Chapter 277

"Fifth brother, what do you think I should do?"

Li Ji came to the place where the Fifth Prince, Li Ran, lived and told him about what happened in the Imperial Study today.

Li Ran was very low-key, and the place where he lived was relatively quiet; the things used to entertain guests were also relatively ordinary, just melon seeds and fruits.

Where was the arrogant appearance from when he was supervising the country and fighting for the throne before?

After Li Ji came in, he grabbed melon seeds and started cracking them; he performed very casually; he wasn't the successor to the throne before, and even if he was a Prince now, he didn't have any airs.

After listening to the whole story, Li Ran replied: "To tell you the truth, the Prince of Zhennan once taught me for a period of time; I am very familiar with his temper. He is very vengeful and reports every grievance; he has many methods. When helping the former Emperor seize power, many people died at his hands; these people disappeared inexplicably, without even leaving a trace, which shows his methods."

Li Ji felt more and more guilty as he listened, and the speed of cracking melon seeds slowed down a lot; he said cautiously: "Is it really that scary?"

Li Ran drank a cup of tea and continued: "I'm not trying to scare you; the Prince of Zhennan is a person who likes to be suspicious, but he sees the situation very clearly. I heard that he recently compromised with His Majesty, so His Majesty letting you go over is to test his loyalty to the royal family; even if he pretends to be loyal, it counts as loyalty."

This time Li Ji asked the right person; there are no more than ten people in the imperial capital who understand the Prince of Zhennan better than Li Ran.

You can't go and ask Xu Zifeng; although Li Ji and Xu Zifeng are indeed considered acquaintances.

But Xu Zifeng really might not help him with this favor; after all, the Prince of Zhennan is Xu Zifeng's own father.

Li Ji pondered for a moment and said: "Then what should I do?"

Hearing this, Li Ran really wanted to curse; you don't use your brain at all?

I've reminded you to this point, and you still ask me?

Don't know if you are really stupid or pretending to be stupid.

If it were someone else, Li Ran would feel it might be pretending.

But Li Ji failed in business investment twice, so Li Ran felt he should be really stupid.

So he could only continue to point out: "After you go to the south, you can't be too cowardly; if you are too cowardly, the Prince of Zhennan will let you go, but if you do this, you will lose the face of the royal family.

After you come back, even if His Majesty doesn't deal with you, those ministers will definitely impeach you to death; how could you possibly obtain military merit? But if you are arrogant, with the Prince of Zhennan's temper, he might also kill you."

Hearing this, Li Ji swallowed his saliva, stopped cracking melon seeds, and said: "No way, I was sent down by His Majesty; does he dare to kill me?"

Li Ran laughed: "Isn't that simple? You go to fight the Sea Clan; when he is deploying troops, he releases a team of Sea Clan members to kill you, isn't that easy? When reporting to the imperial court, he says it was your own reckless attack, and he has no responsibility; he can even make you mysteriously disappear on the way back to the imperial capital. He has used this method many times."

Back then, in order to fight for the throne, before the former Emperor and the Prince of Zhennan fell out, Li Ran had indeed tried to win over the Prince of Zhennan; he definitely understood the Prince of Zhennan.

But after he said this, Li Ji became more and more afraid; he didn't expect that going to the south would have so many tricks, and if things went wrong, he would lose his life.

Feeling that Li Ji had understood, but his brain definitely couldn't think of a way.

Li Ran continued: "So what you have to do is to borrow the tiger's prestige; you don't use your own identity to talk to the Prince of Zhennan, so it becomes you and the Prince of Zhennan facing off; although you are also a Prince, you are indeed not qualified enough; whatever you say, he feels you are offending him.

But you express that you are sent by His Majesty to pass on words; your every word and action represents His Majesty, so it becomes the Prince of Zhennan and His Majesty facing off; the Prince of Zhennan will definitely give His Majesty face; there are few in the entire May Tian Ce Dynasty who dare not give His Majesty face.

In some stages you don't quite understand, you just pretend to be stupid; in fact, you don't need to pretend, just perform at your normal level."

This is the way of survival that Li Ran told Li Ji.

The meaning of his last sentence was that Li Ji was stupid to begin with and didn't need to pretend to be stupid.

Li Ji could hear this sentence, but he couldn't refute it.

He didn't feel he was stupid, but compared to the other Princes, he was indeed not smart.

This time Li Chen let him go alone; he definitely couldn't bring Li Ran, and Li Ran was too lazy to go with him; isn't this working for nothing? It's better to cultivate in the imperial capital.

Sometimes, Li Ran also learned many things from Li Chen.

Now he has military merit, his status is officially established, and he doesn't need to hide in the dark like before.

Then what he has to consider is his own strength; as long as he reaches the Sage Realm, then dealing with the second and third brothers will be easy.

The second brother fled like a defeated dog, his master was thrown into the heavenly prison, the third brother's military power was confiscated, and he didn't even dare to let out a fart; isn't it all because Li Chen's strength is powerful?

Li Ran also felt that he lost because he didn't practice his strength to the extreme before coming out to fight for the throne, attracting too much attention, and thus being harmed.

If he had cultivated to the Sage Realm, what qualification would the Crown Prince have to fight with him? Thinking of this, he cultivated even harder.

On the other side, inside the Imperial Study.

Li Chen stretched, finally finishing today's work.

He asked the palace maid and learned that Li Sining was in the palace of Consort Yi.

Li Chen had been busy for a while and was preparing to check Li Sining's cultivation and give her resources at the same time.

It was also time to relax, so he walked toward the back palace.

Just as he arrived at Consort Yi's palace, Li Sining and Consort Yi walked out from the inner room to welcome him.

Li Sining was still the same, her beautiful face matched with a flawless figure of the golden ratio, every line on her body was just right, beautiful enough to be suffocating.

Her eyes were not only clear but also full of vitality, making people feel that all their troubles were thrown away at a glance.

And the woman beside her, with a plump figure and looking very large in scale, was Consort Yi.

Consort Yi was wearing a purple long dress today, which set off her snow-white skin even more flawlessly.

!

The long dress wrapped around her long, round jade legs and her convex and concave figure.

Li Chen felt that after not seeing her for a while, Consort Yi seemed to be much larger than before.

In fact, he didn't know that Consort Yi used to wrap herself tightly, so her scale only looked generally large; today she was trying on clothes and heard that Li Chen had arrived, so she came out in a panic, and she wasn't wearing anything inside, so she looked much larger than before.

If you look closely, you can still see two tempting details.

Especially when Consort Yi participated in seeing Li Chen, Li Chen's perspective could indeed see a good view.

"Brother, when did you come back? Why didn't you notify me?" Li Sining said resentfully, her face full of longing.

Recently, there were many things about the Sea Clan, and Li Chen had been in the coastal area, and his return was also very sudden; no one knew.

"Didn't I come to see you as soon as I got back? How has your cultivation been recently?"

Li Chen touched her head and said with a smile.

Li Sining immediately indicated that her cultivation was definitely no problem; during the time her brother was away, many consorts in the back palace would guide her cultivation; Mu Qingrou and Alisha had disagreements and even compared once.

As for the result, no one knew; they compared privately.

And Li Sining also found that the young consorts in the back palace were also very involved in cultivation, almost rolling Li Sining to death.

The strength of Li Chen's back palace in the past was comparable to a top sect of the era.

But now, Li Sining felt that it was already the number one force in the world.

In this world, Li Sining's only motivation was to get Li Chen's recognition.

Li Chen let her cultivate, and she worked very hard.

Finding an open space in the palace, she started to duel with Li Chen, showing various martial skills to Li Chen.

The breeze blew gently, and the sunlight sprinkled on the bluestone ground, reflecting a faint halo.

Li Chen stood with his hands behind his back, a black robe fluttering gently with the wind, his expression indifferent, his eyes looking calmly at Li Sining opposite him.

Facing the Sage Realm Emperor, Li Sining showed all the skills she had learned without reservation.

Only to see her hands quickly forming seals, and a powerful spiritual power fluctuation suddenly erupted all over her body.

(End of chapter)