The Palace Affair Ends

Zhang Xuezhou sent out his Yang Corporeal Soul and watched the excitement outside the imperial palace for quite a while.

Of course, watching this excitement was not all that enjoyable.

On one hand, Dou Ying kept pestering him, making it difficult for Zhang Xuezhou to leave. On the other, Grand Astrologer Sima could observe from an exceptionally great distance, and Zhang Xuezhou feared he would discover where his real body was.

As a result, Zhang Xuezhou said little. Whatever Dou Ying said, he would quickly put the matter to rest, making it difficult for Dou Ying to ask anything.

In the end, the assembled officials focused their Yang Corporeal Soul patrols on the imperial palace, though quite a few sent theirs wandering around to observe and hear what others thought.

Snowflakes were still falling, but somehow they heard a muffled rumble of thunder.

"That should be the sound of a Five Lightning Technique talisman being activated in haste. I'm afraid that talisman is among the very finest in our Great Han. Lord Wei Wan must have brought out a treasure from his own stores."

Grand Astrologer Sima murmured to himself.

Yang Mausoleum was fifty li from Zhang Xuezhou's home, while it was nearly a hundred li from the Imperial City District. It was not a distance the high officials could quickly cross to provide reinforcements.

Accordingly, the matters at Yang Mausoleum were left entirely to the patrol troops stationed there and the great cultivators lying in ambush.

If those people were all slaughtered, then it would simply be Wei Wan, Zhi Buyi, and the others' bad luck.

"A True Self Realm cultivator must have come to Yang Mausoleum. Otherwise, Wei Wan would not have gone so far!"

Another pale purple Yang Corporeal Soul appeared and murmured aloud.

"Shen Pei, His