When Xu Qing finished speaking, everyone stood there silently. They had not personally witnessed the assassination attempt, but based on Xu Qing’s detailed description, they understood the fundamentals of what happened. The suspicious aspects that Xu Qing had mentioned were indeed odd, no matter how you analyzed them.2

“What organization has the resources to attempt an assassination like this in the imperial capital?” the Captain said. “They prevented all the other organizations from realizing what was going on, not to mention the imperial capital’s grand spell formation. I guess the real question is what organization could cause everyone else in the capital to be so slow and unresponsive?”3

Xu Qing had no answer, but Plumdark and Li Yunshan both looked in the direction of the imperial palace.1

It really seemed like the only person in the capital who could do all of that would be the emperor himself. The only other possibilities would be Grand Emperor Swordsage or some other terrifying organization that even the emperor feared.0

Unfortunately, they lacked sufficient information to even guess what kind of organization the emperor would fear.2

What was more, Grand Emperor Swordsage was asleep. Though he woke up when...1