Great Wilderness... Mr. Lee?
This na imdiately made Wang Mu frown.
Mr. Lee from Great Wilderness City... Xiao Li?
The mont he connected the dots, Wang Mu thought, Could this Mr. Lee be Xiao Li? And those trials in the Moon Palace... But... Mr.? Xiao Li didn't seem to have a penchant for cross-dressing, did she? The Empress herself, unlike so others, didn't seem to have that kind of hobby...
Soon, as Wang Mu was pondering, a ssage arrived from the other side.
[Mr. Lee: Are you the Cultivator from the Lower Realm who passed the Moon Palace's trials?]
[Wang Mu: It is I. May I know which Immortal from the Upper Realm you are?]
[Mr. Lee: I am nothing close to an Immortal, just a lone soul.]
Wang Mu was speechless.
[Mr. Lee: To the matter at hand, the Moon God violated the rules of the Upper Realm by giving you the Divine Light Mirror. This is not permitted by the Upper Realm.]
Wang Mu nodded. Is this indeed about holding accountable? But that Fairy had explained...
[Wang Mu: The Moon God Immortal didn't actually give the Divine Light Mirror. I found it myself in the Moon Palace. Perhaps the Moon God Immortal didn't notice...]
[Mr. Lee: Is that so? Cultivator from the Lower Realm, do you understand the consequences if you conceal the truth?]
[Wang Mu: This item is so unique; I have never seen anything like it in the Lower Realm. I rely thought it was a treasure of the Moon Palace and, driven by a mont of selfishness, I took it. This has nothing to do with that Moon Palace Fairy.]
Trying to trap him with his own words?
[Mr. Lee: You... have you Cultivators always been so considerate of others... sacrificing yourself?]
Wang Mu was about to reply when he suddenly paused.
These words... They sounded oddly familiar.
He rembered a minor plot from the ga involving the protagonist and Xiao Li.
The plot was actually quite simple. After the battle at Ancient River, Xiao Li's prestige spread throughout the Central Plains, making the other Princes vying for the throne very wary.
Hence, under the Court's orders, they summoned Xiao Li to the Capital City to pay homage to the Late Emperor.
This journey was clearly a Hongn Banquet. Though it was unclear how those Princes would deal with her, not attending—and thus defying the Court's order to pay homage to the Late Emperor—would also give them a pretext to attack Xiao Li, using it to suppress her prestige and character.
Therefore, she had to attend.
Thus, Xiao Li could only bring the protagonist along to the Emperor's Mausoleum to pay respects with the Princes, planning to adapt as circumstances required.
For safety's sake, naturally, many Watchers were secretly brought along.
But as they were going to the mausoleum, they passed through the center of the Capital City.
At that ti, many common people gathered to watch.
It was then that the incident occurred.
A group of highly skilled martial artists in black appeared, attempting an assassination in broad daylight of the Princes and Imperial Princesses en route to pay homage to the Late Emperor.
Naturally, the assassination attempt failed.
Not to ntion Xiao Li. Even the other Princes had top-notch masters covertly guarding them, making such an assassination impossible.
After the failed assassination, the n in black were all put to death, leaving only one or two alive.
One of the Princes was only slightly injured.
As the protagonist, he was extrely sensitive and sensed the unusual nature of this assassination.
Unfortunately, in the Capital City, a lting pot, even the protagonist could not fully understand the conspiracies and sches of these constantly competing Princes.
Subsequently, the other Princes were imnsely enraged and imdiately interrogated the two who survived.
But these two n in black were Death Soldiers. They refused to say anything. Only in the end, they made a strange gesture, glared fiercely, and shouted, "Long live the Great Wilderness!"
Then they died.
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present instantly changed their expressions.
Xiao Li's face changed because she imdiately knew this was a setup.
The other Princes' faces changed, possibly because they knew their objective had been achieved.
The protagonist's expression remained unchanged because he knew, but there was nothing he could do.
The plot itself was not complex: the Princes vying for the throne used the invitation to pay homage to the Late Emperor as a pretense to fra Xiao Li, thereby suppressing her prestige.
On the day of the commoration, they secretly dispatched assassins, taking advantage of their gathering to assassinate them.
This was intended to make Xiao Li appear ruthless, disrespectful to the Late Emperor, and a usurper of the throne, earning her a despicable reputation.
With her prestige diminished, Great Wilderness, already distant from the Central Plains, would find it even harder to win the people's hearts in the Central Plains.
Contending against these Princes, who had been deeply rooted in the Central Plains for many years, would naturally beco much more difficult.
So, those Princes turned hostile right there, pointing fingers and accusing Xiao Li.
"Good Seventh Sister! Father has passed. You reside in the remote Great Wilderness. We kindly invited you back to pay homage to His Majesty, yet you plot to kill us all. Now that the Late Emperor has not been gone long, your audacity has grown so great?"
"Seventh Princess! Do you still regard the Late Emperor? Do you have any reverence for the Li Dynasty? Do you still care about the people of the Li Dynasty?"
"Seventh Sister, you truly are venomous, heartless! We invited you back, and this is how you treat us?"
"Truly, a woman's heart is most poisonous! Taking this rare chance while we ca from all over to pay homage to our father, you plotted to murder us all. Do you wish to beco the sole heir of the Li Dynasty? I dare not imagine what our lands and countless people would beco if you ascended as the Empress..."
...
Such scheming was quite clumsy and not particularly clever. Any wise person could see the problem.
But its brilliance lay in the perfect timing.
Even if you recognized the sche, there was nothing you could say.
And these Princes, each one was a master of fanning flas and manipulating public opinion.
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