With matters here settled, everyone returned to the Princess's Residence.
Princess Taiping was already waiting there and had prepared a sumptuous welcoming banquet.
Jiang Li, however, was aloof by nature and disliked bustle. He asked to go to the underground secret chamber in the residence to study ways of purging the Blood Tai Sui's poison alongside the princess's trusted alchemists.
Lu Changfeng had no desire to socialize either. After taking his leave, he brought Snow Robe and Qing Dai straight back to the Snow Listening Tower.
In a quiet chamber within the tower.
He took out the Jade Casket Jiang Li had given him and began devoting himself to the Medicine King Valley lineage's medical cultivation method.
After studying it, Lu Changfeng could not help marveling.
It truly was a cultivation method designed specifically for physicians. Once mastered, it would let him heal the sick and save lives with half the effort and twice the results!
He immersed himself completely in it, while outside, storm clouds were already gathering beneath the surface.
Inside the Golden Scale Pool Pavilion at the Princess's Residence, lamps blazed brightly.
Princess Taiping sat in the seat of honor, with Jinghong standing beside her, as intelligence reports from every quarter came flying in like snowflakes:
"Master Sengjia has entered Xingjiao Temple and is paying his respects at Master Xuanzang's memorial pagoda..."
"Wu Sansi has entered the temple with the Crescent Moon Hall's Seven Moon-Chasers and three hundred personal guards from his residence to study the Buddha Bone..."
"Ling Jiuxiao, master of the Western Regions' Fire-Worshipping Cult's Blazing Flame Hall, and Yang Kaitian, the Great Vehicle Sect's Welcoming Left Envoy, have secretly appeared on the outskirts of Xingjiao Temple. They are suspected of plotting together..."
Princess Taiping listened quietly, her expression showing little change.
To her, the