The elder chuckled, "Your words make a lot of sense! After all, your base is Great Qi! Rest assured, once we capture Chu Mo, we won't let you down! I will personally recommend you to enter the officialdom. With your abilities, becoming the head of the intelligence department...should be no problem at all."

"Well then, I must thank you, Elder Chen." Zhao Er gives a fist and palm salute to the elder, a joyful expression on his face.

Someone softly spoke beside the elder, "Elder Chen, should we go now? According to the intelligence, he went in and never came out."

Elder Chen slightly squinted his eyes, calmly said, "Let's wait a bit longer! This man isn't easy to deal with! The most terrifying is actually his master. If we are going to kill him, we must fatally strike him at once, and never give him the chance to expose his identity! Then, even if his master comes knocking, we can wash our hands of it!"

"That's right, the war between the two countries, the hostile relationship, killing a spy from Great Xia ... isn't this quite normal?" Zhao Er casually added.

Elder Chen sighed lightly, saying, "This time, I will owe you a favor. My relationship with Hua Shuanniu can't be undone. Upon learning of brother Shuanniu's death in Great Xia, my heart is filled with grief... I've sworn to avenge him, and I didn't expect the opportunity to come this soon. All thanks to you!"

Zhao Er politely replied, "Elder Chen, you're too kind, I am simply doing what I should." However, he couldn't help but think: Close relationship with Hua Shuanniu? I fear Hua Shuanniu himself wouldn't even know who you are! The bullshit about avenging your brother, isn't it just for the inheritance of Piaomiao Palace?

However, such words would never leave Zhao Er's mouth.

Elder Chen stared in the direction of the inn, speaking indifferently, "I really wonder what the emperor of Great Xia was thinking, actually sending a young greenhorn to infiltrate and gather intelligence from another country. It's naive, treating war as child's play."

Zhao Er remarked, "Perhaps, the emperor of Great Xia was using the feinting strategy!"

"What do you mean?" Elder Chen asked.

Zhao Er explained, "On the surface, he sent Chu Mo to Great Qi to gather information. Because Chu Mo's identity is special, if exposed, then indeed it could be difficult for even our Great Qi side."

Elder Chen nodded, "That's right, if we give him a chance to expose his identity, we really can't just kill him directly."

Zhao Er said with a cold smile, "If I'm not mistaken, the emperor of Great Xia must have also sent others secretly to scout the military situation of Great Qi!"

"Just relying on those people, and they want to probe my Great Qi's military situation? It's simply a joke!" Elder Chen scoffed coldly, then, squinting his eye, he ordered the people next to him, "Act, but try not to alert too many people! Remember…kill with one strike! Don't give him any chance to speak!"

"Yes!"

At the command, countless figures quietly made their way towards the inn.

Simultaneously, even more people in the dark, holding heavy crossbows, stared unblinkingly in that direction.

Zhao Er couldn't help but feel anxious. He asked, "Elder Chen, if we really kill him... what about the things on him?"

Elder Chen casually said, "There is a magical artefact called a storage ring!"

...…

Chu Mo's figure almost merges with this night. He had been standing here for almost half an hour.

The Second Prince, Fifth Prince, and the Second Prince's son in the room, after the confirmation of Second Prince's son Jiang Chong'en's entry into the military, began their deep analysis.

Such as, entering which route of the military would expedite his promotion and which would be less dangerous.

They transparently discussed all of Great Qi's military deployment!

Chu Mo was greatly pleased as he listened.

He thought: If I had known this, I would not even have needed to bother innkeeper Zhao Er. If he had tried to gather this information, he could have risked exposing his identity.

The deployments on Great Qi's side have already been determined. In other words, even if they wanted to change them now, it would be nearly impossible!

They have divided the forces into six routes, with five of them merely being a facade to confuse Great Xia.

There's only one route that goes directly towards Skybreaker mountain range, this news left Chu Mo absolutely shocked.

Because Skybreaker Mountain Range was neither a place guarded by his grandfather nor a place where Great Xia stationed heavy troops. It was a sheer cliff and an extreme peril!

That place was known as the worst border between Great Xia and Great Qi in terms of conditions.

Not to mention an army of tens of millions, even a yellow-ranked fourth-level peak Iron Bone realm martial artist like Chu Mo would find it extremely difficult to cross the Skybreaker Mountains.

Therefore, no one would ever believe that Great Qi would launch an attack from there.

Neither the Second Prince nor the Fifth Prince in the room said how Great Qi would pass from there, but this piece of information was already extremely important to Chu Mo!

If the army of Great Qi really crossed the Skybreaker Mountains, that would be a huge issue.

Because not far beyond the Skybreaker Mountains is Qingzhou Mansion!

Taking Qingzhou Mansion would be equivalent to breaking a major barrier of Yanhuang, the capital city of Great Xia.

The entire army of Great Qi could directly drive straight into Yanhuang.

Had he not heard it himself, Chu Mo wouldn't have believed it was true.

"This is truly ruthless!" Chu Mo thought. From the conversation between the Second and Fifth Princes, he could glean that each of their other five routes had as many as one hundred thousand troops.

Though it was a guise, these five routes of troops would definitely display a fight-to-death demeanor when the time came, thoroughly holding back the defenses of the Great Xia side!

By then, even if Great Qi's army crossing the Skybreaker Mountains was discovered, it would be impossible to send reinforcements...

Chu Mo couldn't help but take a deep breath, secretly thinking: It seems... I can't take any action in the prince's mansion tonight!

Because this information was far too important. It was, in some respects, even more important than searching for medicinal ingredients for the Demon Lord.

The medicinal ingredients could be found gradually, but if this information is not conveyed back, Great Xia could face the danger of obliteration.

In a war between nation-states, regardless of Chu Mo being at the fourth level of the Yellow Rank, even if he's reached the seventh level of the Yellow Rank and entered the Refining Heart stage, he wouldn't be able to contribute much!

Chu Mo didn't dare to delay. He listened for a while longer, then quietly left. He raced through the night, planning to return to the inn to rest for the night. Then early the next morning, he would head straight back to Great Xia.

This kind of information, naturally the faster it gets back the better. Moreover, any carrier pigeons , falcons... can't be trusted! Because they all have the danger of being shot down from the sky!

Just when he was about to reach the inn, Chu Mo's eyes suddenly narrowed slightly, his pupils enlarging, and his body came to a halt. Then Chu Mo leaped onto a large willow tree in a flash, hiding himself amid thousands of silken threads, and focused his gaze on the inn where he was staying.

...…

In the shadows...

Sweat dripped from Zhao Er's forehead, his face that was once ruddy had turned pale.

"It's not right, he obviously stayed in this inn, he never left! My men are stationed at every major inn in the Imperial Capital, it's impossible for him to notice that someone was spying on him!"

"Moreover, the person responsible for watching over him is a yellow-ranked fourth layer... there's no way he could have been mistaken, how could he not be in the inn?"

Elder Chen standing next to him, his face was as grim as water, his gaze towards Zhao Er flickered with a cold light: "How did you just assure me?"

"Elder Chen, don't worry...don't worry, there's a good chance... that kid might have sneaked out to do something else..." Zhao Er looked anxious, he was on the verge of tears.

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