As the Water Clan army began moving into the Jade Scale Dragon Palace according to rank and status, the entire Jade Scale Dragon Palace was taken over by the personal guards of Right Grand Governor Zhang Xiao. All arrangements and affairs, including the kitchens, were also taken over by personnel arranged by Right Prime Minister Yu Man.
Ao Zheng, the master of the Jade Scale Dragon Palace, and Gui Luan, its chief steward, instead became outsiders.
After returning to the Jade Scale Dragon Palace, Ye Zhen and Gui Luan discovered roughly a hundred corpses, all Water Clan members of the Jade Scale Dragon Palace who had died violent deaths.
There were guards, maidservants, and water generals. Without exception, all had died from soul-searching.
It was likely the handiwork of Right Prime Minister Yu Man.
Just as Gui Luan had said, the man was exceedingly vicious.
The moment he entered the Jade Scale Dragon Palace, he had searched souls one after another. Only after confirming the matter of the Jade Scale Dragon King possessing another body had he refrained from making a move against Ye Zhen.
Ye Zhen felt immensely fortunate. Thankfully, neither his plan nor his previous preparations had involved anyone else within the Jade Scale Dragon Palace.
The buildings of the Jade Scale Dragon Palace covered a considerable area, about twenty li long and ten li wide. Originally, only a few of its great halls possessed Space Folding Formations.
However, over the past few days, Gui Luan had led people in making emergency arrangements. With time so short, they were all the crudest Space Folding Formations, merely folding the internal space of the Jade Scale Dragon Palace threefold.
In other words, the current Jade Scale Dragon Palace was effectively a massive palace complex around sixty li long and thirty