Princess Ling'an had begun to show her edge in recent years, attracting many capable people from outside the Capital City.
If she gained someone as heaven-defying as Ye Li... the consequences... the Eldest Princess did not even dare to think further!
Only then did she realize she had underestimated her opponent. Treating the Third Princess of Great Sheng as the little sister who only knew how to act spoiled and willful had truly been an incomparably foolish mistake!
The Eldest Princess struggled to steady her breathing and could only sort through her thoughts from the beginning. Only then did she gradually sense that something was wrong.
If Ling'an truly knew Ye Li's talent inside out, would she really stop because of her persuasion?
Probably not!
Even the stupidest fool, after coming into contact with the martial path, should have known what it meant to reach the peak of the Domain Lord Realm at nineteen!
But... if she had avoided Longtan because she was wary of her elder sister and feared alerting the enemy by exposing Ye Li, that could actually be explained.
If that was truly the case, then her younger sister's precautions had been entirely correct.
For ordinary geniuses might not be enough to alarm the Eldest Princess of Great Sheng, but a nineteen-year-old at the peak of the Dao Evolution Realm absolutely qualified!
"Whatever happens, I must do something!"
Warning bells blared wildly in the Eldest Princess's heart. A cold, resolute killing intent flickered across her body before vanishing in an instant, yet the gravity and wariness deep in her eyes remained so dense that they could not be dissolved in the slightest.
She abruptly clenched Cao Ming's secret-report jade slip tightly in her palm, as though she were gripping Great Sheng's intangible national destiny itself. She no