On the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, New Year's Eve, the prince Jiang Xin received a secret report from the confidants sent by Ding Feng. Seeing the message written on it was exactly the same as what Shi Qiyu said that day, Prince Jiang Xin became even more suspicious.

The water of the lake in the center of the East Palace has frozen into ice. Prince Jiang Xin sat by the lake with a fishing rod alone. There was a chair next to him, and a fishing rod was erected in front of the chair.

Not long after, under the leadership of the East Palace manager and a group of East Palace guards, Shi Qiyu, dressed in white, came to the center of the Circle Lake.

Prince Jiang Xin said to his subordinates: "You go down, you don't have to come over without a summon."

"Yes!" The manager of the East Palace took his men back after hearing this.

Prince Jiang Xin said to Shi Qiyu who was standing next to him: "Immortal Qiyu, sit."

Shi Qiyu sat down after thanking him.

Prince Jiang Xin asked: "Has Immortal Qi Yu ever caught fish?"

Shi Qiyu shook his head and said, "Never. However, there are similar fishing in our sect, but we are fishing for the spirit beasts in the abyss."

Prince Jiang Xin said excitedly: "Oh, it sounds much more interesting than fishing."

Shi Qiyu replied, "It's not entirely true. With my current strength, I am not qualified to go fish in water-based spirit beasts. If I force it, not only will it not be able to catch spirit beasts, but it may also be pulled down from the abyss and eat it as snacks."

"Haha, Immortal Qi Yu can rest assured that the fish in my circle lake will not be as cruel as the spirit beasts in your immortal sect." Prince Jiang Xin said with a smile.

Shi Qiyu picked up the fishing rod, followed the way and learned from Prince Jiang Xin to put on the bait, and hung the hook under the chiseled ice circle in front of him.

The fish hook entered the lake, and all that was left was to wait patiently.

Prince Jiang Xin held the fishing rod and said bluntly to Shi Qiyu: "Immortal Qiyu, I sent someone to Jiugong Mountain to check it out, everything is as you said."

Shi Qiyu said with an Oh, "Your Highness the Crown Prince doesn't believe me?"

Prince Jiang Xin said: "I originally wanted to believe it, but now I don't believe it."

Shi Qiyu's hand holding the fishing rod was very steady, and she could not see any inner turmoil and said, "So why is His Highness the Crown Prince invited me to come today?"

Prince Jiang Xin smiled and said, "I just want to make friends with you."

"Friend?" Shi Qiyu said a little surprised.

Prince Jiang Xin confirmed: "Yes, I have never had friends. Those people will kneel down to me in fear when they see me. Only you will look at me like a normal person."

Shi Qiyu thought of his life at Yuanling Sect and sighed: "You are the dragon among people, the future monarch of Qin, and it is common sense that others respect you very much. However, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should have adapted to it for so many years."

Prince Jiang Xin admitted: "I usually adapt, but I still feel regretful when I think about it occasionally. By the way, I heard from Lingzun that Immortal Qi Yu is only eleven years old this year."

"It's going to be twelve after the tenth day of the New Year." Shi Qiyu replied.

Prince Jiang Xin enviously said: "It's great to be young, and you have the opportunity to do anything. With the talented immortal resources of the Immortal Qi Yu, our Qin State will be proud of the Immortal Qi Yu in the future."

"Your Highness the Crown Prince is too honored." Shi Qiyu suddenly said, "Your Highness the Crown Prince, there are some things you don't want to do, you don't have to do."

Prince Jiang Xin said helplessly: "But others have already set up the stage and prepared all the staff, so I have to appear."

Shi Qiyu seemed to feel something, "People are walking forward with their own shackles."

"There are also immortal Qi Yu?" Prince Jiang Xin asked.

Shi Qiyu said truthfully: "Yes, even if my master has a high level of cultivation, he still has shackles. It's just that he hides well and will not be easily discovered by others."

Prince Jiang Xin inquired: "Is that the shackles of the Immortal Qi Yu family members?"

"They are just shackles of me in this mortal world. If I break free, there will be shackles of the mortal world to put them on me." Shi Qiyu said.

Prince Jiang Xin understood and said, "Hey, why are you so tired when you are a human being?"

"Jiang Xin, if you feel tired, you will not go up before the show even before it starts. I can also help you block it." Shi Qi Yuyi said with some advice.

When Prince Jiang Xin saw Shi Qiyu calling out his name and warning words, he said happily: "It seems that I have made a good friend today."

Shi Qiyu also smiled and said, "At least so far, we are."

Prince Jiang Xin wanted to tell Shi Qiyu about Jinwei, but when he thought of Jinwei's terribleness, he stopped what he wanted to say, and asked, "If your life is only one day left, what would you do?"

"I will ask my master to suppress those senior brothers and sisters whom I don't like, and then beat them up. Tell them that they are not as good as me under the same level. If I give me time, I can let them know that they are never as good as me!" Shi Qiyu's heart has always been in the realm of cultivation, and what he cares about is his cultivation.

Prince Jiang Xin laughed and said, "It sounds like a kid playing house."

"It's all the same. The fight in your mortal world is added with power, and the cultivation world is added with magic and spiritual weapons. But one thing cannot be missing." Shi Qiyu said.

Prince Jiang Xin continued: "Mind."

Shi Qiyu nodded and said, "That's right. Anyone who wants to live a good life must use his brain. This is the case in the mortal world, and the cultivation world is even the same. Especially the higher the seat, the more he needs to use his brain. Because many people want to pull down people at high positions and sit on them."

"Qi Yu, if you come to our court to be an official, we can definitely become good friends who can make friends with each other." said Prince Jiang Xin.

Shi Qiyu said: "Even if I am not an official in Qin State, I have regarded you as a friend."

Prince Jiang Xin said: "That is my honor."

"It's also my honor." Shi Qiyu replied.

At this moment, the two of them moved their fishing rods at the same time and they caught a big fish. And they all knew that only one person could catch the fish tomorrow.

In the Qin Palace Zunyi Hall, the situation reversed again. The prince Jiang Xin had already become the leader of the game. Unexpectedly, with Emperor Shengde's yell, Prince Jiang Xin was trapped in the stone pillar prison the next moment, which made most of the people present unexpectedly.

Emperor Shengde put the blood-stained corner of the table in his hand aside, and the wooden thorns on his palm were pulled out one by one and said, "The key to being a king is to know yourself and know others."

Prince Jiang Xin did not care about Emperor Shengde, but looked at Shi Qiyu who was beside him with his left hand and used earth-based techniques to trap him, and asked with a smile: "Love Qiyu, the price I have given to your father is the highest. Unless the person on the squad can give you the throne of Qin, I will not think of a reason for him to refuse." Prince Jiang Xin has already matched his position with Emperor Shengde. If not, he knew that there was no room for recovery in this situation. When he saw Gao Jing, he knew that Shi Qiyu and Emperor Shengde were back together, but he offered Shi Yu the price he could give before entering the Zunyi Hall, but he did not expect that the result would be the same in the end.

Having a clear identity, Shi Qiyu only wanted to solve the doubts about the Centennial Lake yesterday. He confirmed: "You have doubted me from the beginning, why don't you threaten the Shi family as a threat, but just win over my father with a high position."

"I have been with Emperor Shengde for too long, and I will unknowingly want to be a person like him. I am still too obsessed with the word "Shengde"." Prince Jiang Xin said mockingly.

Shi Qiyu sighed, without saying anything.

Prince Jiang Xin persuaded: "But these are not important. Your father can still belong to me. With my ability, I can give you more from the Shi family."

Shi Qiyu had to admire Prince Jiang Xin. Under such circumstances, he was still calm and composed. Every word he said hit the nail on the head and couldn't refuse.

Shi Qiyu looked at Shi Yu and said, "This is your business in the court, you can make a decision." After that, Shi Qiyu pinched his left hand and the earth-based stone prison technique was launched again, but this time his target was Emperor Shengde. The same stone prison prison was an explanation from Shi Qiyu to his friend yesterday.

All the choices fell on Shi Yu. Seeing the eyes of everyone, Shi Yu felt that there was a mountain pressing on his shoulders, which forced him to kneel on the ground. Shi Yu thought a lot in his mind. He looked at Prince Jiang Xin. The title of Qin's backer king he promised before entering the hall was still in his ears. He knew that Jiang Xin had given him everything he could. Shi Yu looked at Emperor Shengde again. Compared to Jiang Xin's backer king, Emperor Shengde gave him not much, and he was only a king of different surnames. But Emperor Shengde was the legitimate lord of Qin, just like the Black Armor Army would submit to them without thinking when he saw Gao Jing and Emperor Shengde return. If Shi Yu had a strange intention, he would have led people to capture them together after Emperor Shengde discussed the plan with the Shi family.

Shi Yu kowtowed to Emperor Shengde and said, "My dear Shi Yu swears to be loyal to His Majesty Shengde!"

A voice of swearing to be loyal to His Majesty Shengde extinguished the only hope in Prince Jiang Xin's heart, and also made the eldest prince and others who defected to him stand unsteadily and fall to the ground. Queen Zunyi looked at Emperor Shengde in disbelief because he did not tell her his trump card for the first time.

Although Emperor Shengde knew it, the price given by Prince Jiang Xin was too high. He was really afraid that Shi Yu would join Prince Jiang Xin's side. Now that the situation is clear, he unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and the second prince and others on his side also felt a sense of rebirth.

Seeing that Shi Qiyu had made a choice, he could only accept it. Shi Qiyu pressed his left hand down, and the Shi Prison that bound Emperor Shengde responded and went into the ground without a trace.

Emperor Shengde came over without any hesitation and helped Shi Yu up, grasped his shoulder tightly and said, "I have always known Shi Aiqing's loyalty to the emperor and the country."

Seeing that the overall situation was settled, Shi Qiyu said to Shi Yu who was sweating profusely: "So, I will go back first. When my master comes, I will clear the elixirs that I owe you to the Shi family, and I will have no connection with your Shi family in the future."

After hearing this, Prince Jiang Xin burst into laughter. It turned out that he had been wrong at the beginning. He said to Shi Qiyu: "So Qiyu, your shackles are like this. If I had known this, I would have sent someone to kill the entire Shi family. In this way, I would have left that person to you to deal with. First, you can avenge the Shi family without regrets, and second, we can also become real friends."

Shi Qiyu looked at Prince Jiang Xin and said, "We are already friends. Your mentality is not bad, but unfortunately, I was born in this mortal world, and you still have one thing missing in this game."

Prince Jiang Xin asked, "I don't know what it is?"

"Famous." Shi Qiyu replied.

Prince Jiang Xin understood and smiled and said, "Thank you for your advice."

Shi Qiyu sighed and said, "Jiang Xin, today we may not see each other again."

Prince Jiang Xin knew that he would die today and said frankly: "I know, there are not so many times in the world that can catch big fish together. My fishing rod today is empty."

"Do you have an unfulfilled wish?" Shi Qiyu added, "Of course, I can't help you kill Emperor Shengde or the people present."

Prince Jiang Xin laughed and said, "I dare not make such extravagant requests. Qi Yu, if possible, please bring me a word to Princess Yujin in the side hall."

Shi Qiyu said with a heavy emphasis: "Okay!"

"Tell her that I'm going to a very far place and can't accompany her to see the beautiful scenery of clouds hanging on the peaks. Let her go with her beloved." It turned out that Prince Jiang Xin had always known that Yu Jin was looking at him in his eyebrows and thinking about someone else.

Shi Qiyu agreed, "I remember, don't go."

"Don't go." Prince Jiang Xin replied.

Shi Qiyu put away his magic sword and left like that. He didn't want to know what happened here. Because in Shi Qiyu's mind, except for the last scene, everything else was true. He was more inclined to Prince Jiang Xin, who felt that people like Prince Jiang Xin were worthy of taking charge of Qin. But as Jiang Xin said, everyone has shackles and sometimes they have no choice.

After Shi Qiyu left, Yan Boke and Gao Jing both stood up. Lu Dao's legs also returned to normal. It turned out that Yan Boke and Gao Jing had matched Shi Qiyu in advance and acted for Prince Jiang Xin to see. Lu Dao was different. He really had to protect the twelfth prince Jiang Yin, so that he could play two moves with Shi Qiyu. Shi Qiyu also found that there was an extra master on the spot, so he had no choice but to use real skills to knock him away while using earth-based techniques to wrap his legs around him, making it impossible for him to move.

The success and the defeat of the enemy, after Shi Qiyu's reminder, the prince Jiang Xin knew that he had lost because he was wrong. Shi Yu finally recognized Emperor Shengde and did not dare to create a new prosperous era in Qin with him.

The eldest prince Jiang Feng and others angrily cursed the prince Jiang Xin and knelt on the ground and cried and begged Emperor Shengde.

Emperor Shengde didn't want to care about these rebellious sons anymore, so he said to Yanboke: "Break all their legs and throw them out of the Zunyi Hall. There are also these two Jiang Xin's subordinates, throw them out and lock them up together."

"Here!" Yanboke was not like ordinary Qin soldiers who were worried about their status as princes. He heard this and broke the legs of the princes who defected to Prince Jiang Xin with his right hand, and then threw them all out of the gate of Zunyi Hall like a sandbag, like throwing sandbags. He might also think that their wailing was too unpleasant, Emperor Shengde asked the black armored army outside Zunyi Hall to drag them down and wait for the defeat.

The twelfth prince Jiang Yin knew that it was the best opportunity to clear his mother's empress He, so he stepped forward and asked, "Empress Zunyi, what happened just now is not over. Do you dare to swear in front of your father that my mother's affairs have nothing to do with you!"

Emperor Shengde knew that others could not listen to these things, so he asked Shi Yu and Lu Dao to take the second prince and the eighth prince to rest in his Wanlong Hall first. Only the prince Jiang Xin, the queen Zunyi, and the twelfth prince Jiang Yin and Yan Boke were left in the venue.

Emperor Shengde said: "Yan Boke's beloved and I have a life-long friendship, and he is not an outsider. Zhou, you can swear."

Seeing Emperor Shengde directly calling her Zhou, Queen Zunyi felt sad, but still looked calm and said to the sky with her hands: "What's not for me? If the death of the twelfth prince and mother is really related to me, then it's called my palace to pieces and not be able to die well!"

"You!" Jiang Yin saw that Empress Zunyi still denied it, but for a moment there was nothing he could do.

At this moment, the black armored army outside the hall suddenly shouted: "There is an assassin! Protect the emperor!"
To be continued...