The moment Lin Nuo stepped into the Crown Prince's Residence, he keenly sensed that something was off.
This time, the treatment he received seemed even more respectful than before. The servants attending him did not even dare breathe too loudly.
Not only that, the guards patrolling around the residence and the maids responsible for receiving guests seemed to have all been replaced with unfamiliar faces overnight.
The faint Soul Power auras emanating from these seemingly unassuming servants actually gave even him, a Soul Elder who had reached level thirty-six, a subtle sense of danger.
The Heaven Dou Imperial Family definitely does not have the resources to produce Soul Masters of this caliber.
It seems these are all Soul Masters my foolish sister secretly transferred over from Spirit City.
Standing beneath the corridor, Lin Nuo silently pondered to himself.
Led by a maid into the main hall, Lin Nuo found a seat and calmly sat down.
The palace attendants serving him performed an exceptionally orderly bow before retreating with lowered heads.
For a moment, the spacious and elegant room seemed to contain no one but Lin Nuo.
After sitting quietly for a while, a series of deliberately softened yet still crisp footsteps slowly sounded from behind the screen behind him.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince, may I ask why you summoned me here so urgently today? Is something important going on?"
Lin Nuo asked casually, even lazily leaning back a little.
Yet in the next instant, his nose twitched slightly as a faint, refined fragrance with an intensely invasive quality wound around his nostrils.
Something was wrong. Not just wrong—twelve parts wrong out of ten.
When his foolish sister appeared as Xue Qinghe, she would not normally reveal such a flaw.
Feigning confusion, Lin Nuo turned around.
At the sight before