The days that followed passed comfortably enough.

Good news kept coming in from the Ghost-Shadow Sect. Several of the Dark Moon Tower's branches had been broken up.

Ning Chen's order was that no one of the Dark Moon Tower was to be left alive.

The Dark Moon Tower had sent men to kill him several times now. He was not so large-hearted as to be soft-handed with an enemy.

And the Dark Moon Tower was the blade in the Fifth Prince's hand. There was no proof, but Ning Chen knew perfectly well that Old General Chen's death was the Fifth Prince's work, done by the Dark Moon Tower.

Whether for Old General Chen's sake or his own, the Dark Moon Tower had to be pulled up by the root.

The Fifth Prince made no further move during this time either.

Ning Chen knew perfectly well that he was scheming in the dark and waiting for his chance to deal a killing blow.

This was the capital, and Ning Chen was a marquis of the Great Xuan. Striking again and again here would only leave a handle for somebody to take hold of.

Ning Chen was not sitting still either. He had men watching the Fifth Prince closely and gathering evidence of his crimes in secret.

Defending and waiting was not in Ning Chen's nature. To act only after the enemy has acted is to have lost the first move.

So the moment he had evidence enough, he would move against the Fifth Prince.

There was one more piece of good news: Immortal Dew had caught fire in Xiuzhou and the demand outran the supply.

Mangzhou was hurrying to get ready to put Immortal Dew on sale too.

It is no exaggeration to say that Ning Chen was taking in gold by the bushel every day now.

One day Ning Chen took the Ninth Princess out of the palace and spent the day with her, and brought her back before dark.

The feeling between the two of them was better and better now.

Once, when the Xuan Emperor was making a…