Blue Phoenix Chapter 24 - The Third Prince

While talking with the third prince, Hui Yue had to be constantly alert and vigilant not to let information escape his lips. The third prince would ask questions in rapid succession while they were talking. Questions that ranged from the beast army to Shenyuan, and even ones about the Siban Empire and their battles. While asking questions like these, he also intermixed questions about Hui Yue’s allegiance, his friends, and how he came to be in Muchuan City. All in all the conversation flowed smoothly despite these many questions. Hui Yue tried asking a few of his own, but all he got were generic answers.

As time flowed by, neither Hui Yue nor Shiu Ye managed to spot a weakness in the other person. All Hui Yue learned was that Shiu Yue was a polite prince who worked hard for his citizens. He loved his brothers more than anything and greatly respected his father. He presented himself as the exact opposite of a person who was cold-hearted and had his brother’s beloved assassinated, not to mention the two entire families of innocent people killed. Hui Yue, on the other hand, was a person who traveled the world. Through random encounters entirely out of his control, he ended up within Shenyuan where he then did nothing special but share a few human tactics and warfare strategies with the beasts. He underplayed his role significantly, and he refused to go into details about his travels.

“You are an interesting person. To think that you ended up in Shenyuan by mistake and taught the beasts human tactics is indeed quite the coincidence,” Shiu Ye said with a nod of his head and an eager expression on his face. Hui Yue nodded as well with a smile not willing to give even one more detail about what he had done, but it seemed that his lack of response did not annoy the third prince; instead, he was sitting still as though contemplating something important.

After a brief silence, Shiu Ye sighed deeply and rubbed his forehead with his hand. “I am aware that you are friends with Deng Wu and Wang Ju Long. I know that both of them

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