Of these four crude and straightforward sentences of the poem, the first half of each sentence was written on Qin Huaiyu’s half of the map, while the latter half of the sentence was written on Yang Dingtian’s half of the map. Apart from the last word in each half, every first half and latter half of the sentence were entirely opposite.
Hence, if a person only possessed half of the Mystic Flame map, it was useless. Only by putting them together would anyone be able to make any sense out of it.
Putting aside the poem and looking purely at the map, this map was even cruder than the poem, and it looked very casual.
One could see a few mountains on the map, a few patches of water, and the rest of the map were grasslands.
The only useful information was the tall mountain at the center. The left part of the mountain was entirely red, while the right side was icy blue. The left side of the map belonged to Qin Huaiyu while the right side of the map belonged to Yang Dingtian.
The most fraudulent thing was that Yang Dingtian would never know this was a mountain unless the two halves of the map were placed together. Previously, he had noticed that his half of the map had a blue triangle with straight lines. He initially thought it was a sharp sword or something similar. After combining the maps together, he found out it was a mountain.
It was a very strange mountain. Half of the mountain was fire, while the other half was ice.
But the stranger it was, the more distinctive it was, making it easier to find the place. If this mountain were so special, the Heaven and Earth Mystic Flame might be inside this mountain.
“Master, you have been to the East Parting Grassland. Do you know of any mountain that is half fire and half ice?” Yang Dingtian asked.
Dongfang Niemie replied, “I have never seen it.”
“Ah?” Yang Dingtian was rather stunned as he said, “A bizarre mountain like this should be rather famous.”
“It should be the case. But when I visited the East Parting Grassland, I didn’t see it.” Dongfang Niemie stated.
Yang Dingtian asked, “Could it be that the Master didn’t visit many places in the East Parting Grassland, which is why you didn’t see this mountain before?”
Dongfang Niemie replied, “That doesn’t seem to be the case either. This map might be very crude, but I do have the vague feeling that I have visited this place before.”
“You went there before?” Yang Dingtian was pleasantly surprised, “Where is this place on the map?”
Dongfang Niemie said, “It is just a rough impression. According to the positions of the mountains and lakes, I have an estimated conclusion. If I didn’t remember it wrongly, this place should be the Burial Land.”
Yang Dingtian was very surprised as he asked, “There is the Burial Land located in the East Parting Grassland?”
“In the most central part.” Dongfang Niemie answered.
“Does this Burial Land belong to any of the Half-Human Race’s territory?” Yang Dingtian asked while thinking it would be best if it were the Foxman Race’s territory, as Ji’er Ashina was from the Foxman Race.
“It doesn’t belong to any.” Dongfang Niemie explained, “The entire Burial Land stretches over 500 miles, and it doesn’t belong to any race. It is the central battlefield of the East Parting Grassland; hence, it is named as Burial Land.”
“Stretches over 500 miles? It is rather massive.” Yang Dingtian asked, “Master, the Burial Land really doesn’t have any mountain that is half fire and half ice?”
“There really isn’t any.” Dongfang Niemie replied firmly.
“How can that be possible? How am I supposed to find it? That place is stretching over 500 miles…”
Dongfang Niemie laughed, “Master might not know, but it doesn’t mean that the Half-Human Races in the East Parting Grassland don’t know either. According to the location on the map, it should be in the central part of the Burial Land and shouldn’t be hard to find. As long as we go there, we should be able to find it.”
That’s right.
If Yang Dingtian could reach that place, he would be able to find it. Furthermore, Qin Huaiyu only had half of the Mystic Flame’s map, making it impossible for him to find it, but Yang Dingtian was able to do it.
With the complete Mystic Flame map, Yang Dingtian didn’t believe that he couldn’t find that Mystic Flame.
The next important task was to find a way to escape from Qin City. Yang Dingtian had to depart from Qin City without arousing Qin Wanchou or anyone else’s suspicion and head for the East Parting Grassland.
***
For the next few days, Yang Dingtian had felt Qin Wanchou’s resolution and passion even more prominently.
On the next day, Qin Wanchou had gathered all the important figures of Qin City. These people were either high ranking officials inside Qin City or the feudal lords in Qin City’s territories. There were close to 1,000 individuals gathered in the main hall, and they were here for Qin Wanchou to introduce ‘Shen Lang’ to them. Furthermore, Qin Wanchou had announced that Shen Lang would take on the role of Qin City’s Military Advisor from today onwards.
This astonished everyone, while Qin Mengli was surprised and delighted.
It wasn’t only the case; for the next few days, Qin Wanchou had spent most of his time having long and intimate conversations with Yang Dingtian. Qin Mengli was worried, so she had forcefully joined the conversation. Qin Mengli overheard the entirely different things during the conversation between her elder brother and her lover; in fact, some theories were totally unknown to this world. In response, Qin Mengli was even more intoxicated towards Yang Dingtian and was filled with more admiration and worship.
But due to Qin Mengli’s involvement, Mahjong, Go, and Chinese Chess had started to become popular in Qin City. After Qin Wanchou played the games and heard that Yang Dingtian designed them, he was instantly even more impressed by Yang Dingtian.
But Yang Dingtian was rather surprised as this Qin Wanchou could be considered to be the man with the best strategic mind in the world, but be it Go or Chinese Chess, his standard was rather ordinary. Even after he was familiar with the games, he still wasn’t a match for Qin Mengli, not even Yang Dingtian. Be it Chinese Chess or Go, he would basically lose nine out of ten games.
On the contrary, Qin Huaiyu’s chess skills were astonishingly high and were completely beyond expectations. After getting slightly familiar with the games, Qin Huaiyu no longer had any opponents. Be it Yang Dingtian or Qin Mengli, they were both instantly defeated.
***
In short, when Yang Dingtian was impersonating Shen Lang during this period of time, he was the hottest topic in the entire Qin City and had received countless views of jealousy.
It was rather manageable at the beginning, but soon enough, many of the direct descendants in Qin City came to provoke Yang Dingtian repeatedly. Yang Dingtian didn’t pay any attention, but Qin Mengli didn’t allow Yang Dingtian to suffer like this. Hence, she went to reprimand them repeatedly. As a result, these Qin City’s descendants went to complain to Qin Wanchou.
In the end, Qin Wanchou flew into a terrible rage and punished all of the direct descendants that provoked Yang Dingtian. He had even evicted two of the leading figures from Qin City.
Since then, no one else from Qin City dared to offend Yang Dingtian openly. But these direct descendants instigated Qin Jiaojiao to provoke Yang Dingtian.
Qin Jiaojiao was an unkind and pampered lady. She was rude and unreasonable too, and after she was instigated by someone, she had tried to find trouble multiple times. Yang Dingtian had avoided it every time until she finally walked into Qin Mengli’s residence to find trouble.
The result was Qin Wanchou giving her a harsh slap to the face and sending Qin Jiaojiao to fly over a dozen meters. She vomited fresh blood, and half her delicate face had instantly swelled up, causing her to be so frightened that she didn’t even dare to cry.
At that moment, Yang Dingtian had truly felt overwhelmed with favor.
Since then, be it openly or secretly, no one dared to offend Yang Dingtian anymore.
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