Looking at the endless mountains in the distance, Qi Yingzhu felt a little monotonous.

If we only talk about the richness of the environment and terrain, Zhongzhou ranks first among the five states. The climate is not as hot as Nanzhou, not as bitterly cold as Beizhou, not as wet and muddy as Dongzhou, and not as dry as Xizhou. It can be said that the advantages of each state are concentrated together.

Xizhou is mountainous and has little rain, and the higher you go, the more so. As a result, the tops of many mountains are bare, looking ugly with patches of green and white.

...Perhaps, I am the one who is truly ugly. I am not tolerated by the Qilin, nor can I be regarded as ugly by the White Tiger, just like a colorful and complex mountain.

Qi Yingzhu watched silently for a long time, tightened her clothes, and then went down the mountain using the magic of teleportation.

Among the five major demon tribes, the Qilin is good at the art of divine movement, the black turtle is good at the art of earth escape, and the other three tribes are better at flying.

The dragon tribe soars into the sky, the white tiger rides the wind, and the red bird is born to fly. Although Qi Yingzhu does not have the blood of the Qilin, she has also learned the art of flying, but she is far less proficient than the Horned Tribe.

When they arrived at a nearby place, Qi Yingzhu saw several young masters of the White Tiger Family standing there, watching the servants digging the soil.

"What's wrong?" she went over and asked casually.

"Your Highness." A white tiger recognized the man's identity and said respectfully, "I just came here to look for something I lost."

"Something is lost..." Qi Yingzhu pondered.

She was not a nosy person, but at this moment she still had the knot in her heart that she was "incompatible with the White Tiger Clan", so she asked casually:

"What is it?"

"Just some magical instruments." Then Young Master Baihu came out and said with a smile, "This man is a servant of my clan. I ordered him to go to the market to buy magical instruments, but he hasn't returned for a long time."

"We originally thought that this cunning slave had absconded with the money, so we used secret methods to track him down, only to find out that he was killed here."

"Killed?" Qi Yingzhu frowned slightly and said, "How could someone commit a crime in broad daylight?"

The White Tiger Young Masters looked at each other and thought, isn't this normal?

Here, however, there was a conflict between the two worldviews: Qi Yingzhu was born in the imperial capital, where the demon race was densely populated, so the imperial capital's Golden Horn Guard enforced the law. For similar homicide cases, there were naturally special people to deal with them in a timely manner.

However, Xizhou is a vast area with few people. Many monks have been killed for various reasons, and their bodies have been left exposed in the wilderness for years without being discovered. Naturally, it is impossible for anyone to conduct a thorough investigation and prosecution.

However, Qi Yingzhu was the eldest princess of the Qilin royal family, and her status was high, so no one dared to disobey her. Therefore, no one said anything weird like "Isn't this making a fuss over nothing?", but just flattered the eldest princess and echoed her:

"Your Highness is right. This murderer must be investigated thoroughly!"

"Which demon tribe is the closest to this place?" Qi Yingzhu continued to ask.

"It's the Sky Fox Clan from Qingqiu Mountain." Someone answered.

"Well, I'll go and take a look." Qi Yingzhu didn't say anything about "seeking justice for the White Tiger clan". After all, the deceased was just a family slave within the clan, and he seemed to be an outsider. Going to Tianhu's house for this reason was obviously a provocation.

I didn't go there to accuse them, but to ask them if they had any clues to provide.

When they arrived at the Sky Fox Clan’s residence, Qi Yingzhu handed over a visiting card.

Upon seeing that it was the Princess of Zhongzhou who came to visit, Hu Yuan, the patriarch of the Sky Fox clan, immediately came to greet her in person.

"Her Royal Highness the Princess is a rare guest. I hope you will forgive me for my poor hospitality."

"You are too polite, Patriarch." Qi Yingzhu said straight to the point without any hesitation, "I came here this time to ask you something."

"Your Highness, please speak."

"Just outside the market town near Qingqiu Mountain, a murder occurred..." Qi Yingzhu narrated the story.

Hu Yuan looked serious at first, but when he heard that the deceased was a house slave, his expression suddenly became ugly again.

Although we, the Sky Fox clan, are vassals of the White Tiger clan, we cannot be humiliated by you like this. Do you have to come to our house to hold our clan responsible for the accidental death of a White Tiger family slave?

"…Therefore, I just want to ask if you have any clues." Qi Yingzhu said finally.

"It's not that I'm hiding it from you, Your Highness." Hu Yuan replied slowly, "It's just that my clan has always had no restrictions on the entry and exit of our clan members. I don't know how many of them left the clan today to go out for fun, or passed by the crime scene."

"By the way, I heard that the White Tiger Clan has White Tiger Secret Guards, who are responsible for espionage and intelligence work throughout the entire Western Province. Your Highness, why don't you ask the clan members?"

"...I'm sorry for being rude." Qi Yingzhu was speechless for a long while and could only say this.

Going to the White Tiger Secret Guard to seek intelligence because of the death of a household slave was truly an act of recklessness.

The reason why Hu Yuan brought up this matter was to hint to Qi Yingzhu: It is indeed a bit too much to come to us for such a thing.

Qi Yingzhu felt a little embarrassed, so she said goodbye to Hu Yuan and left.

Hu Yuan also felt that it was a bit rude, so he tried to keep Qi Yingzhu and let her tour the Sky Fox clan’s territory… Otherwise, if the news got out, saying that the Princess came to Qingqiu for a visit and left in embarrassment before an incense stick of time had passed, how would people outside evaluate the Fox clan?

Qi Yingzhu agreed reluctantly, and Hu Yuan called a few fox girls of the same age and asked them to take the princess to a beautiful place in the tribe to play.

These fox girls were indeed gentle by nature, and they were also very flattering. With just a few words and chattering, they soon made Qi Yingzhu's mood better.

The group was chatting and laughing, telling Qi Yingzhu about interesting stories in Xizhou, when they suddenly saw a young man from the weasel tribe and a young girl from the fox tribe walking in the distance.

"It's strange." One of the fox girls said with a sweet smile, "The tribes in Xizhou think weasels are smelly and most of them don't want to get close to them, but for some reason, that fellow tribesman hangs out with a weasel boy all day long. I've seen them several times. They really have no shame or shame."

So everyone started to giggle.

Qi Yingzhu looked at the two people and suddenly felt a sense of empathy.

What she has been struggling with recently is that she lives among the Qilin clan as a white tiger, and has a feeling of confusion and alienation as if she is not human on both sides.

Seeing the fox girl and the weasel boy walking together at this time, I think that even if they get together in the future, they will not be understood by their relatives on both the fox and weasel tribes.

It can be seen that this kind of clan gate is like a natural chasm, difficult to cross!

"Call those two people over." Qi Yingzhu ordered, "I want to talk to them."

The fox girls looked at each other, and soon someone stood up with a sweet smile and said:

"I will go, Your Majesty, please wait here."

On Long Long's side, he accompanied the dragon fox in the clan territory for a long time.

Although the fox cultivators around always gave strange looks, they did not recognize the dragon fox after all, so no one came up to provoke him or say something like "A mere weasel wants to eat fox meat".

It seems that after Xizhou officially sets out on the expedition, the two will be able to blend into the team and head to Beizhou.

"Brother from the Itachi clan," someone suddenly called out from behind, "Please stay."

Long Long slowly stopped, looked at the dragon fox, then looked at the strange fox girl, and then pointed at himself blankly.

Looking for me?