93 Conspiracy (2/2)

After finishing his meal, Xue Wei left the restaurant and headed towards the Inner City.

He found that Tie Haolong had been sentenced to death for aiding a Primordial Beast in escaping, and his execution was to be carried out fourteen days after, as they had to wait for Tie Haolong to arrive at the capital first.

Xue Wei checked into another inn than the first one he had resided in a little more than a year prior, and he quickly went to his room. He had to figure out how to save Tie Haolong.

In his room, Xue Wei sighed deeply and sat on the bed. He had come this far, and he was now in the capital, but what could he actually do? Was it possible for him to somehow intercept them and release Tie Haolong?

Xue Wei did not doubt that if he succeeded in releasing Tie Haolong, he would flee the kingdom together with him and head for the center of the continent.

Just as Xue Wei was deep in thought, he heard someone knocking at the door. ”We brought you a meal on the house,” a male voice sounded from outside of the room, and Xue Wei jolted.

He spread his spiritual energy and sensed that the entire inn was crawling with experts, all of them of high rank, the majority being Sky Warriors. He sighed.

”Seems like I will be incapable of rescuing Haolong now,” he sighed.

As he spread his senses, he could see that the entire inn was surrounded, and there was even a group of experts flying in the air on Fierce Beasts. He knew that he was done for.

”I apologize, Uncle,” he continued to talk to himself, ”I was incapable of protecting myself, and now they will likely come after you. Whether or not they did it intentionally, they will use this to get rid of you. I hope you never return to the Heping Kingdom, which is filled with ungrateful bastards.”

Xue Wei was seated on the bed and looked at the door. He did not even move to the window to attempt to escape, because he knew that a large group of cultivators was waiting for him outside, and an escape from here would be impossible.

Since this was the case, why not just wait casually for them? They had claimed that he was a Primordial Beast, so they would not kill him right away. Instead, they would try and tame him with the help of a Diviner.

Xue Wei called out, ”Stop pretending already, just come in.” A rustling sound could be heard from outside the door before it was kicked in and a group of cultivators swarmed into the room, their eyes vigilant and their faces contorted with hatred.

”Primordial Beast spawn!” someone yelled and was about to spit on him when Xue Wei used the Forbidden Rush to move away. His movements were elusive and elegant.

He avoided the spit. The expert who had tried to spit at him was quickly slapped on the back of his head by another expert.

”What do you think you are doing?!” he exclaimed. ”This kid has decided to come with us – as things are now, do you want to anger him? As long as he is docile, things are good. If he transforms back into a beast, then who knows what kind of danger we have to face!”

Xue Wei just stood at the back of the room with his arms crossed over his chest and gave the speaking experts a rather annoyed look. Did these experts truly believe he was a Primordial Beast? Then again, they were members of a noble family, so it was likely they would believe anything said by their ancestors.

”Now, come with us,” the one who had berated the other expert behaved neither politely nor arrogantly. He was on the contrary very neutral.

Xue Wei shrugged his shoulders and followed them. He was surrounded inside a pack of twenty Sky Warriors, nineteen on the ground in a formation around him and one in the sky.

From this, one could see just how difficult it was to get one's hands on a flying Fierce Beast.

They had made it to the castle, a place where Xue Wei had been twice before for some business, yet this time he was not heading towards the Jade Palace, nor was he heading towards the Crown Prince's chambers. Instead they were going towards the prisons.

They had marched through the majority of the Inner City, and many had seen him. The captors had even walked a longer way to ensure that everyone knew that specifically their family had captured him.

They had a crest on their chests, and although Xue Wei did not know which family this crest belonged to, the rest of the city did.

When Xue Wei had reached the castle, the entire city was in an uproar, as news of his capture spread through the Inner City to the Outer City like rings in the water.

His captors treated Xue Wei rather well; none of them tried to torture him or make him feel humiliated, but they were not friendly either.

It was clear that they understood that this case had to be treated with caution. Xue Wei was assumed to be a Primordial Beast, but it was not certain that he was one. If he was not, then why could he transform his arms?

If he was not, why would the Ice Harpy refer to him as her brother? Everyone knew that the Ice Harpy hated humans more than anything. She took great pleasure in slaughtering humans when she was bored.

The city was bustling with life and rumors; people were arguing all the time about what they were going to do, and what Xue Wei's fate would be.

The majority did not believe that he was a Primordial Beast, but no one dared to say it out loud. They feared retaliation from the nobles.

Xue Wei paid no attention to it all. He knew that it was likely that there was no one who had worked together with the Harpy, but they decided to act accordingly and use the timing of her stunt to their advantage.

He was likely to be declared a Primordial Beast and then be executed. This way they could start their next move against Xiao Lei, and take some of his fame and power away from him.

Xue Wei could not help but sigh as he stood in the cell he had been given, glancing about. He was still regretting his actions from before, but now everything was out of his hands. The only thing he could do was to wait and see what would happen.