Yes, no matter how powerful Wenxin Pavilion was, it was ultimately just a sect faction laid out in the open. Moreover, factions like it always presented a peaceful, reasonable, talent-valuing face to the outside world. Anyone with even the slightest reputation or standing would be received as an honored guest.
Let alone someone of Zhuge Qingfeng's status?
The Crown Prince's Travel Pass had been superfluous!
When you went out of your way to write a Travel Pass, naturally, the real effort lay beyond the play!
Yes, the Crown Prince had indeed had other calculations in writing that Travel Pass; the real effort had indeed lain beyond the play. What he wanted was to bind Zhuge Qingfeng to himself, making Zhuge Qingfeng's persuasion of Wenxin Pavilion appear to have the Crown Prince's backing, sweeping away everyone's misgivings and allowing them to pledge themselves to him with peace of mind.
Yet the course of events broke beyond the boundaries set by the Crown Prince and Mister Gou.
Zhuge Qingfeng had actually stolen Wenxin Pavilion's ancestral lotus!
With that theft, the Travel Pass became a noose, tightly cinched around the Crown Prince's neck. He could neither argue it away nor explain it clearly...
The Crown Prince wanted Zhuge Qingfeng dead ten thousand times over, but at this moment, he could only step forward. "Elders, I swear to Heaven that I absolutely did not order Zhuge Qingfeng to steal your pavilion's ancestral lotus!"
As the Crown Prince, he had sworn to Heaven. That carried considerable weight.
The Great Elder's expression softened slightly. "Since the Crown Prince dares make a Heavenly Dao Oath, then... then this old man shall not press too hard. So long as Crown Prince Your Highness retrieves the ancestral lotus and returns it to our pavilion, the grievance between our pavilion