Online: I Can See Health Bars Chapter 1836 - 831: Defiance

Bi Ziyu was still pondering, but his thoughts were gradually becoming clearer.

This matter, it can be done.

Even...

"Lead a team, and go to the Bo Mansion in the name of the Bi Family, offering them a helping hand. I believe they won’t refuse you."

Bi Zuo was first taken aback, then immediately reacted, bowing his head with a smile and left to carry out the orders.

In name, it’s assistance; in truth, it’s surveillance and observation.

As long as the Bo Mansion needs the Bi Family’s help, they have no choice but to accept this assistance, unable to refuse.

By then, once he has figured out the situation in the Bo Mansion, he can collaborate with Bi Ziyu from inside and outside, and taking over the Bo Mansion won’t be so simple.

After Bi Zuo left, Bi Ziyu quickly walked into his study, carefully took out a special piece of paper and ink from a secret compartment, picked up a pen, and swiftly wrote something on it.

The words on the paper soon disappeared, and on certain peoples’ papers, words slowly appeared.

Not long after, news about a mysterious schematic set to appear at an underground auction quietly emerged and began to spread.

...

Ouyang Mansion.

Although members of the Ouyang Family did not hold court positions nor reside within the Imperial Palace.

However, the mansion’s location is quite close to the Imperial Palace.

This proximity, this position, is only entitled to the relatives of those with high status and authority within the Imperial Palace.

Furthermore, the closer to the Imperial Palace, the higher the status of the person behind it represents.

And only the Ouyang Family is special.

No one in the family has obtained any official positions, and they have no relatives in the Imperial Palace, yet they still enjoy the best location closest to the palace.

All this, not because of anyone else in the Ouyang Family, but solely because of... the only and unparalleled Array Master of the Ouyang Family, the Family Head, Master Ouyang!

Although the Ouyang Mansion is the residence of Master Ouyang, overall, it’s plain and unremarkable, without any mysterious traces of arrays, as if it’s just an ordinary affluent family’s courtyard.

At this moment, a middle-aged man dressed in a loose blue long robe was striding toward the depths of the house.

He received news that a mysterious array map from the previous dynasty might be auctioned at a certain auction.

Ordinarily, such unknown array map news wouldn’t warrant disturbing Father.

If someone buys it, we can just send it along, or we can dispatch people to bid for it.

But the reality is, if a new array map emerges, everyone is required to report it to Father immediately.

Because Father, the one known as Master Ouyang, the Capital’s first Array Master, has an extreme obsession with arrays.

Once there’s news of an unknown array map, he will rush to the scene at the first moment, simply to pay his respects.

This fact is not a secret among many who are familiar with Master Ouyang in the Capital.

And even if others purchase the array map and send it to Master Ouyang, they won’t meet him personally, merely submitting the map.

Master Ouyang doesn’t see people, but to glance at an unknown array map, he is willing to leave the Ouyang Mansion and go out one time.

One outing by Master Ouyang can generate so much profit, bringing endless benefits to the family that it’s hardly conceivable.

The entire family relies on Master Ouyang for survival, as long as Master Ouyang is alive, even outsiders only need to know he is alive, the rest of the family enjoys inexhaustible wealth, a superior status, and prestige within the elite circles.

Everything, absolutely everything, is based on Master Ouyang alone!

Arrays are all about talent.

The Ouyang Family is not lacking in talented individuals.

However, Father does not teach.

Yes, Father’s indifference to familial affection is such that even if relatives with innate talents suited for studying arrays appear, he won’t glance at them.

The world knows Master Ouyang for his unparalleled arrays, but not his chilly, indifferent disposition, akin to being inhuman, beyond common thoughts and concerns, entirely a hollow person with only an obsession for arrays.

Therefore, while the Ouyang Family cannot directly benefit from Master Ouyang.

Indirect benefits, those willingly given by other elites, the gains from the status of being a descendant of the Ouyang Family, are fully realized.

So everyone in the family treats Master Ouyang like a deity, not daring to defy him in the slightest, nor dare to overreach.

Over time, the relationship between the family and the Family Head becomes more nuanced, forming a specific tacit understanding.

Right now, with the emergence of the mysterious schematic from the previous dynasty.

Officially, he must inform Father of this matter.

Privately, he hopes Father can leave the Ouyang Mansion, bringing new benefits to the whole family.

Therefore, he appeared at Master Ouyang’s room door.

A simple wooden structure, an unadorned door, is merely a phantom entrance.

Stepping in, one arrives only at a small courtyard and instantly gets lost within, unable to leave until a day has passed.

Many in the family have fallen prey to this, and this is merely the first layer of the array.

More destructive, more deceptive, stranger and more uncanny array effects, they don’t even qualify to trigger.

Thus, although he stood at the doorway, also not at the doorway, the family long developed a countermeasure, opened his mouth, and shouted.