Chapter 959: A single mountain cannot house two tigers (2/2)

Currently, Long Feiye was eyeing Baili Qiyu coldly as he asked, “Baili Qiyu, the Di Clan has plenty of questions. What about your Bai Clan?”

Baili Qiyu almost wanted to cry. He thought it would be enough if he didn’t speak or express an opinion. Then he could go back and let his father talk things out with His Highness. But who knew His Highness would call him out in front of the crowd?

How was he supposed to reply?

If he supported Long Feiye, what could he say to his father afterwards? He was here today as the Bai Clan representative! If he opposed him due to his beliefs, he didn’t have the guts to follow through. Not to His Highness’s face, and not in front of everyone else here!

As everyone’s eyes zeroed in on Baili Qiyu, he ran out of time to think and simply cupped his hands in respect. Loudly he proclaimed, “Everything will be as Your Highness arranges!”

That was how a subordinate should act!

With this comparison before her, Han Yunxi realized more than ever that she was only a princess in name.

“Return to the army and deliberate plans on how to head north and deal with Jun Yixie!” Long Feiye’s words concluded the battle at Hundred Poisons Sect. Not only did his statement incite more discussion and guesses from the crowd, but also stirred up the seemingly placid surface of Cloud Realm Continent. Various factions began their own preparations in response. Once Long Feiye confronted Jun Yixie in the north, the true battle for Cloud Realm Continent would begin!

Once Long Feiye and Han Yunxi were out of earshot, he took her hand and pressed it against his lips with a smile. “Long Feiye’s wife?” he repeated out loud.

Han Yunxi had been broad and level in front of an audience, but now she grew shy. She pulled her hand back and prepared to speak when a few shadow guards brought Gu Beiyue to their side.

“Princess, is Bai Yanqing truly...dead?” Gu Beiyue had heard everything from the sidelines, but he couldn’t believe that Bai Yanqing would die just like that.

“The sword stabbed through his heart. We verified that he stopped breathing before I kicked his body into the abyss behind the mountain,” Long Feiye replied.

Only then did Gu Beiyue believe them, but he still creased his brows, feeling somewhat uneasy. Still, now that things had come to head, he simply shut his eyes wordlessly. There was another reason he’d rushed here so quickly.

“Princess, do you have any news of Lil Thing?” Gu Beiyue asked urgently.

Han Yunxi had that in the back of her head. She now shook her head. “If Lil Thing was trapped by Bai Yanqing, would his poison storage space be broken after his death?”

She really didn’t understand much about the poison storage space, nor could she really control it. Instead, she felt like it controlled her at times as it prompted her to cultivate again and again. There wasn’t much say she had in that.

Gu Beiyue didn’t know much, but he gave her a careful analysis. “Princess, if the poison storage space was broken, Lil Thing should be already on its way to find you.”

The only place capable of trapping Lil Thing was the poison storage space. Although he hadn’t gotten an admission from Bai Yanqing himself, Gu Beiyue was 80 to 90 percent certain that the man had kept it prisoner. They were all on the same mountain. If Lil Thing had regained its freedom, it should have found Han Yunxi instantly. In other words, Bai Yanqing’s poison storage space was still intact.

“You mean to say that Bai Yanqing’s poison storage space isn’t broken?” Han Yunxi grew stunned. He was already dead, but his space was still intact. Could it be that his soul still lived on in there after his body had perished, thus maintaining the space?

At this thought, goosebumps broke out on Han Yunxi’s skin. Just what kind of entity was the poison storage space? Was it related to her own transmigration? Long Feiye’s face was stern as he glanced her way, his gaze inscrutable. Gu Beiyue was shaken as well. After some hesitation, he suggested, “Your Highness, princess, how about we discuss this after finding the body?”

Long Feiye had no objections, so the trio brought along some shadow guards and went back to the abyss behind the mountain. Soon enough, they reached the cliff’s edge. By now, Bai Yanqing’s blood had already dried, leaving a stain on the ground.

For the detox system, many unrecorded poisons could still set off its automatic alarms in Han Yunxi’s head due to their varying states of toxicity. If not for all the poison plants growing in profusion around Hundred Poisons Sect, Han Yunxi might have discovered the strangeness of Bai Yanqing’s blood, but she’d long turned off the detox system alarms after the man’s death, unable to bear the incessant tooting.

Long Feiye took Han Yunxi while a shadow guard carried Gu Beiyue, and the group descended into the misty depths of the canyon…