Li Hongzhao's expression changed slightly.
She glared angrily at Chu Zhiyuan.
Chu Zhiyuan said inexplicably, "What do you mean by this? Are you blaming me?"
"Chu Zhiyuan, it must be your doing!"
Chu Zhiyuan chuckled and said, "Your Highness, I would like to stir up trouble, but how could I? I was just exchanging blows with you."
"In short, it must be you!" Li Hongzhao bit her pearly white teeth and snorted, "Treacherous and cunning!"
Chu Zhiyuan blocked Xu Jingren, who was covering his face, and smiled, "Now I want to ask, who is treacherous and cunning? ... The prince is definitely not the real prince. Where is the real prince?"
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He raised his voice and shouted, "Guards!"
"Here!" Gao Lingfeng's voice came from afar.
Chu Zhiyuan said, "Let the experts from the Zhenwu Division come over and take a good look at the situation here!"
"Yes!" Gao Lingfeng's voice quickly faded away.
Li Hongzhao bit her red lips, with a strong urge to have someone stop Gao Lingfeng.
But seeing Chu Zhiyuan staring at her with a smile that was not a smile, she knew it was useless to ask someone to stop him.
This was Yujing, not Tianjing.
Chu Zhiyuan sized up Xu Jingren and smiled, "Greetings, expert from the Wuxiang Sect."
Li Hongzhao said, "Chu Zhiyuan, are you proud now?"
Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "It's just a small matter, what's there to be proud of? ... I just didn't expect to see this expert's true face so easily. May I ask for your honorable name?"
"You're getting ahead of yourself!" Li Hongzhao snorted, "You lost the Twelfth Prince. How can Da Lie let this matter rest?"
"Your Highness, now that things have come to this, are you still going to deny it to the end?" Chu Zhiyuan said, "It's better to admit defeat when you've lost, isn't it?"
"Who said we've lost? The confrontation has just begun!" Li Hongzhao pouted her red lips and said, "How are you going to explain this to the Da Lie Dynasty? Their prince came to Da Jing, and the Da Jing Dynasty lost him. Aren't you harming him to death?"
Chu Zhiyuan said, "Then we can only find a way from this Wuxiang Sect expert, and ask where the real prince is hidden."
"Ridiculous!" Li Hongzhao became even more smug, "Do you think you can get anything out of him? Does he even know? Moreover, how do you know he's from the Wuxiang Sect?"
The Supervisory Division's surveillance of Da Meng was extremely strict. As Da Meng's top sect, the Wuxiang Sect was naturally thoroughly investigated.
This included how many disciples the Wuxiang Sect had, their respective names, and even portraits of their appearances.
There were portraits of outstanding congenital disciples, as well as portraits of grandmasters and great grandmasters.
Among them was the middle-aged man in front of him.
Sun Jiuwei, forty-five years old, fifth level grandmaster, with extremely profound mastery of the Great Formless Art.
He was virtually flawless and had a great reputation.
Li Hongzhao's expression changed slightly upon hearing this name. Chu Zhiyuan actually knew!
Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Your Highness is involved in espionage, so you should know that it's not difficult for me to know this name, right?"
Li Hongzhao snorted, "What other tricks do you have up your sleeve?"
Chu Zhiyuan said, "Mr. Sun, where have you hidden the Twelfth Prince? Is it in Da Lie?"
"Hmm, if it's not in Da Lie, then it's in Da Jing. Is it in Da Jing's Eastern Border or near Yujing City?" Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Disguising yourself as Xu Jingren consumes a lot of energy and cultivation, so it won't be too far. It should be near Yujing. Is it in Taizhou? ... Hmm, it's in Taizhou."
"Chu Zhiyuan, how did you do it? How did you injure him?"
Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "To be able to injure a grandmaster silently, isn't that a great grandmaster?"
"Stop talking nonsense, it was you!" Li Hongzhao had a strong premonition that it was Chu Zhiyuan who did it.
Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Did Your Highness witness it firsthand?"
Li Hongzhao snorted and raised her voice, "Mr. Su."
Su Qiuyan's voice echoed from afar, as if floating from the horizon, "The Heir has a miraculous skill, a formless Gang energy that injures people invisibly, extremely concealed."
Li Hongzhao immediately glared at Chu Zhiyuan.
Chu Zhiyuan cupped his fist towards the west, "Mr. Su, isn't this against the rules?"
Su Qiuyan chuckled and said no more.
Chu Zhiyuan said to Li Hongzhao, "You can't seek help from a great grandmaster unless it involves life and death. These are the rules."
Li Hongzhao pouted her red lips, completely ignoring this, and said directly, "What are you practicing?"
She secretly tried to expel the foreign force in her chest, and found it extremely difficult.
As expected of an eighth-level master, her Phoenix Cry to the Ninth Heaven Art was miraculous, but her realm was still too far behind.
She could only ask Mr. Su for help!
Xu Jingren, who was covering his chest, also glared over.
Chu Zhiyuan said, "There are too many places suitable for hiding people in Taizhou City, and you have many secret agents in Taizhou City, so it's really hard to find."
Li Hongzhao snorted, "Are you playing tricks? What can't you say that you're hiding?"
Chu Zhiyuan said, "It was Your Highness who played tricks first. ... Taizhou City West? Because the Twelfth Prince must have entered the city with great fanfare, attracting too much attention and being extremely vigilant. ... Entering from the east and leaving from the west, they will relax their vigilance when they are about to leave."
Li Hongzhao turned around and stood in front of Sun Jiuwei, blocking Chu Zhiyuan's gaze.
This was to prevent Chu Zhiyuan from further seeing through Sun Jiuwei's disguise, thereby avoiding revealing more information.
Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "In fact, Your Highness, your best way is to directly kill him with a sword, so as not to reveal the whereabouts of the Twelfth Prince."
"Ridiculous!" Li Hongzhao snorted, "You can do such a thing, but I can't!"
Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "There are not many streets in the west of Taizhou City. Let's count them: Xingfu Street, Yongfu Street, Changfu Street, Zhenfu Street... Hmm, it's on Yongfu Street."
Li Hongzhao turned her head to look at Sun Jiuwei.
Sun Jiuwei was already covering his face, so outsiders could not see his appearance.
Li Hongzhao glared at Chu Zhiyuan with a ghostly expression.
Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Yongfu Street head, street center, street tail... street center... Thank you, Mr. Sun."
Sun Jiuwei hissed, "Your Highness, kill me!"
Li Hongzhao said unhappily, "What's the point of killing you now? I would have killed you long ago!"
Sun Jiuwei gritted his teeth and glared fiercely at Chu Zhiyuan, "It's useless, he's no longer there!"
Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Whether he's there or not, Mr. Sun, you don't know, do you? Zou Fang."
Li Hongzhao smiled and said, "I will send a message immediately to have them transfer him."
Chu Zhiyuan said, "Then it depends on whether Your Highness's message is faster, or ours."
He sighed, "Your Highness, this move is actually quite brilliant, but it's a pity you met me."
"You meddle in too many things!" Li Hongzhao snorted, "Be careful not to live long!"
Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "I meddle in more things than Your Highness, so let's see our respective skills."
He waved his hand, turned around, and left.
Zou Fang followed closely behind.
Watching Chu Zhiyuan's back disappear, Li Hongzhao turned her head to look over.
Sun Jiuwei lowered his head, "I am incompetent."
Li Hongzhao said, "What exactly happened?"
Sun Jiuwei gritted his teeth, "I was struck through my dantian by an invisible force, destroying my cultivation."
"How is that possible? His flying knife?" Li Hongzhao asked quickly.
Sun Jiuwei shook his head, "Your Highness, it shouldn't be a flying knife!"
"Then what is it?"
"It might be a finger force or something, an invisible thing."
"...This guy is too sinister!" Li Hongzhao snorted, "Gang energy couldn't protect you?"
"Xu Jingren only has congenital cultivation, so I had to withdraw my body-protecting Gang energy and dare not release it."
Li Hongzhao bit her red lips and said hatefully, "He took advantage of the loophole!"
"Your Highness, be careful of him, this move is too insidious, it's hard to guard against!"
"I have Gang energy protecting my body, he can't do anything to me!"
"The Gang energy in this subordinate's dantian couldn't stop it."
"That's because your realm is not as good as his. An eighth-level master, shamelessly attacking, how could you stop him?"
"That Xu Jingren's position..."
"There's no need to worry, Da Jing's transmission speed is far inferior to ours."
"Yes."
