Seeing that those savages were trying to seize the Azure Moon Dragon, the prince's side was enraged:
"Damn it, we killed this Azure Moon Dragon, why should we give it to you?"
"If you're so capable, go and make one yourselves!"
"We worked so hard to hunt it down, and you guys just came out and stole our spoils. Have you no shame?"
...
Hearing her subordinates' continuous curses, Bi Linglong's face remained ashen. The question for this major test was to hunt down the Azure Moon Dragon and obtain its tendons as proof. How could she possibly give them to anyone else?
Meng Pan said coldly, "These savages are ignorant of their own limitations. If they don't obey, just kill them."
Zhao Xi clenched his fists so tightly they cracked: "I just fought the ninth-rank Heavenly Azure Moon Flood Dragon, and I'm already seething with anger. It's the perfect opportunity to vent it on these savages."
Zuan approached Bi Linglong and said, "Be careful, something feels off."
"What's wrong?" Bi Linglong asked hurriedly, not daring to ignore any of Zu An's opinions.
Zuan frowned and said, "I can't quite put my finger on it, but I have a feeling that these savages are not simple."
Bi Linglong also fell into deep thought. Over the years, so many students from the academy have explored the secret realm, and no one has ever discovered any wild men. Their appearance is indeed very strange.
However, she didn't doubt it too much. After all, this secret realm was very large, and the academy had not explored it completely. It was not impossible for native savages to appear.
It's important to know that humans don't know much about these secret realms. They only know that these spatial folds that appear out of nowhere are full of mystery and danger, but they don't know how they were formed.
Just then, Liu Xian suddenly took a few steps forward, carefully examined the savage leader standing on the dragon's head, and suddenly burst into laughter: "Isn't this the guard of the Prince Qi's mansion? When did you become a savage?"
Upon hearing this, everyone's expression changed. Bi Linglong suddenly looked at those savages and realized they were actually people from the Qi Prince's Mansion.
The Prince Qi's mansion has gathered top experts from all over the world, and has five great retainers under his command: Lu Xiao, Wei Pingyang, He Li, Mu Ping, and Han Fengqiu, who is familiar to Zu An.
Han Fengqiu ranks fourth among the five great elders, and the weakest of these people are all at the mid-stage of the ninth rank.
Lu Xiao was even at the mid-stage Grandmaster level!
Liu Xian mentioned Wei Gongfeng, who must be Wei Pingyang. He is the second in line and is a Grandmaster at the initial stage!
Zu An was also somewhat alarmed. How could the people from the Prince Qi's mansion have gotten in?
Are the emperor and the prince's faction guarding the entrance to the secret realm blind?
The savage leader's expression changed slightly: "What offerings or anything? I don't know what you're talking about. This dragon corpse is ours, get out of here!"
Liu Xian laughed and said, "Who are you trying to fool? Back when we were strolling around the Heavenly Immortal Pavilion together, the girl I had my eye on, Lianxiang, was snatched away by you because of your high cultivation level. Even if you turned to ashes, I would still recognize you."
Zuan: "..."
This guy is something else entirely; he's a master when it comes to eating, drinking, gambling, and whoring.
At this moment, Bi Linglong's expression changed drastically: "Oh no!"
Just then, the savage leader changed his deliberately awkward tone and resumed his original voice: "I didn't want to reveal my identity and cause a lose-lose situation. Your horned corpse was stolen by the mysterious savages, and you failed this test, but at least you can keep your lives. We don't have to risk being silenced. Isn't it good that everyone is happy? Who knew you, you idiot, would insist on revealing my identity? Well, there's nothing I can do now. You will all die here!"
As soon as he finished speaking, some of his men dressed as savages gradually emerged from the woods. Each of them held a sword or knife in their hand, and their eyes gleamed with sharp light; they were clearly all experts.
Zhao Xi and Meng Pan glared angrily at Liu Xian, realizing they had been ruined by this idiot. They immediately understood that the Prince of Qi clearly didn't want to push things too far; he just wanted to sabotage their mission and didn't want to risk incurring the Emperor's wrath later.
However, since Liu Xian's big mouth exposed their identities, they had no choice but to silence them. Otherwise, with so many eyes watching, they wouldn't be able to hide it from the outside world, and the emperor could then rightfully punish Prince Qi.
You have to understand that Wei Pingyang is a Grandmaster, and the people under his command all seem to be experts just by their aura fluctuations. Even if our side were at its peak, it wouldn't be a match for them. What's more, we just went through a bloody battle with the Liangtian Biyue Jiao and suffered heavy losses. We have no chance of fighting anymore.
Bi Linglong was calmer. She tried to keep her tone even and looked at the man on the dragon's head with haughty pride: "How did you get into the secret realm? The Emperor and my father would never have let you in."
This was also a question on everyone's mind. Zu An thought of the "curse" that the Gu brothers had before they died. At the time, he thought it was their resentment before they died, but now he knew that King Qi really had other plans.
But the key question is, how did these people get in? It doesn't make sense.
Wei Pingyang laughed and said, "That's right. With your people guarding the entrance to the secret realm, we can't get in. But just because we can't get in this time doesn't mean we can't get in at other times."
Bi Linglong was startled and blurted out, "You were from three years ago..."
“Not bad!” Wei Pingyang stroked his beard. “Three years ago, when the academy’s secret realm opened, Prince Qi managed to infiltrate us. Since it didn’t involve the Crown Prince’s exam, the checks weren’t as strict. Do you know how we’ve been living these past years? We’ve been living with wild beasts every day, worse than savages. We were all going crazy. Luckily, thankfully you finally came, hahahaha.”
Zu An was dumbfounded. Prince Qi was truly cunning and shrewd. He had actually set up this scheme three years in advance. Recently, it seemed that Prince Qi's mansion had been suffering setbacks everywhere. Now that he thought about it, perhaps they were deliberately showing weakness in order to get the emperor to agree to this major test.
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