"Qin Changqing? That name was rather unfamiliar. Ji Ping, Liu Kan, have either of you heard of him?"
Inside the inn, Du Jingyu sat idly in the main hall, thinking about the elder brother he had acknowledged today—Qin Changqing?
He had never heard of him.
At this point, only three people remained in the inn. Du Jingyu swept his gaze over the other two, and the sense of danger and fear in his heart grew ever stronger.
A guard contingent of two Manifestation Realm experts and five Transcendent Realm experts had been completely wiped out in a single battle, leaving only one Manifestation Realm expert and one Transcendent Realm expert!
[It's late again today. I'll post the chapter first, brothers; read it tomorrow. It'll still take the author another two hours to finish writing. Sorry about that. There's no helping it—please understand.]
Within a secret chamber of the Eastern Palace, dim candlelight fell across Crown Prince Chu Xuanhao's calm face. His gaze fixed on the space ahead as he sank into thought. Behind him stood a middle-aged man dressed in black, blending perfectly with the darkness of the chamber.
Before the Crown Prince stood a table resembling a sand table. Its sculpted sand depicted the mountains and terrain of Dagan's thirteen provinces. Flags of various colors had been planted across it. He picked up a small red flag, wrote the six characters "King of Northern Cold Chu Xuanao" upon it, and planted it in You Province.
Looking over You Province, the flags representing every faction were all a sea of blood red.
After pondering for a moment, the black-clad man behind the Crown Prince said, "Your Highness, could His Majesty's move be aimed at the Shenying Marquis? But can the Sixth Prince truly suppress Shenying Marquis Manor? Can