After lunch, Chu Zhiyuan decided not to go out in the afternoon and stay in the Prince's Mansion to concentrate on practicing his skills.
It would be good if Cheng Tianfeng lost his confidence; if not, he would strive for another match before he left Yujing to completely crush him.
So he couldn't relax and had to continue his cultivation.
While eating, he kept thinking about the Empress Rou's poisoning.
Using poison in the imperial palace, the person who did it was either very bold, or stupid, or had something to rely on.
The stupid people in the palace had long turned into withered bones.
I'm afraid it's the latter.
So what is he relying on?
Even if it's a favored concubine, the emperor cannot tolerate doing this, it's a taboo thing.
So who could it be?
Besides the favored concubines, who else in the palace has the guts to do this?
It's really puzzling.
He ate his meal absentmindedly, and when he returned to Tingtao Courtyard, Guo Chi and Gao Jiong were already waiting there.
"Your Highness," Guo Chi said with a sullen face, "We found out, it's someone from the Great Zhen delegation!"
"Sent by Cheng Tianfeng?"
"Not Cheng Tianfeng."
"What do they want to do?"
"Just ordered to keep an eye on your whereabouts, Your Highness."
Chu Zhiyuan looked at Gao Jiong.
Gao Jiong nodded: "As expected by Your Highness, there are also people watching outside the Anguo Duke's Mansion, it must have been sent by Great Zhen's Heir Apparent, Cheng Tianfeng."
"He's really unscrupulous," Chu Zhiyuan shook his head.
Guo Chi said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, since he is so reckless, then let's teach him a lesson and let him know that this is Yujing, not Shenjing!"
"That's not appropriate," Gao Jiong said quickly.
Guo Chi widened his leopard eyes: "Lao Gao, what's inappropriate?! Are we just going to let him bully us like this!"
Gao Jiong looked at him helplessly, then looked at Chu Zhiyuan, and cupped his fist: "Your Highness, please think twice."
Chu Zhiyuan's face was as deep as water, and he looked at him quietly.
Gao Jiong said: "Lao Ji is interrogating them, see if he can find out anything else—when I came, Lao Ji specifically told me to remind Your Highness not to be impulsive and not to retaliate rashly."
Guo Chi was dissatisfied and said angrily: "This is Yujing, our territory, why can't we fight back!"
"Precisely because this is Yujing," Gao Jiong sighed: "So we can't hurt him, otherwise, Your Highness will also be unlucky in the future when you go there."
Both sides must protect each other's delegations, especially the royal family members, this is a tacit rule that cannot be broken.
Unless it's a small country that doesn't follow the rules, there's no need to talk about this rule.
Great Jing, Great Zhen, and Great Meng, these super powers, all have to follow this rule, which is both a kind of face and a protection for themselves.
Not to mention that Great Jing and Great Zhen are allies, even if the Great Meng delegation comes, Great Jing must guarantee the safety of the delegation.
"...Then just watch him mess around?" Guo Chi couldn't understand or accept it, and gritted his teeth: "Otherwise, pretend to be someone else—"
"The Great Zhen delegation's defenses are very tight," Gao Jiong shook his head.
"This won't work, that won't work, then what should we do?" Guo Chi said impatiently: "Anyway, we can't be passively beaten!"
It was really that Cheng Tianfeng, this Heir Apparent, was too presumptuous and arrogant, daring to do anything, also an Heir Apparent, and even a Heir Apparent's consort, actually daring to plot like this.
Chu Zhiyuan got up and paced with his hands behind his back.
The anger in his heart was surging, and he felt that Cheng Tianfeng was a madman, and he really wanted to stab him to death with a sword.
But the reality was that he couldn't directly attack.
Both because it was in Yujing, and because there was a Grandmaster protecting him.
All he could do was to repay him in his own way, and even more severely, to beat him until he hurt.
Thinking of this, he stopped and said lightly: "Send these people to Ma Tianhe of the Surveillance Division, let him find out the superiors of these two people, arrest them, and then follow the vine to find more and more!"
"Yes!" Gao Jiong said solemnly: "Your Highness, Lao Ji is also a master of interrogation."
"The information we get is not as valued as the information that the Surveillance Division gets from their own interrogation, and it's not appropriate for us to arrest people."
Qing Wang's Mansion doesn't have the power to arrest Great Zhen's secret agents, not being in that position, not planning that policy, letting the Surveillance Division act is the proper way to do things.
It's both giving credit to the Surveillance Division and earning credit for himself, killing two birds with one stone.
After all, Leng Nanfeng was very generous back then.
"Yes!" Gao Jiong nodded solemnly.
Guo Chi also followed him out angrily.
Chu Zhiyuan watched them leave, his gaze turned to the direction of the Sifang Pavilion, burning and flickering, coldly containing killing intent.
Chu Zhiyuan stood in the center of the courtyard, holding a flying knife in his hand.
As black as ink, it is the Night Knife.
As white as snow, it is the Day Knife.
When the two knives are combined, it is the Hidden Knife.
The three knives each have their own knife techniques, different in nature and different in power.
He held a knife, urged it with the Night Knife technique, and flicked his hand.
A black light flashed and disappeared.
"Bang!" Beside the stone table, a fist-sized strange stone on the artificial hill exploded into fragments, shooting all around.
He frowned and shook his body.
The essence, energy, and spirit of his whole body were instantly emptied, not only was his true energy drained, but his spirit was almost drained, his eyes were dizzy and black, and his body was weak and hungry, as if he had been hungry for three days and stayed up for three nights.
He hurriedly circulated the Earth Origin Art and the Heaven Origin Art at the same time.
A trickle of true energy poured into his dantian, circulating in his body, and the feeling of weakness disappeared.
A cool breath poured into his brow, and his spirit recovered in the blink of an eye, as if he had a good night's sleep and was refreshed.
He stood firm again and looked at the situation opposite him.
This knife was very accurate and very fast.
His figure flashed and disappeared, appearing in front of the artificial hill, and stabbed a piece of bluestone with a sword, "clang" a light whistling sound,
The bluestone exploded.
Qingying Sword returned to its sheath.
Chu Zhiyuan used his super-sense to compare the difference between the two.
In terms of power, the flying knife was actually better, which was really beyond his expectation.
He originally thought that Qingying Sword was sharp, and also had his own strong strength and speed bonus.
Although the flying knife was strong, after being shot so far, the strength and speed would be greatly lost, how could it compare to the Great Avalanche Sword Technique performed by Qingying Sword.
But the fact was very different.
The power of the flying knife was even better than the Great Avalanche Sword Technique, even more than one or two levels.
Was this because the mental method was brilliant?
And the brilliance of this mental method came from the addition of mental power, this little bit of mental power seemed to cause the true energy to mutate.
He then tried again.
This time he used the Sword Washing Technique, and then used the Gang Qi of the Sword Washing Technique to urge the Great Avalanche Sword Technique, and suddenly Qingying Sword shot out sword light.
"!"
The bluestone turned into powder.
This was the domineering power of Gang Qi, which looked ordinary, but contained tyrannical power, similar to explosives.
He thought for a while, then circulated the Sword Washing Technique again, transformed it into Gang Qi, and then used it to urge the Night Knife technique of the Heart Questioning Knife.
"!"
A black light flashed, and the bluestone turned into powder, even further, turning the stones around the bluestone into powder as well.
A hole appeared in the artificial hill, about half an arm deep.
Chu Zhiyuan clicked his tongue.
This power scared him a lot, far beyond imagination.
He suddenly shook, and hurriedly shook his head, his super-sense found that his face was as pale as paper, extremely tired and weak, his true energy had recovered, his spirit had recovered, but he still felt limp and weak, as if he had low blood sugar from being hungry for a long time.
His expression was serious.
Essence, energy, and spirit were all emptied, he had replenished energy and spirit, but essence had not been replenished, this Heart Questioning Knife really could not be used too much.
He endured the weakness and asked Zou Fang to call Mo Yi to go to the kitchen to ask for some meat dishes, no need to heat them up, just bring them over directly, the most important thing was to be fast.
He ate two pounds of beef in one breath, and was already very full, but the fatigue and weakness did not ease.
So he went back to the couch and slept for a while.
He woke up an hour later, still feeling tired.
His super-sense penetrated inside and outside his body, and what was lost was a strange aura, different from true energy, and also different from the light of the spirit.
This strange aura was not replenished after food digestion, nor did it gush out from the stomach.
