Chapter 388

That day, Xu Que stayed in the Imperial Palace.

Along with the three thousand Snow City soldiers, they received different honorable treatment, moving into the palace, with maids and eunuchs serving them.

After all, they had taken back the ten great cities of the Water Yuan Kingdom and were a heroic army that saved the country. Everyone enjoyed high honors, and even when the Empress returned, they could accept rewards.

Everyone was glad they followed Xu Que to fight; this was completely lying down to win!

And in the dead of night, Xu Que was sitting in a courtyard, smoking a cigarette!

Er Gou looked very greedy, thinking it was something good, and after begging Xu Que for one, it took a deep breath, almost choked to death, and fell directly to the ground, staring at Xu Que in great shock.

"Brat, you're really perverted! You can actually inhale and exhale this kind of thing!"

"Er Gou, are you asking for a beating? Hurry up and get lost, don't disturb my thinking!" Xu Que wasn't in the mood to mess around with Er Gou, said impatiently, and continued to smoke, lost in thought!

Er Gou saw this and couldn't help but ask: "Thinking about what? Are you preparing to attack the other four kingdoms?"

"Why attack the other four kingdoms? I'm thinking about the general's words during the day. Don't you think it's wrong? Empress Bingning isn't someone who can flee so easily, right?"

Xu Que frowned and said, always holding doubts about what the general said.

Of course, the general's words also came from Zi Xuan!

Empress Bingning was injured, fled back to the palace, met Zi Xuan, told Zi Xuan she was injured by the Empress, and then left. This sounds wrong no matter how you look at it!

With Empress Bingning's ambition, there's no reason to give up so easily!

After hearing Xu Que's doubts, Er Gou also thought about it and nodded: "It's indeed a bit wrong! Spent fifty years planning and came back with the Ice Armor Army, no reason to run away so easily!"

"Look, even someone as stupid as you can think of it, yet others don't suspect anything! I suspect we've been fooled!" Xu Que said solemnly.

After hearing this, Er Gou also nodded, but after reflecting, it felt wrong and immediately shouted angrily: "Fart, how am I stupid? It's normal for those mortals not to think of it. Do you think everyone is as intelligent as this God Venerable?"

"You'd better shut up! I want to hit you every time you speak!" Xu Que rolled his eyes and stood up.

Er Gou immediately rolled on the ground, flashed to the side, and said vigilantly: "Brat, what do you want to do?"

"What are you afraid of! I'm not really hitting you. I'm thinking, could Empress Bingning not have left at all, and might still be hiding in the palace!" Xu Que frowned.

"Very likely!" Er Gou nodded repeatedly.

"Looks like I have to take a trip to the Empress's sleeping palace!" Xu Que said seriously.

Er Gou was stunned: "You're looking for someone, why go to the Empress's sleeping palace?"

After saying that, it suddenly widened its eyes and exclaimed: "I rely on, brat, so you're trying to find an excuse to sneak into the Water Emperor's sleeping palace to mess around!"

"Fart, look at your dirty thoughts. Am I that kind of person? Can you think with wisdom? The safest place in the palace is the Water Emperor's sleeping palace. Besides the Water Emperor, no one in the palace dares to enter, so if Empress Bingning is in the palace, she must be hiding in the Water Emperor's sleeping palace!"

Xu Que was righteous and had reasons.

Er Gou opened its mouth, unable to refute, and felt it made sense.

Afterward, it suddenly sat on the ground, crossed its two dog legs, and said seriously: "Then you go, this God Venerable wants to absorb the essence of the sun and moon here!"

"I spit, you lazy guy!" Xu Que despised and complained.

In fact, he didn't plan to bring Er Gou at all. With a "whoosh", his figure flashed, and he dived directly out of the small courtyard.

The layout of the Water Yuan Kingdom's Imperial Palace wasn't complicated, and there were many pools, and some places even gushed out wisps of majestic Water Origin Spiritual Energy, as if coming from underground!

This also caused the entire Imperial Palace to have clouds and mist drifting all year round, like immortal mist, and if mortals came in, they would probably get lost directly.

But for Xu Que, this bit of spiritual energy mist didn't count for anything. After a wisp of True Essence flashed in his eyes, the mist was like nothing, and he wasn't affected by the darkness of the night, his vision was clear!

With his status, walking in the Imperial Palace, no one dared to stop him at all!

So along the way, many eunuchs and maids, including guards, even if they saw Xu Que, respectfully looked at him and called him "General Zhuge", and some called him "General Xu".

Xu Que didn't want to be too conspicuous, and couldn't let people know he was going to find the Empress's sleeping palace, fearing to startle the snake, so he pretended to be taking a walk and wandered around the palace.

He hummed a little tune, but a few patrolling guards happened to see it and gave him strange looks.

Xu Que glared and scolded: "What are you looking at? Haven't seen anyone humming? Hurry up and patrol! Yo yo check it out, I'm drinking alone, seven or eight little sisters are sleeping with me..."

Under the strange eyes of several guards, Xu Que hummed and walked away.

Not long after, he finally found the Empress's sleeping palace, which was in the main courtyard of the inner palace.

The entire sleeping palace was pitch black, with no lights on, but there were several guards patrolling back and forth outside the door.

Xu Que thought for a while, and his figure dived into the dark corner, while his majestic Divine Sense poured out, instantly covering the entire sleeping palace.

He tried to probe whether there was anyone's aura in the sleeping palace.

But as soon as his Divine Sense touched the sleeping palace, there was a terrifying repulsive force, shaking his Divine Sense back.

"Eh?"

Xu Que was instantly surprised.

"Ding, detected an array, which can block Divine Sense detection. Do you want to spend 500 Acting Cool Points to break it?" The system prompt also sounded in his mind immediately.

"Cut, it can only block Divine Sense, I'll just not use Divine Sense! This Acting Cool King will go in and see for himself!" Xu Que refused the system directly.

Breaking a trash array costs five hundred Acting Cool Points, he certainly wouldn't spend this kind of unjust money.

After all, in the past two days of attacking ancient cities, Xu Que had already spent more than ten thousand Acting Cool Points, but the harvest was only eight thousand, so overall, he lost more than four thousand Acting Cool Points. However, in order to flirt with the Empress, he reluctantly accepted this loss.

But for the profiteering behavior of the system, Xu Que believed he must resist and uphold the traditional virtue of diligence and thrift!

"Whoosh!"

Taking advantage of the moment when several patrol teams staggered, Xu Que immediately performed his movement technique, his whole body turned into willow leaves, disappeared from the spot, and dived into the sleeping palace.

The pitch-black environment couldn't block his vision.

As soon as Xu Que entered, he immediately held his breath, restrained all his aura, and hid himself.

Afterward, he looked at everything in the sleeping palace, and a faint fragrance came to his nose, which was the scent on the Empress's body.

"Looks like I found the right place!" Xu Que raised the corner of his mouth slightly.

But just as he was about to take a step forward, a stream of light suddenly rushed out from the corner, accompanied by terrifying coldness. The stream of light turned into a half-bowl-shaped light curtain, instantly enveloping Xu Que, and quickly turned into ice, forming an ice prison!

Following closely, a graceful figure walked out slowly, smiling playfully: "The little guy is quite smart, actually able to find this place, but you're too bold, actually daring to trespass into Jiang Hongyan's sleeping palace?"