"Your highness."

　　Lu Tieshan watched Qi Ling depart. What had happened today was definitely related to Qi Manor, hence he was rather unwilling to let them off so easily.

　　Zhou Yuan waved his hand and said, "They are very clever and have likely long prepared an excuse. In addition, the two culprits are already dead and they will never admit to anything unless we declare war on them now."

　　Upon hearing Zhou Yuan's words, Lu Tieshan's heart s.h.i.+vered a little. Looks like the other thief had indeed died here. However, there was something that puzzled him. The other thief was rumoured to have the strength of the Qi Nouris.h.i.+ng stage, but Zhou Yuan and Yaoyao, who gave off no Genesis Qi undulations, were the only ones here. Just how did that Qi Nouris.h.i.+ng stage thief die?

　　Lu Tieshan's heart was filled with questions, but knew that it was no appropriate to ask. Hence, all he could say was, "Your highness, I will send men to inform his majesty of this matter."

　　Zhou Qing needed to know that such a thing had happened so as to take further precautions.

　　Zhou Yuan nodded and Lu Tieshan withdrew with his men. However, they did not station themselves too far this time to be avoid being separated from the prince. Thus, they ended up standing guard just outside the valley.

　　 …

　　In the valley, Yaoyao looked at the thirty six bottles that had been placed in front of her, bottles that contained the essence blood of thirty six different grade 1 Genesis Beasts. After checking them, she nodded and said, "Not bad, all the ingredients have been gathered. Let me make some preparations first. I'll help you inscribe the Thirty Six Beast Channel Opening Rune tomorrow."

　　Zhou Yuan nodded in a rather expectant manner. Soon after, he asked, "Big sis Yaoyao, what grade is the Thirty Six Beast Channel Opening Rune?"

　　Zhou Yuan had never seen a Genesis Rune that could aid one in the unblocking of channels, and no one in the entire Great Zhou knew of such a rune. From this, one could see just how precious the rune was.

　　Yaoyao off-handedly replied "It's a grade 2 Genesis Rune. I will teach you when you reach the second level of the Primal Chaos Divine Grindstone Visualisation Method."

　　Zhou Yuan scratched his head as he asked, "May I teach it to others?"

　　The Thirty Six Beast Channel Opening Rune was very valuable, especially to Great Zhou. Although there was some risk, the success rate should be pretty decent if those with strong will power were selected.

　　Hence, if he could impart it to the army, it would definitely raise the strength of many Channel Opening stage pract.i.tioners and make Great Zhou stronger.

　　However, the rune belonged to Yaoyao after all. Her permission was needed if he wanted to teach it to others.

　　Yaoyao fiddled with the bottles as she indifferently said, "No need to ask me if you want to impart it to others. Everything was taught to me by grandpa Hei. As his disciple, you naturally have the right to do with them as you please."

　　"Thank you big sis Yaoyao!"

　　Zhou Yuan was both delighted and grateful. A grade 2 Genesis Rune might be nothing to Yaoyao, but it was extremely valuable to Great Zhou.