Xue Luochuan and Xue Haicang were dead. They had died in the Soul Hunting Forest, reportedly killed by a ferocious beast.
Having lost two sons in a single day-both his most gifted sons, in whom he had placed great hopes-Xue Ye flew into a rage at the news and fainted on the spot. After waking, he personally ordered a thorough investigation. For a time, every whisper of wind and cry of a crane set the Heaven Dou Imperial City on edge, every tree and blade of grass seeming like an enemy soldier.
But how could Lin Qian possibly fail at something he did?
The enormous investigation team investigated back and forth, only to conclude that the two princes had been bitten to pieces by a ten-thousand-year soul beast.
Prince Xue Xing was also on the investigation team and likewise found no explanation. With no other recourse, he began recklessly implicating others, claiming that Li Si, the Minister of Internal Affairs' nephew, had beaten the two princes and made enemies of them, making him the prime suspect.
Though he had fabricated the whole thing, his wild guess had actually stumbled onto the truth. But without evidence, even Xue Ye, who had lost his sons, would not support him.
Besides being the nephew of Li Yan, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Li Si-Lin Qian-was also a thirteen-year-old Soul Ancestor whose soul power had reached rank forty-three, possessing the continent's only top-tier ice-attribute Ice Jade Scorpion martial soul.
Even if Xue Haicang, who had some talent for cultivation, had survived, he would have struggled to stand shoulder to shoulder with someone like that. Moreover, Lin Qian had the best chance of leading the Heaven Dou Royal Academy to victory in the upcoming Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament.
Thus, however suspicious he might be,