Chapter 2213: Chapter 1903: Because I Know a Person Recognition Skill

Wu Feng had never expected that Lu Chen would actually be able to guess who he had taken refuge with. He had indeed defected to the Empress Dowager, but he had only maintained single-line contact with the Empress Dowager’s people, and the cultivation state of the person who contacted him was rather high. It should have been very difficult for anyone to detect his movements, let alone know that person’s identity.

He was now extremely curious how Lu Chen knew. Could it be that the Zhen Nan Prince Manor still had an even more formidable intelligence organization?

No, that wasn’t right. The Zhen Nan Prince Manor seemed to have only the Hidden Guards responsible for gathering intelligence. Yet the Hidden Guards of the Zhen Nan Prince Manor were only so-so; the entire manor had already been infiltrated like a sieve, and they had never seen those Hidden Guards ferret out these traitors. Instead, Lu Chen had seen at a glance which people in the Zhen Nan Prince Manor were traitors.

Bracing himself, Wu Feng asked at this moment, "May I ask, Princely Heir, how did you know all this?"

In the past he had always looked down on Lu Chen, believing Lu Chen to be nothing more than a dissolute wastrel, but now it seemed Lu Chen was not as wanton as he had imagined.

If Lu Chen was not a wastrel, then for the Royal Family this was probably not good news. And now that Wu Feng had already taken refuge with the Royal Family and the Empress Dowager, he very much wanted to know what exactly was going on with Lu Chen.

How was it that after losing his memory, he seemed to have become a completely different person, and had even become a Spirit Martial Artist?

Of course, what he most wanted to know at the moment was still how Lu Chen had discovered that he had taken refuge with the Empress Dowager.

Hearing Wu Feng’s words, Lu Chen gave a faint smile, then said, "You don’t need to know that. However, we’ll soon be crossing paths again."

"Alright, enough of that. Vice Commander Wu, although you don’t have any deed of sale with the Zhen Nan Prince Manor, you were, after all, nurtured by the Zhen Nan Prince Manor. Shouldn’t you also hand over some of your wealth?"

At these words, Wu Feng immediately said, "I’m willing to donate all my gold and silver to the Zhen Nan Prince Manor."

Wu Feng certainly understood that the fact the Zhen Nan Prince Manor was willing to spare them traitors already counted as exceptional mercy. Losing some gold and silver was nothing at all to a Spirit Martial Artist of the Profound Realm like him.

Hearing Wu Feng’s words, Lu Chen said, "Then I’ll trouble Vice Commander Wu to go and make preparations."

Wu Feng immediately gave Lu Chen a bow, then turned and left. Seeing that Lu Chen truly let Wu Feng go, the servants of the Zhen Nan Prince Manor became even more convinced that the manor really intended to release them. One after another, more and more people began to bring out their silver, preparing to redeem their deeds of sale.

At this moment Zhao Yu asked from the side, "Princely Heir, could you perhaps reveal how you knew he had taken refuge with the Empress Dowager?"

Not only Wu Feng was curious; Zhao Yu and Wei Heng, the Royal Mansion’s Chief Steward, were likewise extremely curious about Lu Chen’s methods. They had now begun to suspect that the person behind Lu Chen possessed an exceedingly terrifying intelligence organization, one that had perhaps already infiltrated the Zhen Nan Prince Manor. Thus this organization would be extremely clear on which traitors existed within the manor; after handing those traitor lists to Lu Chen, today’s series of events had come to pass.

Of course, this was only Zhao Yu and Wei Heng’s conjecture.

Seeing Zhao Yu and Wei Heng beside him regarding him with probing gazes, Lu Chen directly said, "Because I know a Person Recognition Skill."

At these words, Zhao Yu and Wei Heng were taken aback. Person Recognition Skill? What kind of magic was that?

Speaking of magic, in this world the ones who knew the most magic were the Taoist Sect, followed by Confucianism and the Buddhist Sect.

Spirit Martial Artists also knew some magic, but it was all combat-type magic.

Hearing Lu Chen mention a Person Recognition Skill, Zhao Yu immediately thought of Confucianism’s Qi Observation Skill, and could not help but feel suspicious. Could it be that someone from Confucianism was secretly meddling behind Lu Chen?

Why would Confucianism bother to help the Zhen Nan Prince Manor with anything?

The ones Confucianism looked down on the most were exactly martial brutes like Prince Zhen Nan, who only knew how to resort to force.

Lu Chen did not say much more to Zhao Yu and the others. This so-called Person Recognition Skill was something he had completely made up; if he said too much, it would be easy to give himself away.

Anyway, as long as he could let people know that he could see through others’ identity, that was enough. Once the servants of the Zhen Nan Prince Manor knew he had this ability, they would not dare lightly commit acts of betrayal in the future.

Before long, the Training Ground once again filled with more than a thousand people. These people lined up in a long queue, silver saved up over the years in their hands, ready to redeem their own deeds of sale.

After a while, soldiers of the Zhen Nan Prince Manor carried chest after chest into the Training Ground; inside the chests were the deeds of sale of those servants gathered on the Training Ground.

Lu Chen spoke: "Since you’ve already prepared your silver, then let’s begin. Before tomorrow’s sunset, you all have a chance to redeem your deeds of sale. If before tomorrow’s sunset you have not left the Zhen Nan Prince Manor, this Princely Heir will take it that you have made up your minds to share life and death with the Zhen Nan Prince Manor. If you betray the Zhen Nan Prince Manor again after that, this Princely Heir will never spare you lightly!"

As Lu Chen’s words fell, those servants of the Zhen Nan Prince Manor who wanted to leave began to redeem their deeds of sale. The servants who had redeemed their deeds walked straight out of the Zhen Nan Prince Manor, without encountering any obstruction during the process.

At the moment those servants stepped out of the main gate of the Zhen Nan Prince Manor, they still could not quite believe that all of this was actually real—that Prince Zhen Nan and the Heir of Prince Zhen Nan were truly willing to let them leave the manor.

As more and more servants left the Zhen Nan Prince Manor, the spies who had been keeping watch outside the manor immediately transmitted this news back to their respective factions.

For a time, all the factions in the Capital city were intensely curious as to why the Zhen Nan Prince Manor had suddenly begun dismissing its servants. Could it be that Prince Zhen Nan really was nearing his end?

By dusk.

The afterglow of the setting sun spilled into Prince Zhen Nan’s bedchamber, its dim radiance falling upon this elder whose face was like withered bark, rendering the atmosphere in the room all the more oppressive.

At this time Zhao Yu had finished giving Prince Zhen Nan a complete report of the day’s events. When Prince Zhen Nan heard Zhao Yu mention that Lu Chen knew a "Person Recognition Skill," a faint, almost imperceptible glimmer flashed through his turbid eyes.

Prince Zhen Nan murmured under his breath, "Person Recognition Skill... could it be some sort of legacy she left behind?"

Speaking to this point, Prince Zhen Nan raised his head to gaze at the sky, as though recalling something, muttering to himself, "I hope it really is you."

Realizing that Prince Zhen Nan was lost in memories of the Princess Consort, Zhao Yu retreated into the shadows of a corner and did not speak further. Whenever Prince Zhen Nan recalled the Princess Consort, he would remain dazed for a long time; the older he grew, the longer he spent immersed in those memories.

At this moment, Prince Zhen Nan was thinking that back then he had already suspected that his Princess Consort did not belong to this world. The magic she knew was countless, even more than what the Taoist Sect knew.

It was just a pity that although she was formidable, every time she used magic she would suffer backlash. Most importantly, no one else could learn her magic at all. He had tried to learn her magic back then, but his Spirit Evil Qi simply could not circulate.

Later, she left this world precisely because she suffered backlash from magic. With her passing, the magic she had left behind completely vanished without a trace.