"Normally, banquets for officials, envoys, and feudal lords would all be held in Xingqing Hall. Xingqing Hall even has a large balcony, so it's more suitable for celebrations!
Wu An Hall is more serious. Normally, banquets would only be held in Wu An Hall when there's a reward for military service or when there's a war going on. Furthermore, Wu An Hall would also become a temporary military meeting hall when the situation at the border is serious!
This time, Your Highness suddenly changed the location of the banquet to Wu An Hall. Perhaps something happened to Xingqing Hall, or the building was damaged. Compared to the buildings in the palace, they're all hundreds of years old! "
At dusk, a group of ceremonial guards came out from the Pill Monarch Palace and escorted Ling Dong and Yuan Chen towards the palace. This group of ceremonial guards was the standard treatment for the two newly conferred Dukes, Ling Dong and Yuan Chen!
As they walked, Yuan Chen casually introduced the history of Wu An Hall to Ling Dong, interjecting his own comments from time to time.
"Wu An Hall, good, I like this name! Wu An, using martial prowess to pacify the country! " Ling Dong chatted with Yuan Chen casually. From time to time, he would talk to Qiu Qingyi beside him!
Ling Dong only brought two people to the banquet in the Imperial Harem tonight. One was his beautiful master, Qiu Qingyi, and the other was Feng Xue Lei!
Although Ling Dong was extremely confident in his own strength, it was still necessary to bring along a trustworthy person. For example, asking Feng Xuelei to take care of Qiu Qingyi was the main reason why Ling Dong brought Feng Xuelei along!
It wasn't a problem for an Elixir King to bring along another person to a banquet.
"Master Ling, the palace is right in front! Don't think that the city walls don't have any deterrence to martial artists. Even a Heaven Dipper Realm expert would die if they were hit by the ballistae on the city walls! This palace is the place with the strongest defense in the entire empire! "
Qiu Qingyi and Feng Xue Lei had already gotten used to the way Yuan Chen addressed Ling Dong as' Master Ling '. They were shocked at first.
Especially in the eyes of Feng Xue Lei, Ling Dong was synonymous with miracles. There seemed to be nothing impossible about him!
"It's powerful, but it still has to hit the target. That Astral Piercing Crossbow Chariot shouldn't be able to hit a Heaven Star Border expert, right?" Ling Dong laughed.
However, Yuan Chen looked at Ling Dong with a strange expression and said, "Master Ling, the bolts of those ballistae are as thick as a fist. Apart from being extremely hard, they are also inscribed with all sorts of secret runes. They are extremely powerful!
Moreover, those ballistae can shoot five bolts at a time. The narrowest part of the palace walls is still ten meters wide. It can easily fit two or three ballistae side by side!
If more than ten ballistae were to shoot at the same time, it wouldn't be a problem to cover a radius of a hundred meters. Moreover, because the palace is at the center of the imperial capital, the shooting range can cover the entire imperial capital. This is also the reason why no Heaven Star Border expert has dared to cause trouble in the imperial capital for so many years! "
"No Heaven Star Border expert has dared to cause trouble in the imperial capital? What if I make a scene today? "
Ling Dong's sudden words caused Yuan Chen's expression to change. Immediately after, he asked Ling Dong in an extremely cautious manner, "Does Master Ling have any special arrangements? Why don't you tell me in advance so that I can make arrangements in advance and cooperate with Master Ling!"
A strange smile appeared on Ling Dong's face when he heard this. "There is really no way to arrange this matter in advance. When the time comes, you just have to act according to the circumstances!" Ling Dong had great faith in Yuan Chen's judgment!
Feng Xuelei frowned when he heard Yuan Chen's words. What was Ling Dong planning to do in the palace this time?
As they neared the palace, Ling Dong saw a few princes waiting for them at the entrance of the palace. One of them was the seventh prince. His heart skipped a beat and he asked, "Yuanchen, how is the seventh prince, Bi Ying, doing recently?"
"The seventh prince, Bi Ying, has been extremely miserable recently!" When Yuan Chen heard Ling Dong mention Bi Ying, a mocking smile suddenly appeared on his face.
The seventh prince, Bi Ying, had been humiliated by Ling Dong in the Pill Monarch Palace. Then, he tried to curry favor with the new Pill Monarch Ling Dong and betrayed his top general, Fei Anmin. Not only did he cause Fei Anmin's death, he even tried to present gifts to the two new Pill Monarchs, but all of them were rejected.
This loss of face was a small matter!
The two great Pill Monarchs of the empire had displayed extreme disgust for the seventh prince. This was an extremely clear signal!
It was a political signal to all the civil and military officials of Yaoguang Empire. Not only did the two great Pill Monarchs not support the seventh prince, Bi Ying, they even had the intention to oppose him!
In other words, the seventh prince's path to becoming a dragon was suddenly cut off because of the two great Pill Monarchs! Even if it wasn't cut off, the seventh prince's path to becoming a dragon had become extremely difficult.
Moreover, all the signs indicated that the two great Pill Monarchs' hatred for the seventh prince was not just a little bit!
In an instant, more than half of the civil and military officials who supported the seventh prince disappeared overnight. In the past, when the seventh prince went to court to discuss matters, the seventh prince would always be surrounded by attendants and greetings!
But after one night, there were only six or seven people who followed the seventh prince. When the others saw the seventh prince, it was as if they had seen the plague, and they avoided him as far as they could!
The seventh prince naturally understood all of this, and he was also very clear about the reason! At the same time, the seventh prince also hoped that this situation could be reversed. In his eyes, he was only one step away from that dragon throne. If he worked hard, he might succeed!
After thinking for a long time, the seventh prince specially went to seek an audience with the current emperor, Great Emperor Yuan Feng!
In the seventh prince's mind, even if the two great Pill Monarchs didn't support him, with the current emperor's support, even if it was just a subtle support, he would be able to regain his footing!
However, to everyone's surprise, Li Qiye's expression changed drastically.
The seventh prince was actually chased out by Great Emperor Yuan Feng, and his face was covered in dirt!
At that moment, the seventh prince was completely dumbfounded. But the civil and military officials completely understood the direction of the situation!
What future did the two great Pill Monarchs and the current emperor, Great Emperor Yuan Feng, have to follow a prince who had no future?
As a result, the remaining few people by the Seventh Prince Bi Ying's side had completely slipped away, and he had completely become a loner!
When Ling Dong asked Yuan Chen about the seventh prince's situation, the seventh prince, who was ordered by Great Emperor Yuan Feng to wait at the palace gates to welcome the two Pill Monarchs, was also glaring at Ling Dong with extreme hatred!
It was this person who made him fall from being the most powerful prince of the empire, the prince who was closest to the throne of the Royal Court, to the most abject prince in the empire overnight.
Yes, the most destitute, without a doubt!
All the civil and military officials would take a detour when they saw him. If it wasn't for Great Emperor Yuan Feng's order today, these minor officials behind him would have run away long ago. How could they stand behind him?
"Ling Dong … as long as I have the chance … I will definitely teach you a lesson! Even if this chance is ten, twenty, or fifty years … I will wait … "
Seventh prince Bi Ying clenched his fists so tightly that he didn't even realize his fingernails were digging into his flesh. His eyes were filled with extreme hatred!
However, the miraculous thing was that when Ling Dong and the others were about a hundred meters away from the entrance of the palace, the fire of hatred in Bi Ying's eyes suddenly disappeared. What replaced it was a look of sincerity and extreme respect!
Even the brothers beside him were impressed by this seventh brother of theirs. There was nothing to criticize about his temperament!
However, what Seventh Prince Bi Ying didn't know was that even though he was good at acting, he thought that his hatred for Ling Dong was well hidden. But Ling Dong had clearly sensed the hatred in his eyes from afar!
Ling Dong's spiritual strength was extremely powerful. His spiritual senses were at least two times stronger than most Heaven Dipper Realm experts!
From afar, Ling Dong was shocked by the surging murderous aura. When he sensed that the murderous aura came from the Seventh Prince, Bi Jing, the murderous aura disappeared without a trace.
"Hmph, Bi Ying … not only did you not repent, you still have such a huge grudge against me. Don't blame me for being ruthless!" Ling Dong murmured. He and Yuan Chen didn't stop at the palace gates. Seventh Prince Bi Ying and the rest stood beside them as they rode straight into the palace!
The two great Pill Kings had the privilege of riding through the palace! It could be said that the privilege of a Pill King was even greater than that of a prince in the royal family!
What puzzled Ling Dong was that he didn't see Second Prince Bi Jing along the way!
The four of them rode straight into the palace. Under the lead of a servant, they traveled for a quarter of an hour before they arrived at a bustling place!
The walls weren't tall, but they were extremely thick. It wasn't a problem for horses to run side by side on top of them! The Imperial Guards did not seem to be very strict. Inside and outside the walls, there was only one guard every ten steps. However, with Ling Dong's keen Spirit senses, he could sense traces of faint murderous aura and a tangled bloody and murderous aura!
Ling Dong was very familiar with this kind of bloody and murderous aura. Only after personally killing ten or a hundred people and being doused with the enemy's blood would it condense and linger. This kind of murderous and murderous aura was something that only warriors who had been through hundreds of battles would have!
It was only because Ling Dong had experienced dozens of life and death situations in his previous life and climbed out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood that he was extremely sensitive to this kind of bloody and murderous aura!
What surprised Ling Dong even more was that the guards on sentry duty didn't have this kind of power!
With this discovery, Ling Dong's heart skipped a beat. He deliberately spread out his spiritual senses and carefully searched for the source of the bloodthirsty aura.
After carefully sensing for a while, just as Ling Dong was about to pass through the main door of Wu An Hall, his eyebrows suddenly raised and a trace of surprise flashed across his eyes!
Within the wide walls of Wu An Hall, there was a large number of soldiers hidden. Their bodies were emitting a bloodthirsty aura, and they were elite soldiers holding crossbows.
Thinking of how the second prince had suddenly entered the palace and then suddenly changed the location of the banquet, Ling Dong suddenly realized that the soldiers of a hundred battles lying in ambush within the walls of Wu An Hall must have been used to deal with him!
Although Ling Dong didn't know why Great Emperor Yuan Feng wanted to deal with him, but just the outer perimeter alone had so many elite soldiers, each holding a crossbow. There were probably more than a thousand of them. Wouldn't Wu An Hall be a mountain of knives and a sea of fire?
Should he enter or not?
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