen Tang standing outside.
Chen Tang rarely showed a smile, saying: "You brought these Scholars back alive from the underworld, it must have been very hard, facing great dangers."
Chen Shi shook his head: "It wasn’t hard at all, nor did I encounter any danger."
Chen Tang slightly frowned, thinking about the perils and hardships he and Sand Grandmother faced when searching for Chen Shi, feeling there must be some misunderstanding. fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm
Perhaps Chen Shi had grown up and didn’t want his old father to worry. He thought to himself.
"With Xiang Tianyu back, Grandmother has one less worry. Her whole life has been busy just to find her son."
Chen Tang said softly, "But Xiang Tianyu is already dead, searching him back just found a ghost, I don’t know how she will arrange it."
He delved into scriptures, saying: "There’s a saying in the Huaxia Divine Continent about forming a Golden Body for Xiang Tianyu, to manifest his holiness, receive incense from the people and become God. We can also use lotus and lotus leaf to recreate a lotus body, which is one way. Or use Puppet Technique, Mechanician method, to create a physical body. Alternatively, you could use the Magic Skill passed down by your grandfather, Talisman Creation, to create a body for him."
Chen Shi said: "Perhaps he can reincarnate, or enter the body of a recently deceased child, returning to life. Sand Grandmother is an expert in this field, we all can think of many ways, she might come up with even more."
The father and son walked outside, Chen Tang said: "I’ll boil the medicine first, you take a rest. After her big joy and sorrow, Sand Grandmother will surely harm her Primordial Spirit, I’ll prepare the medicine first..."
Chen Shi asked behind him: "Dad, I want to kill the young master and seize the title of top scorer, do you support me?"
Chen Tang’s body slightly shook, he stopped, showing a smile, with great joy rising in his heart, making his eyes somewhat wet.
He turned around, his gaze warm, and smiled: "You are my son, of course, I support you."
Even if you tear the sky apart, I will support you!
He said silently in his heart.
On the twentieth day of the change, Minister of Rites Yan Guzhi had to give up searching for the Scholars who fell in the underworld.
Three officials from the Shanglin Garden Office died of exhaustion, yet they still couldn’t find these Scholars’ whereabouts.
The White-clothed Fairy incident caused six hundred forty-four Scholars to fall into the underworld, quickly dying until only four hundred twenty-seven remained. When Yan Guzhi gave up continuing the search, another seventy-six died, leaving only three hundred fifty-one.
However, it has been twenty days already, these three hundred fifty-one are likely unlikely to survive.
Can’t continue searching anymore.
Yan Guzhi let the Ministry of Rites spread the news that after twenty days of rescue efforts, they rescued a cat named He Wei from the underworld, supposedly nourished by the Five Armies, it accidentally entered the Immortal Bridge Blessed Land on martial test day, resulting in being lost to the underworld.
For rescuing this innocent little cat, the Ministry of Rites lost sixteen small officers, one supervisor, finally rescuing little cat He Wei from the mouth of Ghost Gods in the underworld.
So far, the Capital City knows this cat named He Wei, as for the six hundred forty-four Scholars who fell into the underworld, who knows what their names are? Probably just numbers.
Yan Guzhi managed this matter, firmly decided, this change must force the Five Armies Commander to confess, and he must clear any relationship, absolutely cannot let the two bastards of the Xia Family throw dirt at him. Of course, on the surface, the Ministry of Rites still has to continue searching for those Scholars, lest being attacked by the Clean Stream.
However, in the following days, things happened that made Yan Guzhi understand what human hearts are sinister.
He was accused on the court by brothers Xia Fanghe and Xia Shouying, saying during this major examination, the Ministry of Rites did not plan well beforehand and failed to notice the dangers, causing this many Scholars and soldiers of the Five Armies Camp to die, implicating many elders, nearly causing calamity to Western Capital.
The treasure of the Five Armies Camp, Immortal Bridge Blessed Land was also lost, this matter should also be the Ministry of Rites’ responsibility!
"You are talking nonsense!"
Yan Guzhi was trembling with anger, argued strongly on the court, angrily scolding the two brothers of the Xia Family for selfishly altering the geography of the Immortal Bridge Blessed Land, causing the Blessed Land to go out of control and crash into Qixia Temple’s Ghost God Domain, which caused such a disaster.
Xia Fanghe and Xia Shouying sneered, asking him for evidence.
He naturally had none to present.
Then a wave of Clean Stream from Hanlin Academy attacked the Ministry of Rites for being negligent and killing many Scholars who attended the Imperial Examination, calling the Minister of Rites incompetent and weak in rescue efforts. Yan Guzhi was enraged, scolded on the spot, shouting: "These days, only my Ministry of Rites has been painstakingly rescuing people, when we were rescuing people, where were you?"
Therefore, the Clean Stream no longer mentioned his weak rescue efforts, started attacking his character, bringing up that he married many concubines, the fights and deaths over jealousy between concubines.
Moreover said he kept many outside women, causing the chief wife and concubines to take household servants to beat the outside women to death.
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