CHAPTER 414: CHAPTER 208 "I’VE GOT YOU COVERED.

Lu Jin’an picked up all the long bamboo flutes as he strolled through the courtyard and then found a clean spot to stand next to a group of female corpses exuding the scent of blood, curiously studying the flute in his hand.

Xing Lan silently stared at the side of Lu Jin’an’s face, wondering if his actions just now counted as a pledge of loyalty?

After all, he hadn’t officially joined under her command, so it was normal even if he ignored her.

’Does he want to quickly learn the authentic Body Forging Technique?’

Gradually calming the Qi and blood within her body, Xing Lan collected her thoughts, no matter what his intentions were just now, she owed him a favor.

Once they returned to Shengjing, she would nurture him carefully.

She exhaled lightly and looked down at her Imperial Sister, Fang Xingsong, whose hair was disheveled and face was covered with scratches from tree branches.

Fang Xingsong twitched the corner of her eye but did not immediately stand up, as she had been dragged along and her ankle had been snapped by that boy.

Yet she still forced herself to speak, "Father Emperor ordered the State Preceptor to send the Observatory to fetch you back, and you still dare accuse me of fabricating the imperial edict?"

Xing Lan didn’t speak, Lu Jin’an turned to look at her, wondering what excuse she would come up with this time.

Thinking, he saw Xing Lan take a shovel out of the Qiankun Bag at her waist, turned and began to dig a pit, one shovelful at a time.

Lu Jin’an’s eyes lit up as he glanced at the expression of Fang Xingsong, which had changed dramatically, and then watched with interest as Xing Lan quickly dug a pit over ten meters in diameter and five meters deep.

Xing Lan stuck the shovel into the ground beside her foot, then started tossing the bodies of old women and young girls into the huge pit one by one.

Seeing Xing Lan walk over to a still-alive old woman and raise the shovel high, Lu Jin’an couldn’t help but smile.

So Xing Lan wasn’t joking when she said "dig a pit and bury you"; does she really have a... predilection for burying people?

Then... just as Xing Lan was about to bring the shovel down, he quickly said, "Wait."

Xing Lan paused her hand and looked up at Lu Jin’an, "You want to help me bury them?"

Lu Jin’an shook his head as he stood up and walked over, grinning, "How can I trouble Your Highness to do such things personally?"

He was indeed offering his pledge to Xing Lan, making it much more convenient for him to act in the Eastern Dynasty in the future.

"Oh." Xing Lan put down the shovel and watched as Lu Jin’an walked up, squatted in front of the old woman, and with a slight movement of his hand, a longsword appeared.

The longsword was completely pitch-black, with a Blood Pearl embedded in both the hilt and blade, exuding a sense of eerie yin energy.

It was naturally the Netherworld Validation.

Before, Lu Jin’an had wanted to use the Netherworld Validation on that group of guards to extract memories, but considering that the Eastern Dynasty might have placed some kind of prohibition on the Divine Souls of those guards, he hadn’t acted.

But from Xing Lan’s words earlier, he had concluded that she could help cover up the killing of the guards.

So the Eastern Dynasty wouldn’t "see" who the killer was through the slain guards.

Now it was safe to use the Netherworld Validation for memory browsing.

Moreover, he felt that the Middlemen of the Observatory who could control the bloodline of the Eastern Royal Family should definitely know more about significant matters concerning the Eastern Royal Family than those ordinary guards.

Lu Jin’an reached out and directly pierced the Netherworld Validation into the old woman’s forehead, then pulled it out.

As the old woman lost her breath, he suddenly felt Prince Yu’s breathing become rapid, and turned to see the prince staring intently at the Netherworld Validation in his hand.

Not only her, but even Xing Lan was the same.

Lu Jin’an looked at Xing Lan calmly and asked, "What’s wrong?"

"That sword of yours..." Xing Lan said, choosing her words carefully, while Fang Xingsong sneered, "Dear sister, you really know how to pick people; you chose a traitor who shows great disrespect to our dynasty as your subordinate!"

The ’National Guardian Sword’ inherited from the Great Ancestor, can it be imitated by others!?"

National Guardian?

In the Eastern Dynasty, the Netherworld Validation is the National Guardian Sword?

Lu Jin’an’s thoughts raced, meaning that the Eastern Dynasty possessed one of the nine Netherworld Validations, and it was even regarded as the National Guardian Sword?

When he went to the Netherworld, Black and White Impermanence had said there were nine Netherworld Validations in the world, but for over five thousand years, no one had gone to the Netherworld with one.

Even if the Royal Family of the Eastern Dynasty didn’t want or couldn’t go to the Netherworld, wouldn’t others covet the Netherworld Validation in the hands of the Eastern Dynasty?

Yet all this time, there’s been no intelligence on the Eastern Dynasty holding a Netherworld Validation.

This is unreasonable.

After all, the Eastern Dynasty wasn’t this powerful from the beginning until now; how could nothing have leaked in five thousand years?

Is there some hidden secret within?

Lu Jin’an glanced at Prince Yu, who looked at the Netherworld Validation with a gaze that was both fervent and greedy.

’The Netherworld Validation in my hand was made into a longsword by Emperor Fengdu, so she thinks it’s a counterfeit, but even as a counterfeit she desires it...’

’If the legacy of the Great Ancestor is the symbol of the Emperor?’

Lu Jin’an’s eyes flashed with murderous intent, this Prince Yu cannot be left alive.

The importance of the Netherworld Validation to the Eastern Royal Family is self-evident; if Prince Yu returns and brings up the matter, those controlled by Hidden Life Mountain in the Eastern Dynasty might easily deduce his identity.

In that case, it wouldn’t be advantageous for working under Xing Lan in the Eastern Dynasty in the future.

Lu Jin’an put away the Netherworld Validation, threw the old woman’s body into the pit, and just as he was about to take the shovel, Xing Lan had already picked it up first.

Then...she began to fill the pit.

Xing Lan said calmly, "Just a hobby."