"Prince Jin..."
The Qingyang Sect Leader looked ashen-faced: "Perhaps the reason he dared to kill the Dark Envoy so openly is... he has already obtained the antidote for the Half-Moon Powder!"
"That's impossible!"
No sooner had he finished speaking than the Prince of Jin waved his hand.
"The antidote for this Half-Moon Powder is not even available to you; it's all in my hands! How could he possibly have the antidote?"
After Prince Jin finished refuting him, he suddenly paused, looking at the Qingyang Sect Leader with a vacant expression, and then said, "Wait a minute... Besides having the antidote here, I also gave five antidote pills to your master and the others back then..."
"Prince Jin, my master...is dead!"
Upon hearing this, the Qingyang Sect Leader was as if he had lost his parents.
"What? How is this possible?"
Prince Jin could hardly believe it. The master of the Qingyang Sect Leader was the Tongtian Twin Monsters, the former leaders of the Tongtian Palace, and two of the less than ten grandmasters still in the martial arts world.
Although the Mingji Sect Master of Qingyun Sect and the Pei Mirror Master of Kunlun Mirror are both Grandmasters, they only reached that level in recent years and are far inferior to the Tongtian Twin Monsters.
How could two masters with such seniority and high level of expertise have died?
Therefore, the King of Jin did not believe it.
"Prince Jin, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it either..."
It turns out that although the area beneath Changsheng Mountain is a forbidden zone, it is not so for the Qingyang Sect Leader.
Even though the Tongtian Duo are grandmasters, they still need to eat, drink, and relieve themselves three times a day. The Qingyang Sect Leader regularly delivers their food, since the Tongtian Duo are his masters.
Because of the martial arts tournament, the Qingyang Sect Leader hadn't had time to go down. Only after finishing everything today did he finally take his things down. When he saw the incomplete corpses of the Tongtian Twin Monsters, he was completely stunned.
After he calmed down, he suppressed his fear and searched the bodies of the Tongtian Duo. He then discovered that not only were their Tongtianque martial arts manuals missing, but even the Half-Moon Powder poison was gone!
Only then did he rush over in a panic to tell the Prince of Jin!
After listening, the Prince of Jin stroked his chin and frowned in deep thought.
"You just said that Jing Zhe has obtained the antidote... So you mean that Jing Zhe killed your master and the others?"
The Qingyang Sect Leader nodded and said, "I know what Prince Jin is suspicious of. Even if Jing Zhe is exceptionally talented, he is only at the middle stage of the sixth level, while my master and the others have been at the Grandmaster level for many years. He has no chance of winning. However, I saw the way my master died, and it was exactly the same as the Dark Envoy who was blown up in Jingzhou and Lin Qingshan who was blown up the night before last. That's why I guessed it was him!"
Even so, the Prince of Jin still shook his head.
"You said it yourself, your master and the others have been at the Grandmaster level for many years. Even if he has those explosive hidden weapons, he alone cannot kill both of them!"
"What if my master had been injured before?"
"Were you injured before?"
If the two masters of Tongtian had been injured beforehand, it was indeed possible that Jing Zhe would have used hidden weapons to ambush them. But the key question is, who could have injured these two grandmasters?
So the King of Jin asked the question.
"Before the martial arts tournament, when I went to the forbidden area to deliver food for the last time, my master told me that the old medicine boy who had stolen the Breakthrough Flower before had come back and seemed to want to steal it again... When I went to the forbidden area just now, I took a look and the Breakthrough Flower was indeed gone!"
"You mean, that old medicine boy injured your master while trying to steal the Breakthrough Flower, and then Jing Zhe got the better deal?"
"Perhaps it wasn't that he got lucky, but rather that he and that old medicine boy were originally in cahoots!"
The Qingyang Sect Leader analyzed, "I heard my master say before that the old medicine boy's realm was very high, more powerful than theirs, and outsiders couldn't even tell that he knew martial arts! Isn't that the same as Jing Zhe? Although Jing Zhe has never revealed his master, to be able to teach a disciple like him who is already at the middle stage of the sixth level before he is even twenty, his master must be a Grandmaster-level expert. Connecting the dots, it makes sense!"
Upon hearing this, the Prince of Jin finally nodded.
"That's probably it. Jing Zhe is a smart man. If he didn't have the antidote, he wouldn't have been so bold. After all, he must know the power of the Half-Moon Powder!"
"Prince Jin, he went directly to Liangzhou? He didn't go to Kunlun County with Pei Yunxi?"
"Yes, the people I sent have been following him. They sent a message back by carrier pigeon saying that he and Pei Yunxi parted ways at the crossroads. Pei Yunxi returned to Kunlun County, while he and that simpleton went west."
"Okay, okay, okay!"
The Qingyang Sect Leader said "good" three times in a row, his eyes gleaming with greed. Prince Jin glanced at him and could roughly guess his thoughts. Perhaps, the death of the Tongtian Twin Monsters was a good thing for the Qingyang Sect Leader.
Although the Tongtian Duo were the masters of the Qingyang Sect Leader, they had no intention of passing on the martial arts manual to him, causing the Qingyang Sect Leader's cultivation level to linger at the peak of the sixth level. Even after taking so many medicines, he showed no sign of breaking through.
Now that the Twin Monsters of Tongtian are dead and the martial arts manual has been taken by Jing Zhe, as long as we can control Jing Zhe and retrieve the martial arts manual, will his mastery of the martial arts realm be far away?
However, the King of Jin was also pleased to see this situation.
Even though the two monsters of Tongtian were highly skilled, they were both unruly and difficult for him to use.
Now, he and the Qingyang Sect Leader share the same goal: to control Jing Zhe so that he can control the martial arts world. Meanwhile, the Qingyang Sect Leader will retrieve the martial arts manual and reach the Grandmaster level, which will be of greater help to him. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
At this moment, the Qingyang Sect Leader asked, "Prince Jin, what should we do next? Perhaps I should send a disciple to Liangzhou to look for an opportunity..."
"Find an opportunity?"
The Prince of Jin glanced at him and sneered, "Now, in the entire Tongtian Palace, besides you personally taking action, who else can be a match for Jing Zhe?"
The Qingyang Sect Leader listened in silence.
"Now that he's gone to Liangzhou, we can put our previous plan into action ahead of schedule! He may be highly skilled, but when faced with a massive army, even a grandmaster would be helpless, let alone him!"
The Prince of Jin then changed the subject and asked, "What is the current situation in Liangzhou?"
"As before, the Western Frontier barbarians did not hold out for more than a few days. But this time, the Yueyao Kingdom intervened, which made the Western Frontier barbarians even more afraid to confront the Jinghong Iron Cavalry. All the cavalry retreated to Shilihe, which is ten miles away from the Liangzhou city wall."
"The Moon Yao Kingdom? Heh, a bunch of women soldiers, nothing to fear!"
The Prince of Jin chuckled twice and continued, "Have you prepared all the food and cotton clothing I asked you to?"
"Everything's ready! All the old cotton that wasn't warm enough was sold to the Zhou family in Ruzhou, and the good cotton was made into cotton-padded clothes, which are being stored with the grain!"
"Okay, then the plan can be moved up!"
The Prince of Jin sneered.
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(Wishing everyone a Happy New Year and good health. Well, for Chonglou right now, his family's health is more important than anything else.)
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