UNBEATABLE

Solving the Trouble of the Cloud Pavilion

Chapter 132: Solving the Trouble of the Cloud Pavilion

The news of the murder of Castellan Southern Cliff City reached Luo Tong Royal City in no time.

The Royal City−Duke Wei's Mansion.

When Duke Wei Bi heard the news, the surrounding furniture shattered into powder due to his anger.

"Find the culprit even if you have to reverse the Luo Tong Kingdom - don't leave the business need unturned, you have to find out who this killer is!" Wei Bi roared furiously.

The hearts of the guards of the Duke Wei Mansion trembled in fear as they immediately acknowledged the order.

“Also, throw those Southern Cliffs Castellan Manor guards into the dungeon and interrogate them one by one. This group of dog slaves, a few thousand of them could not protect my brother, so what's the point of keeping them?!” Wei Bi's anger continued to burn.

"In addition, kill the guards who rushed into the room and saw Wei Yang's death then!" With overwhelming killing intent, Wei Bo continued to shout out orders.

Kill the guards who saw Wei Yang's death? Didn't that also mean the guards who saw the body of concubine Wei Yang?

The guards of the Duke Wei Mansion immediately understood their master's orders, and they left the room after replying, 'yes, Duke'.

After the guards left, Wei Bi's eyes turned blood red as he gritted his teeth and spat out every word with hatred, “If I find out who did it, who killed my younger brother, he said, I'll cut you into millions of pieces and feed the dogs!”

While Wei Bi was boiling in hatred, Huang Xiaolong was still on his way back to Luo Tong Royal City.

Two months later, Huang Xiaolong finally arrived.

And the first place Huang Xiaolong had visited was not the Tianxuan House, but the Cosmic Star Academy.

Entering the Headmaster's room, Xiong Chu was not there, only Sun Zhang was in the room. Huang Xiaolong took out an emerald-green Iron Crocodile beast core from the Asura Ring.

Sun Zhang nodded. Looking at the beast core of the Crocodile Iron Emerald, he laughed as he said: “Indeed, this is the beast core of the Iron Crocodile, and you are now officially a Third Year student. Me and Xiong Chu will recommend you to the inner courtyard, but we still need to discuss the matter with the inner page Elder before we make a final decision. After all, with your talent, joining the inner pages should not cause much trouble.”

Each year, the number of places allocated to students entering the inner courtyard was limited to ten. However, the prospective students chosen were not decided by Sun Zhang and Xiong Chu. The meeting was held with the inner page Elders, and each candidate had to obtain nine out of ten votes of approval.

Huang Xiaolong nodded. To him, it didn't matter whether he entered the inner courtyard or not. The reason he wanted to advance to Third Year was so that he could win the overall Academy competition.

However, when Huang Xiaolong turned to leave, Sun Zhang suddenly spoke: "Castellan South Cliff City and her little concubine were killed by you, right?"

Huang Xiaolong turned his head back to look at Sun Zhang, and a small light of surprise flickered in his eyes. How did Sun Zhang know?

Sun Zhang smiled, “Don't look at me like that. It was just a guess, but I didn't expect it to really be you.”

Then, Huang Xiaolong realized that it must be because of his time. When he went hunting the Iron Crocodile, it coincided with the death of Castellan South Cliff City, and thus, Sun Zhang made such an assumption.

"I heard little concubine Wei Yang has a great figure– her butt is big, so?" In the next instant, another question emerged from Sun Zhang's mouth.

Huang Xiaolong was surprised because he did not expect this question from Sun Zhang. Huang Xiaolong shook his head. Why would this Sun Zhang ask such a question?

"That's right, I killed them." Huang Xiaolong frankly admitted.

It doesn't matter if he confesses.

Of course, Sun Zhang would not publish this matter to the outside world.

Huang Xiaolong turned around and left the room, ending the conversation.

Sun Zhang's mouth opened as if there were many questions he wanted to ask, but seeing Huang Xiaolong leave, he could only shake his head and mutter softly: "This child!"

Fei Hou came to see her after getting word of her return. Huang Xiaolong asked about things about the Tianxuan House over the past few months with Fei Hou answering, answering them one by one. When this matter ended, Fei Hou suddenly said: "The Sovereign, there have been many examples of conflicts between Nine Tripod Commerce and Clear Cloud Pavilion in the past few days."

Clear Cloud Pavilion was the largest trading house in the Cloud Sea Kingdom. It was established over a hundred years ago and its many branches covered most of the land. Even within Luo Tong Kingdom, they had no less than a dozen branches. There was also a lot of strength under their wings.

At that moment, when a huge treasure appeared in the Enlightenment Lake, the Clear Cloud Pavilion also mobilized many people to come.

“What kind of conflict?” Huang Xiaolong asked.

Fei Hou replied respectfully, “Two weeks ago, a disciple of the Clear Cloud Pavilion branch of Big Dawn County came to our Nine Great Dawn Trades, the Big Dawn Tripod, it claims that it wants to buy one million copies of its Nine Tripods publication. When our Big Dawn branch disciples said they had no supplies, the Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples attacked and injured our disciples.

A light glittered in Huang Xiaolong's eyes. Asking for a million copies of the Nine Tripods, clearly the other party had clearly come to create trouble.

"Are you sure that their disciples made the first move, hurting our people?" Huang Xiaolong asked.

"Yes I'm sure!" Fei Hou said with confidence. “After the Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples injured our people, they even slandered our Nine Tripod Trade, he said, claiming that we should close if we can't even give a million copies and insult us with questions like what the purpose of doing business is like. For the past two weeks or so, the disciples of Clear Cloud Pavilion Big Dawn will go to our store to make trouble every day, and they even hurt our people!”

“Every day they come, screaming that Nine Tripod Commerce should give them a million copies!”

Hearing this, Huang Xiaolong's eyes turned cold. These Clear Cloud Pavilion disciples came to the Nine Tripod Commerce branch of Big Dawn County every day, making trouble and hitting people. Evidently, they did not put the Tianxuan Mansion in their eyes. Or perhaps, they had not placed him, Huang Xiaolong, and the Marshal House in their eyes!

“Did you clearly investigate what strength this Clear Cloud Pavilion has in Luo Tong Kingdom?!” Huang Xiaolong asked.

Fei Hou replied: “I have investigated this matter clearly; the Clear Cloud Pavilion dared to act so arrogantly because they were supported by the Prime Minister, Wu Feng, Duke of Wei Bi, and other high-ranking officials like Li Jian! This all comes from jealousy over our Nine Tripod Commerce profits!”

Prime Minister Wu Feng!

The coldness in Huang Xiaolong's eyes increased. No wonder this Clear Cloud Pavilion dared to act so brazenly—behind them was Prime Minister Wu Feng!

In Luo Tong Kingdom, Marshal Haotian stood at the top of the military chain of command, and he was a three-generation Marshal with the highest status and position only under the King. However, this Prime Minister Wu Feng represented a major political power, and like Marshal Haotian, he was a minister of three generations. Although his position was not as high as that of Marshal Haotian, the distance could be ignored.

Within the Luo Tong Kingdom, one led the political arena and the other spearheaded the military, and the two sides were never in harmony! Prime Minister Wu Feng had warned King Lu Zhe many times, claiming that Haotian Marshal wielding military power was a great risk to Luo Tong Kingdom, and he even proposed that the authority and military position of Marshal Haotian be revoked.

There was a high possibility that this matter with the Clear Cloud Pavilion was secretly planned by the Prime Minister.

The rise of Nine Tripod Commerce these past few years, and its abundant annual profits that were close to a hundred thousand gold coins made many people envious.

"So, this is a misty old man!" Huang Xiaolong sneered coldly.

But, Huang Xiaolong had not expected that other than Prime Minister Wu Feng, Duke Wei Bi was also one of the supporters of Clear Cloud Pavilion.

He had just killed his biological brother, Castellan of the Southern Cliff City, Wei Yang.

“How about other branches? Did a similar event happen?” Huang Xiaolong asked.

"Not at this time." Fei Hou replied. "Sovereign, how about I travel personally to Big Dawn County to resolve this matter?"

Huang Xiaolong nodded: "Tomorrow, you will come with me."

Huang Xiaolong intended to travel by himself.

If he allowed this matter with the Clear Cloud Pavilion to worsen, not only would it harm the development of Nine Tripod Commerce in the future, it would also affect the reputation of Huang Xiaolong and Marshal Haotian.

"Sovereign is planning to leave too?" Fei Hou was startled before admitting his decision respectfully.