C693 "A tiger does not show its might, but treats me like a sick cat."
C693 "A tiger does not show its might, but treats me like a sick cat."
After the capture of Han City, under Li Jing's lead, the Heavenly Mansion's troops continued to move forward towards the depths of the Mu Estate without stopping. They wanted to seize the Mu Estate in one fell swoop.
After Xiao Fan asked about Ye Tian, he also followed the army and headed towards Mu City, the capital of the Mu Estate, in preparation to take down the Flame Dragon.
What Ye Tian gave him was only some trivial matters. Only Flame Dragon knew the core parts.
But Ye Tian had also given him some useful information, which was the military deployment of the Mu Clan, as well as some hidden strength. It had helped the Heavenly Palace to a certain extent.
Other than that, the Mu Clan had indeed colluded with some of the members of the Imperial Family to chase after and kill Xiao Fan, as well as imprison Princess Yue, and they all had members of the Imperial Family involved.
As for who the members of the royal family were, only Flame Dragon knew.
Therefore, he had to take down the Flame Dragon and obtain the list of members of the royal family. He was one step closer to unlocking the secret.
At the same time, the Heavenly Mansion had officially declared war on the Mu Clan, determined to destroy the Mu Clan. The fact that the Mu Clan imprisoned Princess Yue and pretended to be Princess Yue to assassinate the Heavenly Mansion had also been spread out.
A few days later, the entire world knew of the Mu Estate's actions. When Emperor Dazhuang found out about it, he became even more furious and sent troops to the Mu Estate, together with an army from the Heavenly Palace attacking it from the north and south.
In just half a month's time, the Mu Clan's vast territory had been taken over, leaving only the base camp, the Mu City.
During this period, although the Flame Dragon had requested for help from its allies, no one dared to step into this muddy water.
After all, that was the Flame Dragon's mistake before he made his big mistake. He wanted to use some tricks to sow discord and make the Heavenly Palace and the Imperial Family fall out.
It was a pity that they were exposed in the end and were taken over by the combined armies of the Sky Palace and the royal family.
Just the presence of a single Heavenly Palace was enough to scare the other Prefecture Lords, and with the presence of the royal family, it was even more terrifying.
The Flame Dragon had lost its morals. Whoever dared to help the Mu Clan would only be on fire.
Outside of the city, there were Sky Mansion and Great Liang Army everywhere. They densely surrounded the city so that not even a drop of water could leak out.
Mu City was in a state of panic, especially so for the defenders. They were already fearful of the battle.
They had been attacked by the Heavenly Mansion and the Great Liang Imperial Family's army, and they didn't have any backup. The Mu Clan was definitely going to die.
No one had expected such a thing to happen. The Mu Estate at its peak was on the road to destruction within half a month.
At this moment, in Mu City, Yan Long was discussing the final battle with his trusted aides.
In the alliance camp outside the city, Li Jing led the commander-in-chief of the Heavenly Palace, while Xiao Fan and the others followed him. They were discussing the final decision to attack the city with Xiao Zhenyu, the fifth prince of the Great Liang Empire, as the representative of the commander-in-chief.
"General Li, after Mu Cheng takes down the Flame Dragon, let my Imperial Family handle it!" The young Fifth Prince had a heroic and dignified appearance as he spoke with a firm attitude.
Princess Yue was his mother's little sister. This time, the Silver Dragon had imprisoned Princess Yue and wanted to start a war between the royal family and the Heaven Palace.
Otherwise, if the royal family didn't step down in this matter, it would cause the other prefectures to look down on the authority of the Great Liang clan, and it would be even more difficult for them to unify the ten prefectures.
Li Jing didn't immediately reply to Xiao Chen. Both parties had already argued several times over who should handle the Flame Dragon and none of them were willing to give in.
Although he had a lot of power in the Heaven Palace, he still had to let Xiao Zhe decide everything. Right now, he was in a difficult position as he looked towards Xiao Fan, who was at the side.
"Fifth Prince, as for the territory of the Mu Estate, you can take care of it as you wish. The Flame Dragon can also be handed over to your Imperial Family. No problem. The condition is that we have to interrogate it before it can be handed over to you!" Xiao Fan said.
Li Jing looked at him, asking for his opinion on how to settle the Flame Dragon's matter.
He definitely could not easily give the Flame Dragon to the Imperial Family. Only after he had interrogated the Flame Dragon would he be able to give the Flame Dragon to the Imperial Family.
Someone from the Dazhuang royal family had been involved in his assassination, and that was the beginning of everything.
Only by finding all the participants would he be able to unravel the secret within.
If one were to first hand the Flame Dragon over to the Imperial Family, there would definitely be people from the Imperial Family who would rescue the Flame Dragon.
At that time, it would be even more difficult to unravel the secrets within.
More importantly, in the span of half a month, he had already fully recovered his strength.
This world had already become like the Immortal World, he didn't know how powerful people existed in this world.
If he could reduce the danger by one, then he could reduce it by one. Therefore, the Flame Dragon would have to be interrogated first before he could hand it over to the Imperial Family.
"No, absolutely not! The Flame Dragon must be taken over by our imperial family, and your Heavenly Palace cannot interfere! " Xiao Zhenyu firmly refused.
Let the Xiao Fan of the Heavenly Palace first interrogate the Flame Dragon, then hand it over to the Imperial Family, then where would the dignity of the Big Beam Imperial Family go?
In the eyes of the other Palace Masters, wouldn't they think that the Great Liang Imperial Family was inferior to the Heavenly Mansion?
In that case, it would be extremely disadvantageous to the Royal Clan's prestige, and would make it easier for the other families to look down on the Imperial Family.
"Fifth Prince, what I said earlier was not to ask for your opinion, nor was I trying to seek your compromise. Rather, I'm seriously telling you, regardless of whether your Imperial Family is willing or not, the Flame Dragon must let me interrogate first!"
"Flame Dragon sent his man to kill me before using his memories from before, then pretended to be your royal sister, Princess Yue, to get rid of me. Other than me, there is no one else in this world who wants Flame Dragon dead the most!"
"I must first ask him why he killed me and who else participated in it. I will only hand it over to you after asking. Do you understand?" Xiao Fan was exceptionally serious, and spoke with a bit of anger.
"This prince can understand your feelings, but my words still say that the Flame Dragon can only be convicted by our royal family!" Xiao Zhenyu looked unhappily at Xiao Fan, as if he was looking down on him.
From what he knew, there was no way Xiao Fan could compare to him, the prince. Now, however, he was speaking to him in such an unyielding and unreasonable manner, wanting the prince to obey the words of a mere Heavenly Palace's son.
If he were to lower his head to Xiao Fan, wouldn't that be disrespecting himself?
"Like I said, I'm not asking for your opinion just now. To put it bluntly, I'm ordering you to obey my decision. The Flame Dragon must let me interrogate it first. I won't be polite if anyone dares to obstruct me!" Xiao Fan's anger became even stronger as he stared at Xiao Zhenyu.
"You're presumptuous. You dare to threaten this prince? If it wasn't for the fact that you're the son of the Heavenly Palace, don't blame this prince for being impolite!" Xiao Zhenyu was furious, he pointed at Xiao Fan and said.
Xiao Fan actually dared to be disrespectful to him, a prince. He even wanted to threaten him and order him around.
"A tiger doesn't show off its might. Do you think I'm a sick cat? What right do you have to show off your might in front of me, to pretend to be arrogant, to look down on me!"
As Xiao Fan's voice fell, he took a step forward. Crackling sounds could be heard under his feet as his sharp aura shot towards Xiao Zhenyu.