Chapter 407: Imperial Palace Discussion, Issuing a Warrant for Qin Xiao

The mysterious deaths of the two imperial grandsons shook the entire Imperial Capital.

Although the Celestial Emperor remained in secluded cultivation, the Celestial Empress had taken charge. She ordered a thorough investigation and placed the capital under martial law. No one was allowed to leave.

All the Imperial Princes and Imperial Princesses, alongside other members of the imperial family, were summoned to the Imperial Palace.

The great Formations protecting the entire Outer City of the Imperial Capital were fully activated.

The Celestial Empress gathered the imperial family within the palace. Though she harbored concerns, her immediate priority was to investigate from within.

During ordinary conflicts, the Celestial Emperor and Celestial Empress would turn a blind eye or even offer their tacit approval. But this incident involved the deaths of imperial grandsons. Thus, the Celestial Empress first suspected her own people, looking to the Anti-Dynasty Alliance only as a secondary possibility.

It was not that she looked down on the Anti-Dynasty Alliance. The two imperial grandsons had died without a sound. The killer had to be at or above the Tribulation Transcendence stage and skilled in formations. Other factions did not have anyone like that.

In the mortal world, nearly all formation masters at or above the Tribulation Transcendence stage were supported by the Heavenly Dynasty. In the cultivation world, such masters were treasures of their respective sects, and none had come to the Imperial Capital.

Although the culprit had clearly designed the method of murder to rely purely on Body Refinement, everyone guessed it was an attempt to frame Qin Xiao. After all, it was an open secret that the Third Imperial Prince and Eleventh Imperial Prince bore a grudge against Qin Xiao and wished to kill him. For Qin Xiao to vanish, only for the two imperial grandsons to die shortly after-no matter how one looked at it, this was a deliberate setup.

As the Celestial Empress, how could she fail to see through such a clumsy framing attempt? This was exactly why she chose to investigate their own ranks first. She needed to clear her own people to put her mind at ease.

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