After taking a teleportation array to Dustless Province, the place agreed upon in the flying sword message, Zhu Linlei rushed toward his destination at top speed.
After spending nearly two days getting there, he witnessed a chilling sight within that mountain range.
By the agreed-upon waterfall, the person he sought was nowhere to be seen. Instead, a cultivator holding a crimson greatsword was staring coldly at him.
"Xiao Chen, why are you here?"
After recognizing the other party, a sense of unease surged in Zhu Linlei's heart.
Like him, the man was one of His Highness's trusted confidants. However, Xiao Chen specifically handled His Highness's dirty work, making them rivals in the same line of work and bitter enemies to some extent.
"Haven't you already figured out the answer?"
Xiao Chen, holding the greatsword, sneered and transformed into a streak of sword qi as he charged at Zhu Linlei. "His Highness only told me that dead men couldn't talk. I know nothing else."
Zhu Linlei's heart instantly turned to ashes. Had the Embroidered Uniform Guard's recent investigation been so thorough that His Highness was even willing to abandon a trusted confidant like him in order to ensure the secret would not be leaked?
To His Highness, his subordinates were merely pawns to be used. Once they lost their value, they could be discarded at any time.
Now that he had become a pawn the Crown Prince intended to throw away, Zhu Linlei was overcome with grief.
The two began fighting fiercely, but Zhu Linlei was clearly no match for his opponent.
Both of them had cultivation levels just half a step away from the Tribulation Transcendence stage, but a sword cultivator was still a sword cultivator. Moreover, Zhu Linlei was not skilled at fighting to the death; many cultivators in