Jiang Wang left the Outer Reception Hall alone. Dawn had already broken, and sparse pedestrians were beginning to appear on the streets.
He was beyond people's sight.
At this moment, he was King Biancheng.
Hooded, clad in a black robe, he moved through a foreign land.
Chongxuan Sheng had long anticipated Lin Zhengren's reaction. It was Chongxuan Sheng who had advised him—"Why not give Lin Zhengren a chance to speak, and see just how far he can go?"
That was why he had not killed him and left at once.
Chongxuan Sheng had once said that clever people's thoughts were actually easier to predict, because there were never many best choices.
The facts proved that killing Lin Zhengren was no simple matter.
Or rather, Zhuang Gaoxian had sent Lin Zhengren out this time precisely to be killed by him. And it would be exceedingly difficult for him to avoid the price he would have to pay for killing Lin Zhengren now.
Perhaps the death of Lin Zhengren, envoy of Zhuang Kingdom, was only the beginning of Zhuang Gaoxian's move.
The simplest thing—so long as Zhuang Gaoxian could prove that the death of Lin Zhengren, Zhuang Kingdom's envoy, was connected to Jiang Wang, the Golden Body protecting a hero of the Human Race would no longer stand.
Zhuang Gaoxian could then come and kill him openly and aboveboard.
Following that line of thought... once Lin Zhengren went to Xiang State, even if Jiang Wang remained unmoved and secluded himself in closed cultivation, would Zhuang Gaoxian still create the illusion that Lin Zhengren had died at Jiang Wang's hands?
Given Jiang Wang's understanding of Zhuang Gaoxian, this was highly likely to happen! Or rather, this could at least be one part of Zhuang Gaoxian's scheme.
And when the time came, would those