Volume 1, Chapter 46: Signs of an Enlightened Monarch

Even my father's side has faced a certain degree of resistance. As far as I know, Lin Yong, the Director of the Bureau of Revenue, is backed by the Lin family, serving as a collateral member of it. The most powerful figure in the Lin family is Lin Shi'an, who serves as the Left Prime Minister of Great Qian and practically controls the court politics of Great Qian! Take the Minister of Revenue, Lin Dongyang, for example; he belongs to the direct lineage of the Lin family. As for the appointment of officials in Great Qian above the third rank, they must receive the consent of the Left Prime Minister before being reported to the Female Emperor. As for the life-and-death matters of ministers below the third rank, they are actually never even known to the Female Emperor, let alone a mere magistrate of the Imperial City at the lower sixth rank. Chu Yun briefly explained to Li Xian. Li Xian frowned...

I nodded, turned around to clear away the sundries on the corpse, and immediately began stitching the body. Hearing this, I could only feel amused. A weasel had actually assigned rank titles to its own family; it had truly attained spiritual awareness and become a spirit. Du Xinghe discovered that his spiritual sword and ore spirit had both been taken away, and a new storage ring had appeared on his hand.

Lin Piao searched around and found nothing, so he grabbed a wine-serving waiter and asked which room the Western Regions merchant caravan selling goods here was staying in. He had been invited to a meeting but could not find the room. He pointed with his hand at Xia Jianguo and Li Xiuli on the stage, "Especially that couple surnamed Xia. Not long ago, their son severed ties with them just because of their improper ideology."

After finishing her meal, Second Aunt knew that Lin Piao did not like to go out and gossip with everyone, so she went out for a stroll by herself to aid digestion, and returned in a flurry shortly after. Lin Piao carried a kite and ran back and forth, barely managing to get the kite to fly up a fraction, but it was nothing compared to others. A single string could be seen in his hand, and the kite flew so high that it vanished from sight in a flash, making it impossible to see where it had flown off to.

"Very nice, very nice. This outfit as a whole screams of an expensive young master." Lin Piao was very satisfied with his own aesthetic, then selected a sash to tie loosely around his waist. Tying it too tightly made his waist look too thin, so he picked out a sachet and a jade pendant to hang from it. "Lady Blue Butterfly, I cannot make this decision alone; I still need to discuss it with the Prince." Ye Liyan stood up and helped Blue Butterfly up from the ground.

Li Li and Yaotan followed behind those vagrants, stepping through one of the entrances of the huge circular building.

Lu Xuan said as he took out the jade token, only to find the white skeleton inside curiously looking outward through spiritual sense. Due to the final exams, the atmosphere in the school was tense and serious, and Teacher He's anger still had a significant impact on Chen Zi.

He looked aloof and detached, yet his eyes were fixed entirely on that lump of iron. Clearly, he wanted to get his hands on this item, yet he was putting on an act of playing the good guy. If anyone were to see Zhao Zhanghe's appearance at this moment, they would certainly think that any despair they had witnessed in the past was fake, and that only Zhao Zhanghe's current state was true despair.

The three of them did not talk back. Fan Wu untied Bailian's bonds; Bailian first handed the ghost axe to Fan Wu, then produced a ghost-head broadsword to decapitate Zhang Xin with a single strike, and silently carried the blade as he walked into the cave. There was no help for it, because the most important rule here was that resolving any private grievances was strictly prohibited. No matter what kind of enmity existed, it could only be dealt with after returning to the surface.

Early the next morning, just as the rooster crowed, Hu Ziyi came to wake him up. After Qu Fan finished dressing, Hu Ziyi told him that they needed to fetch water and fill the large water vat. Although Lin Fan was confident, he was also very well aware of the current situation. Lin Fan knew that Zhao Fei'er was right: the immortal dragon vein of the Tianqi Kingdom was located precisely at the very center, guarded by countless elite imperial guards. To find the immortal dragon vein and refine it was indeed extremely dangerous.

Yun Chen always felt that things could not possibly be this simple; there had to be some conspiracy lurking behind the scenes. Since that was the case, they would just play along with them to the end and see what plot these two were really hatching. To serve one's lord with utter loyalty and march generously to one's death! This surge of momentum guided Hu Che'er, instantly enabling him to survey all directions and listen to all sounds.

"Why must we choose to get married at a time like this? The New Year would be so much better and more lively. Not to mention that many relatives and friends are currently working away from home, the weather is also so scorching hot that vegetables and meat spoil within half a day." Qu Sha began to help, putting the folded clothes into her bag and packing two sets of brand-new clothes that she had never worn before.

This was his absolute peak in this world, and a primitive, unadorned strike left a clear fist print on the Immortal-Cauldroning Ding. While drinking tea and chatting casually with Mansour, Li Feng whistled coquettishly to express his excitement upon seeing something beautiful.

Qiao Xi was utterly calm, allowing the spirits capable of transforming into human form to appear openly and help clean up the estate that had been uninhabited for a long time. He hurriedly leaped, an action that should have allowed him to soar dozens of feet into the sky, but at this moment he felt as though he were being held back by countless viscous substances, and as soon as he poked his head out of the mud, his strength was already exhausted.

Such a Qu Sha was someone none of them had ever seen before. Upon her, a shadow that they had never witnessed before seemed to suddenly overlap, and gradually, the assembly hall fell into a pin-drop silence. Just as the father and three sons were resting in the rear courtyard of the Qinchan County government office, a hurried voice rang out.

This was a collective showdown on this issue by all the top brass of the military. Surprisingly, this kind of showdown even won the approval of Liu Yong, the Prince of Ganling. The plaque above the door was already covered with a layer of fine dust, the gatekeepers who used to guard the entrance were nowhere to be found, and the ajar gates made it impossible to associate such an environment with the word "nobility" any longer.

When Shen Guilan returned home, Li Kaiheng was already dead drunk. Back when Qu Dawang was around, her son had also enjoyed drinking, but he only did so occasionally. Now, however, not only did he drink every few days, but he also got roaring drunk every single time.

The very instant Qin Wanyi bit down on Gu Qingcheng's shoulder, Gu Qingcheng had already carried her out into the hallway. All the employees on the twenty-fifth floor stood dumbfounded, staring unblinkingly at Gu Qingcheng and Qin Wanyi. Thus, Qin Wanyi's mood, which had just lifted due to securing a good job, plummeted to rock bottom.

Fortunately, the status of the Wandering Daoist of the Six Paths in the hearts of the immortals was still very high, so she had always kept his admonitions in mind. Because of this, the immortal had never gone out to seek revenge, but instead quietly cultivated while waiting for the day she reached complete mastery.

"Retreat, do not entangle with them." Feng Shaojie saw that he had gained the upper hand and immediately ordered the bombers and archers to fall back.

"Far away on the horizon, yet right before your eyes." Wen Yuexiang patted Shi Qing's shoulder, proudly showing off to her father. After dealing with these members of the Ximen family, Gao Yi led his brothers out of the villa and headed toward the family conference room not far away.

When Shi Qing felt that if she simply blurted out her hypothesis, she might be able to touch Wen Yuexiang's father, and pulled her mind back from her thoughts, she felt something was amiss. Why was the car driving onto the highway heading back to D City?

While fleeing, I happened to encounter Green Ears. Although her gaze still carried a hint of coldness, at least I knew that she still had feelings for me in her heart; at the very least, she would not watch me die with folded arms—she had saved me.