Da Xue: His Highness Is Already Gone (Please Recommend! Please Vote! Please Vote!)

Da Xue: His Highness Is Already Gone (Please Recommend! Please Vote! Please Vote!)

Early the next morning, Su Yuntian knocked on Lu Renjia's door.

"Brother Lu, let's head back to the city."

Lu Renjia had wanted to search the camp once more to see if he could run into Lin Mengzhui, but seeing Su Yuntian's eagerness to return to Heaven Dou City, he decided to give up the search.

Having accepted someone's request, he had to faithfully carry it out. His most important task now was to escort Su Yuntian back to the Crown Prince's Mansion in Heaven Dou City.

Everything else could wait.

As they rode back to the city, the two spotted a convoy on the main road.

The convoy consisted of ten carriages. Including the guards at the front and rear, there were fewer than a hundred people in total. Its scale was not particularly grand, yet it gave off an extremely dangerous feeling, as though powerful Soul Masters were hidden within those ten carriages.

Lu Renjia possessed sharp eagle eyes and spotted the convoy's banner from far away. He told Su Yuntian, "It's a convoy from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Looks like they're heading to the imperial city for the New Year celebration."

"The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect?"

Su Yuntian suddenly understood.

No wonder he could feel such powerful pressure from the convoy. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's leader, Ning Fengzhi, and a certain Titled Douluo must have been inside one of the carriages ahead.

Ever since absorbing his second Soul Ring, Su Yuntian had found that his senses had become far sharper, and the upper limit of Soul Power his body could contain had greatly increased as well. No wonder every Soul Master pursued Soul Rings with higher Soul Ring Years.

To a Soul Master, Soul Rings were like buckets for holding water. The higher the Soul Ring Year, the larger the bucket's capacity, and the more Soul Power it could hold.

With Su Yuntian's current Soul Power, he could already open sixteen Gates of Babylon at once. He could even retrieve some Noble Phantasms from the Gate of Babylon.

As they rode past the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's convoy along the edge of the road, Su Yuntian held the horse's reins in his left hand and pinched the end of a golden chain in his right. His heart brimmed with anticipation for the future.

Inside a carriage near the center of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's convoy, Sword Douluo Chen Xin suddenly let out a surprised "Huh?"

Ning Fengzhi and Ning Rongrong, who was in Ning Fengzhi's arms, both looked toward Chen Xin.

"Someone Rongrong knows just passed by our convoy," Chen Xin said with a smile. "But he didn't dare stop and say hello."

"Someone Rongrong knows?" Ning Fengzhi was intrigued.

As a level 79 Soul Sage, Ning Fengzhi had naturally noticed someone passing by the convoy. But he had too many matters on his mind to pay attention to such things.

As for Ning Rongrong, her Soul Power was too low for her to notice Lu Renjia and Su Yuntian at all.

Yet Chen Xin chose to keep them in suspense. "No need to rush. We'll meet again after reaching Heaven Dou City. It wouldn't be any fun if I told you now."

Little Witch Ning Rongrong frowned, then lunged into Chen Xin's arms and rammed her head into him.

Chen Xin immediately pretended to be hurt and cried out twice, "Ouch, ouch! Rongrong, are you trying to knock this old man's bones apart?"

Ning Rongrong puffed out her cheeks. "Grandpa Sword has turned bad too! Rongrong isn't happy!"

As he watched the affectionate grandfather-granddaughter pair, Ning Fengzhi's gaze drifted beyond the carriage canopy and into the distance.

Once the New Year passes, Rongrong will be eleven. This little daughter of mine has always been spoiled. She has never suffered, never experienced any setbacks... The two times Su Yuntian made her cry don't count.

For her growth, should I keep her in the sect, or find another famous teacher to guide her?

For Ning Fengzhi, this was quite a headache.

Heaven Dou City was not far away, and they soon arrived.

When Su Yuntian returned to the Crown Prince's Mansion, he saw Da Xue directing a group of maids as they made New Year preparations.

Although it was not decorated in red and festooned with colors like the New Year festivities, the flowers purchased from the greenhouses alone were enough to show how much the royal family valued the New Year celebration.

This world had neither Christmas nor the Spring Festival, but it still had a New Year in the ordinary sense, which fell on New Year's Day every year.

Da Xue was now the head steward of the Crown Prince's Mansion. She did not need to do the work herself. Instead, she stood in the courtyard and directed everyone, along with the servants bustling back and forth, looking every bit like a general commanding troops before battle.

Su Yuntian walked up beside Da Xue, patted her shoulder, and winked mischievously. "Sister, I have something to ask you. Can you come over for a moment?"

Da Xue instinctively sensed danger. She even forgot that Su Yuntian had just returned from hunting a Soul Beast, immediately taking a step back and asking warily, "What is it that can't be said here?"

Su Yuntian shrugged, an innocent smile appearing on his handsome, gentle-featured face. "It's about His Highness."

Da Xue hesitated again and again. After hurriedly assigning two head maids to take charge on the spot, she finally accompanied Su Yuntian to an empty side room.

"Ask away."

"Sister Da Xue, do you know His Highness's true identity?"

Hearing Su Yuntian's question, Da Xue's expression stiffened. Then she immediately smiled, and her smile looked entirely natural. "His Highness is His Highness. Is there a problem?"

"Look into my eyes and tell me!"

Su Yuntian's voice remained gentle, but his tone now carried an unquestionable authority.

Da Xue instinctively looked into Su Yuntian's eyes and found that those ruby-like pupils seemed to emit a faint glow.

In an instant, Su Yuntian was the only person left in Da Xue's field of vision.

—Second Soul Skill: Handsome Youth of the Fair Face.

Charms one target regardless of gender for five seconds.

When used on someone far weaker than the user, it may produce an enhanced effect.

Da Xue was, coincidentally, an ordinary person with no Soul Power. Her eyes had already turned unfocused as she stared at Su Yuntian with a foolish smile.

Su Yuntian stared at the somewhat dazed Da Xue. "Answer me!"

Da Xue let out a soft sigh. "His Highness has been gone for a long time... Da Xue doesn't know where he went either. I only know that after that hunting celebration, Xiao Xue became His Highness."

Listening to Da Xue's nearly incoherent muttering, Su Yuntian understood at once.

The "Xiao Xue" Da Xue spoke of was the maid Qian Renxue had once served as beside the First Prince, Xue Qinghe. Her name was Xiao Xue.

When Xiao Xue was nine, she left Spirit Hall and pretended to be a little girl injured in an attack by a Soul Beast. She was rescued by the First Prince Xue Qinghe at the time.

Afterward, Xiao Xue became Xue Qinghe's maid. A year later, when Xue Qinghe was ten, she replaced him.

At the time, the emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire, Xue Ye, had specially held a hunting celebration to celebrate his eldest son's tenth birthday.

It was during that celebration that Spirit Hall secretly created chaos. Xiao Xue killed Xue Qinghe, then disguised herself as Xue Qinghe.

Six years had passed, and very few people still knew this secret.

What surprised Su Yuntian was that the maid Da Xue was also aware of it!

He asked again, "Does Xiao Xue know that you know she is Xiao Xue?"

Note 1: Da Xue had long known Xiao Xue's secret. So, would she die?

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