Mortal Mage

"Yulong, pass the order!"

The prince shouted towards the outdoors.

As soon as he finished speaking, a young man in colorful brocade military uniform in the courtyard took out a cloud-piercing arrow from somewhere and then with a "chi!" sound, it pierced the sky.

Zhang Mingxuan recognized the man named Yulong outside the house as the young man who helped the prince deliver gifts to him twice.

"Master Zhang, do you have any questions?"

Li Jing opened his folding fan, feeling the breeze on his face. He then tossed his robe and sat down next to Qi Yuanqinghe.

Zhang Mingxuan was stunned on the spot, his expression was shocked, and his anger had disappeared by seven points. He asked in confusion, "Prince, do you mean that the two state masters want to kill me?"

"It's not the two state masters who want to kill you, it's the two state masters who want to kill me!"

Li Jing glared at Zhang Mingxuan. "Master Zhang, your country was just beginning to rise, and you wrote many brilliant chapters. How come you are so clueless when it comes to the struggles in the court?"

"Killing you is just a byproduct!"

He continued in a heavy tone, "I asked Lu Ming to go there last night to save you, but later I learned that you had already hidden in the palace, so naturally there was no follow-up."

"besides."

Li Jing stood up and tapped his chest with his fan. "Not only did Liu Zhengli die last night, I almost died too!"

He pointed his fan at Zhang Mingxuan in frustration. "Zhang Mingxuan, you are so talented and have great strategies for governing a country, but you really have no strategy in the officialdom!"

"Thank goodness Lord Wang thinks so highly of you."

"Then why are there rumors in and outside the palace that you and the king are not getting along?"

Zhang Mingxuan had been so ashamed of himself by the contempt of Crown Prince Li Jing. Up to now, he had only been in office for less than two months, so how could he know so many things?

"If I were to befriend the prince, where would that leave your majesty?"

Wang Mingde walked into the main hall leaning on a snake-head cane.

Then, a soybean-sized pill came out from the snake head of the crutch. He handed the pill to Qi Yuanqinghe. "Minister Qi Yuan, this is a small pill. You can recover quickly after taking it."

Qi Yuanqinghe tapped the plate with his chopsticks, signaling Wang Mingde to put the pill on the plate. Then, he picked up the pill with his chopsticks and chewed it with green beans, muttering, "The Crown Prince and His Majesty have too many spiritual stones. Not to mention Ye Buwen and Bu Dazhen, I am also concerned about them, the old man."

After Qi Yuan Qinghe finished speaking, he forced a smile and gently patted Qi Yuan's son, who was crying on his lap.

“Didn’t your majesty distribute spirit stones and spirit stones to the state teacher?”

Zhang Mingxuan stood aside, still guessing most of what was going on, and asked anyway.

"That's low-grade. Your Majesty now has 100,000 middle-grade spirit stones and one high-grade spirit stone! The two of them have already reached the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Stage. The Foundation Establishment Stage is just the finishing touch. They have been stuck in Taicang for many years!"

Wang Mingde took over the prince's words, which were not spoken to Zhang Mingxuan, but to everyone in the hall.

"And they have been plotting against Taicang for a long time! Unfortunately, your majesty has a city defense formation in the harem that can resist immortals in the foundation-building stage! And the only one who can maintain this formation is Qi Yuan Qinghe."

The prince used his folding fan to point at Qi Yuanqinghe, who was eating green beans. "It is true that Qi Yuanqinghe was wronged, but it was not because of such a trivial matter as killing innocent people and taking credit for it."

"I framed Qi Yuanqinghe, but I also saved him."

"As long as Qi Yuanqinghe is dead, these two will have nothing to fear."

"Your Majesty only cares about cultivating immortality, and has never taken care of the affairs of the palace? All the trivial matters in the palace are handled secretly by Old Master Wang and me."

Li Jing glanced at Wang Mingde, his tone full of resentment towards Li Si.

"Your Highness! Bai Zheng and his eight thousand feathered guards are heading towards Taihe Palace from Xichang. The palace gate has been controlled by Chang Zhongxian, and Captain Lu is nowhere to be found!" A personal attendant of the crown prince came running to report.

"What! Lu Ming is missing?"

Li Jing slammed the table angrily and stood up. "Zhang Mingxuan, lend me your people!"

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