"No wonder it sounds like a puzzle; after all, whenever one was dying and has a lot to say, they would simply summarize everything into a few words and expect everyone else to figure it out…"

Other Elders were busy passing words to one another and failed to notice the three other Elders who were quiet in thought, and about a few minutes later, one of these three Elder's moved over to the other two and asked in a low tone;

"Do you know about any formation?"

"There are formations everywhere within this Royal Court from protective to energy gathering and all sorts which one are we supposed to destroy?"

"If these were is dying words, I don't think he'd be referring to ordinary formations…"

"But the question still remains; which formation are we destroying?"

"How am I supposed to know…"

"Perhaps, if we decode the rest of the message we'd be able to get an understanding of what he was about to say…"

The trio discussed amongst themselves, but not long after, someone abruptly barged into the room and froze in shock when he saw about a dozen Elders gathered together inside the house of a Grand Elder…

All the hair on the guards body rose to their roots as he began to abruptly feel like he had just barged into a conspiracy meeting, and the way the Elders expressions were one of deep thinking, scrunch brows, contemplating looks only served to buttress his thoughts, but what really broke the egg was the angry look they were all currently giving him…

The looks made him believe one hundred percent that he had barged into a conspiracy meeting and this made him fail to realize that he had been kneeling at the entrance for a few seconds too long without speaking and that only made the Elders' frowns deepen and was now spurring their rage because the guard had interrupted their thoughts at the point where they were just making breakthroughs in decoding the message…

But one of the Elders bellowed the guard to reality and angrily asked;

"Don't you have manners at all; barging into a Grand Elder's home without announcing your arrival first!?"

"I-I'm Sorry Elder Wong… I didn't mean to barge into the Grand Elder's home-"

"But you have done just that, and you know what the penalty for that is… So, how would you like to die!?"

The Elder lifted his head a bit before staring down at the Guard with a murderous and venomous gaze, causing the Guard to break out in cold sweat as he began to feel the aura of a guillotine hanging over his neck;

"Unh… Venerable Elders, please forgive my impetuousness… I will never barge into a Grand Elder's home if it is not for an important matter…"

The Guard quickly slammed his forehead into the ground as he pleaded for his poor little life; The one of the three Elders who were calmly discussing amongst themselves earlier stood up and walked towards the guard releasing his 4 Star Qi Sea Stage cultivation, stunning the rest of his colleagues to the core;

"What!?"

"When did Elder Jin reach the 4 Star Qi Sea Stage?"

"I don't know… This is the first time we are seeing him outside in the last six months…"

"But doesn't that mean he is now qualified to be a Grand Elder?"

"I guess so…"

"Then now that the Left Grand Elder is dead, doesn't that mean?"

"Are you saying what I think you are saying?"

"Yeah, I think so… The three of them have been discussing secretly amongst themselves, and I believe teamwork could also be regarded as a form of formation…"

"You don't mean the three of them conspired to kill the Left Grand Elder and then have him take over the seat?"

"That's what I think, and come to think of it, the other two are already at Peak 3 Stars for about 5 months now, and should they also break through, they could remove the Right Grand Elder from the way and then combine to take out his Highness who is only at the 6 Star Qi Sea Stage the last time I checked…" About 7 Elders gathered around as they whispered to themselves;

"You have spoken reasonable Elder Tun, perhaps it is the teamwork amongst the trio the unlucky Left Grand Elder was telling us to destroy…"

"Perhaps, he had figured out their plans and they decided to silence him for that; after all the 4 Star Qi Sea stage Left Grand Elder wouldn't be able to handle two 3 Stars and one 4 Star Qi Sea stage expert all by himself…"

Whilst these people overthought their theories and whispered amongst themselves, the Elder with the 4 Star Qi Sea stage cultivation finally arrived in front of the Peak Qi Sea stage guard who was already sweating bullets, with almost all of his muscles bulging and straining as he tried all his best to keep himself from lying flat on the ground…

The aura of the Elder pressed down on his weak 7 Star Qi Creation stage like an elephant stomping on a cicada, it was grueling and gruesome, but he endured;

"So, for what good reasons have you barged in here?"

The Elder was now about ten steps away from the guard who was currently feeling the weight of the world on his shoulders;

"I -tss -out -is -ness" The guards words were breaking as the Elder took another step forward, doubling the pressure the Guard was feeling;

"It's his highness!"

The guard yelled under the pressure and the moment the Elder heard the word 'Highness' his aura vanished with a puff as the Guard broke down lying flat on the ground facing upward as he saw the Elder standing over him looking straight down at him;

"What is it about his highness?" The Elder asked, calmly this time;

"His highness and three mysterious figures have returned from their conquest…" The Guard panted severely;

"Okay?"

"But they are all severely injured, and of all the Royal Guards that left with them, only about ten returned, and they are also grievously injured…"

All the Elders gasped in shock when they heard what the guard had just said albeit for different reasons;

"To think they have also taken down his highness…" The seven overthinking Elders continued;

"But if they were all here when this happened, does that mean they have outside help?" One asked…