Chapter 447 Insight

Tiandou City.

Inside the Tiandou Imperial Palace.

"Your Highness the Crown Princess..." The guards in the palace respectfully saluted Lu Qingqing as she approached.

Lu Qingqing has been bringing various supplements to the prince's palace every day for more than ten days. In their eyes, there is no doubt that Lu Qingqing is deliberately caring about His Highness and cultivating a relationship with His Highness.

They have become accustomed to Lu Qingqing's daily arrival, and at the same time they are envious of "Xue Qinghe" for having such a beautiful, virtuous and rich background spouse.

Even though "Xue Qinghe" is the crown prince of the Tiandou Empire, in the eyes of these imperial guards and attendants, Lu Qingqing can be chosen for her appearance, talent, personality, and family background (Lu Yuan, Qibao Glazed Sect) ) is an impeccable fiancée, even as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, she is definitely extremely lucky.

After all, the royal family of the Tiandou Empire does not reach the level of supremacy that is second to none in the Tiandou Empire.

It can even be said that because the Tiandou Empire's royal family lacks its own strength, it can only rely on the major forces in the empire to maintain its rule, and does not have the supreme demeanor of the other royal families.

Like other members of the Star Luo Empire royal family, not counting the descendant Zhu family, the Star Luo Empire royal family, the Dai family, are all powerful soul master families, and the Star Luo Emperor is at least a Soul Douluo-level powerhouse.

The Tiandou royal family itself does not have any strong members of its own family. In the original plot, no Soul Douluo from the Xue family appeared. When Lu Yuan came to this world and had personal contact, he discovered that the Xue family of the Tiandou royal family did not even have a single Soul Douluo. There are no saints or strong men.

In this fantasy world where strength is respected, if you don't have strength, you can only rely on other people's royal families. Naturally, your identity and status will not be much higher.

Therefore, the spouses of the royal families in the past dynasties were not as perfect as imagined, either because of the marriage of aristocratic families who attracted helpers, or they were just a vase.

And Lu Qingqing, a nearly perfect princess in all aspects, is definitely the most perfect princess in the Tiandou royal family in the past three hundred years... no, at least in the past thousand years - after all, Lu Qingqing, the fifteen-year-old soul king, Talent is also rare.

If it weren't for the fact that Lu Qingqing's older brother, Grand Duke Tianying, was even more powerful and had achieved Soul Emperor cultivation at the age of fourteen, then her talent would have been unparalleled.

"No courtesy." Lu Qingqing smiled slightly. She had recently become accustomed to pretending to be a virtuous and intelligent person. Her every move and smile was both graceful and refreshing.

She feels that she is worthy of being her brother Lu Yuan's biological sister. Like her brother, her acting skills are innate.

"Is His Royal Highness still busy with political affairs in the palace?" she asked with a smile as she walked in with the supplements.

"Yes..." Qian Renxue, the captain of the Royal Guards, showed a flattering smile and said, "After all, there have been many affairs in the empire recently. His Highness has been sleeping very hard and forgetting to eat and sleep for the past ten days... and he seems to be in a bad mood. Okay, they kicked us out and several of our ministers, and now His Highness is the only one inside."

"His Highness has indeed been working too hard recently..." Lu Qingqing said, "Let me go in and persuade His Highness. Although the political affairs of the empire are very important, what should he do if he is exhausted..."

The captain of the Imperial Guard smiled and said, "It's great to have the Crown Princess here. Her Royal Highness will definitely listen to you."

Lu Qingqing smiled slightly, stopped talking, came to the prince's palace, and slowly opened the palace door.

After more than ten days, Qian Renxue was indeed a little too hard.

In the past ten days, she not only dealt with the aftermath of the Tiandou Empire's last battle with the soul beasts, pensions, urban repairs, and financial expenditure issues, but she also single-handedly handled all the major issues under the rule of the Tiandou Empire. The kingdom and principality armies dispatched orders, and at the same time, they also mobilized food, baggage and supplies for the coming war from the major provinces.

In addition, there are some more miscellaneous matters, such as the rectification of taxation in a province directly under the empire, disaster relief after the beast tide, the allocation of funds for the reconstruction of the soul hunting forest, and the smuggling problem at the border of the empire.

These are all matters that Qian Renxue has dealt with personally in just a few days.

Lu Qingqing has been keeping an eye on Qian Renxue's work these days, and even she, who already knows Qian Renxue's true identity, has to marvel at Qian Renxue's ability to deal with political affairs in the Tiandou Empire after more than ten days. proficiency and ability.

She knew very well that this was something she could not do. Perhaps even her brother, who was almost omnipotent in her heart, might not be able to do this better than Qian Renxue.

In addition to Qian Renxue's own intelligence, this was also due to the fact that in the past ten years, because of Emperor Xue Ye's poor health, she had often asked her, the crown prince, to approve the empire's important affairs.

Over the past decade or so, many political events have allowed Qian Renxue to develop strong governance abilities. Therefore, if Qian Renxue is really His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Tiandou Empire, "Xue Qinghe", then it will be an absolute good thing for the Tiandou Empire.

But it's a pity...

she is not.

Lu Qingqing walked straight into the prince's palace, only to find that Qian Renxue was not sitting at the desk dealing with political affairs as before.

On the exquisite desk carved from white wood, the piles of political documents were still rising like a small hill as usual.

But at this moment, Qian Renxue was not sitting at the desk as usual, but...

Standing in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window behind the desk, it seemed that she didn't even notice Lu Qingqing's arrival.

Instead, he was reading with his back on his back and seemed to be holding something in his hand, and it seemed that the atmosphere was not quite right at the moment...

Lu Qingqing curiously tried to shout, "...Your Highness?"

Qian Renxue seemed to be aware of Lu Qingqing's arrival and was startled.

Then she turned around and saw Lu Qingqing arriving. She quickly changed the expression on her face and put on her usual smile that made people feel refreshed. She looked at Lu Qingqing and said, "Qingqing, you're here again..."

Then, Qian Renxue walked quickly towards Lu Qingqing, as if there was nothing unusual about her.

However, Lu Qingqing's sharp eyes saw her flipping her wrist without leaving any trace, hiding the letter in her hand behind her back, and then sandwiching the letter among the political documents on the desk on the way over.

Lu Qingqing did not deliberately use her eyes to trace the traces of the letter in Qian Renxue's hand, but she accurately saw the traces of the letter in the corner of her eye.

She even pretended not to know, stepped forward and smiled gently at Qian Renxue, pretending to be concerned and said, "Your Highness... Although the political affairs of the empire are very important, you can't do it if you are exhausted... You have to rely on yourself. Do you know that your body is the most important thing?”

Qian Renxue has heard many words of tenderness and concern.

But when she heard Lu Qingqing's words of concern for her, she still couldn't help but feel warm in her heart.

but……

She still felt a little regretful, if only Lu Yuan had said these words to her.

When she thought of Lu Yuan, she thought of the letter sent from Wuhun City just now.

The woman over at Wuhun City asked her to carry out the soul hunting operation no matter what. In fact, if she followed the soul hunting operation plan planned a long time ago, it would only be to destroy the two major sects.

She didn't care much. She didn't care whether the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect and the Blue Lightning Overlord Sect were destroyed or not.

But in this soul hunting operation, in addition to destroying the two major sects, the second primary goal is to kill Lu Yuan.

This was unacceptable to her.

So she couldn't let the soul hunting operation be carried out so easily.

even if……

Qian Renxue would not hesitate to disobey that woman's order.

Seeing Qian Renxue in a daze, Lu Qingqing stepped forward without leaving a trace, grabbed her shoulders, and switched their positions.

Qian Renxue came to her senses.

Then Lu Qingqing pretended to still be concerned and said with pity, "Your Highness, you have lost weight, so you should take a rest first. I stewed snow clam and deer antler soup today, which can replenish blood and calm the mind."

Qian Renxue smiled slightly, "Qingqing, you are serious..."

Then Lu Qingqing left the desk behind her, came to the bamboo basket, and took out the stewed tonic.

Qian Renxue didn't notice that the letter from Wuhun City that she had tucked into the political documents on her desk just now quietly disappeared.

Lu Qingqing suddenly blushed again at this moment. She whispered to Qian Renxue, "Your Highness... I'm sorry, Qingqing has to leave for a moment..."

Qian Renxue was stunned for a moment when she saw Lu Qingqing's embarrassed look, and then she understood what Lu Qingqing meant.

She asked with concern, "Have you had a bad stomach lately..."

"That may be the case... Recently, in order to stew some medicinal soup for His Highness to replenish the body, I learned some pharmacology from Senior Poison Douluo and tried some medicinal soup recipes..." Lu Qingqing said embarrassingly.

Qian Renxue smiled helplessly, "Qingqing, just go ahead. You don't have to be so polite to me."

"Thank you, Your Highness." Lu Qingqing bowed slightly and left quickly.

She kept holding her stomach and walked out as if she had gastrointestinal discomfort.

Then when Lu Qingqing came to a corner, she suddenly seemed fine and calmly took out the letter that had been hidden behind her back.

She flipped through the contents carefully, and then her expression changed.

But soon, Lu Qingqing took the letter back into her hand, waited for a short while, and then went back.

Returning to the palace, looking at Qian Renxue who was drinking the medicinal soup without any movement, she smiled slightly and put the letter back to the place where Qian Renxue had just placed it without leaving a trace.

…

At the same time, the Star Luo Empire conquered Beiguan.

After another great defeat, the Star Luo Empire military was in a state of despair. Although the number of soldiers killed this time was far less than the first time, more than 70,000 soldiers were sacrificed.

In addition to the nearly 50,000 Baxia troops who were directly killed by Lu Yuan's Xinghuang Shatter this time, they originally sent 20,000 vanguard soldiers to die in the failed plan to feign attack on Zhennanguan.

The original plan was to keep the lives of the 20,000 soldiers in Zhennan Pass. The Yu clan and the Po clan behind the army pretended to rebel, and Dai Qingxiao pretended to be injured. In this way, Lu Yuan would inevitably be unable to restrain himself. Stay and lead the troops directly to attack.

When the time comes and cooperates with the Xingluo army, which has already prepared for an ambush, Lu Yuan and the chasing army will be completely wiped out!

Without Lu Yuan and part of the main army, Zhennanguan will be attacked sooner or later.

But he never expected that Lu Yuan would not be fooled at all...

He even launched the terrifying 100,000-year-old soul skill again on Zhennanguan later, severely damaging Ba Xia's army and directly annihilating an army of 50,000!

At the same time, although the number of deaths this time was not large, the range of Lu Yuan's soul skill this time was expanded nearly ten times due to the effect of the Death Star's true form, so there were actually more injured soldiers than the first time!

A full 200,000 troops were injured, and 90,000 seriously injured soldiers!

Dai Qingxiao and Zhu Lanxi were sitting in the first place, and they were already fine at this moment.

In fact, although Lu Yuan disintegrated their Netherworld White Tiger, he did not continue to attack Dai Qingxiao and Zhu Lanxi because he was blocked by the generals of the Star Luo Empire.

Therefore, Dai Qingxiao and Zhu Lanxi's injuries were only minor injuries caused by disintegration and backlash.

In front of them, the Deathblade General Wang Qianren, the current patriarch of the Yu clan and the current clan leader of the Broken clan all knelt on the ground.

After the deaths of Yang Wudi and Niu Gao, the strongest members of the Yu and Po clans took over the positions of clan leaders.

Wang Qianren was okay, but the chiefs of the Yu clan and the Po clan were sweating with cold sweat at the moment and did not dare to look at Dai Qingxiao and Zhu Lanxi.

Zhu Lanxi was the first to attack and snorted coldly, "General Wang! Your plan is not very effective! His Majesty was even injured because of your plan. What crime do you deserve!"

Wang Qianren immediately replied, "I know the crime!"

Dai Qingxiao shook his head at this time and reached out to stop Zhu Lanxi, "We are still in the middle of a war, so it is not appropriate to judge based on merit."

Zhu Lanxi frowned and then stopped talking.

He looked at Wang Qianren, the current patriarch of the Yu clan and the current clan leader of the Po clan, and said calmly, "The war has not yet been decided, and everything has not been finalized. I allow you to take the blame and make meritorious services, and then we will all settle the matter together."

"I hope you won't let me down."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Suddenly, Wang Qianren, the current patriarch of the Yu clan and the current clan leader of the Po clan all said in unison.

"Mainly, I didn't expect... that Lu Yuan could be so calm." Dai Qingxiao said with a frown.

But at this moment, Wang Qianren said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, I think there is something fishy about this matter..."

"Oh?" Dai Qingxiao looked at him, "General Wang, what do you think?"

At this moment, the silent Lion General Renn also frowned and said, "Actually, I also feel that something is not quite right at Zhennan Pass..."

"Tell me, what do you two feel?" Dai Qingxiao shouted.

Wang Qianren and Renn looked at each other, and then Renn said, "I always feel that there are not as many as 700,000 defenders in Zhennan Pass..."

"Maybe there aren't even three or four hundred thousand defenders."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Qianren said, "Zhennanguan is equivalent to our country's Yubeiguan structure, and even wider than our Yubeiguan structure. The walls of Yubeiguan can accommodate 800,000 troops. Zhennanguan should also be like this when fighting."

"But we saw from a distance during the battle a few days ago that the defenders of Zhennan Pass and the 20,000 troops of our Star Luo Empire were fighting on it. They couldn't densely cover the city wall."

"At the same time...if there are 700,000 defenders at Zhennanguan, it stands to reason that it is far impossible for all 20,000 troops to go up within a few sticks of incense..."

Dai Qingxiao understood immediately, then he glared angrily and roared, "Little Lu Yuan! How dare you deceive me!"