"What’s the matter?"
Setting aside his work, Wei Dingwu looked at the crowd with a hint of confusion. Mo Ling glanced at the object in Wei Dingwu’s hands and said,
"I did just as she instructed, so why do you say it won’t work?"
"You mean this?"
After taking a look at the clothing in Mo Ling’s hands, Wei Dingwu chuckled and said,
"What I have here isn’t exactly a substitute for clothing, you see."
As he spoke, Wei Dingwu put on a hat shaped like a Telekinetic Brown Bear, connected to a cape that resembled bear fur, with a pair of bear paw gloves attached to the sides of the cape. Wei Dingwu put on the gloves, picked up the greatsword, and swung it around.
From behind, if one didn’t look at the bottom, it closely resembled a Telekinetic Brown Bear wielding a greatsword. Setting down the greatsword and taking off the brown bear cape, Wei Dingwu smiled at Mo Ling and said,
"See what I mean? There’s no need to replicate the Divine Lord’s image in every piece of clothing; just having some of the defining features is enough."
"Actually, I’m very curious if features of Divine Beasts like Yimu Qingling will show up~"
Feng Yuan said with a mischievous grin. Wei Dingwu sighed and said,
"Impossible, no one dares to offend the noble true gods."
"We don’t know if the other party really doesn’t mind. We can’t take that risk."
Knowing what Feng Yuan wanted to say, Wei Dingwu preemptively spoke, scratching his head as Feng Yuan once again fiddled with the Ritual Robe in his hands.
"It’s nearly dark, what urgent matter brings you here?"
Facing the disdainful look from Feng Yuan, the Third Prince said with a somber face,
"Your Wolf Mountain Hall has the Doppelganger Technique!"
"Illusions, Mirror Projections, and other strange unique moves, aren’t there enough tricks involving doppelgangers?"
"You know what I mean!"
"I don’t understand!"
Feng Yuan said unabashedly, confronting the Third Prince’s questioning gaze. After a moment of silence, the Third Prince spoke deliberately,
"Where is Feng Yuan?"
"Who should I ask if you ask me? You know very well what my relationship with him is."
"But he can use your Wolf Mountain Hall’s techniques! And he can wield your Wolf Mountain Hall’s weapons!"
"He can even take away my Divine Lord!"
Feng Yuan replied unabashedly, while the Third Prince glared intently at Feng Yuan and said menacingly,
"I think your Wolf Mountain Hall seems to be plotting against the interests of Great Li!"
Feng Yuan spread his hands and said,
"If one is looking to blame, excuses are never hard to find."
"Heh, pretending to be innocent? Isn’t your Wolf God here? Then how exactly did Feng Yuan obtain the power of your Wolf God, and in two places at that?"
"Two places?"
Feng Yuan looked ’confusedly’ at the Third Prince. Observing him for a while and seeing that Feng Yuan seemed genuinely uninformed, the Third Prince said with a sneer,
"You really don’t know? Your dear senior brother has been making quite a splash in Nanyu, aren’t you jealous?"
"What senior brother? What Nanyu? Making a splash? What are you talking about?"
"Isn’t Feng Yuan holed up in Yongning? How did he end up in Nanyu City, wherever that is?"
"Nanyu City?! Stop playing dumb!"
The Third Prince suddenly shouted at Feng Yuan. Glancing at the Third Prince, Feng Yuan turned and walked towards the back courtyard while saying,
"What am I pretending? It’s clearly you who came to me speaking gibberish and accusing me of pretense."
"How could you not know about the Nanyu Kingdom?!"
"Why should I know about any Nanyu Kingdom? From birth, I have always stayed in Great Li City. No one from Great Li City has ever mentioned this Nanyu Kingdom to me. Where do you think I would have heard of such an obscure little country?"
Seeing Feng Yuan walking into the backyard, the Third Prince stood outside the great hall and shouted,
"You think you can deceive everyone with the Art of the Doppelganger! But you seem to have forgotten! Your Greatsword is the most conspicuous sign!"
"So what?"
Feng Yuan, accompanied by the White Wolf Deity, returned to the great hall and discovered they could not enter. The White Wolf Deity leaped forcefully, landing steadily just outside the main entrance of the hall, right beside the Third Prince. Glancing at the fierce giant wolf beside him, the Third Prince moved aside without showing any emotion and said,
"You are working for the seventh! You of Wolf Mountain Hall are betraying Great Li!"
The White Wolf Deity scoffed at the Third Prince and exhaled a white breath. The ground was frozen by the breath, and the setting sun reflected off the icy surface, twinkling like stars. Feng Yuan, arms folded across his chest, leisurely looked at the Third Prince and tilted his head, asking,
"Actually, I’m quite curious where exactly you saw a Doppelganger Technique capable of exerting its full strength?"
"I..."
The Third Prince, trembling with rage under the gaze of the White Wolf Deity reminiscent of looking at an ant, knew just as Feng Yuan said that there was no such thing in this world as a Doppelganger Technique or secret skill capable of exerting full strength. The common doppelganger skills were either a phantom capable of exerting a part of one’s strength or a solid doppelganger without any combat ability.
The frozen ground firmly confirmed that the White Wolf Deity’s casual breath was not an illusion. Whether it was the White Wolf Deity or Feng Yuan, it was quite clear that they had made contact with objects around them, proving that they were solid. The Third Prince quickly recovered from his momentary panic and deftly changed the topic, engaging Feng Yuan in conversation for a long time, until night had fallen, before leaving with a smile.
"Such paranoia."
Feng Yuan disdainfully watched the Third Prince’s retreating figure and remarked. The White Wolf Deity returned to its usual spot to rest. Inside the King of Great Li’s palace, a dignified middle-aged man nodded and muttered to himself,
"It seems he truly did not interfere with the Yongning affair, but... who exactly is the one using the Wolf God Giant Sword? Since he has denied it, and there isn’t another brother, where did this power of the Wolf God come from?"
"Enough, let them worry about it themselves. The Bei Ding Domain, ah... Xiao Wu, why did you do this..."
"So, it isn’t just Yongning; have they also tested the waters with Wolf Mountain Hall?"
"That’s right, but this time we bluffed our way through~"
Mo Li, glancing at Feng Yuan, said somewhat helplessly,
"You... If only you hadn’t brought out the Wolf God Giant Sword, there wouldn’t have been so much trouble."
"Unless I don’t use my power, they will always be suspicious. Besides, don’t you find it strange? Clearly, our team doesn’t have their spies, yet they get the information immediately."
"What’s so strange about that? After all, their spies..."
Mo Li stopped mid-sentence. Hua Yiyou, with a serious face, pondered the situation, while Feng Yuan watched Mo Li and Guo Huai in silence. After a moment, Mo Li and Hua Yiyou exchanged glances and said,
"They’ve gotten involved in the Nanyu affair as well!"
"This just got complicated..."
Hua Yiyou said with a headache. If the others also intend to take advantage of the situation to strike at Nanyu, then those in Nanyu City at the moment are in some danger, especially since Mo Li’s current travel was meant to be discreet.
"Nothing major will happen in the short term, and it seems all their attention is on me. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have tried to probe me directly."
Feng Yuan shrugged helplessly, not understanding why the Third Prince was so focused on him, monitoring every move he made.
"It’s odd, indeed. You haven’t done anything particularly conspicuous, so why has he taken notice of you?"
Mo Li also couldn’t figure it out. After all, Feng Yuan had hardly ever made a move, except that time he fought with Wei Dingwu and brought out the Wolf God Giant Sword. Even so, unless one observed carefully, no one would connect Feng Yuan’s Wolf God Giant Sword to Wolf Mountain Hall.
In fact, Feng Yuan wasn’t the only one using a greatsword; many powerful warriors used them, including Wei Dingwu. With so many different styles and patterns of greatswords, no one could possibly know the origin of a greatsword just by seeing one. Not even Feng Yuan knew who owned those greatswords; he could at most look up information on them. Scratching his head in confusion, Feng Yuan said,
"I’m not sure about that, but considering this, tomorrow’s divination ceremony might..."
"It shouldn’t be possible. With Lady Zhuo and Wei Dingwu guarding this place, two Legendary Level beasts, I believe they would be aware of any such news."
Hua Yiyou refuted Feng Yuan’s speculation. As for using even stronger forces? This was just a small town in Nanyu; no one would use a military force capable of suppressing two Legendary Spirit Beasts in such a place because it simply wouldn’t be worth it; doing so would be no different from declaring war outright.

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