Emperor Jianwu, who feared that the Second Prince would resort to further deceit, successively made his moves to seal the prince's Dantian and main meridians; then, he took out a rope specially used to bind cultivators at the Late Gold Core Stage and bound the Second Prince tightly. Only then did he drag the prince over to Qi Tian like a pig being led to slaughter and left him to Qi Tian's disposal.
The Second Prince kept his eyes shut, unknown whether it was out of shame or some other reason. But one thing was certain: it had little to do with his injuries because Qi Tian, through the sensing capabilities of the Heavenly Dao Engine on Spirit Qi, could accurately determine that the Second Prince was neither unconscious nor sleeping; his Spirit Force fluctuations were very stable.