Chapter 338 The Third Prince

The Eighth Prince's face turned cold, and his eyes flashed with cold light.

Others' eyes were also attracted.

The man's voice was loud, and almost everyone in the Imperial Garden heard it clearly.

What he thought behind his back was his own business, but in public, he said such vicious words without leaving any face.

Everyone in the palace knew that Princess Ankang and the Eighth Prince had lost their mother.

Princess Ankang's mother, Concubine Xiao, had passed away less than a year ago, and her body was still warm.

The Eighth Prince lost his mother when he was young, which is why he looks so frivolous now.

Saying such words in front of these two people is tantamount to slapping in the face.

Even Princess Ankang, who has always had a good temper, sank her face and looked in the direction where the voice came from.

Li Xuan also silently sat up from Princess Ankang's arms to see which short-lived ghost was so ignorant of life and death.

At the entrance of the Imperial Garden, two figures lined up the crowd and walked towards Princess Ankang and the Eighth Prince.

One man and one woman.

The first one was a burly man wearing a black leather armor and a red flame-patterned brocade robe. He wore only one sleeve in the popular style of wearing sleeves for both civil and military affairs among military commanders.

He looked like a teenager, but his face was weathered and he looked like he often walked outside.

The exposed arm was muscular and strong, and he was obviously a strong man.

Behind the burly boy, there was a girl who looked a few years younger, probably about the same age as Princess Ankang.

Although she was a girl, she was wearing a tight light blue warrior suit, and her slender legs under the pants were eye-catching and aroused people's imagination.

The girl had a beautiful appearance and a heroic spirit. Compared with the softness of ordinary women, she had a handsome and free-spirited temperament.

"Looking at their age, they should also be princes and princesses, right?"

Li Xuan guessed.

The two walked straight to Princess Ankang and the eighth prince.

The burly young man looked down at the Eighth Prince from a high position and asked with a smile:

"Old Eighth, do you think what the Third Brother said makes sense?"

"Humph, I thought it was someone who was full of shit, it turned out to be the Third Brother."

The Eighth Prince sneered, and didn't seem to take this person to heart.

And Li Xuan also knew the identity of the burly young man through the Eighth Prince's address to him.

"He is the Third Prince!"

Li Xuan couldn't help but look at the burly young man in front of him more carefully, and actually felt a little pressure.

"This guy's strength..."

Li Xuan frowned secretly, he found that the strength of the Third Prince was actually the best among all the royal heirs he had met.

And looking at the current situation, the Third Prince and the Eighth Prince seemed to be at odds with each other.

Besides, this person had previously scolded Princess Ankang, so Li Xuan naturally would not regard this guy as a good person, and immediately looked at him with a bad look.

"Hmph, my little cat has been quiet in the palace recently, but that doesn't mean I'm dead!"

If he wants to play a trick on someone, Li Xuan has many ways to do it.

When he finds out the details of the third prince, he will be in trouble.

The third prince didn't know that he had been targeted by Li Xuan at this time, and his attention was all on the eighth prince.

"I told you, how can you make progress if you keep suppressing yourself in the palace?"

After the third prince said this, he raised his palm as big as a palm fan and approached the eighth prince's face, apparently intending to slap it.

The eighth prince immediately raised his hand and slapped it hard, trying to hit the third prince's hand away, but his hand fell into the air and couldn't stop the slap that was so close.

"Pah, pah."

The crisp sound of the slap on the cheek rang out.

But the third prince didn't use much strength, he intended to humiliate, not fight.

The eighth prince's eyes were dull, and he never expected this result.

And Li Xuan keenly noticed how the third prince did it.

At the moment when the two palms touched, the third prince suddenly accelerated, dodged the eighth prince's block, and then continued to slap the eighth prince's face according to the original trajectory.

Judging from the explosive power at this moment, the strength of the two is not at the same level at all.

"Old Eighth couldn't even react."

"And..."

"There seemed to be fluctuations of true qi on this guy before."

"Could it be the sixth-grade Qi Sensing Realm?"

When the third prince suddenly burst into speed, Li Xuan noticed that there was an abnormal energy burst on his body.

Li Xuan had seen many fifth-grade masters before, and witnessed their battles with his own eyes, so he was still very sensitive to the fluctuations of true qi.

But the third prince's true qi was obviously still relatively weak, and could only be activated in the body, far from the point where Xu Lang could control the qi and transform into a shape.

Of course, it is also possible that the third prince did not use his full strength and hid most of his strength.

"He is the third oldest, which means he is younger than the eldest prince."

"At this age, he has such a high level of cultivation. Even with the royal cultivation resources, it is not something that ordinary people can do."

Li Xuan realized that the third prince might be the favored child of heaven and a cultivation genius in the eyes of the public.

The third prince seemed very satisfied with the reaction of the eighth prince. He smiled with a big mouth and said disdainfully:

"Brother, if you are not good at it, practice more."

After that, the third prince laughed loudly, ignoring the many concubines present.

Faced with the third prince's behavior, everyone present just frowned slightly, and no one said anything to him.

At least none of the concubines dared to discipline the Third Prince.

The Eighth Prince was not as skilled as the others, so he didn't say anything more. After glaring at the Third Prince fiercely, he kicked him without hesitation.

Being caught off guard by the sneak attack, the Third Prince only had time to put his arms in front of him and steadily blocked the kick of the Eighth Prince, but just took a step back without making a sound.

After the Third Prince was attacked by the sneak attack, there was no anger on his face, as if he had expected it.

"Your dog temper has not changed at all!"

The Third Prince patted the dust on his sleeves easily, and he didn't look like he was hurt at all. It can be seen that the kick of the Eighth Prince just now did not cause any substantial damage to him.

After all, there is a whole grade between the two, and it is the gap between the lower third grade and the middle third grade. It is not an easy thing for the Eighth Prince to cause damage to the other party under such a gap in strength.

What surprised Li Xuan was that, apart from the initial ridicule, the Third Prince did not even think of fighting back when facing the Eighth Prince's attack.

The Eighth Prince did not care what the Third Prince said at all. He kicked him first, but it had no effect.

But he was not discouraged at all. He then attacked the Third Prince and punched and kicked him.

Facing the rain of attacks on him, the Third Prince just raised his hand slightly and blocked them all.

"Old Eighth, it's useless."

"Do you want to defeat me with your strength?"

"Next life!"

Even though he was despised like this, the Eighth Prince did not feel any break in his defense, and even said in a contemptuous tone:

"Have you become stupid from practicing martial arts?"

"Who said I want to defeat you."

"I'm just hitting you to vent my anger."

"Because it seems that you don't have the courage to fight me?"

As the Eighth Prince spoke, his hand movements accelerated a bit, and his offensive became more fierce.

The third prince was beaten and took two steps back.

Although all the attacks were blocked by him, the force contained in the moves could not be completely eliminated.

When the third prince heard the words of the eighth prince, a hidden smile appeared on his lips, and then Li Xuan felt the fluctuation of true energy on him again.

"Not good!"

Li Xuan said inwardly that it was bad, and quickly opened his mouth and meowed.

No matter what tricks the third prince was playing, it must be something bad.

The eighth prince, who was fighting a little bit, suddenly heard this cat's meow and shuddered suddenly.

This is also natural.

While Li Xuan was making a sound, he focused his desire to attack on the eighth prince.

He did not hide his threat at all, so the eighth prince immediately responded with the instinct of a warrior.

The eighth prince felt a little scared and took two steps back. He naturally thought that the threat came from the third prince in front of him.

As he calmed down again, he realized that something was wrong.

After the Third Prince came to provoke him, he let him attack without fighting back.

The Eighth Prince naturally knew what was going on.

From childhood to adulthood, the two of them had fought countless times, and each time they were both put in solitary confinement.

But even so, they still had conflicts every few days.

This has a lot to do with their backgrounds.

Even though they were punished countless times, the two still did not learn their lessons.

Later, when the Third Prince was older, he was sent to the Ministry of War for training, and even went to the front line.

Since being sent to the Ministry of War, the Third Prince has been more disciplined, and he has spent less and less time in the palace.

This completely resolved the conflict between the two princes.

But even after so many years, the two occasionally met, and there was still such a strong smell of gunpowder, and the atmosphere was always tense.

Others were not surprised, and they were not too surprised.

The Third Prince did not dare to fight back because he was afraid of being put in solitary confinement with the Eighth Prince again, and then missing this autumn hunt.

And after he returned to the Ministry of War, he would inevitably be punished for fighting.

It was not difficult for the Eighth Prince to guess these reasons, so he was so reckless when he attacked earlier.

He was not a fool, so he would not provoke an opponent he could not beat for no reason.

The Eighth Prince had already recognized the difference in strength between the two.

But it did not prevent him from taking advantage of the Third Prince's concerns and taking action to vent his anger.

But now the Eighth Prince also reacted, and the other party was not a fool, so why did he stand there and let him vent his anger.

There must be something wrong when things are abnormal!

The Third Prince saw that the other party stopped at the critical moment, and he couldn't help but cursed in his heart, but he had to disperse the true energy gathered in his arms.

"Why, is this the end?"

"Old Eighth, you are really ineffective now, you are a soft-footed crab."

"You don't even have the strength to hit people."

The Third Prince's tone was arrogant, and he put his face forward without any precautions, just like a soldier.

But the more the Third Prince did this, the more the Eighth Prince confirmed his guess.

The eighth prince pointed at the other party, then shook his head and laughed, with an expression of "you are so naughty", and then he spitted out of nowhere.

Because the distance was too close, the third prince could not dodge and was spit on.

The third prince, who was originally quite arrogant, suddenly froze, and was spit on his face, unable to open his eyes.

"Puff~"

Princess Ankang couldn't help but sneered.

This time, the third prince couldn't bear it anymore and was so angry that he trembled all over.

"Old Eighth, you're looking for death!"

The third prince wiped the spit on his face and raised his fist as big as a casserole to beat the eighth prince.

"Third brother, stop it."

At this time, a steady voice sounded, coming out to persuade them to stop fighting.

The eldest prince brought the fourth prince and the sixth princess to stop this farce.

The eighth prince was not stupid either. He immediately retreated quickly and retreated directly into a pavilion. Then he stood behind a concubine and bowed respectfully.

Li Xuan knew this concubine. She was Concubine Zhao Shu, one of the four concubines.

He still remembered that Concubine Zhao Shu was a noble figure. She was related to Wang Suyue and Feng Zhaoyuan. She lived in Tingyun Palace and kept a group of extraordinary eunuchs in black clothes.

Seeing the eighth prince approaching her, Concubine Zhao Shu just smiled slightly, with a virtuous temperament.

The other concubines sitting in the pavilion all looked helpless at the Eighth Prince, and some shook their heads in contempt. Anyway, they all disliked him.

While the Eighth Prince was escaping into the pavilion, the Third Prince confronted the First Prince.

"It's none of your business, get out of my way!"

After the Third Prince said this, he was about to chase the Eighth Prince, but was stopped by the First Prince.

"Third brother, you finally came back, you must participate in this autumn hunt, let the emperor see your progress."

"You can't be locked up with the eighth brother as soon as you come back, and then go back in disgrace, right?"

After hearing this, the third prince said to the eldest prince with a fake smile:

"Don't worry about it, brother."

"I came back this time just to send you off next year."

"Once I leave the palace, I'm afraid I won't be able to find you again."

"While the elder brother is still in the palace, we brothers must get close to each other."

The two of them poked each other's lungs, but they were all smiling.

Although they were all smiling, the gunpowder smell was stronger than before.

"Besides, I have to come back."

"I heard that the emperor rarely has the elegance to hold this imperial garden competition. After a few months, I heard that Ankang, the weakest among us, is still far ahead. It's really..."

At this point, the third prince turned his eyes to Princess Ankang, who was sitting in a wheelchair, with undisguised disdain.

Then he turned to look at the other brothers and sisters, sneering even more.

"It's been a long time since we last met. The palace is getting more harmonious, and the brothers are friendly and respectful."

"They all know to give way to their weak sister, and make her happy."

"As someone who has been in the army for a long time, I really admire this kind of humble spirit."

The third prince said sarcastically, and then changed the subject:

"Why don't you follow me to the army to gain some experience after leaving the palace next year, so that you can cultivate your masculinity."

"Otherwise, when you get to your fiefdom in the future, I'm afraid you won't even be able to control the people."

"But don't worry, brother. I will definitely go to support you as soon as possible and will not let you get hurt at all."

The eldest prince looked gloomy and was speechless for a long time.

The third prince, like the eighth prince, was a notorious troublemaker in the palace, so the eldest prince naturally couldn't argue with them.

But after not seeing each other for a few years, the third prince's eloquence has improved, and now he is eloquent.

At this moment, the fourth prince stepped forward to break the awkwardness.

"Strange, big brother!"

"Third brother has been in the army for several years and now he has learned to speak."

The fourth prince was amazed and looked very surprised.

The third prince glared at him.

He was late in speaking when he was a child, but that was many years ago. He didn't expect someone to mention it in front of him.

The sixth princess was very angry and was about to speak up for her eldest brother, but the fourth prince got the upper hand.

When she heard this, she immediately remembered the past of the third prince and couldn't help laughing, just like Princess Ankang before.

The sixth princess's laughter seemed to cause a chain reaction, and the sound of puffing was heard in the imperial garden.

But how many of them were really laughing and how many were doing it on purpose, that is unknown.

The third prince's previous words offended many people, most of whom wanted to see him make a fool of himself.

No matter how thick-skinned the Third Prince was, he couldn't help blushing when he was laughed at by the people in the garden, and he was about to get angry.

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