By the riverbank, Wei He seemed to sense something. As he chatted idly with Princess Han Quan, his heart stirred slightly, and he felt someone watching him.
But with the level of strength he was currently displaying, he should not have possessed such keen perception.
So—
He continued speaking with Han Quan, behaving no differently from before.
After all, by normal logic, he still had no way to break through Organ Refining and remained below True Blood.
No one else knew that the Boundary-Breaking Pearl had already helped him forcefully break through the bottleneck.
There was only one thing troubling him: how was he supposed to test his current strength?
"By the way, Han Quan, do you know how things are going with your imperial brother?" Wei He suddenly asked.
"They pursued them all night last night, but unfortunately, they only caught a few minor lackeys. The true assassins and masterminds were never found." Han Quan shook her head with a sigh.
"That is indeed a pity. It was supposed to be the day of a grand wedding, yet something like this happened." Wei He nodded.
"Actually, if those three families had not been attacked on their way here to attend the wedding feast, my imperial brother could not have been bothered to deal with them," Han Quan added.
"How so?"
"I do not know the exact details either, but the three families that were attacked were all vicious scoundrels who were usually extremely brutal and had committed many deeds that stirred heaven's wrath and mankind's resentment," Han Quan said coldly.
She glanced at Wei He and continued, "In Great Moon, although there truly are many True Blood nobles who look down on the lower classes, that is only because they stand too high above them and cannot be bothered