None of the Grandmasters present were fools. As soon as Xu Yue explained the matter, all their expressions changed.
Even the Right Prime Minister was secretly shocked. He had not expected the Emperor's plan to be seen through so directly by this newly emerged Grandmaster.
There were plenty of ways to verify whether gunpowder existed, but after Xu Yue had pointed it out, the Grandmasters would rather believe it than not.
They could no longer risk entering personally.
Meng Qi, who had followed them here relying on Thunder Mark as his safeguard, was equally astonished.
What a grand scheme!
They actually wanted to wipe out every Grandmaster in one stroke!
Who could it be?
Who had such a motive?
The Imperial Preceptor had clearly been tempted to enter earlier, and since he wholeheartedly supported the Crown Prince, the Crown Prince was unlikely to be responsible.
Sword Emperor had said he would stop Xu Yue, so he might not enter. Could it be Sword Emperor?
Before Meng Qi could finish thinking, the Right Prime Minister said impassively,
"Sword Emperor, you suddenly stated earlier that you did not intend to enter, and you even indicated that the Imperial Preceptor and Demon Queen should compete for it. Was that your intention, or the Fourth Prince's?
"As long as the other Grandmasters die, the Fourth Prince you support will indeed certainly inherit the throne. And he does indeed have the means to obtain so much gunpowder."
The Right Prime Minister was a great scholar of the Confucian Dao, but that did not mean a Confucian Dao powerhouse could not lie or scheme.
After all, he had climbed to his current position in the imperial court.
He immediately spoke to shift the conflict elsewhere.
Grandmasters could not be insulted. With something like this happening, someone