Chapter 919: Life Threatening Explosion!
919 Chapter 919: Life Threatening Explosion!
Therefore, Tang Li Xue decided to do this pretense to help Little Loki obtain legitimate status in the Imperial Palace.
If anyone wanted to catch or kill Little Loki in the Imperial Palace, they had to consider the Third Prince’s face first since they would offend the Third Prince by doing that.
Tang Li Xue’s every move was under the surveillance of the Third Prince’s maids and guards, and she was locked up in her room most of the time, so she hoped Little Loki would be her ‘ears’ and ‘eyes’ for spying or eavesdropping any news in the Imperial Palace just like what Tang Li Xue did in her fox form when she was in the Asura Demon Sect before.
With Xi’er working on the outside and Little Loki working on the inside, Tang Li Xue was very confident that she could get any information she wanted from Imperial City and Imperial Palace to help her judge the overall situation.
The information she would get from them was extremely crucial for her to determine the timing of her escape later.
As for why not just tell the Third Prince the truth about Little Loki being her pet since the very beginning, there were actually many reasons for that.
First, she was afraid that the Third Prince would lose his trust in her after she told him about it.
In the current crucial situation in the midst of the struggle for the throne, losing the trust of her only backer would be extremely fatal for Tang Li Xue.
The second reason was because she wanted everyone to regard Little Loki as an ordinary kitten, so they would lower their guard down around it.
If anyone knew that Little Loki was a demonic beast or a beast lord, they would definitely be wary of it, and Little Loki’s task to secretly gather information would be much harder.
In short, this was what Tang Li Xue chose to do after she took everything into consideration.
The Third Prince led Tang Li Xue to get on the Imperial carriage together with Little Loki in her arms.
Then the Imperial carriage drove back toward the Imperial Palace while being escorted by a dozen guards galloping on their horses.
Tang Li Xue secretly felt happy and proud since the first step of her escape plan had proceeded very smoothly today.
Just when Tang Li Xue thought that it should not be that hard for her to escape from this place, something unexpected actually happened on their way back to the Imperial Palace!
BOOOOOOOOOOM~!
The Imperial Carriage rode by the Third Prince and Tang Li Xue suddenly exploded!
The explosion was so great that even the surrounding guards were thrown away dozens of meters and nearby buildings were shattered.
Although all of the Third Prince’s personal guards were at Golden Core Stage, they were still injured pretty badly by the explosion and coughed several mouthfuls of blood because of it.
“No way, Your Highness Third Prince!”
” Put out the fire quickly!”
“Where is Your Highness Third Prince?!”
…
The guards shouted and ran toward the burning carriage in panic. They even completely forgot their own injuries.
Even several high-rank Nascent Soul Stage masters that secretly protected the Third Prince never expected that something like this would happen!
Those high-rank Nascent Soul Stage masters hastily made a move to put out the fire and forcefully broke open the burned carriage.
It did not take long for them to find the Third Prince inside the burned carriage.
Thankfully, the Third Prince was actually completely unharmed because he had many life-protection treasures on him.
There was a transparent gold barrier wrapping around the Third Prince that protected him completely from the sudden devastating explosion.
As for Tang Li Xue?
She has died… Well, to be exact, if not for Little Loki who sensed the danger ahead of time and warned her right before the explosion, she would really have died right now.
Moreover, her life-saving skills such as [Sun and Moon Aegis] and [Damage Transfer] from [Twin Moons] divine ability currently could not be used, while her life-saving item like [Substitution Doll] had already been used up.
It meant if she was killed, she would really die for real this time!
Fortunately, Tang Li Xue hastily activated her [Shadow Strider]’s equipment skill, [Shadow Flash], right before the carriage exploded after she heard Little Loki’s warning, then teleported to the shadow of the farthest guard on the back of the carriage.
‘Holy sh*t, that was a close one!’ Tang Li Xue thought while wiping the cold sweat on her forehead with her sleeve.
All guards and protectors were busily saving the Third Prince, so they did not have time to pay any attention to Tang Li Xue, but Tang Li Xue did not worry about the Third Prince’s safety at all.
It was impossible for any of those princes to not have any life-saving treasures, especially since they were in a critical period where the struggle for the throne had almost reached its peak.
They were not the princes from the mortal kingdom after all but from the giant dynasty of cultivators!
On the contrary, it was she herself that she should be worried about the most!
She just remembered that she currently does not have any more life-saving skills and life-saving items!
Tang Li Xue suddenly felt lost, insecure, and panicked when she thought about it!
She basically has more than 7 extra lives before (3 extra lives from [Sun and Moon Aegis]’s fatal blow protections + 3 extra lives from her perfect copy’s fatal blow protections + 1 extra life from [Twin Moons]’s automatic [Damage Transfer] + some [Subsititution Dolls]).
But now, she no longer had any extra lives!
Even her [Extraordinary Sensory] was not that reliable since it actually gave a danger warning a bit too late just now.
Tang Li Xue suddenly realized something as her charming face turned serious: ‘Wait a minute, [Extraordinary Sensory] should be able to sense any threat ahead of time if someone attacked the carriage just now. Then why did I not feel any threat until the last moment?’
‘Oh, I get it~! Someone should have secretly put an explosion talisman somewhere on the carriage before we ride it. It should be a special explosion talisman that works like a time bomb.’ Tang Li Xue’s mesmerizing topaz blue eyes were shining in realization.
‘So, the moment the time was up, the explosion talisman blew up the carriage while it was on its way back to the Imperial Palace.’ Tang Li Xue concluded in her mind.
‘But this is really strange… It should be impossible for the culprit to not guess that the Third Prince should have some life-saving treasures, so this kind of action should be meaningless since they could not even hurt the Third Prince, then why did they still decide to do it?’ Tang Li Xue tilted her head cutely in puzzlement.
‘Unless, their target was not the Third Prince, but… Damn it, don’t tell me that their target is actually me?!’ Tang Li Xue’s beautiful face turned pale when she thought about it.
Before Tang Li Xue could think about it further, the guards and protectors had already pulled the Third Prince out of the burned carriage.
“Miss Tang… What about Miss Tang?!” The Third Prince anxiously yelled.
“This… We cannot find any trace of Miss Tang in the carriage… I am afraid she has already…” One of the guards replied in an uneasy tone.
Tang Li Xue’s slender body twitched slightly as she heard the Third Prince’s question.
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The Third Prince staggered in shock and grief, but when he just wanted to order his guards to look at Tang Li Xue again, the voice of the kitten suddenly attracted his attention.
“Meeoow~!”
Little Loki’s voice not only woke Tang Li Xue up from her thoughts but also made the Third Prince turn his body around to look at where its voice came from.
The Third Prince immediately found Tang Li Xue. He hastily approached Tang Li Xue, grabbed her shoulders, and carefully examined her from head to toe.
The Third Prince sighed in relief after making sure that Tang Li Xue was also completely unharmed by the great explosion and said to her: “Miss Tang~! It is really great that you are all right!”
Tang Li Xue smiled back at the Third Prince while taking a step back from the Third Prince to keep her distance and replying in a relieved tone: “I apologize for making His Highness Third Prince worry. Thankfully, both of us are safe.”
“By the way, how did you survive the previous explosion?” The Third Prince asked in bewilderment.
Tang Li Xue’s slender body twitched slightly as she heard the Third Prince’s question.
She really did not know how to explain that to the Third Prince.
It should be impossible for her to honestly tell him that she had just used her equipment skill [Shadow Flash] to teleport out from the carriage, right?
‘Damn… What do I have to do now? Should just tell a random lie to him? Then what kind of lie should I tell to him?! How the heck can I explain how I suddenly disappeared right in front of his eyes before?!’ The gears in Tang Li Xue’s mind seemed to be stuck, and she could not find any solution to this.
‘Damn it~! Rather than telling any suspicious lies, it would be better to delay it as long as possible until he completely forgets about it!’ Tang Li Xue gritted her pearl-white teeth in firm determination.
That was a close one for Tang Li Xue~! (>w<) Fortunately, she managed to survive, or our protagonist would be replaced by Xiao Hei instead.
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