Qian Renxue's Preparations

Late at night, Crown Prince's Residence.

Qian Renxue removed her disguise, sat on her bed, and summoned the System Screen.

As usual, ripples spread across the screen, and the words on it changed.

[Today's Intelligence Update:]

[Black Intelligence · Past: Yesterday, Prince Xuexing met with Marquis Full Moon Orlando at night.]

[Red Intelligence · Future: Two months from now, the son of the Clear Sky Douluo will encounter a hundred-thousand-year Shapeshifting Spirit Beast.]

A hundred-thousand-year Shapeshifting Spirit Beast?!

At that moment, Qian Renxue, who had always been civilized and well-mannered since childhood, dearly wanted to curse the heavens.

Was Tang Hao's son really that lucky?

Twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power were already bad enough, and now he would even encounter a hundred-thousand-year Shapeshifting Spirit Beast?

At that moment, Qian Renxue realized that she had to do something!

Based on her observations over the past month or so, she had also summarized several patterns of the system.

First, of the two pieces of intelligence displayed by the system, one concerned something that had already happened but that she did not know about, while the other concerned something highly likely to happen in the future.

After several experiments, Qian Renxue had confirmed that the future intelligence displayed by the system was not guaranteed to happen. As long as she made sufficient preparations, she could prevent it from occurring.

Generally speaking, the more valuable the intelligence, the harder it was to prevent.

For example, several months from now, her teacher's daughter—Ning Rongrong—would awaken a level-nine Seven Treasure Glazed Pagoda.

But as long as she killed Ning Rongrong before she awakened her martial soul, the system would issue a prompt informing her that the intelligence had changed.

However, exceptions existed.

For instance, Su Yu awakening with Innate Full Soul Power was also black intelligence.

Yet preventing Su Yu from awakening had been much simpler.

Second, if she did not know and had never heard of a person involved in the intelligence, the system would not display that person's specific name. Instead, it would refer to them through various close or distant relationships.

For instance, the son of the Clear Sky Douluo, Ning Fengzhi's distant relative, or even a passerby who had met Salas only once.

Qian Renxue could not learn their specific names or identities, and could only indirectly identify them through their relationship with people she knew.

Likewise, exceptions still existed.

And coincidentally, that exception was Su Yu again!

Qian Renxue was certain that she did not know Su Yu at all and had never even heard his name.

Yet the system had directly displayed Su Yu's identity!

Qian Renxue could only conclude that she had yet to grasp the system's true patterns and needed more intelligence to summarize them.

But that was not urgent.

In Qian Renxue's view, the system was hers, and she had plenty of time to slowly explore it.

Her most pressing task now was to find Tang Hao and his son, then make them disappear!

Qian Renxue did not dare delay. She sat before her desk, spread out a sheet of paper, and began writing a letter to her grandfather.

[Grandfather:]

[At present, the Nation-Stealing Plan is proceeding smoothly. Xue Ye's health is worsening by the day, and Xue'er will soon be able to complete this plan. Without spending a single soldier, she will bring the Heaven Dou Empire under Spirit Hall's rule.]

[During this time, Xue'er found a genius with Innate Full Soul Power. His name is Su Yu, and his awakened martial soul is called the Brass Book, a martial soul Xue'er has never seen before.]

[His martial soul seems to record all the fundamental rules of this world. This does not refer to the empire's laws or anything else, but to the true laws of the world itself, laws that all people and all things must follow.]

[Moreover, like the Nine-Heart Begonia, regardless of how many spirit rings it acquires, their age, or what kind of spirit beasts they come from, it grants only one spirit skill—Rule Creation.]

After using a great deal of space to detail the effects of Su Yu's spirit skill, Qian Renxue shook her numb wrist and continued writing:

[After seeing Su Yu, Xue'er remembered something—the Clear Sky Douluo's child seems to have reached the age to awaken his martial soul this year.]

[If Xue'er remembers correctly, the Clear Sky Douluo's wife was a hundred-thousand-year Shapeshifting Spirit Beast.]

[Shapeshifting Spirit Beasts use their original bodies as martial souls, and they invariably possess Innate Full Soul Power.]

[And the Clear Sky Hammer is hailed as the continent's number-one tool martial soul...]

[Xue'er is worried that Tang Hao's son may awaken Twin Martial Souls.]

[After all, Tang Hao's son is a half-human, half-spirit-beast hybrid. Such a case has been unheard of for ten thousand years, and perhaps he possesses some unknown peculiarity.]

[What if this human-beast hybrid is as lucky as Tang Hao and also encounters a hundred-thousand-year Shapeshifting Spirit Beast...]

[Grandfather, Xue'er hopes you can intensify the search for Tang Hao. If you find him, then please, either you or the other grandfathers, take action and eliminate this grave threat to Spirit Hall.]

[May you enjoy good health.]

[Written personally by Xue'er.]

After folding the letter and placing it into an envelope, Qian Renxue called out, "Snake Lance."

"Make a trip back to Spirit City and deliver this letter to my grandfather personally."

Snake Lance accepted the letter, cupped his hands in salute, then walked out of the room and vanished into the night.

After watching Snake Lance leave, Qian Renxue returned to her desk and summoned the system once more.

Only then did she turn her attention to the first piece of intelligence—

Yesterday, Marquis Full Moon met with Prince Xuexing at night.

"Count Lionheart is one thing, but now even Marquis Full Moon wants to join in? Xue Xing, it seems you really want to die~"

Qian Renxue returned to her seat and began considering how to kill that irritating fat man.

Honestly, killing Xue Xing was not difficult for Qian Renxue.

The difficult part was killing Xue Xing without leaving any traces or arousing suspicion.

Furthermore, those nobles colluding with Xue Xing could not be spared so easily either.

After all, if they dared to collude with Xue Xing today, they would dare to support Xue Beng tomorrow!

At that thought, Qian Renxue's eyes lit up. Even if they supported Xue Beng, Xue Ye would not say much.

Although the crown prince had been established, he had not yet ascended the throne. Choosing to support another prince could not be considered a crime.

But what if they supported Xue Xing? What if Xue Ye suspected Xue Xing of harboring disloyal intentions?

Since ancient times, the imperial family had been without affection. As long as Xue Ye became suspicious, and then saw some so-called "evidence," Xue Xing's fate would be almost entirely predictable!

Qian Renxue revealed a smile utterly at odds with her sacred aura and murmured, "Royal Uncle, you brought this upon yourself. Don't blame me..."

Of course, this was only a rough idea. Turning it into a complete plan would require more time.

But before that, Su Yu's figure surfaced in Qian Renxue's mind.

He stood before her and said, "I get along well with my deskmate... She's Marquis Full Moon's daughter, and her name is Aornia."

Qian Renxue sat at her desk in silence for a long time.

After a long while, she sighed softly. "The Heaven Dou Empire's royal family is weak, and Xue Ye has always been tolerant toward the nobles. He probably will not make things too difficult for them."

"Besides, Count Lionheart and Marquis Full Moon are both nobles with real power, and their fiefs lie along the border. Even if Xue Ye wants to make things difficult for them, he will have to weigh the consequences..."

"Hmph. No matter how gifted he is, he is still just a child. After only one meeting, he was already sweet-talked into losing his bearings."