The Great Wilderness is located in the mountains 20,000 miles away from the Tianqi border.

Occasionally, the bloodthirsty roars of monsters echoed in the night, and the evening breeze carried the sound far away.

At the ruins of the Black Snake Tribe that was destroyed by Kong Ju and his two companions, a group of Gujiang witches with bare upper bodies and ferocious tiger tattoos on their chests walked into the valley littered with corpses under the moonlight.

The sturdy man in the lead had half of his face bitten off by some monster. From his right ear to the bridge of his nose, there was no trace of flesh and blood, only a pile of hideous white bones.

He had a small braid on his head, and his blood was fiery. In this cold night, he radiated a blazing heat like a raging fire.

He is clearly a powerful person in the Soul Transformation Realm.

Looking at the corpses scattered all over the valley, the half-faced sturdy man's face immediately darkened. He tilted his head and said to the tribe member Weng Sheng beside him: "See if there are any survivors."

Because it had rained heavily for several days before.

The corpses had already been swollen and were rotting in the mud, emitting a foul odor that filled the air.

His men patrolled among the countless corpses of the Black Snake Tribe.

"Report to the tribe leader, all the members of the Black Snake Tribe were killed, not a single one survived." After hearing the report from his subordinates, the tribe leader, who only had half of his face, had anger in his eyes and cursed loudly: "Didn't you say that you saw Zaifu Qiaoqiao at the border? All the tribe members of that bitch are dead, why is she still alive?"

Behind the half-faced chief stood a skinny old man wearing a black robe, holding a bone cane, and his eyes were full of gloom.

Hearing the tribe leader's question, the old man laughed strangely and replied, "It's not just Zaifu Qiaoqiao that was seen. It is said that she was with a group of unidentified spiritual practitioners at the time."

"I rode a demon beast or bird and flew over 20,000 miles."

“Those few spiritual practitioners might be the culprits who destroyed the Black Snake Tribe.”

Hearing the old man's response, the clan leader's eyes also revealed a cruel and fierce light, and he cursed loudly: "She is a traitor, colluding with foreign monks to harm her own compatriots. She should be sacrificed to the witch god."

After cursing, the chief asked the tribesmen next to him: "Which direction did they go?"

"I heard from Shenglun of the Golden Rat Tribe that they were heading towards Tianqi!"

Such a response further confirmed his previous guess. The clan leader was furious, and the tiger pattern on his chest seemed to come alive with his anger, emitting bursts of tiger roars.

"Contact the Zhuyin tribe lurking in Tianqi and find that woman Zaifu Qiaoqiao at all costs."

"I want to let her know the consequences of betraying Gujiang."

The old man reminded the chief in a gloomy voice: "Chief, those spiritual practitioners who were related to the destruction of the Black Snake Tribe must not be spared. They should be killed as a warning to the rest."

"Yes! Gather together the tribal shamans who have seen those spiritual practitioners, draw their portraits and deal with them all together." Chief Zhu Yin had an extremely bad temper, and veins bulged on his forehead when he was extremely angry.

"Infiltrating the Great Wilderness is related to the future fortune of Gujiang."

"None of these people can be left alive!"

The Zhuyin tribe is one of the top ten largest tribes in Gujiang.

It is the sharpest spear in the hands of the current chief of the Jinming tribe.

Under the order of the chief of the Jinming tribe, they sneaked into the Great Wilderness more than two years ago, leading various small and medium-sized tribes in an attempt to seize the opportunity mentioned by the prophet of Gujiang.

Even though two or three years have passed and there is still no sign of progress.

But he has absolute ruling power over dozens of small and medium-sized tribes lurking in the wilderness.

In Gujiang, the strong prey on the weak, and it is natural for the weak to obey the orders of the strong.

Following an order from the chief of the Zhuyin tribe, all the Gujiang witches who had seen Kong Ju and his party were gathered together to draw portraits of the three of them.

A hunt against Zaifu Qiaoqiao and Kong Ju quietly unfolds.

…

That night, Kong Ju did not fall asleep as arranged by the housekeeper of the princess's mansion.

The ominous sign of luck that he saw above the second prince's head during the day made him smell a sense of crisis.

Coupled with the threat from the imperial guards, Kong Ju no longer had the leisure time to stay in the princess's mansion.

Shangguan Yuzhou was called out at midnight, and the two of them walked in the night to Princess Qing's bedroom. They said goodbye to their master's wife respectfully through the screen.

I thought Princess Qing would try to persuade me to stay.

Unexpectedly, when Princess Qing heard Kong Ju's farewell words, she didn't show any surprise at all.

"Be careful when you leave the imperial city." Princess Qing said only this and didn't say anything more.

"I will remember your teachings, Master's wife!" Kong Ju naturally responded respectfully, and then took Shangguan Yuzhou to bid farewell to Princess Qing.

The two of them left Princess Qing's bedroom for a moment.

Huangfu Wuqin walked out quietly. When Kong Ju and the other person said goodbye, she had been there but did not show up.

Looking at Kong Ju's figure disappearing into the night, Huangfu Wuqin smiled as expected and said to his mother crisply, "He must have been frightened by Bai Yuanjin's words during the day. He hates it most when others pick fights with him."

"Before in Cangwu Sect, if my father hadn't forced him to fight Yuan Xiao, I wouldn't have known that he had grown to this point."

"It is indeed the best policy to stay in another realm and avoid meaningless fights." Princess Qing did not fall asleep behind the screen. Instead, she wore a spacious green shirt and ground ink at the table. The ink she used was very fragrant, with the scent of sandalwood floating in the bedroom.

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"But his choice to avoid it wasn't entirely because of the Imperial Guards."

"There is a lot of trouble in the imperial city right now. I'm afraid he has smelled something and doesn't want to get involved in this mess."

"This disciple your father accepted is not a simple one."

Huangfu Wuqin keenly caught the clues in Princess Qing's words. With his lively eyes, he looked at his mother who was devoted to studying calligraphy with a solemn expression.

"Mother, you didn't get involved in your uncle's affairs, did you?"

Princess Qing smiled and looked at her daughter. She couldn't say these words in the past.

Although Huangfu Wuqin has been smart since childhood, his personality is still too simple among the royal family members.

Now that I have only revealed a little information, she has actually started to care about me.

After a faint smile, Princess Qing asked, "Did Kong Ju tell you?"

"Why should he tell me? I'm not stupid. He is so annoying that he doesn't hesitate to fight in the daytime just to avoid having anything to do with the prince."

"Even after leaving the Imperial City, he tried to avoid Bai Xiangming, the Second Prince. His every word and action was to distance himself from the Imperial Family. If you were not his master's wife, he would definitely not have entered the Imperial City."

Huangfu Wuqin counted on his fingers the things that were wrong with Kong Jue.

At first there was a smile on his face, but then his expression became serious again, and he said seriously:

"Kong Ju is a man who is hard to fathom. When he first joined the Cangwu Sect and had yet to show his talent, he was able to turn danger into safety every time he encountered a crisis that would have killed an ordinary person."

"Didn't I tell you that during the trip to Frost Moon Altar, more than a dozen disciples from various sects died, and he was the only one who crawled out from the pile of dead bodies?"

"The whole way from Wudong, we encountered many dangers, including several life-threatening disasters, but we avoided them thanks to his perception. Your daughter's survival is all thanks to him."

"His... foresight into the dangers ahead is probably innate, a mysterious feeling."

Princess Qing knew Huangfu Wuqin's character very well. Hearing so many praises about Kong Ju from her daughter's mouth, her calm face also showed a little bit of light.

"It seems that Kong Jue is indeed different from ordinary people."

"So, he was in such a hurry to run out of the Imperial City. He must have sensed something."

"It must be a situation that could affect his own safety."

Huangfu Wuqin knew all about Kong Ju's extraordinaryness, but looking at her mother, she couldn't help but ask again: "Mother, are you involved in this?"

Princess Qing Yanmo's arm suddenly stopped, and she looked at her daughter with a confident smile.

She neither admitted nor denied it, but comforted him: "Your mother is now the head lady of the largest sect in Cangwu, they can't touch me."

(End of this chapter)