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Chapter 3644: 4.1244 Walking into a Trap...

As a long sword instantly cleared its sheath, Ying, with agile movements, flew in front of the guard captain.

Before the guard captain could react, the blade had already struck his forehead.

The guard captain let out a surprised cry, and in a split second, he activated a defensive spiritual artifact to block.

Unfortunately, Ying's sword light was astonishingly fast. As the sword light fell, a surging sword intent directly split open the defensive shield, cleaving the guard captain in front of him into two halves from the middle of his head.

Blood splattered everywhere.

The other guards were horrified by this scene. They dropped the terrified Chen Baojia and retreated several steps.

Chen Baojia was also trembling like a sieve from fright, stammering and trembling for a long time before finally letting out a shriek.

Ying, without a word, grabbed her, lifted her like a small chick, and roughly threw her in front of Duan Yue.

Chen Baojia fell to the ground, covered in dust, her face filled with terror as she looked at the smiling Duan Yue before her.

He even dared to kill the Crown Prince's close guards; what else wouldn't he dare to do?

"Go on."

"The Crown Prince, he... he learned that Qiao Mu has a personal spiritual domain," Chen Baojia stammered. "So he plans to secretly use magic to, to capture Qiao Mu and bring her back."

"Just him?" Duan Yue almost burst out laughing.

That idiot actually thinks he can capture the Divine State's Crown Princess from Longyan City, the Divine State's imperial capital, and run all the way back to Cangzhou?

Does he really think the Divine State's million-strong army is just for show?

As for Chen Baojia before him, she was quite ridiculous.

During the destruction of the Sun-Moon Temple, everyone speculated that Chen Baojia had learned about Qiao Qiao possessing a spiritual domain.

That fellow Mo Lian even specifically sent people to search for and kill Miss Chen to silence her, but after searching everywhere, they couldn't find her.

Since she had already escaped, why couldn't she learn to be smarter?

She just had to walk straight into a trap.

This truly turned out to be an unexpected gain, Duan Yue narrowed his eyes.

He calmly gazed at Chen Baojia, asking in a seemingly gentle tone, "Miss Chen, besides Rong Li and these people here, who else have you told about this personal spiritual domain?"

Chen Baojia inexplicably felt a terrifying danger beneath this gentleness. She instinctively shook her head. "I, I didn't tell anyone."

"Oh, then how did Rong Li know?" Duan Yue asked mockingly.

Chen Baojia's face flushed. "Besides the Crown Prince, Ba Shu knows. No one else, I didn't tell anyone else."

Duan Yue nodded thoughtfully and said with a smile, "Excellent."

His face indeed held a smile, but this cold grin never reached his eyes. When he looked at Chen Baojia, he appeared harmless, but he genuinely filled Miss Chen with dread from the bottom of her heart.

"Prince Chen, this is a maid from my Eastern Palace who was disrespectful and ran to your palace, offending Your Highness. I wonder if she could be returned to the Eastern Palace? I will take her back and teach her a good lesson! Thank you, Your Highness."

A woman dressed in a pink gown, looking very regal, quickly approached with six or seven maids and nannies.

She was Concubine Hong, one of the two most favored liangdi in Rong Li's palace.

Duan Yue shook his head. "She cannot be returned."

"Take them all away."

At the same time, several more hidden guards rushed out from behind Duan Yue. Without a word, they drew their swords and held them against the Eastern Palace guards, forcing them towards Taiji Palace.

Concubine Hong's face changed, her eyes sharp, looking like a sword. "Prince Chen!"