The Empress's No.1 Lackey-Chapter 1202 - 645: Escaping the Great Territory, Returning to the Light

Chapter 1202: Chapter 645: Escaping the Great Territory, Returning to the Light
"As you command, master."
Upon hearing this, Tuoba Weizhi immediately rose, respectfully keeping his hands in place, as if awaiting Zhao Douan’s inspection.
Stop calling me that, it’s so awkward... As a servant of the people who grew up under the red flag, Zhao Douan instinctively felt uncomfortable hearing this term. Hmm, the last time he heard the word "master" was in some special contexts...
"Ahem, since that person wants you to wait for me, did they give you any instructions?"
Zhao Douan adjusted his mood and asked sharply with a keen look.
A man turning into a woman, how curious.
But right now, this is not his main concern. Zhang Yan Yi is still struggling outside, and he doesn’t have much time left.
The priestess nodded and said:
"Yes. He said when the master arrives, you might be searching for a key."
A key!
Zhao Douan and the three women’s eyes lit up, rejoicing in their hearts.
This further convinced them of what Tuoba Weizhi said. If there wasn’t truth to this, they wouldn’t have guessed the purpose of their visit.
"Where is the key?" Zhao Douan asked somewhat urgently.
His gaze wandered over the priestess, and then he saw the long-haired, dark-skinned, expressionless Tuoba Weizhi straighten her not-so-ample figure under the luxurious exotic robe and calmly said:
"ing to the master, the key is me."
Huh?!
The group was stunned and didn’t react immediately.
Seeing this, Tuoba Weizhi patiently explained:
"To be precise, the key is not this disposable and replaceable flesh of mine, but the divine soul."
The divine soul is the key... Indeed, who said a "key" had to be in a shape one might imagine?
Zhao Douan recalled the groove on the golden gate under the Grand Temple, which indeed wasn’t shaped like a traditional keyhole.
But the answer that the soul body is the key still caught people off guard, though on second thought, it made sense.
If there really was a tangible key, how could one ensure it wouldn’t be taken away over a few hundred years?
And how old Xu carefully trained a Tuoba Weizhi to wait in the La Garden for the one carrying the Dragon Essence, doesn’t this also fit the plan of hiding the key in the Great Territory?
How to put it? Even if it sounds a bit strange, but thinking it through, it’s quite reasonable...
"I came this time to take the key away." Zhao Douan frowned and said, "You..."
Tuoba Weizhi’s eyes were calm, as if understanding his concerns, and said calmly:
"Though I am the priest of the Liao Tribe, if the master needs, I shall follow without question."
Wow... trained ones are really different...
Over the past two years, Zhao Douan had subjugated many subordinates, but this was the first one so cooperative.
"I have a question." Suddenly, Yu Xiu couldn’t help but ask:
"Have you lived here for the past few hundred years? Never left?"
Tuoba Weizhi turned to look at the "master’s friend," did not answer immediately, but first looked at Zhao Douan.
"Answer her," Zhao Douan ordered.
Then Tuoba Weizhi said:
"In fact, I am not awake most of the time. In the vast majority of time, when the Great La Ba is asleep, I will also enter dormancy, and when the Great La Ba is awake, I will be awake.
So, perhaps it seems to you that I have lived for hundreds of years, but for me, it has not been that long, just gaps between each awakening, and many years have passed."
She paused, then further explained:
"As for going out. I did indeed leave the La Garden when I was awake, and I learned the general situation outside through investigations within the Liao race. However, I have indeed never left the Great Territory."
Zhao Douan curiously asked, "So what is your relationship with the Great La Ba?"
He was very curious about this point.
Tuoba Weizhi hesitated, shook her head, and said:
"I’m not entirely sure either. The Great La Ba wouldn’t harm me. I can communicate simply with the Great La Ba and perceive his emotions, but I can’t directly gain his power or control him."
Yu Xiu frowned and asked further:
"To my knowledge, the clan leader of the Liao clan can to some extent wield the Evil God."
Tuoba Weizhi nodded and shook her head:
"Indeed each generation of Clan Leader can achieve this, but not perfectly wield it, they can only influence to some extent, and more often, the Clan Leader is just a servant of the Divine.
Yes, the Clan Leader of the Liao clan, in most of the years, is not born within the Liao clan, but comes from outside."
"From outside? What do you mean?" Zhao Douan asked.
Tuoba Weizhi once more revealed shocking news:
"Every few decades, the royal family of Yu Country secretly sends someone to take over the position of the Clan Leader, using a secret skill to gain the privilege to influence the Great La Ba."
Such a thing also exists?!
Zhenbao never mentioned... indeed she ascended the throne in haste, and didn’t even know the secret skill to suppress the Tributor, she never got the complete royal inheritance... Zhao Douan was taken aback.
Thinking back to when old Xu came to the La Garden, studied and took away the research notes of the Qi Country Royal family... everything was clear then:
The Qi Country royal family painstakingly developed the Evil God and implanted in it a set of "secret skills" which could allow one to control the Evil God. Unfortunately, it was not perfect.
After the fall of Qi Country, old Xu obtained this "legacy", as an emperor, he had no reason to hand it over to others, so not only did he carefully cultivate the priestess.
He also secretly followed the methods of Qi Country, arranging reliable people to the Great Territory each generation to take over the position of Clan Leader.
Thus controlling the Liao clan.
"No wonder, in recent centuries, the Liao clan and Yu Country never had major conflicts, and Zhao Shixiong’s border army, usually faced the task of dealing with Yunfu’s bandit problem, rather than confronting the Liao people."
"Zhenbao didn’t inherit this lineage, but Xu Jianwen somehow learned of this great secret, and used it to control the Liao clan...
This also explains why he could command the Liao people to go to war... as a Prince of Yu Country, the Liao people had always been the secret force of successive Emperors."