Chapter Thirty Five : When the Road Home Bleeds
The Ninth Prince had other matters to attend to and didn't return to Daqi Academy with Song Bufan and Lü Qingqiu.
He remained in Lingyue City, with his strategist Gu Yuanbai standing beside him.
Suddenly, the prince spoke.
"Fang Mu Ge, the prodigy of Lingyue Sect, is very close to his family. But the Fang clan is a low-status one, and they're quite far from the sect. I think this is a good opportunity to eliminate him."
The Daqi royal family had long been wary of the three top-tier powers: Lingyue Sect, Taixumen, and Wanbao Pavilion.
They didn't want any of them to grow strong enough to rival the throne — so they secretly worked to suppress them.
Whenever a powerful talent emerged, the royal family would quietly find ways to extinguish the threat.
They had long planted spies in Lingyue Sect, and they had noticed Fang Mu Ge the moment he appeared.
His monstrous talent had landed him on the imperial family's kill list.
