Fantasy: Ten Dragons Compete for the Throne, I, the Villain, Choose to Play it Off

Chapter 11: Slaughtering the Remnants, the Sixth Prince is Demoted!

Li Qiye's words just now seemed ordinary, but they were actually quite thought-provoking.

After all, Qin Rentu was a pillar general of the state.

He held a pivotal position in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and any close relationship he formed with a prince would certainly arouse suspicion among others.

However, Li Qiye's reaction was strange; he seemed very indifferent, as if he had no interest in it.

Qin Rentu refused to believe that Li Qiye, with his forbearance and the strength he had displayed today, would not understand the hidden meaning in those words.

Has this prince become devoid of desires?
Qin Rentu gave Li Qiye a deep look, then nodded and said, "Your Highness Qiye, I will take Xiao Yun's body with me."

"This matter must have already reached His Majesty's ears, and it also involves the Sixth Prince. I have no choice but to go to the palace now."

"Then please take care, old general."

Li Qiye nodded.

Qin Rentu put Xiao Yun's corpse into his spatial ring and was about to leave when he suddenly looked at Li Qiye and said:

"By the way, Your Highness, after what happened just now, I'm really worried about Linglong going back to the General's Mansion alone. I'd like to trouble Your Highness to escort her."

After saying this, Qin Rentu turned and disappeared into the crowd.

Li Qiye: "..."

His lips twitched. After what had just happened, all the patrol guards of the Imperial Mausoleum City were probably watching this side. How could there still be any danger?

As a former general, is this an attempt to bring them together?

"Your Highness Qiye, if you have something to attend to, I can go back alone."

Qin Linglong clearly understood the implication in her grandfather's words, and her pretty face flushed red, but she did not refuse.

In the past, I probably would have refused without hesitation and then turned and left.

When did this change begin?

It seems to be this system task.

Fearing that Li Qiye would perish, she went to Qiye's mansion to warn him, and thus met a completely different tenth prince.

"Then let's go."

Li Qiye completely ignored what Qin Linglong had just said.

And so, Li Qiye walked lazily toward General Guozhu's mansion.

"This……"

Qin Linglong was taken aback for a moment, then realized what was happening and quickly followed.

She followed Li Qiye, glancing at him shyly a couple of times.

His very handsome face remained completely calm.

"I never realized before, this guy is actually quite good-looking."

Qin Linglong muttered to herself.

Inside the palace, in the Imperial Study.

A middle-aged man with the appearance of a scholar sat there, dressed in a golden dragon robe, holding a pen in his hand, drawing on the paper with flamboyant strokes.

After a while, the middle-aged man stared at the paper for a long time before muttering to himself, "In ancient times, when someone drew a dragon, he deliberately did not draw the dragon's eyes. He said that if you dot the eyes of the dragon, the dragon will come to life and roar to the heavens."

"Uncle Qin, is this true?"

Standing to the side, Qin Rentu looked at the dragon in the painting that was bound by shackles and said, "In the snow pool of Tianshan in the far north, there is a snow dragon that ranks first among the ten great demonic beasts and has unparalleled supernatural powers."

"I heard that it was born without eyes, which caused this snow dragon to lack a solid foundation and make it difficult to reach the pinnacle of the Great Dao."

The room immediately fell silent upon hearing this.

After a moment, the middle-aged man sighed and said, "Uncle Qin, it seems you still hold a grudge about what happened back then."

"I dare not!"

"Let's not talk about the past."

His Majesty Li Xuanyuan beckoned, and immediately a eunuch came forward.

"Draft the decree." "Sixth Prince Li Yunrui colluded with remnants of the Demon Sect and secretly attempted to murder Tenth Prince Li Qiye. He deserves to be executed."

"Because he was misled, he was spared the death penalty, so he was exiled to the northwest and was never allowed to set foot in the Imperial Mausoleum City again."

"The tenth prince was frightened and made a meritorious contribution by killing the remnants of the Demon Sect."

"Bestowed with the Saint-level martial skill Azure Dragon Technique, five Saint-level pills, sixty thousand top-grade divine stones, one bath in the Dragon Spring Blood Pool, and one opportunity to comprehend the Great Dao Stone Tablet..."

The next morning, at the Seven Nights Prince's Mansion.

Li Qiye smiled as he saw off the eunuch who delivered the imperial edict, then looked at the edict in his hand with a strange expression.

"Father is really decisive, not giving the Sixth Prince any chance at all."

Li Qiye was unaware of other plot developments, but the storyline of the Great Zhou Dynasty had completely shattered his understanding of the world.

In the original novel, the sixth prince, Li Yunrui, would become the crown prince, but now he has been directly demoted to the northwest and is forbidden from ever setting foot in the Imperial Mausoleum City again.

Even if he wanted to rebel, he wouldn't have a chance.

Even with all his forces combined, he couldn't defeat those hidden old monsters of the Great Zhou Dynasty. How could he possibly rebel?

To put it bluntly, in this fantasy world, everything is still decided by the powerful.

However, generally speaking, those old monsters do not easily emerge from the world; they are almost always in seclusion, striving to reach the supreme Dao.

The Sixth Prince, Li Yunrui, was a clever man. He had probably already prepared for failure and even prepared his own explanation.

For example, he might be completely unaware of the matter and even stage some kind of self-inflicted injury. He just needs to be ruthless to himself, pretend to be seriously injured, and push everything onto the deceased Xiao Yun.

But to everyone's surprise, Emperor Yuan did not give Li Yunrui this opportunity at all.

Before he could even make a move, he was sentenced to death.

If one is exiled to the northwest and can never set foot in the Imperial Mausoleum City, then one loses the right to compete for the position of Crown Prince.

For the extremely ambitious Li Yunrui, this was undoubtedly a death sentence.

"General Guozhu must have played a crucial role in this matter."

Li Qiye squinted his eyes and muttered to himself.

He also knew something about the feud between the Qin family and the Grand Tutor's family.

It wasn't mentioned much in the original work, only briefly mentioned in a few sentences.

But in the real world, so many years of grudges can't be settled with just a few words.

Such grudges can never be resolved.

This is one of the reasons why Xiao Yun, the protagonist of destiny, chose the sixth prince.

"But Father is very generous, bestowing so many gifts."

Li Qiye smiled as he looked at the rewards on the imperial edict.

Saint-level martial art, Azure Dragon Technique!

Five Saint-level pills!

Sixty thousand top-grade divine stones!
Take a bath in the Dragon Spring Blood Pool!
A chance encounter with a stone tablet on a grand road!
These rewards are all quite good, especially the Saint-level martial skill Azure Dragon Technique.

The highest martial art Li Qiye currently cultivates is the Qiankun Fist Seal, which is also at the Saint level.

Elixirs, cultivation techniques, and martial arts skills can be categorized into the following grades from lowest to highest: Yellow Grade, Profound Grade, Earth Grade, Heaven Grade, Saint Grade, Emperor Grade, and Immortal Grade.

Therefore, these five Saint-level pills are extremely precious.

Dragon Spring Blood Pool!
Based on the essence of the dragon, and infused with countless rare and precious materials, it can nourish the soul and body in the Dragon Spring Blood Pool, greatly benefiting cultivators.

Even princes of the Great Zhou Dynasty were only entitled to bathe on their coming-of-age ceremony.

Stone tablet on the main road!

It is a stone tablet that the founder of the Great Zhou Dynasty searched for countless rare and precious materials to create.

This is absolutely the foundation of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)