Changes Within the Crown Prince's Mansion

"What?!"

"Grandmaster was killed?!" When Zhao Wuji first heard the news, he could scarcely believe it.

That fool had been staying safely and steadily at the academy, without ever leaving its protection.

How had he died in his own bed for no clear reason?

The killer's methods had not been particularly clever, and plenty of clues had been left at the scene. Finding the culprit would have been easy.

But Zhao Wuji's expression shifted as he looked at the students beside him, all with their heads lowered.

"...Sigh."

"There's no need to bring anyone in to investigate. Let it end here."

"Yu Xiaogang's matter ends here." Zhao Wuji refused the three Education Committee members' goodwill.

After exchanging pleasantries with them for a while, he found an opportunity to leave with his students.

As for Yu Xiaogang's killer, he already had a rough idea.

The man had been killed after Zhao Wuji told everyone about Flender and Liu Erlong. Based on that alone, he could narrow it down to certain people.

With Lu Mingchuan's strength, even if he had forced his way into the academy and killed Yu Xiaogang right in front of them, there would have been no issue.

That alone ruled him out.

Moreover, Yu Xiaogang had barely shown his face in Heaven Dou City, so aside from Lu Mingchuan, he had practically made no enemies.

It was not Lu Mingchuan, and he had been killed after Zhao Wuji revealed the news of Flender and Liu Erlong.

That made the killer obvious.

But what could he do even if it was obvious? Make his own students pay with their lives for someone he neither knew well nor particularly liked?

What a joke. Besides, everyone connected to that man was already dead.

Tang San, Liu Erlong, and Flender were all