A bright moon hung in the night sky.
Moonlight streamed through the open window and spilled into the room.
Empress Gu Xiangnan furrowed her brows tightly, staring at the diagram in her hand as she murmured in astonishment,
"Make Prince Nan disappear??"
She recognized every word that had appeared on the diagram.
But when they were strung together, she truly could not understand them.
As far as she knew, Bei's true identity was the Black Cat Martial Artist who had most recently risen to prominence in the Northern Sacred Dynasty.
He had often conversed with her through the Heavenly Dao Alliance's diagram.
She was certain that Bei's cultivation was, at most, Fourth Rank! He might not even have reached Fifth Rank...
Yet he dared to say something like this??
And Ji Hongli.
He was a trusted minister of the Late Emperor, a veteran who had served three dynasties!
His loyalty to the Great Jiang Dynasty needed no explanation.
At present, he was the Minister of War.
In truth, when the Late Emperor had still lived, he had risen as high as Prime Minister!
It was merely due to political reasons that, in the end, all three sons of the Late Emperor died, and the Empress ascended the throne.
Politicians had always looked only to profit.
Whomever gained the most in the end, every wicked deed would be laid at that person's door.
Clearly.
When the Empress ascended the throne, Ji Hongli pinned the deaths of the Late Emperor's three sons upon Gu Xiangnan.
Thus, ever since Gu Xiangnan took the imperial throne, Ji Hongli had opposed the Empress at every turn.
Yet he was a veteran of three dynasties, with enormous influence under his command.
Had the Empress not shared a master-disciple relationship with Dongfang Cang, the Eastern Cult Leader,