"I'll explain the rules of the game. You must cooperate with me properly, and everyone has to say something..."
Li Qingxian explained the rules in detail, and everyone suddenly understood after hearing them.
After a brief rehearsal, the group headed for the Palace of Accumulated Felicity.
Upon entering, they saw many people standing in the square before the Palace of Accumulated Felicity's main hall—guards, palace maids, and eunuchs, more than forty in all.
Li Qingxian swept his gaze across the crowd and finally spotted two examinees.
One was that unremarkable-looking Dao Protector. He was now dressed as a eunuch and stood among the eunuchs.
The other examinee was slightly plump, with a round face, but his expression was stiff and his face drawn tight.
Li Qingxian had seen this examinee before but had no impression of him. He only knew that this man had had teams in both the Outer City and the Inner City, yet before entering the Imperial Palace, he had been all alone. Like the Dao Protector, everyone in his team had died.
He had previously suspected this man was a Dao Protector, but later deduced that he had nothing to do with Heaven's Mandate Sect and was not one of the Eighteen Sons.
Shen Xiaoyi secretly transmitted, "This man used a disguise artifact. Even his eyes have been altered. I don't know who he is, but I can't sense any malice from him. I tested him with a Fate Artifact just now, and he showed no reaction. He probably won't hinder us."
Li Qingxian nodded.
Mao Shigao sat on a chair outside the main entrance of the Palace of Accumulated Felicity's main hall, attended by two young eunuchs behind him.
Beside Mao Shigao stood a strangely shaped stone lion, taller than a person, its pitch-black maw