Chapter 830 - 602: The Village Slaughtered, Qingcheng Mountain Besieged_2
"Lu Hai!"
Wang Yang remembered this name; it was inseparable from Wu Mo’s death all those years ago.
"You already had the silk; why massacre the village?"
"Afraid the news would leak, as this matter is of great importance. Orders from above stated no one could be left alive. We were just following commands."
It seemed that the Zhangsun lineage feared that news would reach that Prince, especially since a year ago, Dali Temple and the Shadow Tiger Master were slain within Ice Cold City.
Even Noble Consort Yang, it was said, barely managed to return to the capital city of Luoyang alive.
This indicated that the once-reclusive prince was now taking action. Although only Ice Cold City was Guardian Sun King’s fief, everyone in the know was aware that if Wang Siyun wished, all the Northern Territories would instantly fall under his control.
Thus, the Zhangsun lineage had to act more discreetly. Should they be discovered, they were as good as dead.
Given that even the Five Tigers Generals and Dali Temple couldn’t escape death in the Northern Territories, the Zhangsun lineage had no qualifications to compete with those powers. Therefore, the news that the Crown Prince was still alive must be completely sealed off. If the Royal Palace got wind of it, they would surely dispatch people to protect him.
The Zhao Family’s deep connection with that Prince was proven when the lady-in-waiting chose to fight a bloody path to the Northern Border instead of returning to the Southern Region.
Wang Yang hadn’t expected the arrangements in Ice Cold City to accelerate the current situation.