Chapter 810: Cloud Realm Continent is boiling over (2/2)

Baili Mingxiang sat stunned. She never thought the problem she’d been worrying over would be proclaimed across the lands like this. But even now, she still couldn’t figure out whether His Highness Duke of Qin had found out beforehand. Meanwhile, A’Dong had tumbled off his horse and was still sitting on the ground, unable to believe his ears.

Uncle Gao pressed a hand over his heart and nearly lost his breath! By the time he recovered, he couldn’t help stuttering to himself. “Heavens, ah...Heavens… Heavens...esteemed wangfei was actually…”

Long Feiye galloped away like a madman, unable to imagine how Han Yunxi would react to the news, much less what dangers would greet her. He wished he could appear in front of her right there and then. Even when he received Han Yunxi’s blank letter, he had remained calm and rational. But now he’d completely lost his cool! He had hidden everything so well and did his best to remove all traces. Mute Granny, who knew the whole story, was already dead. Just who else had found out? Who could have released the news at a time like this?

Just...who is it?!

Was it him?!

It was obvious that the person had planned it beforehand. As the news spread to every corner of Cloud Realm Continent, it even reached the hidden realms of the Tang Clan. Tang Zijin flew into a rage and was about to charge off mountain when Lady Tang stopped him.

“Where are you going?” she asked with a white face.

“Where? Hehe!” Tang Zijin laughed coldly. “When Aunt Ru first heard about the Shadow Clan, she already suspected. Who knew that Han Yunxi really turned out to be the West Qin heir? We didn’t have proof before, but now they’ve exposed things for us. Of course I’m going to ask Feiye how he’s going to deal with that woman.”

Lady Tang shoved him with a cold voice. “Feiye’s so shrewd, wouldn’t he have found out already? Would he really allow a woman of uncertain origins to stay by his side?”

This point reminded Tang Zijin to calm down. “You mean to say…Feiye, he...he actually...hid the truth on purpose?”

Lady Tang sighed. “There’s an eighty to ninety percent possibility. Last night A’Li wrote about Gu Beiyue in his letter, didn’t he? As I see it, Feiye must have killed the man to silence a witness!”

“Nonsense! Neither the East Qin nor the Tang Clan’s successive generations would allow him to do something so absurd!” Tang Zijin fumed before turning to head for the back mountains.

“Where are you going now?” Lady Tang chased after him.

But Tang Zijin didn’t even turn around as he quickened his steps. “I’m going to find Aunt Ru!”

It wasn’t just Tang Zijin who was furious, but Baili Yuanlong as well. Once he heard that Han Yunxi was the West Qin heir, he couldn’t suppress his wrath. He immediately wrote a letter to persuade His Highness Duke of Qin to kill the woman quickly. Not only would this put an end to future trouble, but also console the hearts of the East Qin officers. The battle between East and West Qin in the past had sacrificed countless lives of his Bai Clan. So many families were torn apart and left dead, destitute, or homeless. So many more were forced to change their names and live in a world of injustice. All of that had been caused by the West Qin imperial clan!

The sword sect master’s first reaction upon receiving the news was, “Han Yunxi is the West Qin heir? This….this--Feiye was actually tricked by a woman!”

Wave after wave of reactions rose across the lands of Cloud Realm Continent. Someone said that Han Yunxi had tricked His Highness Duke of Qin, others claimed that His Highness Duke of Qin had long found out and was simply using her before he hurt her, still others were sure neither of them knew the other’s identity, but they would definitely seek revenge now that the truth was out…

But no one bothered to ask who was responsible for leaking the news in the first place. Inside the medical academy, Han Yunxi was standing and sitting constantly in her rooms. She felt unwell all over because she remembered Mute Granny! The Mu Clan’s Mute Granny!

Ever since she found out about her ties to the Poison Sect, she stopped suspecting her connections with the West Qin imperial clan. How could she have known that Lady Tianxin wasn’t just the Mu Clan daughter, but a West Qin imperial heir? Even when Gu Beiyue had been exposed as a member of the Shadow Clan, she hadn’t harbored any doubts.

Chu Xifeng told her that Gu Beiyue was the last survivor of the Shadow Clan. All he wanted to do was to live a simple and peaceful life. She believed it! Back then, she had even thought that the man had no reason to hide his origins if she was the West Qin imperial heir. Thus, she believed Chu Xifeng’s excuse.

But now…

What about Long Feiye? How much did he know?

Han Yunxi pressed her hands on the table as her breathing grew anxious. She tried her best to recall everything about Mute Granny! Then she remembered how Mu Linger had once blocked her carriage and cursed her out. Mu Linger claimed that she and Long Feiye had killed Mute Granny…

Han Yunxi took a few deep breaths, but she couldn’t calm down. She couldn’t recall the details. “Linger...Linger…”

She wanted to find Mu Linger, but opening the door revealed Chu Xifeng and Xu Donglin standing at the entrance with a host of shadow guards. She ignored them, but Xu Donglin stopped her from going any further. “Esteemed wangfei, you can’t go anywhere right now.”

“Who gave you the right to confine me?” Han Yunxi asked angrily. “Was it Long Feiye?”

But it was Chu Xifeng who replied, his tone like ice. “It wasn’t.”

What...did Chu Xifeng mean?

Chu Xifeng’s forefathers had narrowly escaped being completely wiped out during the East and West Qin battle by the West Qin’s emperor’s defensive forces…