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Chapter 5294: 5.1046 Demolishing All the Way...

Qi Ba Gongzi silently twitched the corner of his eye, looking back helplessly at the expressionless Shadow Guard.

This Shadow Guard seemed to be named Shadow, often seen attending to His Majesty.

Expressionless, cold all over, clearly someone groomed by the troublesome Emperor.

"His Majesty truly has a grand collection," Qi Ba Gongzi genuinely had no words left to express his surprise.

Even their Qi family, the foremost talisman-making family in Cangzhou, had never seen anyone carry such a large handful of storage jade talismans before.

"It's fine," Duan Yue put away the talismans, storing the storage talisman containing thirty thousand elite soldiers in his spatial ring, then said, "Let's go."

At his command, the other three leaped simultaneously, following him across the drawbridge.

Qi Ba Gongzi even threw a flying knife onto the bridge, expecting a good show.

Unexpectedly, after a "thud," everyone looked back to see the knife quivering, embedded in the center of the drawbridge.

The entire bridge merely trembled slightly twice, then stopped swaying.

The Shadow Guard lowered his gaze, secretly twitching the corner of his mouth.

His Majesty, Qi Ba Gongzi, and Prince Rong – three individuals with exceptionally high intelligence combined, analyzing like strategists, theorizing that the drawbridge might have been tampered with, probably booby-trapped.

They definitely couldn't step on it; stepping on it would surely trigger a trap!

But the result...

The enemy hadn't set any traps at all; they had just been needlessly nervous.

Qi Ba Gongzi extended a finger, pointing remotely at the drawbridge, "Do the opposite, be cautious."

Prince Rong nodded in agreement, "I suppose so."

Shadow: ...Can you two please stop complimenting each other's intelligence? His Majesty has already flown far ahead.

The three saw Duan Yue's figure move like lightning, leaving them far behind, and immediately strained to catch up.

But as they chased, the expressions of the three slowly solidified.

Something's not right?

Why was the distance always neither too far nor too close, as if His Majesty was always ahead, but they could never quite catch him no matter how hard they tried?

Qi Ba Gongzi was the first to react, "It's a formation."

Good heavens, there was no trap on the drawbridge, but there was one set after crossing the bridge—a confining illusion formation designed to deceive.

"Follow me," at that moment, His Majesty's voice softly echoed in their ears.

Qi Ba Gongzi looked back and nearly broke out in a cold sweat.

He saw their Emperor, like a ghost, following closely behind the three of them, only a few feet away.

But none of the three had noticed his sudden appearance behind them.

"My goodness, Your Majesty, please don't scare us!"

"No, that's not right, we clearly saw you run ahead of us just now."

Duan Yue waved his hand, and a guiding talisman floated up and down, swaying back and forth in front of him.

"I ran for a while, found something was off, so I came back to find you."

He pulled a thunder-fire bomb from his pocket.

"Your Majesty, what are you going to do?"

Duan Yue remained silent. With another wave of his hand, he released Er Yi and the other five, "Lead the way to Mu Jinghong's residence."

With that, he casually tossed out a thunder-fire bomb.

There was a loud boom, and the brick wall behind them suddenly collapsed, startling Er Yi and the others.

"Your Majesty, please follow me." Er Yi immediately dared not say more, hastily leading Duan Yue and the other four towards Mu Jinghong's sleeping quarters.

Along the way, continuous booming sounds echoed.

Duan Yue kept throwing firearms along the way. Seeing everyone's gazes fall on him, he kindly asked, "Want one to play with?"