"Your Majesty, look at this."
As she spoke, the Empress Dowager handed a piece of paper, which also had a hole in the middle, to Shang Xiche.
Shang Xiche took the paper and saw that it read: "Xidan is stirring and will soon launch a strong attack on Dazhao. Your Majesty must strengthen the border defenses."
"Where did this come from?" Shang Xiche exclaimed in shock.
The Empress Dowager pointed to the thick stack of papers beside Shang Xiche and said, "They are the same as the Emperor's, pierced by arrows and shot into my bedchamber. It seems that the same group of people were the ones who alerted the Emperor and me tonight."
"I roughly know who sent these things," Shang Xiche said with lingering fear.
The Empress Dowager asked with a questioning look: "Does the Emperor suspect the Crown Prince?"
Hearing this, the Ninth Prince's secret guards, who had been lying in wait in the palace to find out what was going on, couldn't help but roll their eyes in unison: If your Crown Prince had this kind of intelligence, he would have already thrown you two into the imperial mausoleum and put you in a coffin!
Not long after.
Shang Xiye and Ji Fengyao were also urgently summoned by Wu Zhong and went to the dark room of the Ink Studio.
In the dark room, two more palace guards who had just been killed were carried back.
“Your Highness, we have examined them carefully and found no internal or external injuries. Their expressions are also very calm, as if they have fallen asleep,” Wu Zhong said, pointing at the two corpses in disbelief.
Shang Xiye personally examined the two corpses again, and just as Wu Zhong had said, he found no internal or external injuries.
While Shang Xiye was examining the body, Ji Fengyao also took a walk around with him.
After Shang Xiye withdrew in confusion, she covered the head of one of the corpses with a handkerchief, placed two fingers of her right hand on the center of its forehead, and sent a wisp of divine thought into the mind of the guard.
The guard's skull was undamaged, but his brain was a complete mess, severely damaged.
Clearly, this is not something an ordinary person can do.
The fact that the bodyguard didn't even show the slightest pain or surprise indicates that they didn't realize the killer was already close when they died.
"Yaoyao, have you figured it out?" Shang Xiye cast a trusting look at the little bandit.
Ji Fengyao did not answer immediately. Instead, she examined another corpse in the same way before saying in a deep voice, "The person who killed them must have had a cultivation level of at least the sixth rank."
"Your Highness, are you referring to... cultivators?" Wu Zhong asked, somewhat surprised.
Although he had heard Ji Fengyao mention it before, he was still quite surprised and somewhat uneasy to confirm that there were indeed those powerful people around them and that they had already fought against them.
Ji Fengyao nodded and said, "Why are you so surprised? Cultivators are nothing special. They are just people. Including yourself, you can be called a cultivator now, but your cultivation level is not high yet, only at the third level of the Spirit Gathering Realm."
"Your subordinate... will try his best," Wu Zhong said, scratching his head sheepishly.
“When the secret guards were killed last time, Wu Zhong and I speculated that the person lurking in the palace was very likely someone we knew.” Seeing that Ji Fengyao was not afraid and did not show any fear in these matters, Shang Xiye simply told her everything he knew.
The young female bandit knew more about these things than they did;
Tell her, and perhaps it will help them find out who is hiding in the shadows.
“I think your guess makes a lot of sense. As the saying goes, ‘The most dangerous place is the safest place.’ But if it’s someone you know, who could it be?” Ji Fengyao pondered deeply and began to analyze the situation carefully.
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