At this moment, Prince Qi, who was drinking tea in the palace pavilion, froze. He raised his head in confusion and looked towards the direction of the imperial prison, muttering to himself, "What happened there that even alarmed my brother?"

However, this divine thought came quickly and went quickly, presumably because it realized it was from Zu'an and stopped paying attention to it.

Zuan sat on a stool to the side, panting heavily. In that instant, he felt as if his clothes were soaked with sweat.

No wonder people say that the entire palace is under the emperor's divine surveillance; that's what they mean.

The emperor obviously wouldn't have the energy to listen to ordinary conversations, but he would definitely notice any unusual fluctuations in the palace's energy flow immediately.

No wonder Yun Jianyue insisted on coming when the emperor was not in the palace; otherwise, she would probably have been suppressed by the emperor as soon as she made her move.

After resting for a while, Zu An walked back towards the prison guards. He had specifically called all the remaining people in the prison here, so that no one should notice for a while.

However, he still had one more thing to do. He took out a porcelain bottle from the glass bead, dripped a few drops of liquid into the teapot, and then fed the tea to the jailers.

In fact, ever since he received the emperor's mission, he had been thinking about this problem. Breaking into the imperial prison was not difficult; the difficulty lay in how to handle the aftermath.

He couldn't let the demonic sect members suspect him, nor could he let the people in the palace suspect him.

Therefore, a scapegoat is needed.

After much thought, the only person with the motive and ability to abduct the wanted criminal from the imperial prison is the King of Qi.

Moreover, by using the Prince of Qi as an excuse, the emperor could easily suppress the matter when it was reported later, since it involved the Prince of Qi, and the two sides would not openly break off relations unless absolutely necessary.

This way, Guo Zhi and others wouldn't have any suspicions.

So he had deliberately angered the King of Qi, hoping that he would send someone to deal with him. Who would have thought that the King would cooperate so well and send someone over so quickly.

Of course, there is another problem: the prison guards' confessions these days cannot reveal their own identities.

Killing them would have been the easiest option, but firstly, he didn't want to indiscriminately kill innocent people, and secondly, he had just had Guo Zhi transfer the experts from the prison, and then the people here were killed; even a fool would suspect him.

Therefore, he needed to keep these jailers as witnesses to prove that the King of Qi's men had come.

As for the things he did, these jailers must forget them.

The tea I just fed them contained Forget-Me-Not Water, which those guys used to deal with Qin Wanru during the Chu family's rebellion. Arousing lust is secondary; the most magical effect is that it makes people forget what happened in the previous period afterward.

"I'm a genius." Zuan was somewhat impressed with himself, but the thought of using one of the world's top aphrodisiacs on a bunch of stinky men made him feel extremely distressed.

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This chapter's minor character, Liu Chenyu, comes from reader Yu Mingshang Feng.