The Prime Minister’s Darling

The moonlight was bright, and a canopy boat stopped by the rocks of a canyon.

The towering walls of the canyon concealed the vast night, and even the water surface could not reflect a glimmer of light. At a glance, it resembled a deep, bottomless black pool.

Xuanyuan Qi sat alone on the deck, holding the wolf fang pendant that he had removed from his neck.

Liao Chen came out from the canopy boat, sat next to his father, looked at him, and said, "Father, are you still thinking about the matter of Shitian?"

Xuanyuan Qi sighed, "I didn't expect that on my trip to Jianlu, I would encounter Shitian."

Liao Chen said, "I saw him once in Shengdu; he's called Long Yi, a friend of Ahen and Jiaojiao. However, I never fought him, nor spoke to him. Is his martial arts still as formidable as it was twenty years ago?"

Xuanyuan Qi replied, "Even more formidable than twenty years ago."

Liao Chen looked at him with concern, "Father, were you hurt?"

Xuanyuan Qi stood tall, "I am very formidable too."

Liao Chen: "..."

"How is Rong Yue?" Xuanyuan Qi asked.

Liao Chen replied, "His fate is truly great; he took a palm strike from Long Yi and yet survived with half a life."

This encounter with Long Yi was entirely unexpected; Long Yi seemed to be pursuing people from Jianlu.

Rong Yue is Mingyue Young Master. Although he had never met Long Yi, he carried the Black Moon Sword and used Jianlu's techniques.

His father intervened in time and saved Rong Yue from Long Yi's hands.

Long Yi was infuriated and engaged in a fierce battle with his father, but in the middle of the fight, Long Yi suddenly stopped.

"Why did he suddenly stop fighting?" Liao Chen, at a distance, hadn't seen the specifics.

"Because of this." Xuanyuan Qi showed the wolf fang pendant in his hand.

"This?" Liao Chen was puzzled.

Xuanyuan Qi said, "Twenty-one years ago, under Jianlu's orders, he pursued the Shadow Lord. At that time, he had the upper hand and suddenly stopped just like today. I once didn't understand, but now I think it might also be because of this wolf fang pendant."

Liao Chen said, "Father said it was a gift from the Shadow Lord to you."

Xuanyuan Qi said, "That's right, it was my birthday, and she gave it to me. She knew my elder brother first and went on campaigns with him, only later did she get to know me. Her relationship with my elder brother was closer."

Liao Chen: Why do you sound a bit sour?

Xuanyuan Qi proudly said, "But my elder brother doesn't have this."

Liao Chen: Are you showing off now?

Liao Chen returned to the main topic, "But why did Long Yi stop when he saw it and not kill you? Could it be that Long Yi recognizes it, recognizes the first Shadow Lord?"

On this point, Xuanyuan Qi wasn't very sure either. Long Yi left without a word, so he had to find the answers himself on Jianlu Island.

Long Yi had taken the Black Moon Sword, but the mechanisms on the island were mostly destroyed by Long Yi, so there was no worry about not getting up.

The next day, they arrived at Jianlu Island.

The island was strewn with corpses, the air filled with the stench of decay and the scent of dried blood.

Rong Yue immediately spotted the body wearing the sect leader's robe and rushed over, calling out "Father," only to realize that it wasn't his father.

Liao Chen held his breath, "You can tell even like this?"

Rong Yue said, "Although the appearance is decayed, my father is not this short."

Liao Chen sneered, "Looks like your father shed his skin and escaped."

Xuanyuan Qi's purpose was to uncover the truth of the events. He searched the entire island and, with Rong Yue's help, finally found a secret room within the sect leader's study room.

"I've never been to this secret room either. Father never allowed me into his study room," Rong Yue said.

"Let's go in and take a look," Liao Chen said.

The secret room contained some peculiar elixirs and many things Rong Yue had never seen before.

Liao Chen opened a box and took out a rusty weapon, saying, "It's a fire gun. Strange, the fire gun was something made by the Shadow Lord. Why does Jianlu Island have it as well?"

The three continued rummaging.

Besides the fire gun, they also found many items unique to the Shadow Division.

Liao Chen frowned, "Did this guy steal from the Shadow Division?"

Xuanyuan Qi said, "It's possible."

Back then, the various branch locations of the Shadow Division were destroyed by Jianlu, and the items inside disappeared as well.

Liao Chen accidentally triggered a switch, and a brocade box popped out from the wall. Liao Chen opened the box and took out an old, yellowed book: "Huh? There's a journal here."

After reading the journal, Xuanyuan Qi was enlightened, "Shitian actually hails from Dark Night Isle, the child of the first island owner."