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Mo Bai walked past the two people, picked up the bronze mirror on the table, and placed it in front of Chen Nan.

In the bronze mirror, Chen Nan's face looked as if it had been sculpted.

For a moment, Chen Nan himself couldn't believe that the person in the bronze mirror was himself.

After a moment's thought, remembering Wu Xu's third question, he asked, "Wu Xu, you said my imposing aura is gone, what happened?"

Wu Xu didn't hide anything: "Your Highness, earlier, I could feel the aura emanating from you."

"Although I can't sense the specific strength, I can definitely feel the pressure from it."

Then, he changed the subject: "However, the current prince gives me the feeling of being like a stagnant pool of water."

"If you don't consciously try to sense it, you won't even notice the prince's presence."

Chen Nan was stunned. He had only broken through to the peak of the Grandmaster realm.

How did it come to the point where we can't sense his presence?

They immediately started communicating with the system.

"System, what the hell is going on?"

He asked for a long time, but the system completely ignored him.

Helpless, Chen Nan could only try to understand and experience it on his own.

Just as Chen Nan was pondering, the gate of the Prince's Mansion was pushed open.

Mo Bai ran into the palace with a nervous expression.

Seeing this, Chen Nan called out, "Mo Bai, why were you running so fast just now?"

Mo Bai was taken aback, then remembered and quickly said, "Your Highness, the chief clerk in the prefectural prison is dead."

"Dead?" Chen Nan raised an eyebrow.

"Yes, the registrar committed suicide by biting his tongue, and he had a smile on his face before he died."

Mo Bai then described how the registrar died.

Mo Bai could understand the registrar's suicide, but he couldn't understand why he was smiling before he died.

Chen Nan sneered, "Looks like someone's secretly hindering us?"

"Is this because they don't want us to find out?"

At this moment, Chen Nan still thought that the clerk in prison had been forced to bite his tongue and commit suicide.

They didn't even consider any other possibilities.

Then, Qin Qingmin's image appeared in Chen Nan's mind.

In his view, that Prefect Qin was a branch of the Qin family.

The most likely backer is the entire Qin family.

Judge Qin died after the prefect ran into a pillar, and then the registrar committed suicide by biting his tongue in prison.

It must be Qin Qingmin manipulating the two of them from behind.

Thinking of this, a cold smile crept onto his lips: "Qin Qingmin, don't you like targeting me? Then try it!"

"Let's go, let's go to the Qin residence!"

At the command, Chen Nan took the first step.

Wu Xu followed silently behind.

Mo Bai, on the other hand, looked conflicted and remained motionless.

Chen Nan, who had already walked out, suddenly realized that Mo Bai behind him hadn't moved at all.

Turning around, I saw Mo Bai's conflicted expression.

"Mo Bai, is something the matter?"

After much hesitation, Mo Bai finally spoke up: "Your Highness, it's almost midnight, and Weidu will soon be under curfew. Why don't we wait until tomorrow?"

Chen Nan's expression changed: "You're quite considerate of Qin Qingmin, aren't you?"

Upon hearing this, Mo Bai immediately shivered.

Even though the two were dozens of steps apart, Mo Bai could feel the presence of death.

He quickly spoke up: "Your Highness, no...it's not like that. I...I just...didn't want to..."

puff--

Whether it was due to nervousness or some other reason, Mo Bai couldn't even utter a complete sentence.

He coughed up a mouthful of blood and collapsed.

Chen Nan frowned: "Mo Bai, what are you up to?"

As Chen Nan's tone calmed down, the fear in Mo Bai's heart also dissipated.

He quickly got up and explained, "Your Highness, I just felt that it would be inconvenient to travel after the curfew. I really didn't consider Qin Qingmin's feelings."

As he spoke, Mo Bai was almost in tears.

He was truly wronged; he was only acting in Chen Nan's best interests.

However, the other party misunderstood the situation.

Crucially, Chen Nan didn't even lift a finger; he couldn't utter a single word and even coughed up blood.

At this moment, Mo Bai felt a deep-seated fear of Chen Nan, but also became even more loyal to him.

Wu Xu, standing to the side, muttered to himself, feeling that Mo Bai's acting was a bit over the top.

Just as he was considering whether to remind him, he remembered who his master was—Chen Nan.

Even he could see through the exaggerated acting, so how could Chen Nan not?

However, Chen Nan really didn't notice it.

He could tell that Mo Bai's actions and expressions just now were something he couldn't fake.

Besides, who would deliberately bleed for no reason?

"Go and take care of it first."

Chen Nan offered some words of comfort.

He then stared at Wu Xu beside him and asked, "Who do you think was behind the death of the chief clerk?"

Feeling Chen Nan's gaze, Wu Xu's heart fluttered.

For a moment, he actually had an urge to kneel down and submit.

Immediately afterwards, he found that his limbs were gradually stiffening.

After stiffening, I went limp, and a strong will to survive surged within me.

Only then did he realize that Mo Bai hadn't been faking it.

He was truly suppressed by Chen Nan.

But Chen Nan didn't make a move from beginning to end.

Most importantly, Wu Xu has not felt any pressure from Chen Nan even now.

He opened his mouth, gasped for breath, and struggled to utter, "Your Highness, this subordinate... doesn't know."

"Wu Xu, what tricks are you up to now?" Chen Nan was even more confused.

He knew that Wu Xu was secretly honest and simple-minded.

Mo Bai, on the other hand, is more clever and quick-witted.

If Mo Bai, a second-grade martial artist, were to encounter such a situation.

Chen Nan could understand it to some extent.

Wu Xu possesses the strength of a fourth-rank martial artist.

Most importantly, Chen Nan did not release any pressure at all.

Helpless, Chen Nan tried his best to control himself and kept adjusting his breathing.

Finally, Wu Xu returned to normal, with beads of sweat the size of soybeans dripping down his forehead.

Once she realized she had returned to normal, she exclaimed, "Your Highness, you are terrifying!"

In just that short period of time, Wu Xu felt as if he had just passed through the gates of hell.

If Chen Nan hadn't recovered in time, Wu Xu would probably be a corpse by now.

Chen Nan finally realized that he had truly stepped into the peak of the Grandmaster realm.

It's just that I haven't fully mastered it yet.

He had previously thought that the system had withheld all the rewards.

Now it seems he was overthinking things.

At this moment, Mo Bai, having changed his clothes, came to the two of them.

He glanced cautiously at Chen Nan and whispered, "Your Highness, I'm all packed. Shall we go to the Qin residence now?"

Chen Nan didn't say a word, turned around and stepped out of the palace.

The two people behind him exchanged a glance and both gave a wry smile.

With that smile, Mo Bai knew that Wu Xu must have gone through what he had gone through as well.

The two thought that what had just happened was something their prince had deliberately staged to intimidate them.

As a result, their loyalty to Chen Nan reached its peak.

Little did they know that Chen Nan had only just entered the Grandmaster realm and was unable to properly control his own energy.

On the street, three people, one in front and two behind, slowly walked towards the Qin residence...