After several hours of travel, Ye Liangchen and his group finally got away from the Tiandou Imperial City. At this moment, they had arrived at the Tiandou Plain, a hundred kilometers away from Tiandou City.

At this moment, in a palace in Tiandou Imperial City, Prince Xuexing was extremely anxious. The eight strong men he sent out late last night mysteriously disappeared. Now his men were looking around, but no news came back.

"Report!"

At this moment, one of Xue Xing's men came running to report the news.

"What's the situation?" Prince Xuexing asked coldly.

"Your Majesty, the palace guards found the bodies of Commander Oton and several key members in the moat east of the city."

"Moreover, the Jiuxing Haitang family and the Dugu Bo family have long been deserted, as if they disappeared overnight. Our people have not found any clues."

At this moment, the subordinate was trembling with fear as he reported the matter to Prince Xuexing, not even daring to utter a word.

“Pah…”

The teacup in Xuexing's hand fell directly to the ground and broke into several pieces.

The leader of the Shadow Team and several core members were super elites secretly trained by himself. Some of them had the lowest level of Soul King. In order to capture a mysterious young man named Lan Chen, 8 of them were killed in one fell swoop. Even the leader Orton died, who was a level 72 Soul Saint!

At this moment, Xue Xing felt a headache and a stuffy chest, feeling very depressed.

"How did the members of the Shadow Team die? Are there any signs of poisoning on the bodies?" Xue Xing asked. If they were killed by Dugu Bo, they would more or less carry some toxins.

"Reporting to the prince, Commander Oton has brought their bodies back to the secret base, and we are investigating the cause of death."

"I will go and see it myself."

Upon hearing that the palace guards had brought back the bodies of the Shadow Squad, Xue Xing immediately went to investigate in person to see how they died.

When Xue Xing arrived at the secret base of the palace, several family guards were performing an autopsy. When they saw their master coming, they immediately saluted respectfully.

"Your Majesty!"

Xue Xing waved his hand and asked several of his men, "How did Commander Orton die? Was he poisoned?"

"Your Majesty, Commander Oton was not poisoned. It seems that the eight of them were killed by some sharp claws."

A Soul King-level commander reported the autopsy results to Prince Xuexing.

"Not poisoned? Was he killed by some sharp claw?"

Upon hearing what his subordinates said, Prince Xuexing was stunned. If he was not killed by Dugu Bo, then another powerful person must have taken action.

Xue Xing doesn’t know yet that Dugu Bo’s martial spirit has evolved into a dragon and the poison is gone. He still thinks that his shadow team was killed by another powerful person.

Dugu Bo killed those members of the Shadow Team before by using the spirit skill of Dragon Claw, capturing those killers to death and leaving behind horrific claw marks.

Prince Xuexing is now confused. In his understanding, there are many kinds of creatures that will have sharp claws after the martial spirit possesses a body, such as dragon, tiger, cat, leopard, and eagle. Now he has no way of finding out who killed his men.

"Let's sort out Orton and the others and bury them! And give some money to their families."

Xue Xing shook his head helplessly, ordered his men to deal with the aftermath, and then returned to the palace hall dejectedly.

"Avalanche, you fool who betrayed your uncle."

"Just to investigate that kid's background, I lost so many strong men in one go."

“Pah!…Swish…”

Xue Xing felt very upset when she thought about this, and she slapped the coffee table and broke it into pieces.

At this moment, Xue Beng rushed into the palace from outside and asked his uncle about the situation. He wanted to kill Lan Chen all the time.

"Uncle, how is Lan Chen? Have you caught him?"

Seeing Xue Beng, this treacherous guy, Xue Qin became so angry that he slapped him in the face.

"Bar…"

Xue Beng was slapped by his uncle, and a bright red five-finger hand mark appeared on his face, which looked very painful.

"Uncle, is there something wrong?"

Although Xue Beng was slapped, he did not dare to complain. After all, he could only rely on his uncle to protect himself now, otherwise he might be killed by his brother someday.

"That Lan Chen guy is very evil. This time I sent out 8 members of the Shadow Team, but I didn't even see a hair of him."

"Commander Orton and his seven men were all dead. They were thrown into the moat, and it wasn't Dugu Bo who killed them."

"It seems that Dugu Bo didn't lie to me before. There is a mysterious strong man protecting Lan Chen. That kid doesn't take our royal family seriously at all. You should get into trouble less in the future. If you continue like this, you might be killed by someone one day."

Xue Xing warned his nephew that it was okay to act like a dandy boy, but he should not commit suicide. If he met someone like Lan Chen who was fearless, the royal majesty would be of no use to him.

"Uncle, I understand."

Xue Beng calmly left the hall and walked outside, but he said fiercely in his heart: Lan Chen, I, Xue Beng, will not be a human being if I don't take revenge. When I seize the throne one day, I don't believe that I won't be able to find you.

"Haha, Xue Xing, ah Xue Xing, you lost 8 members of the Shadow Squad in one go. Even your Shadow Squad leader, Orton, died. This is really surprising!"

Qian Renxue was very happy about Xue Xing's loss of strength. After all, she was the young master of the Spirit Hall, and the dead were not her men. The more strength the Tiandou royal family lost, the better it would be for her.

"Young Master, let's not investigate the boy named Lan Chen."

"This boy is definitely a monster. He seemed to have already calculated that we would go to Dugu's residence. He made the people from the Ye family and Dugu family leave early. He disappeared from Tiandou City overnight. This method is really terrifying."

"Eight members of Xuexing's Shadow Squad were killed silently. According to the information from our spies in Xuexing's palace, they were not killed by Dugu Bo."

"Young Master, Lao Long and I suspect that Lan Chen might be the young man we met in Sunset Forest before. If that's the case, if you fight him, you will definitely die."

Snake Spear and Thorny Pig walked out of a house and told Qian Renxue what they had guessed in their hearts, and also advised their young master not to seek death.

"The two elders are right. I will be careful."

Qian Renxue is still unable to find out Lan Chen’s true identity, but she believes that she will figure it out sooner or later. After all, the Spirit Hall is behind her.

Dugu Bo and the Nine Star Begonia Family disappeared from Tiandou City, and the news was soon known to Emperor Xue Ye’s people, who reported it immediately.

"Your Majesty! I have an urgent matter to report."

An old eunuch came to the outside of Emperor Xue Ye's bedroom in a panic and reported to his master.

Emperor Xue Ye, who was discussing the movement of life with several concubines in his bedroom, was paralyzed by the old eunuch's scream.

"Agui! What's the matter?"

Emperor Xue Ye stood up, asked his concubine to help him put on his clothes, came outside the bedroom, and stared at his servants coldly.

"Your Majesty, yesterday Dugu Bo resigned from his position as a royal servant and also asked his granddaughter and the little girl from the Ye family to drop out of Tiandou Royal Academy. Overnight, the Dugu and Ye families disappeared from Tiandou City."

"What? Why are you reporting this now, for such a big thing?"

"Your Majesty! Prince Xuexing and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince are in charge of this matter. I only found out about it now."

"Humph! What the hell is Xue Xing doing? He can't even keep Dugu Bo? The Nine-Hearted Begonia Spirit Master is very important to our empire, how could he just disappear like that?"

Emperor Xue Ye was having a good time with several concubines when he was interrupted by the old eunuch. He was very angry, but after hearing what the old eunuch said, his anger disappeared immediately and he strode out of the bedroom.

"Ah! Your Majesty's problem of failing at critical moments is getting more and more frequent. He can't even play a game well, and the sisters can't have fun."

After watching Emperor Xue Ye leave, several concubines revealed resentful expressions.

"Isn't it? Sisters, don't worry about His Majesty, let's play the game by ourselves."

The next moment, several concubines smiled, took out various objects, and started playing various games, thinking to themselves, without you, Zhang the butcher, will I still not be able to eat pork?

Emperor Xue Ye returned to the palace and immediately sent someone to summon Prince Xue Xing to find out how his brother had lost such a talented person. Especially Dugu Bo, who was the only Titled Douluo of the Tiandou royal family. The royal family treated him like an ancestor, but now they were not happy with it.

"Brother, what is the matter with calling me here?"

Although Prince Xuexing knew that his brother, the emperor, would ask about what happened yesterday, he still pretended to ask after coming to his brother.

"Royal brother, why did Dugu Bo leave?"

Emperor Xue Ye has not yet been poisoned by Qian Renxue. His thinking is still normal and he has the dignity of an emperor. He has mastered the temperament of Emperor Tian Dou.

"Brother, this is what happened..."

Xue Xing had no choice but to use Dugu Bo's previous rhetoric to deal with her brother, the emperor.

"Humph! This Dugu Bo, our royal family treated him well, but he just left without a care in the world, and even took the Nine Star Begonia Family with him."

"Brother, he is a Titled Douluo. He can come and go as he pleases. We can't stop him! But this matter is related to a boy named Lan Chen. That boy is simply a monster. I think he is no more than 15 years old, but he has already reached level 49 in spirit power. As soon as he came to Tiandou Royal Academy, he beat Xue Beng. He didn't take our imperial family seriously at all."

"How can this be! How dare he hit my son? Who is this kid? How dare he be so bold."

"I don't know. That guy just appeared out of nowhere. I sent people to investigate secretly last night, but didn't see any trace of him. Instead, I lost eight masters, one Soul Saint, three Soul Emperors, and four Soul Kings. My heart is still bleeding."

"What? So many experts from my empire died in a flash. This is outrageous!"

"Brother, calm down. Dugu Bo once warned me that there is a powerful mysterious Title Douluo behind this boy. Once we take action against him, the royal family of the Heaven Dou Empire may no longer exist. At first I thought Dugu Bo was bragging, but I sent someone to test it last night, and the result was this. My men were killed by the person behind this boy, not Dugu Bo. We have to be careful."

"Ah! I am the great Tiandou Empire, but I was slapped in the face by someone in public, and I can't do anything about it."

After Xue Ye listened to his brother's story, he suddenly felt as if he had been slapped in the face, with a burning pain.

Since this was a matter of great importance to the Tiandou Empire, Xue Xing did not hide anything. Internally, everyone could fight, but externally, everyone would unite.

After analyzing the situation, the two brothers decided to wait and see for the time being and not conduct a large-scale investigation. They had to be cautious in the face of an unknown powerful force.

(End of this chapter)