For the past half month, Demon Emperor Seventh Crown Prince Cong Yun had resided in the envoy compound provided by the Eastern Expeditionary Army. Though he had a certain degree of freedom, he had completely lost all contact with the outside world.
Forget contact with the outside world—under the Eastern Expeditionary Army's layer upon layer of blockade, everything beyond was sealed off.
Demon Emperor Seventh Crown Prince Cong Yun's envoy compound was like a place cut off from the world, and also like one that had been forgotten.
Now, a jade slip suddenly falling from above startled Demon Emperor Seventh Crown Prince Cong Yun where he stood.
The shock was no less than that of a wanderer who had roamed the wilderness for more than a decade suddenly seeing a second living person besides himself.
For a moment, countless thoughts swirled through Demon Emperor Seventh Crown Prince Cong Yun's mind. He even wondered whether this could be intelligence delivered at the risk of death by a spy the Devil Race or Demon God Palace had planted within the Eastern Expeditionary Army.
However, Demon Emperor Seventh Crown Prince Cong Yun quickly dismissed that idea.
It was simply impossible.
Inside and outside their envoy group, divine generals and sacred priests of the Ancestral God Hall watched them at every moment, and could even summon the aura of a Divine King Sacred Priest. Even if the Devil Race or Demon God Palace truly had spies in the Eastern Expeditionary Army, they could not possibly be this formidable.
With that thought, Demon Emperor Seventh Crown Prince Cong Yun instead calmed down.
Since it was not one of their own, then the jade slip that had landed on his head had either come from an officer in the Eastern Expeditionary Army or from some hidden