This won him the wholehearted support of Xue Ye and Prince Xue Xing, as well as the allegiance of the other princes.
Chapter 376: Why are they all the same?
But no one had expected Qian Renxue to devise an exceptionally meticulous plan and use the royal hunt to eliminate all the other princes.
To avoid arousing suspicion, she had one of the deathsworn assassins stab her in the abdomen.
The resulting injury was so severe that only emergency treatment saved her life.
It was precisely because Qian Renxue was ruthless toward others and even more ruthless toward herself.
That her plan had aroused no suspicion from Xue Ye or Heaven Dou's senior officials.
At the same time, she had the assassins leave Spirit Hall's distinctive insignia at the scene, somewhere extremely conspicuous, so anyone would know at a glance that Spirit Hall was responsible.
Of course, she did not intend for the Heaven Dou Empire to direct all its hostility toward Spirit Hall.
Instead, following the principle of mixing illusion with reality and truth with falsehood, she also left a tiny trace of the Star Luo Empire somewhere exceptionally well concealed.
These traces of the Star Luo Empire were so scant and so well hidden that the officials investigating the matter nearly overlooked them.
Fortunately, those officials were not drawing their salaries for nothing. They ultimately concluded that the assassins were very likely from the Star Luo Empire.
This finding sent Xue Ye and Prince Xue Xing into a thunderous rage, and they immediately massed troops along the border.
They then dispatched a delegation to the Star Luo Empire to demand why the Star Luo Emperor had sent assassins after the Heaven Dou Empire's princes.
The Star Luo Emperor was utterly baffled by this blame that had dropped out