The back of the cloaked figure in hemp robes gradually receded into the distance.
Another knight came galloping over, clad in the standard leather armor and curved saber of the Royal Tent Cavalry. A golden cape fluttered flamboyantly behind him, embroidered with a thunderbolt insignia—he was unmistakably a commander of ten thousand!
Yet when he approached, this knight, whose appearance was so grand and imposing, lowered his head to the other man and asked, "Your Highness, is there something suspicious about this person?"
The Great Mu Empire had only two people addressed as "Your Highness"—the Mu Empress's son and daughter.
The elder brother was called Helian Zhaotu, and the younger sister Helian Yunyun.
So the man who had questioned Jiang Wang just now was actually a prince of the Great Mu Empire!
Zhao meant brightness. Tu meant strategy.
In giving her son this name, the Great Mu Empress made no effort whatsoever to conceal her ambitions.
But in naming her daughter Helian Yunyun, she let the world say what it would. People echoed one another, saying this and that, and so on and so forth... As a great emperor, she had no care for the tongues of mediocrities.
Hearing the question, Helian Zhaotu smiled. "The Number One Inner Palace of the World, coming to visit an old friend—what problem could there be?"
"Oh?" The cavalry commander raised a brow. "So he is Jiang Wang?"
"Eight or nine times out of ten." Helian Zhaotu said casually, "He probably guessed who I was, too."
"To escape from Zhao Xuanyang's hands, this man truly isn't simple!"
"I'm afraid it may not have been merely an escape..." Helian Zhaotu said. "Zhao Xuanyang still hasn't shown himself!"
The cavalry commander paused. "Is there another powerhouse behind him?"
Replacing a general like Cao Jie had only