Chapter 31: leaving the capital

Xiao San and his men left the capital early in the morning with 4th mortal rank horse. This time his aim for leaving the capital was to earn more points to buy a body cultivation method from the system shop.

Soon as Xiao San left the capital, the spies who were watching Xiao San’s every action informed their masters about Xiao San departure from the royal capital and followed Xiao San.

At the palace

Princess Helen who was drinking tea was interrupted by her main maid.

“Princess, Earl Xiao San has left the capital. Our spies are currently following his group.” Said a young woman, who was wearing ancient maid cloths, while bowing to Princess Helen.

Princess Helen who was calmly drinking her morning tea suddenly stopped drinking and kept the Tea cup on the table while frowning.

“Which direction is he leaving to?” asked Princess Helen.

“They are leaving in the direction of the “Shanmar area” which is the ruling area of Earl San.

Princess Helen fell into deep thoughts, currently there were only few months more for the emperor to choose the next ruler of the empire, so at this time if something were to happen then it would be troublesome.

Although Xiao San agreed to help her to get the throne. She always felt that there was something wrong with him and she felt that Xiao San is plotting something. But she did not know what Xiao San was plotting.

She knew that her second brother and Xiao San were good friends and if Xiao San were to go to her second brothers side at this time then she might even loose her chance to get the throne.

She was not a fool and she had also seen many betraying scenes. Therefore, she was a person who got suspicious even for the little thing.

After thinking for a few minutes she said to her maid in a deep tone “Tell our spies to follow him and inform us every person that he meets and everything that he does after returning to Shanmar area and also check and see whether any of the other three side have any abnormal activity.”

“As Princess say” said her main maid and left.

The same thing happened at the Other candidate’s rooms as well. The Xiao San departure was also informed to the emperor as well.

The emperor was silent after hearing what his messenger said. And from the reactions of the king the messenger knew that the emperor was not surprised from the Earl Xiao San’s actions.

And why was the emperor not surprised from Xiao San’s actions? that was because he knew that Xiao San would definitely leave the capital during this period because he can’t help any side and will have to face pressure from all the sides. He was also very pleased with Xiao San’s decision.

At Xiao San’s side

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It has been four days since he and his men had left the capital and traveled halfway through the journey.

“Young master, those people are still following us. Why don’t we get rid of them?” asked one of Xiao San’s men.

“No need, let them follow us. Let’s Increase our speed and widen gap between us.” Instructed Xiao San because he knew what getting rid meant. And another two days passed and on the third day.

They were a currently traveling within a forest, that they had to pass through this forest to enter to Shanmar area and Xiao San and his men had also been traveling for two days without having any rest and their horses also showed signs of exhaustion.

If their horse were ordinary horses, then they would have already died from exhaustion but his horses were 4th level mortal so it was not a problem for them to travel for even two days without any rest.

He knew that it was time for them to stop and take a break, luckily after traveling for Two days non-stop they were able to get rid of those spies that were following.

Xiao San checked for a safe place to rest and made his subordinates and his horses rest there. After getting down from his horse, he handed his horse to one of his subordinates to feed it. And his other subordinates were preparing camps because it was getting dark.

“You’ll prepare the tents I will into the woods and come.” Said Xiao San to his subordinates and disappeared from his subordinates site. After going disappeared from his subordinates site, Xiao San took out black cork and wore it.

Ao Boa who was hiding inside Xiao San’s body came out and said “little San, why do you need to hide about your leaving from these subordinates when those sixteen knows about it already.”

“Brother Ao, I’m an earl in this empire and the emperor and the other royal are watching secretly. If I were to leave the empire openly, then I will have to give up the earl title and if that were to happen then the emperor will definitely get rid of me. And also, have you seen that person near the fire, that one is one of the spies that the emperor has planted and like him there are many spies planted by other people inside my army.” Said Xiao San while point into the direction of some trees.

With his and Ao Boa cultivation it was easy to see through anything in close distance so Ao Boa also notice the odd behavior that the suspicious person had when he noticed that Xiao San was entering the forest.

“Why not get rid of them?” (Ao Boa)

“To make those royals, let their guard down against me.” Said Xiao San while changing his face color with some makeup that he had brought.

After doing that he took out a mirror and checked his face which was totally different from what it was from before. Currently his face looked like a face of a beggar who had been traveling without any wash. It was filled willed with wrinkles and dust.

After doing all this he took out one of his clones that he had stored inside his body. The clone was totally like the old Xiao San there was no difference in it. Xiao San activated his clone the eyes of the clone which were dull got some spirituality and then the clone looked around at the surrounding.

Then after that, it looked at Xiao San, who was disguising like a beggar, it said “main body, leave these things to me and you can leave as fast as possible before those spies catch up with us”

“What? you know about what happened?” asked Ao Boa in an amazed voice.

Before the clone could reply to Ao Boa, Xiao San’s main body said “all of my clones have their own spirituality and when I activated this clone I already gave it all the instructions about what it should do. Clone number 6 I will leave everything here to you. And remember that you have to leave to the capital a day before the day that the emperor chooses the next ruler after finishing all the work at the Shanmar area.

Also do not forgot to leave clone number 7,8,9 and 10 after activating them when you are in our ruling area before you leave to the capital again” reminded Xiao San again and made the clone leave him and join with his subordinates perfectly. After noticing that his subordinates has not noticed anything abnormal about his clone, he said “Brother Ao, let’s leave to the magical beast mountain range.” And disappeared into the air with in a second without waiting for Ao Boa to return back to his body.

Seen this Ao Boa who was floating next to Xiao San also disappeared.

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