Finally Courting Death

Before long, bustling Lin'an City fell silent.

Wisps of blood stench drifted through the air, lingering for a long time.

The people of Lin'an City did not fully know what had happened. In the darkness, they held their breath, and even the dogs did not bark.

The silence after the clamor was just as suffocating.

"Reporting to Your Highness, all the demons who had secretly infiltrated the Capital City with evil intentions, apart from Xi Tianlong, have been executed. Among them were two wolf demons of the Wheel Sea Realm, known as Wolf Seven and Wolf Nine."

Within the Imperial Palace, Marquis of Purple Robes escorted Xi Tianlong in to "report completion of his mission."

The reason the words "report completion of his mission" were in quotation marks was that Marquis of Purple Robes had not received any explicit orders at all. Though he had organized the operation, it had only been because a palace eunuch had passed along a message.

The unspoken implication of having a eunuch deliver the message was this: exterminating demons was the Crown Prince's intention, but the Crown Prince would not acknowledge it.

It was a method those in high positions often used.

Thus, afterward, there would naturally be no stage of "reporting completion and handing over the task."

Everyone understood without speaking. If you did well, you would be compensated elsewhere. If you did poorly, then obediently bear the blame for "acting without authorization."

Yet after today's affair, there was strangely such a handover stage.

Marquis of Purple Robes had led more than a dozen experts in surrounding Wolf Seven from all sides and killing him. He had only just captured Xi Tianlong alive and cut off his Dragon Horn when someone from the palace arrived.

He was ordered to escort Xi Tianlong into