"Just a chance encounter?"
Su Miaoyin was clearly somewhat skeptical of Chen Mu's answer, but she had already achieved her goal and didn't want to cause any more trouble.
"Then you should leave quickly too. Long Xiang dies here, the royal family will definitely investigate, and this place will soon be in chaos."
Su Miaoyin quickly cleaned up the traces at the scene and then prepared to leave.
"Alright! Then we'll meet again."
Chen Mu smiled and cupped his hands in greeting. A flash of blue light appeared around him, and he vanished from the spot in an instant.
"What terrifying talisman master techniques!"
Su Miaoyin was secretly surprised to see that Chen Mu could come and go freely in the Flower Moon Palace, but she was about to begin her escape and had no time to think about it.
She walked out of the room as if nothing had happened, heading down the path she had planned beforehand.
After Chen Mu returned to his room, Hou Sailei looked at him curiously, his eyes full of doubt.
"Hurry up and eat! This place will probably be shut down by the authorities soon, so let's finish eating and leave quickly."
Leaving now would only arouse suspicion, so Chen Mu decided to wait a while longer, until he had eaten and drunk his fill, before leaving.
" Chen Mu, what exactly were you doing just now?"
"Hou Sailei curiously."
Chen Mu glanced at Hou Sailei, then made no attempt to hide anything and spoke directly.
"The person in room number one of the Heavenly Palace was Prince Dingjing, Long Xiang. Su Miaoyin was just about to poison Long Xiang, but she failed, so I went over and killed him on the spot."
Don't worry! The entire plan to kill Long Xiang was arranged by Su Miaoyin, so they shouldn't be able to trace it back to us."
Hou Sailei listened in disbelief as Chen Mu finished speaking, closed his eyes and thought seriously for a moment before speaking.
"Okay, I knew you weren't one to stay put; you always manage to get into trouble wherever you go."
He wasn't a coward, so he immediately continued to eat heartily, even asking the waiter to add more dishes and bring them over quickly.
About half an hour later, Chen Mu noticed a commotion nearby, indicating that Long Xiang's death had been discovered.
"Let's go!"
Taking advantage of the chaos at the Flower Moon Palace, Hou Sailei settled his bill with the shopkeeper, and the two left together.
After leaving the Flower Moon Palace, Hou Sailei took Chen Mu to the most luxurious inn in the Heavenly Emperor City to check in.
However, after what happened at the Flower Moon Palace, Chen Mu had lost interest in these Central Province delicacies. He ate a simple meal and then returned to his room to cultivate.
Tonight, the Flower Moon Palace is destined to be a sleepless night. Thousands of soldiers have surrounded the Flower Moon Palace on all three levels, forbidding anyone from entering or leaving.
"Who dares to lay such a cruel hand on my son? Find him for me, and I will tear him to pieces!"
A disheveled woman held Long Xiang's corpse, crying and cursing as if she were going mad.
This is Long Xiang's birth mother, one of the current imperial concubines, Dowager Consort Zhuang.
Before, Dowager Consort Zhuang held immense power in the Haotian Empire because her father was Wang Xian'an, the Heavenly Puppet Sect of the Tiankui Sect. The late emperor also doted on her, and very few people could rival her.
However, since the late emperor's death and Wang Xian'an's death in battle while attacking the Chen Kingdom, she has become much more low-key and rarely appears in public.
She never imagined that her momentary forbearance would result in her son being poisoned to death. At this moment, she gritted her teeth, her eyes bloodshot, as if she wanted to devour someone.
"Your Highness, according to the Palace Mistress of Wanhua Palace, a female cultivator named Su Miaoyin poisoned the Prince."
The Imperial City Bureau has just dispatched experts to capture this person, and I believe they will bring her to justice soon.
The Dowager Consort Zhuang's personal maid came to her side and cautiously reported.
With a slap, Dowager Consort Zhuang knocked her personal maid to the ground, her face full of Sha Qi.
" The Imperial City Bureau? They might be the mastermind behind this. You actually expect anything from them!"
Dowager Consort Zhuang was no ordinary person. She put down Long Xiang's body, stood up, and looked at a middle-aged man dressed in a talisman master's robe beside her.
"Master Zhan, what are your insights?"
Zhan Fengxiu, born into the Heavenly Puppet Sect, is Wang Xian'an's junior brother and one of Dowager Consort Zhuang's masters.
Although he was not as skilled as Wang Xian'an in cultivation, he was a master of formations and was highly regarded by Dowager Consort Zhuang. Dowager Consort Zhuang would consult him on many of her decisions.
"In my humble opinion, although Lord Jing Lord Jing show signs of poisoning, his fatal wound was on the top of his head, clean and swift, killing him instantly. This is not the kind of move that a woman like Su Miaoyin would use."
Therefore, I boldly speculate that besides Su Miaoyin, another expert was also involved in this assassination.
Zhan Fengxiu spoke slowly and deliberately, his words clear, logical, and convincing.
Dowager Consort Zhuang couldn't help but nod in agreement, because she knew more than Zhan Fengxiu.
She was present when Long Xiang activated his Celestial Person Bloodline. Because she cared about Long Xiang Long Xiang, she even personally asked the Celestial Person Official who helped him activate his bloodline what was so special about it.
As a result, Long Xiang activated the Celestial Person Bloodline ' Imperial Heaven Hegemon Body ', a very powerful talent. His physical body is strong and he is immune to all poisons. Even though Long Xiang is only Emperor Level cultivator now, those poisons that can harm Sage cannot harm him.
Therefore, from the very beginning she did not believe that anyone could kill Long Xiang with poison alone.
"So, which side do you think Su Miaoyin belongs to?"
"Dowager Consort Zhuang I asked in a cold voice."
Zhan Fengxiu glanced warily at the people around him, then lowered his voice and said.
"This Su Miaoyin has a rebel background, so logically she is very likely someone sent by the rebels."
However, from another perspective, Su Miaoyin's ability to commit crimes in the Heavenly Emperor City and remain uncaptured to this day would likely have been impossible without the assistance of some government official.
"Could it be Long Bo, because of the matter of being enfeoffed in Qing Province?"
At this point, Dowager Consort Zhuang no longer held back and directly asked Zhan Fengxiu by name.
When Zhan Fengxiu heard Dowager Consort Zhuang address the current emperor in such a way, his expression became even more tense. However, since everyone around him was his own person, he gritted his teeth and nodded.
"It's possible that Su Miaoyin was released because a high-ranking official in the court protected her innocence. This official was highly regarded by the Emperor, and it's hard to say that the Emperor might have secretly instructed him to do so."
However, all of this is just speculation at the moment. I need some more time to investigate and determine the relationship between them.
It has been less than half an hour since Zhan Fengxiu learned about this matter, and he has already found out so much. It has to be said that Zhan Fengxiu's intelligence capabilities are extremely strong.