That night, the bright moon hung overhead.
Inside Heaven Dou Palace.
Ever since the assassination attempt in the palace several years ago, Xue Ye had placed even greater importance on the palace's defenses.
Especially after the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, which he regarded as a treasure safeguarding the nation, was lost, he tightened control over all Imperial Guards.
At this moment, the entire palace, including the Crown Prince's Palace, was heavily guarded. Layer upon layer of royal troops rotated on watch, and Soul Master guards were stationed everywhere. Even assassins at the Soul Douluo level could not easily infiltrate.
Yet tonight, a translucent figure like a ghost passed through the palace walls, concealing himself from all bodily and soul detection as he headed straight into the depths of the Crown Prince's Palace.
That person was Su Qi.
Dressed in black, his figure flickered in and out of sight. After evading every form of detection, he was about to step through the main entrance to the crown prince's bedchamber when two gray-robed old men locked onto his trail.
Before the main entrance, the gray-robed elder standing on the left was lean and tall, his aura restrained so completely that his cultivation could not be discerned.
The gray-robed elder on the right was slightly plump, with a faint poisonous mist drifting around him. His aura was sinister and elusive, and his cultivation was equally impossible to discern.
However, Su Qi could use Soul Search to peer into the pasts of the two gray-robed elders' souls.
He discovered that they were not palace guards, but Snake Lance Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo, planted within the palace by Spirit Hall to accompany Qian Renxue in carrying out the Infiltration Plan.
The lean elder was Snake Lance Douluo, whose real name was She Long. His Martial