The methods and intelligence of his own Young Lord had grown ever more terrifying; he had fully matured.
Even compared to the current Divine Marquis of Zhenguo, he was not far behind.
Qin Anlan's immense growth and transformation were a tremendous blessing for the entire Divine Marquis of Zhenguo's Estate.
Under the leadership of Qin Anlan, this Young Lord of the Divine Marquis, the Divine Marquis of Zhenguo's Estate would rise to unprecedented glory in the future.
A little girl?
Hearing Qin Zizai's words, Qin Anlan could not help shaking his head.
No matter what, True Person Ziwei had lived for four or five hundred years.
Yet in Qin Zizai's eyes, he had directly become a little girl.
Then what did that make Qin Anlan?
Would that not mean he did not even count as an embryo?
Casting aside those chaotic thoughts in his mind,
Qin Anlan smiled calmly. "Don't worry. That little girl will obediently submit herself to this Young Lord's command."
Seeing Qin Anlan so brimming with confidence, Qin Zizai found it difficult to say anything further.
As though suddenly recalling something, he frowned. "Young Lord, powerful cultivators have been monitoring us all along. This old man suspects they are the Left Prime Minister's people."
The Left Prime Minister's people?
Upon hearing this, Qin Anlan was not surprised in the slightest.
Do not forget that Heavenly Firmament Academy was the Left Prime Minister's territory.
Those elders and disciples of Heavenly Firmament Academy might fawn over him and wish they could cling to his thigh.
But in truth,
more than half of Heavenly Firmament Academy was under the Left Prime Minister's control.
As an old fox who had assisted Emperor Xuanyuan and controlled the imperial court for centuries,
the Left Prime Minister's schemes and intellect were not something Ye Qingyun and the others could compare to.
It would not be an exaggeration to say
that Qin Anlan's every move within Heavenly Firmament Academy was under the Left Prime Minister's watch.
This was also why Qin Anlan had clearly been able to casually eliminate Ye Qingyun, that Child of Destiny, yet had not rushed to act.
Aside from the many other factors,
there was one most important point:
this was Heavenly Firmament Academy.
Ye Qingyun was also the Senior Disciple of the Inner Sect of Heavenly Firmament Academy.
Killing Ye Qingyun openly here would be no different from directly slapping the Left Prime Minister across the face.
It would give the Left Prime Minister a pretext to seize the chance to make trouble for the Divine Marquis of Zhenguo's Estate and those Great Clans.
Perhaps that was precisely what the Left Prime Minister wished to see.
"No need to mind him. Since the Left Prime Minister enjoys peeping, let him keep peeping."
Qin Anlan shook his head.
At the very least, Qin Anlan was not afraid of anyone learning about anything he did in Heavenly Firmament Academy.
As for matters outside,
the Left Prime Minister had not yet reached the point of covering the sky with one hand.
Meanwhile,
inside the death row prison,
True Person Ziwei stared at the Heaven-Seizing Fortune Pill in his hand, still finding it somewhat unbelievable.
That fortune pill from yesterday.
This was a Heaven-Seizing Fortune Pill.
With True Person Ziwei's strength, even the Lineage behind him could not produce such a precious pill.
The Heaven-Seizing Fortune Pill was incomparably precious, and the materials needed to refine it were exceedingly difficult to gather.
The refining process was even more troublesome.
Only if a grandmaster alchemist personally acted would there be a chance to refine such a pill.
Such rare treasures were priceless, things one could not buy even with money.
Once placed outside, they would surely incite countless powerful cultivators to fight over them.
It had to be said,
Qin Anlan's gift had been truly extravagant.
So extravagant that even Ye Qingyun found it hard to refuse.
"Master, what exactly is this pill? Why do you care about it so much?"
Seeing his master, True Person Ziwei, gazing at the pill in his hand so lovingly that he could not put it down, Ye Qingyun suddenly felt a sense of foreboding rise in his heart.
There was no need to say more.
The value of this pill surely exceeded his expectations.
It might even be something of immense importance to his master, something his master had longed to obtain.
Qin Anlan's methods were truly vicious.
While twisting right and wrong with glib words to smear him, Qin Anlan also wished to take the opportunity to recruit his master.
And now,
he had even brought out a precious pill, intending to use it to buy over his master.
His heart deserved condemnation!
His heart truly deserved condemnation!
True Person Ziwei did not hide anything and told Ye Qingyun all about the effects of that fortune pill from yesterday.
Hearing this, Ye Qingyun fell silent.
With that fortune pill from yesterday, True Person Ziwei's odds of breaking through to the Holy Lord realm would increase by at least thirty to forty percent.
Combined with his accumulation over the years,
he was absolutely confident that he could break through to the Holy Lord realm within three months.
The power of such a pill could only be described with the words terrifying beyond measure.
True Person Ziwei had been trapped at the Peak Saint stage for forty or fifty years.
If he could use the Heaven-Seizing Fortune Pill's power to break through to the Holy Lord realm in one stroke,
he would become one of the youngest people in history to break through to the Holy Lord realm.
From this, one could see just how tempting the Heaven-Seizing Fortune Pill was to True Person Ziwei.
"Master, do you truly believe Qin Anlan and intend to take this pill?"
Suppressing his rage, Ye Qingyun asked in a heavy voice.
He had the feeling that this pill was like something Qin Anlan had bestowed upon them as alms.
Moreover, Ye Qingyun had just knelt and begged Qin Anlan for mercy in order to preserve his life.
Such humiliation made Ye Qingyun utterly unwilling to accept anything Qin Anlan gave him.
Yet this pill could help his master increase his strength.
For a powerful cultivator at Ye Qingyun's level, raising one realm—or even crossing an entire major realm—
was something one could only dream of and never hope to attain.
True Person Ziwei would absolutely not give up such a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity.
Ye Qingyun had grasped his master True Person Ziwei's thoughts, which was why he had laid out such a vicious scheme.
This no longer counted as a scheme.
It was simply an open stratagem.
Qin Anlan, you beast!
You stole Ru Xue and Ru Yan from me, and now you even dare to set your sights on my master.
If I do not kill you, you dog thief, I, Ye Qingyun, swear I am not human!
Ye Qingyun let out a hysterical roar in his heart.
Consumed by extreme rage, he became somewhat deranged.
"The Young Lord of the Divine Marquis meant well too. If..."
At this point, True Person Ziwei had already noticed that Ye Qingyun's expression had turned somewhat strange.
After a moment of silence, he could not help shaking his head with a sigh.
"Qingyun, have you developed some prejudice against the Young Lord of the Divine Marquis?"
True Person Ziwei's words left Ye Qingyun completely frozen where he stood.
He raised his head and stared at True Person Ziwei with utter disbelief written across his face.
At that moment,
he felt only that
the entire world had completely collapsed.
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