"Are the Four Great Princes not still alive?" Su Xiaotian said with a meaningful smile at Lin Bai.
Lin Bai heard this and felt as though he had been enlightened by a divine infusion, instantly coming to his senses.
Su Xiaotian chuckled. "Compared to the Seventeenth Prince, the Crown Prince is still far too immature. He lacks the seasoned restraint of the Four Great Princes!"
"Ever since the Sacred Emperor ascended the throne, the Four Great Princes have obeyed his every command. But who has ever considered that the Four Great Princes might have been secretly amassing strength all along?"
"Lord Night Emperor, you managed to take control of Badlands Prefecture in just a few short months. You're a clever man, so you should be able to imagine this: the Four Great Princes occupy the Four Royal Prefectures, and all of them are old monsters who have lived for several hundred years. In their respective prefectures, they raise private armies, win over the powerful, cultivate geniuses, and recruit experts... After several hundred years of such painstaking accumulation, how many powerful figures must already serve beneath them?"
"From the perspective of our Web, although the Crown Prince and the Seventeenth Prince are currently locked in a furious struggle throughout the court and the realm, in our eyes, the Four Great Princes actually seem more capable of ascending to the imperial throne!"
"But there is one necessary condition. If the Four Great Princes wish to ascend the throne and become emperor, it must be after the Sacred Emperor dies!"
"As long as the Sacred Emperor remains alive, the Four Great Princes can never ascend the imperial throne!"
"For this Dragon Court and Phoenix Pavilion tournament, the Four Great Princes came personally to the Dragon Phoenix Pavilion. Was that not also to probe