Tiandou Palace, Imperial Garden.
The rockery and strange rocks are stacked in an orderly manner, and the exotic flowers and plants compete for beauty.
Despite such a beautiful scene, Emperor Xue Ye had no intention of appreciating it.
Xue Ke looked at her father with a worried look on his face and felt extremely distressed.
Ever since he learned that his brother Xue Qinghe was abducted by an evil dragon when he exchanged treasures for him, Emperor Xue Ye has been bedridden. With the treatment of the imperial physician and the help of Dugu Bo, he was able to barely get out of bed and move around in the past two days.
However, his hair and beard had become more gray, he never smiled, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes and on his forehead increased!
You know, as the emperor of the Tiandou Empire, although his cultivation is not high, thanks to the nourishment of various natural treasures, the sixty-year-old Emperor Xue Ye looks no different from a forty-year-old middle-aged man on weekdays.
"The Spirit Hall has agreed to help find the evil dragon's trail. Do they have any news?" Emperor Xue Ye slowly sat down in a pavilion and asked Xue Ke.
A few days ago, the Tiandou Empire united various forces on the continent to expose the "ugly face" of the Spirit Hall.
But I never expected that such a big mistake would happen!
Pope Bibi Dong made a claim. After much deliberation, Emperor Xue Ye simply ceded some "useless" territories, compensated the Spirit Hall with rare treasures, and asked the Pope to help find clues about the evil dragon and Xue Qinghe.
Bibi Dong readily agreed.
"Father, there is still no news." Xue Ke showed a trace of worry. She was no less concerned about her brother Xue Qinghe's safety than Emperor Xue Ye.
Emperor Xue Ye sighed, the depression in his heart was like compacted cotton, making it a little difficult for him to breathe.
Just then,
A palace maid came over quickly.
"Your Majesty, the Minister of the Kingdom of Haagen-Dazs, Yili, is outside the palace and has something important to report."
The Kingdom of Haagen-Dazs?
After being stunned for a moment, Emperor Xue Ye suddenly relaxed his brows and showed a look of joy.
Although the Tiandou Empire mobilized the entire country, it failed to find the hiding place of the evil dragon.
But we also got a lot of clues.
More than one civilian who went out to release water at night, or some soul masters who were traveling at night, reported that they saw a smaller dragon-shaped creature flying to the west at night.
Therefore, the Tiandou Empire also focused its search on the western border.
Moreover, Emperor Xue Ye had a premonition that what his subject Yili was about to report was related to the evil dragon!
Xue Ye quickly walked out of the inner palace and went to meet him.
"Your Majesty!"
"A shocking case occurred two days ago in Hanhai City, an important city on the western border of our Haagen-Dazs Kingdom!"
"The tax money in Hanhai City's treasury was stolen by the evil dragon the night before."
Hanhai City, the largest city in the Western Hammer of the Tiandou Empire and the prosperous commercial center of the Haagen-Dazs Kingdom, is located on a huge island not far from the land and surrounded by sea water on all sides!
"Come here, quickly inform the eunuchs to come to the main hall for a meeting in half an hour!"
"Come with me to the side and tell me what happened. Pay special attention to everything related to the dragon!"
Foreign minister Yili was somewhat surprised.
Emperor Xue Ye had no intention of reprimanding Hanhai City for being unable to pay taxes due to the theft in the treasury.
But after thinking about it, he suddenly understood.
Crown Prince Xue Qinghe was abducted by an evil dragon. This concerns the future throne of the Tiandou Empire!
If the crown prince is confirmed dead, the fourth prince Xue Beng who has been idle all day long will become the emperor of Tiandou Empire in the future.
…
Inside the imperial council hall, all the Tiandou nobles remained silent as they listened to the foreign ministers from the Haagen-Dazs Kingdom describing in detail how the Hanhai City treasury had been stolen.
"The dragon was too fast and extremely cunning. It circled and flew away. We don't have a Titled Douluo-level warrior, so we can't track it."
"Therefore, you don't know which direction the little evil dragon flew after robbing the treasury." Yili carefully recounted the story of the evil dragon's surprise attack on Hanhai City.
The Tiandou nobles said nothing and fell into deep thought.
Hanhai City is located on the western frontier, and the Empire's influence there is not strong, not to mention that the west of Hanhai City is the sea, the east is land, and the north leads to the Far North!
Ao Xing is not an adult evil dragon and is not very big.
"Is it possible that we can only strengthen the reconnaissance around the Haagen-Dazs Kingdom?"
"Even if we know the evil dragon is in the western part of the empire, finding him is like looking for a needle in a haystack!"
The information provided by Yili could not provide effective help in finding the evil dragon. The officials from the former prince's lineage were all frowning and sighing.
But Xue Ke suddenly said:
"The dragon's circling away means that it doesn't want us to know the direction it left. Doesn't this mean that the place where it is is not far from Hanhai City?"
"Otherwise, it could just fly away in one direction like it did last time when it kidnapped my brother."
It is no secret that the dragon is cunning.
Xue Ke suddenly changed her thinking, triggered it from the evil dragon's perspective, and deduced her guess by reverse engineering its behavior, which won unanimous praise from the Tiandou nobles.
Emperor Xue Ye decisively gave an order and dispatched a hundred search teams to intensify the exploration of the western border of the Haagen-Dazs Kingdom.
…
Ao Xing was familiar with the route and sneaked into Tiandou City.
When he arrived above Yuexuan, he narrowed the range of the time-stop field to just cover Yuexuan.
Then he slowly walked in.
The wall that was broken by it a few days ago has now been repaired.
The Yuexuan students from the previous class also graduated two days ago.
At this moment, there was no one in Yuexuan.
After some searching, Ao Xing found Tang Yuehua sitting next to the harp.
Time stop, release.
The next moment, melodious music echoed in the room.
Ao Xing closed his eyes and enjoyed this "elegant music" that only the nobles of the Tiandou Empire could listen to.
Tang Yuehua seemed to be completely unaware that the evil dragon was right behind her. She continued to pluck the strings with her fingers, which were as delicate as lotus roots.
"~~~~"
"~~~〆~~"
"~~~"
"Since you've discovered me, there's no need to pretend you don't know." Ao Xing heard the music rhythm suddenly become chaotic at a certain moment, so he opened his eyes and said:
"Tang Yuehua, I said I would come back."
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