Chapter 66: In the Inner Palace, Imperial Heirs Reign Supreme

The Imperial Palace, Palace of Eternal Harmony.
Under the pretext of visiting her biological daughter, Xu Yinxue dressed in the dark cyan formal attire of a noblewoman and arrived at the palace early in the morning.
The treasury of the Great Qi was well-stocked, and the inner palace was built and maintained with exquisite detail. At this time of year, the imperial garden was in full bloom, every petal kissed by dew and shimmering with crystal-clear fragments of light beneath the sun.
Inside the inner hall of the Palace of Eternal Harmony, a subtle fragrance filled the air. Fu Rong waited at the doorway for her arrival, hurriedly...

Further ahead, the members of the Chivalrous Sect had arrived at this spot. They hesitated for a moment, but the square-faced young man acting as their leader glanced back at the Blood Demon Sect members closely following behind them, and resolutely led his people past the terrifying stone tablet.
Before he could even leave, Clement, the smiling president of the Gemstone Chamber of Commerce, was already waiting outside the door, as if he had long anticipated his departure.
Seeing this, Jiang Tianchen grew cautious, not daring to let down his guard. Through these seven days of cultivation, he had come to a stark realization: in this mountain range densely populated by ferocious beasts, the most dangerous, the absolute most dangerous thing, was not actually those brutal beasts at all.
The stone struck right against the carriage canopy, producing a sharp sound. The onlookers immediately stopped what they were doing, gazing around to see what had happened.
Ye Ran was well aware of his own affliction; the ice poison within his body had deprived him of certain functions. He now desperately hoped that Qiu Xuan would return to his side.
Although Jiang Tianchen possessed formidable strength and could even defeat the Demonic Moon Heavenly Wolf, compared to the eighth-rank fierce beasts in the core region of the Sunset Mountain Range, he still fell far too short.
"Yet look at this Jiang Tianchen—does he look like someone whose cultivation is completely gone?" The purple-robed youth looked at Jiang Tianchen, laughing in spite of himself.
"I think we should just make it ourselves; I could weave such a crude leaf garment just as well," Wei He sneered sarcastically.
Outside the carriage, Edward silently rested his hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist, his gaze lingering with deep meaning on Vira.
Luo Haosheng noticed that Du He's mood was off and refrained from asking further. It was Jiang Ling who spoke up instead, "We just went to the Zhang Residence, but Haigao Takahashi is unexpectedly about to become Boss Zhang's concubine. The trickery behind this..." Jiang Ling did not continue, and Luo Haosheng understood the gravity of the situation as well.
"And the imperial court needs only a single strategy to deal with all these problems," Liu Hongjian said with profound meaning.
"Master, I have returned." Ilusha 2 had indeed gone outside and spent five gold coins to buy five high-energy batteries. Naturally, with it being late at night and hardly any shops open, high-denomination currency like gold coins could not all be spent on midnight snacks; they could only be exchanged for currency of equivalent value.
Zhu Yu glared with bulging eyes as she summoned a blaze of flames, yet aside from leaking through the gaps in the ice cage, those flames failed to inflict any other damage.
"Conserve magic power? Does using a teleportation barrier consume that much magic power?" Dulei asked in puzzlement.
Luo Qiancheng was released by Ilusha 2, and the two agreed to regroup in two days. Like a dragon that shows its head but hides its tail, no one knew what she had returned to the White Night Principality to do.
Wu Binghao cupped his fists and bowed to Liu Hongjian. His entire suit of armor was soaked through with blood, and the dried streaks of blood on his face looked terrifying indeed.
Sinya quieted down. Zhu Yu racked her brain but could not figure out where Lian Xujun and the others had emerged from, so she simply gave up thinking about it and focused entirely on coaxing Sinya. Before leaving, she glared fiercely at Ling Xi, which earned her a complimentary snowstorm with accelerated impact—a solid chunk of hard ice came hurtling down to smash heavily right beside Sinya.
Beneath the sunlight, a piece of talisman paper as thin as a cicada's wing trembled slightly in his palm, radiating a faint golden light and surrounded by a halo of perfectly rounded light. The temperature was scorching hot, as if it had sensed some hidden vital energy, and at that moment it was buzzing softly, exactly like a cicada vibrating its wings just before taking flight.
"There are no 'buts' about it. You didn't bring any money, but I certainly did," Dulei replied with a smile.
The universe is vast, and its minerals and energy are inexhaustible and virtually infinite. Who would not want to set foot in the cosmos and claim these resources for themselves?