#1041 - The dream is completely shattered

Jun Wuxie's expression was solemn.

If his suspicions about an organization like Fallen Red Dust were true, it wouldn't be a good thing.

With their energy spanning the starry sky, how many people could escape their eyes?

"I wonder if I've been targeted. It seems I have to be careful."

He thought of what Mu Ciyin had said, but perhaps there were no informants or intelligence agencies of theirs in this Azure Province.

After all, this place was too small and too remote.

"Based on the information currently available, those women on the Starry Sky Beauty List only encountered misfortune when their cultivation reached the Holy Ancestor Realm. Aunt Jing didn't encounter those people because her realm wasn't high enough, so those people didn't take action?"

Jun Wuxie's mood grew heavier and heavier.

If his guess was correct, then when Aunt Jing recovered her realm and broke through to the Holy Ancestor Realm in the future, she would encounter terrible danger.

Such danger would not be easy to deal with.

If his strength was not enough, it would be difficult to protect Aunt Jing at that time, even if he called Mu Ciyin, it might not work.

Because that mysterious and unknown force was planning to capture Mu Ciyin in the first place. If he really called her at that time, it might fall into their trap and put Mu Ciyin in danger!

"The road in this Upper Realm will be more difficult than in the Lower Realm..."

Jun Wuxie muttered to himself, but no matter how difficult it was, no matter how many thorns there were, he could only cut through them all the way, there was no other choice.

He returned to his bedroom and began to adjust his breathing to recover the drop of life blood essence he had lost while helping Jing Ya heal her injuries earlier.

......

At the same time, Qianlong City, Ning Royal Mansion.

This mansion was very large and magnificent, very imposing, not much different from the imperial palace.

In the council hall of the Ning Royal Mansion, King Ning, dressed in a python robe, sat high on the throne, dignified, with deep eyes, listening to the general in armor reporting the situation below.

"Why is the war on the border so urgent?" King Ning's face sank slightly as he listened. "There are three million border troops there! Could it be that the Wu'an Dynasty has mobilized tens of millions of troops to attack? Even so, the battle area outside the border city is limited, not enough to support tens of millions of troops to launch an attack at the same time!"

"Reporting to King Ning, the Wu'an Dynasty has indeed mobilized nearly ten million troops this time, but this is not the reason why the border city is in danger. The real reason is that we do have three million soldiers there, but there are only hundreds of thousands of defending troops within the border city, and the troops behind cannot go to the border city for support in a short time!"

"What's going on?"

King Ning's face was ugly. He came to the center of the hall. There was a war sand table here. He examined the battle area and said, "The distance is only thousands of miles, why can't they rush to help?"

"Because the Emperor's troops, they marched from the two cities behind the border city, cut off the support route of the border troops, and turned the entire border city into an isolated city!"

The general said that he had received the news that his father had been in seclusion some time ago and handed over all the affairs of the court to the Crown Prince.

"Bastard!" King Ning's eyes flickered coldly, and he said in a cold voice: "Father is in seclusion, and he actually handed over all the affairs of the court to the Crown Prince? This behavior must be the Crown Prince's doing! His news is very well-informed, and he actually knew in advance that the Wu'an Dynasty was going to attack the border city, so he made arrangements in advance."

King Ning was very annoyed. The Crown Prince's deployment was not to resist foreign enemies, but to attack his border troops, trying to make all his border elites die in the city!

In his opinion, this was quite stupid, and in this situation, there was still infighting.

This great country, internal struggles are fine, but when facing foreign enemies, doing so is stupid.

The principle of lips and teeth being interdependent, the Crown Prince does not understand, but in order to target him, he does not hesitate to help foreign enemies!

Does such a person still want to ascend the throne and become emperor?

"You take this king's tiger talisman and immediately go to the Xiaoqi Camp, mobilize 800,000 Xiaoqi soldiers, and rush to the border city at full speed, and forcibly break through the blocking army for this king!"

King Ning threw the tiger talisman to the general, and then said to several Heavenly Rank experts in the hall: "From Heaven Seven to Heaven Sixteen, you go to the border city with him, find a chance to capture the commander of the blocking army!"

"Yes, your subordinates obey!"

The general and ten Heavenly Rank experts left in a hurry.

"You all step back."

King Ning waved his hand, his divine sense sensed his daughter's aura, and she was coming here.

Not long after, Princess Anning brought Fan Xichong to the hall.

King Ning, who originally had a loving smile on his face, had all his black hair stand on end the moment he saw Princess Anning's missing left arm, and a terrifying hostility suddenly erupted from his body.

"Ning'er, your arm..."

King Ning rushed up, his eyes instantly red, and his body was shaking.

"What's going on?" He stared at Fan Xichong fiercely, his voice so cold that people trembled all over. "Fan Xichong, how did you protect Ning'er! Someone, drag him out and behead him!"

"This subordinate failed to protect the princess, and deserves to die!"

Fan Xichong, who was pale and looked very weak, knelt on the ground, motionless.

"Father, don't!" Princess Anning grabbed King Ning, waved her hand to the two people who came up to drag Fan Xichong away, and signaled them to step back. "This matter cannot be blamed on Fan Xichong. It was my daughter who was careless, and he almost lost his life to protect my daughter."

King Ning took a deep breath and said: "For the sake of Ning'er pleading for you, this king will spare your life for the time being!"

"Ning'er, what exactly is going on? How did you lose your arm? Who did it? Father will tear him into pieces and kill his thirteen clans!"

There were some tears in King Ning's eyes. He reached out to touch Anning's broken arm, but he was afraid that her wound had not completely healed and would hurt her.

"Father, your daughter is fine. That person has been killed by Fan Xichong and his body has been destroyed. He is from Hanzhou, and his identity is unknown. He saw my daughter's beauty on the road and had evil intentions, which led to the conflict."

"Hanzhou!"

King Ning's face was extremely gloomy. If he was from Hanzhou, his identity would indeed be difficult to investigate, and it was possible to find someone who could not be offended, which would lead to the exposure of the matter and be counterproductive.

"Ning'er, your hand..."

King Ning felt heartache.

"Your daughter is fine, one hand will be enough to live in the future."

"How can that be? How can this king's daughter suffer such grievances?" King Ning thought for a while and said: "By the way, there are rare holy medicines in Hanzhou that can repair broken limbs! Father will let people withdraw 20 billion Dan cards and let a few Heavenly Rank experts accompany you to Hanzhou to buy holy medicines!"

He originally didn't want his daughter to go to Hanzhou, it was very dangerous there, and it was easy to encounter people who couldn't be offended.

However, it is not yet known whether the holy medicine is effective, and the daughter must go to try the medicine.

"Father, you are using so much money, daughter..."

"Ning'er, don't say anything, as long as you can regenerate your broken arm, Father is willing to pay any price!"

King Ning felt very uncomfortable and guilty. If his daughter hadn't been helping him, how could she have been running around all these years, and she wouldn't have encountered all this.

"Father, your daughter has something to tell you, it's about Qingyun."

King Ning heard this and said: "Father already knows about Qingyun. That young man named Yue Wuxie is no small matter, he climbed to the top floor of the Trial Tower and got the Trial Tower to take the initiative to recognize him as its master. When he arrived in the imperial city, he made such a commotion in the Royal Academy, and he was able to retreat completely!"

"Yes, that young man is not simple, his talent growth intensity is extremely high, and he has reached the realm of ancient legends. Although he is a body cultivator, he is different from other body cultivators. His realm breakthrough speed is not slow, and it is much faster than ordinary true qi practitioners. Your daughter has already met him alone, and has also persuaded him to help your daughter, and he also promised that he would persuade Qingyun to help us appease public opinion when we need it in the future."

"Oh?" There was a hint of doubt in King Ning's eyes, "A person with such high talent, and based on his behavior outside the Trial Tower, and his behavior in the Royal Academy, this person's arrogance far exceeds Qin Yi's, and he is a tough bone to chew on, how could he so easily agree to submit to us?"

Princess Anning said: "Father is still amazing, even in the mansion, he has seen through Yue Wuxie's temperament. He is indeed unruly and arrogant. Such a person is unyielding, so he only agreed to help my daughter temporarily, but did not agree to submit to our Ning Royal Mansion. Your daughter doesn't want to push him too hard, otherwise it may be counterproductive."

"Ning'er, do you want to slowly subdue him?" King Ning shook his head and said: "This person is not Qin Yi, and it is not easy, or even hopeless, to subdue him. He is agreeing to you now, but it is only to change Qingyun's situation, and wants to use the power of my Ning Royal Mansion to restrain Father. This is a double-edged sword, no matter how you use it, it will hurt yourself. In Father's opinion, Ning'er, you should find a time to let him come to the royal mansion, and Father will give him the Three Corpse Soul Devouring Pill, only absolute control is the most secure."

"Father, your daughter doesn't want to do this, your daughter just wants to subdue him with her own ability, can you give your daughter some time?"

Seeing that King Ning wanted to refuse, Princess Anning couldn't help but hug his arm with her only arm and shook it left and right, acting coquettishly: "Father, look at your daughter like this, you won't even agree to this request, you..."

"Okay, okay, Father agrees to you, Father agrees to you."

King Ning looked at his daughter's missing arm, feeling extremely guilty, and listening to her coquettish tone, he couldn't help but think of her childhood appearance.

At that time, he vowed that he would make his daughter happy and carefree for the rest of his life, but now his daughter has lost her arm, and he feels even more sad.

"I knew Father loved your daughter the most ~"

Princess Anning rested her head on King Ning's shoulder.

"Okay, you're so old, it's not proper."

King Ning patted her, and then walked to the seat and sat down.

"Father, I heard that something happened in the border city?"

Princess Anning had already heard the news of the border war when she came.

Over the years, there have been constant skirmishes with the Wu'an Dynasty at the border, but they were only conflicts involving thousands of people.

However, this time, it has actually escalated into a war involving hundreds of thousands of troops.

Ning Wang's expression was solemn, and he said, "An ancient tomb is about to be unearthed near the border city. It should be left behind by a powerhouse who walked out of Qingzhou in ancient times and reached the Overlord Saint Realm or higher upon returning. To compete for the treasures in the tomb, the Wu'an Dynasty launched a war, intending to break through the border city and control that area."

"We have three hundred border guards in the border city, including hundreds of thousands of elites. How can they break through the border city?"

"Normally speaking, it would indeed be difficult for them to break through the border city, but your imperial uncle, the Crown Prince, wants to use a scheme of 'borrowing a knife to kill someone', sending a large army to quickly cut off our border city's reinforcements, leaving our hundreds of thousands of troops in the border city to fight alone. Now, they are already in dire straits!"

"It's all because Father Wang received the news too late. If he had known a few days earlier that the Emperor had handed over state affairs to the Crown Prince, Father Wang would have already set up an inescapable net waiting for him, and the border city wouldn't have fallen into such a passive situation!"

"The Crown Prince is truly foolish to the extreme, actually coming up with such a bottomless trick. He can't distinguish between external enemies and internal strife. For his own selfish desires, he is doing things that harm the overall interests of Da Gan. If there were other people around Imperial Grandfather, he wouldn't have wanted to pass the throne to him!"

Princess Anning's face was full of anger. How could the Crown Prince do such a thing?

How important are the elite border troops? Everyone in Da Gan knows!

Without them, how will we resist the Wu'an army in the future?

Those hundreds of thousands of people are all advanced Rune Armor soldiers of the Saint Extreme Heavenly Position Realm.

......

Princess Anning didn't stay in the Wang residence for long. Father Wang had too many affairs to deal with.

When she came out of the Wang residence, besides Fan Xichong, there were also two Heavenly Rank female powerhouses beside her.

As soon as she left the gate, she met Qin Yi.

Qin Yi saw her excited expression and quickly walked up.

When he was still three meters away from her, Fan Xichong stopped him.

"Princess, long time no see. What happened to your arm?"

Seeing her severed arm, Qin Yi trembled and roared, "Who is it? Who dares to hurt the Princess? Qin Yi will not spare him!"

"Qin Yi, now that you have joined Ning Wang's mansion, work hard in the future."

Princess Anning nodded lightly to him, then turned and left.

"Princess!"

Qin Yi chased after her, Fan Xichong suddenly turned around and pointed at his brow in the air.

Instantly, Qin Yi felt cold all over, feeling an invisible force almost piercing through his brow bone, and he braked sharply.

"The Princess said, work hard in the future, don't think too much about other things!"

Fan Xichong said coldly, and then quickly followed Anning.

"Outrageous!"

Qin Yi stood in place, his hands hanging at his waist clenched into fists, his knuckles turning white, his handsome face slightly distorted, his eyes with some bloodshot, his whole person full of baleful aura.

"Princess, why do you treat me like this! In the past, when we met, although we always kept a distance of two meters, you would smile at me, but now, you have become so indifferent! Is it because you saw that Yue fellow in Guoxing City? What's so good about him? How is he better than me, Qin Yi?"

Qin Yi couldn't accept it. His fantasies of soaring to prominence, his fantasies of becoming the future consort, these dreams were completely shattered.

"Yue Wuxie! If it weren't for you, how could I be like this! In the sect, you made me fall out of favor, and here with the Princess, you are fighting with me again! If I, Qin Yi, don't kill you, how can I swallow this breath!"

Qin Yi gritted his teeth tightly, roaring in his heart. Deep jealousy and the shattering of his fantasies completely made him lose his usual calm, and his mind was blinded by hatred and jealousy.

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Princess Anning, sitting in the phoenix palanquin, looked back.

From afar, she could still see Qin Yi's figure.

She knew what kind of psychological reaction Qin Yi would have. She had already thoroughly studied Qin Yi's character and psychology.

"Qin Yi is afraid that all the hatred has been transferred to Young Master Yue. If he really does something, it will be tantamount to seeking his own death. Even if Young Master Yue lets you go, I will not let you go!"

A flash of cold light flashed in Princess Anning's eyes.

She and Yue Wuxie are now tied together. If Qin Yi wants to target Young Master Yue, she will naturally not allow it.

However, she knew that Qin Yi, even with his strength, could not match even a finger of Young Master Yue. If he wanted to play tricks, he would not be a match either.

Four maids carried the phoenix palanquin away quickly.

Princess Anning wrote a rune letter, mentioning the matter of the border city, especially the news that there was an ancient tomb in the border city, and sent it to Jun Wuxie.