Bringing the Seventh Prince back to the Imperial Palace was just a pretext. Anyone could see what they really intended to do.
They wanted to find the Seventh Prince and eliminate him!
"Please show us the way, Brother Xingchen."
The Purple Hall Master gestured for him to lead.
You Xingchen understood that he had no choice.
He just hadn't expected that what should have been a trip to the Imperial Palace to ask for help would instead make the situation worse.
After You Xingchen and the others left, the First Prince looked up at the towering Guardian Stone Lion, lost in thought. His consciousness sank into his Fate Plate.
Yet the pitch-black fog had already obscured all information. The moment he entered the Fate Plate, the fog had forced him back out.
The First Prince's expression shifted between gloom and uncertainty for a while, then he let out a deep sigh.
"Father... can you make it back in time..."
After leaving Stone Saint Forest, You Xingchen was soon forced to set out from the Imperial Palace again.
The Purple Hall didn't pay much attention to the people You Xingchen had brought along. They simply weren't allowed to leave.
Lord Han and the others were included, of course, and were temporarily placed under house arrest in the Imperial Palace.
In the end, this was just a power struggle within the imperial clan. It hadn't reached the point of slaughtering ordinary people.
With the Purple Hall Master on his left, Crippled Elder on his right, and a squad of Purple Hall elites behind them, they set off.
A faint glow enveloped each of them. When the night rain fell on it, the glow dimmed a little, but it did keep the rain out—for now.
These were Rain-Blocking Beads, extremely rare treasures.