But since that was said, the guards followed Zhao Xin's orders and loosened their grip. Su Lie refused to accept the situation. If a fight broke out, they still had the power to defeat everyone present.

It's just that it's not easy to get through the emperor's level. During the battle, it's easy for the imperial guards to shoot arrows from behind and turn you into a complete hedgehog.

"The Emperor asked you to come in, why are you still standing there?"

Su Xi shook her head. She didn't know what this big brother was thinking. Why was he so stupid every now and then? She stepped directly onto the stairs but was stopped before she even entered the door.

"I have to search you. I can't let you bring in anything that could harm the Emperor."

However, body searches are allowed, but they cannot be too strict.

"I'm a woman. It's inappropriate for a grown man like you to search my body."

The eunuch nodded, and then called a female official from nearby to search directly. Su Xi raised her hand and watched the female official touch from top to bottom, and then touch back again.

"no problem."

"no problem."

Both sides received responses.

The bedroom door was pushed open a little.

"The Emperor has been very busy recently, so he's just taking some time off to rest. Please be considerate and understanding."

The two nodded and walked inside.

As soon as he entered the room, he saw Zhao Xin squinting his eyes while drinking tea. His opinion of the eunuch outside the door changed a little.

"Brother Emperor, an invitation to the martial arts conference!"

Zhao Xin was originally bored, but after hearing the word "invitation", he raised his head and looked at the small silver box in her arms.

The box looked a bit like the treasure chest in the treasure hunt game. The box was alternating between gold and silver, and there was an unknown logo printed in the middle.

"This box is for the martial arts conference. I thought it would be a bit shabby to bring just an invitation, so—"

He took the box and carefully stroked the dark pattern on it. He wanted to open it like the previous box, but found that the place was like carved and could not be opened.

There was a button on the box that stood out, inlaid with an emerald gem, and the glittering surrounding it was truly captivating. It gave the illusion that this thing wasn't meant to hold invitations.

Snap——

The box was opened, and inside was a golden invitation letter, an envelope, and something that looked like a brocade bag. These items further highlighted the importance of this martial arts conference.

It seems that when he read novels before, there was no description of this kind of thing, especially the passages describing the martial arts world.

However, since the Evil House can get such things, it seems that there is something powerful behind them.

"Why did you give this to me?"

Su Xi smiled innocently and couldn't help scratching her hair, causing her three thousand strands of black hair to become slightly loose.

"I brought it to you, Brother Emperor, since you are interested in it."

Su Lie snorted coldly. In fact, he had no idea what was in the box. Their Villain House did not participate in this kind of event every year because one of the organizers had a huge feud with the Villain House.

For the sake of the emperor, Su Xi went to Tianshan and asked those old men for an invitation.

"In that case, Your Majesty, we will leave first."

Su Lie's expression was unfriendly, but he still smiled politely at Zhao Xin. Then he grabbed his sister's wrist tightly and dragged her away.

Zhao Xin opened the envelope. The seal on the envelope was a dazzling display of dragons and phoenixes, much more impressive than his own dragon seal. He truly wanted to attend the martial arts conference to recruit talented individuals for the Qin Empire, as they were still short of talent.

Zhao, please send a letter to me personally.

He opened the letter without hesitation. The handwriting on the letter was neat and each word was written with great care.

"The martial arts conference begins in Tianshan."

"The true nature of the conflict between dragon and snake is revealed."

There's another line of small characters in the lower right corner. If the previous ones are considered printed text, then the ones in the lower right corner are what's been written and crumpled up.

He looked at it for a long time, and it was probably three words.

Yes, apart from being able to make out the characters, he couldn't make out anything else. Zhao Xin couldn't tell what the font was; it even felt like oracle bone script.

Then I picked up the invitation letter placed inside. The time was written on it, which was about half a month later.

Half a month later, it was the Anshen Festival.

He put away the messy pile of things and turned to look at a book on the table. Was that the thing that was sandwiched in the illustrated book that Su Lie gave him a few days ago?

He originally thought it was a martial arts technique, but it turned out to be a book of strategies similar to the Thirty-Six Stratagems. The handwriting was so strange and difficult to decipher that he couldn't recognize what it was.

The book was so rare that it didn't even have a table of contents. He didn't recognize anything except the words on the cover. It was the first time he realized how serious the disadvantages of not learning enough were.

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Snap——

The tea bowl was thrown roughly to the ground, and the wine on the table flowed down the polished table. But the only thing worth showing off in this room was the jar of wine. The rest...

It's no different from that small post station.

"What did you say? Those old men sent the box out?"

The leader pulled out a beautiful knife, densely patterned with dark patterns, and the gemstone embedded beneath it was identical to the emerald on the treasure chest. The knife was now resting squarely on the subordinate's head.

If that subordinate showed any sign of disloyalty, he would probably kill him with one blow.

"Your Majesty, the box was given to the House of the Wicked."

The subordinate was so frightened when he saw his king getting angry that he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

"That box was actually given away by those old guys!"

The king raised his hand and chopped off a finger of his subordinate effortlessly. The finger fell to the ground and was snatched away by the lone wolf nestling beside the king.

"Find the box and bring it back, or you will suffer the consequences."

The subordinate's face was pale, and his hand could not even cover the bleeding finger. The cut was skillful and smooth, and he felt like he was about to faint from the pain.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The subordinate clenched his bloody hand and hurried out, wanting only to rush to the Medicine God's Mansion to ask him for some medicine. He was familiar with the king's personal sword, and if he was cut by it, it would be impossible to heal without special medicine.

When he arrived at the Medicine God's residence, he was told that the Medicine God had gone to join in the martial arts conference. He could only ask his boy to heal him.

Zhao Xin gave the book to the Hanlin Academy, asking Zhuge Liang and Xiao He to circulate it. The others didn't react much, but Xiao He, with a red face, clutched the book tightly, his eyes shining.

"Your Majesty, where did you get it from?"

"Why, Xiao Aiqing likes it very much?"

Xiao He flipped through two pages and then happily put them on the table. His face was full of eager joy, and there were even some tears on his face.

Zhao Xin didn't know what had stimulated Xiao He, nor did he want to know what he was thinking about. He just waved his hand and said nothing.