Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 1051 - 306: Terror

The Crown Prince of the Shangwu Dynasty heard a voice coming from behind him in the palace; when he turned back in surprise, he saw the palace interior in utter chaos.

He couldn’t help but furrow his brows deeply. When he himself was beset by confusion, how could there already be disorder within? What did this mean for the state of affairs?

As he walked back to the palace with a group of people, he suddenly saw a stranger sitting in the seat that had belonged to him. In front of this person, several eunuchs pointed at the one sitting on the chair with faces full of shock, as if they wanted the stranger to get up promptly, but the aura emanating from the stranger kept them from speaking out.

The Crown Prince’s gaze fell upon the stranger. At first glance, he noticed a conspicuously large sword beside the person and also recognized a somewhat familiar face.

Wait... if he didn’t know this man, why did he feel the stranger looked so familiar?

The stranger’s face, compared to those in his memory, suddenly made the Crown Prince’s pupils contract.

Because he abruptly remembered this face, it looked very much like that of his elder brother, who had died years ago – the previous Crown Prince of the Shangwu Dynasty!

A myriad of thoughts flooding his mind, the Crown Prince couldn’t help but exclaim in shock, "You you you... could you be Fan Wu from Qiulong Temple?!"

Because he suddenly thought that the only person who could possibly be connected to his deceased brother was Fan Wu from Qiulong Temple.

Although he didn’t know whether there was any relationship between the two for certain, these were all his speculations.

"Oh?" Fan Wu sat in a gilded chair with a swagger, one leg crossed over the other, and reached for a bunch of grapes from a fruit bowl nearby. Popping the grapes into his mouth, he bit off half in a showy manner.

While chewing, Fan Wu spoke with evident interest, "It seems you’re not quite the fool, to have guessed my identity at a glance. Judging by the python robe you’re wearing, you must be the Crown Prince of this dynasty, right?"

"Hiss!" Hearing Fan Wu admit his identity, the Crown Prince of the Shangwu Dynasty couldn’t help but draw in a sharp breath, involuntarily stepping back.

The group that the Crown Prince had brought also instantly realized the situation.

"It’s Fan Wu from Qiulong Temple! The one who killed the National Master and His Majesty, Fan Wu from Qiulong Temple!"

A guard’s eyes bulged, and then he quickly sheltered in front of the Crown Prince, shouting loudly, "Protect the Crown Prince at once!"

Watching the group descend into disarray, Fan Wu chuckled and said, "I wasn’t the one who did it, so don’t go pinning it on me. I indeed killed your National Master, but as for your so-called His Majesty, I have never even met him, let alone kill him."

After saying this, Fan Wu turned to the Crown Prince of the Shangwu Dynasty and, right in front of him, took out a damaged Jade Pendant.

This Jade Pendant was not originally intact, and after a previous battle, it had shattered beyond recognition.

But as soon as the Jade Pendant was presented, the current Crown Prince’s face drastically changed.

Smiling, Fan Wu asked, "I just wanted to see if you recognized this thing, but it seems there’s no need to ask – you’re indeed quite familiar with it."

The Crown Prince of the Shangwu Dynasty couldn’t help but cry out in shock, "How do you have such a Jade Pendant? How is that possible? Could it be you... No no no, that’s impossible! Just a newborn infant back then, how could you possibly have survived?!"

As he spoke, he kept retreating continuously, his face full of disbelief, "Impossible, impossible, absolutely impossible! How could he possibly have descendants who survived?"

"No... no, that’s not right, not right!"

At this point, the Crown Prince of the Shangwu Dynasty suddenly thought of something, and he hurriedly said, "Even if you are indeed his descendant, it doesn’t matter. I am already the Crown Prince. I have been the Crown Prince for over twenty years!"

"As the current Crown Prince of the Shangwu Dynasty, within the entire Dynasty, only I am qualified to inherit the throne from my father! Even if you have returned, it’s of no use. My brother has long ceased to be the Crown Prince!"

"Even if you are the offspring of my brother who was lost to the outside world, you’re merely an ordinary Prince now, no longer the Imperial Grandson! Yes, that’s it!"

Every word now coming out from the Crown Prince of the Shangwu Dynasty was astonishing in its revelations, causing the group around him to look at him with stunned eyes before turning their gaze to Fan Wu.

Among those present were a few ministers from the Imperial Palace.

Those who could hold office in the great city naturally had sharp minds, and from the Crown Prince’s words, they could analyze a lot of very weighty information.

First: The man sitting on the gilded chair in Qiulong Temple, Fan Wu, was very likely one of the lost royal descendants of their Shangwu Dynasty.

This piece of information allowed them to breathe a sigh of relief. If this was indeed the case, then wasn’t the other party not one of their own?

With that in mind, the other party shouldn’t harm the Shangwu Dynasty, right?

But the second piece of information they deduced made them feel numb.

Second: The Crown Prince was very anxious, and having mentioned ’brother’, didn’t that imply Qiulong Temple’s Fan Wu was very likely the child of the previous Crown Prince? In other words, Qiulong Temple’s Fan Wu was the once-missing Imperial Grandson of their Shangwu Dynasty!

How could this be?

Everyone couldn’t help but look at each other in dismay, unable to cope with the developments unfolding before them.

If that Qiulong Temple offender truly was the former Crown Prince, why was the current Crown Prince so panic-stricken upon his return to the Imperial Palace?

Was the Crown Prince worried that his position would be snatched away by the other party?

But how could the position of the Crown Prince be so easily usurped?

Or perhaps... Hiss!

The death of the previous Crown Prince had always been very mysterious. Could the death of the previous Crown Prince have some connection to the current one?

If this was indeed the case, then the current Crown Prince’s panic seemed to have a very reasonable explanation.

At that moment, they heard the Crown Prince of the Shangwu Dynasty hastily defend himself, "The events of that year had nothing to do with me! It was all the State Preceptor! It was all his scheming and machinations, all his work to sow discord!"

With these words landing, the eyes of every civil and military minister widened.

Although the Crown Prince did not elaborate further, this admission alone thoroughly indicated that the death of the former Crown Prince was closely related to him.

Therefore, he uttered these words in terror, and therefore Qiulong Temple’s Fan Wu’s appearance before him stirred such fear.

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