[Successfully treated Li Lingyue. Reward issued: 'Spirit Rhinoceros Horn'.] -- Spirit Rhinoceros Horn: The single horn of a Thousand-Year Spirit Rhinoceros, pale gray and smooth as jade. It can detect nearby spiritual qi fluctuations, formations, and traps; wearing it enhances perception and speeds comprehension of martial arts. If nourished with essence blood, it can link to its owner's mind and give warnings in moments of danger. --
Outside the secret chamber, the lamplight was dim.
Lu Changfeng reclined on the cushioned couch, one hand behind his head, the other idly toying with his newly acquired Spirit Rhinoceros Horn.
The pale gray horn was smooth as jade. He could faintly sense the strange fluctuations contained within it, like a soundless resonance softly answering the surrounding Heaven-and-Earth Spiritual Qi.
He brought the Spirit Rhinoceros Horn closer to his eyes and examined it carefully. Fine lines covered its surface, overlapping like ripples on water, seemingly holding some natural law.
Better than nothing...
He casually tucked the object into his Heaven-Earth Bag.
Qing Dai had stopped by earlier, but he had sent her off to rest.
Snow Robe, however, had stubbornly refused to leave the couch. Now curled against his chest, wings folded and little head buried in feathers, Snow Robe was fast asleep, making soft, broken cooing sounds.
Lu Changfeng felt no desire to sleep.
He believed Li Longji had not been behind tonight's assassination attempt. It was most likely the Xu brothers' handiwork-sowing discord so that, while the snipe and clam fought, the fisherman could reap the spoils. Their methods were far superior to those of Liu Ciyuan and Liu Xuan Ce.
But in the future, it really could happen.
Because that was precisely what had happened in history.
After the Tanglong coup, Princess Taiping and Li Longji had indeed