The Emperor Reigns Them All

Chapter 482 Leakage

But when Li Zhen took a closer look, he found that Xu Cengming’s forehead was already sweating. He didn’t pretend to be frightened.

“Since I took office, I haven’t appointed the new Daizhou Inspector General. I heard that you were in charge of the military and political affairs in Daizhou and that you handled them well. I intend to report it to His Highness and recommend you to be the Inspector General,” Li Zhen said slowly.

It was well-known that the Xu family was in charge of the military and political affairs in Daizhou. The former Inspector General was just a puppet, and even Li Keyong couldn’t deal with them. Li Zhen planned to threaten him, trying to figure out his true intention.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Li Zhen finished speaking, Xu Cengming trembled. He left his seat and bowed to the ground. His voice began to tremble. “I’m guilty! I can’t handle the political affairs well. I’m not doing my job well. Commissioner, please punish me!”

Xu Cengshou bowed as well, his body trembling.

Li Zhen frowned. He finally realized that these two people were not acting but really afraid to the core.

“What’s going on?”

...

Two hours later, Xu Cengming and Xu Cengshou walked out of the commissioner’s mansion. They almost trotted into the carriage and never showed up again.

Xu Cengming slumped in the carriage. He no longer sat rigidly upright like when he faced Li Zhen. He wiped the sweat on his forehead and shook his collar. The awe in his eyes lasted for a long time.

Besides Xu Cengming, the patriarch, Xu Cengshou was also like this. He leaned against the carriage, panting like a dying fish, as if he would roll his eyes and die as soon as he was out of breath.

“If I didn’t come to Taiyuan, I wouldn’t know it. As soon as I approached the commissioner’s mansion today, I felt something wrong and a rush of fear for no reason. It’s not a commissioner’s mansion at all. I have also been to Chang’an. Even when I faced the Imperial City, I was not so afraid.”

“It was like an ancient dragon was lying in the air above the commissioner’s mansion. It looked ferocious, and it had great pressure. I felt that if I showed any disrespect to it, I would be swallowed by it and my bones wouldn’t be spat out.” Xu Cengshou finally took a breath and immediately shared his “feelings and experiences” with Xu Cengming.

Xu Cengming’s face was pale. Although he tried his best to calm down, the lingering horror in his eyes still revealed his true state of mind.

He said with a lingering fear, “When I entered the commissioner’s mansion, it was like entering a deep abyss. The invisible pressure made me breathless. Especially, when I saw the commissioner, he just sat there, but I felt that he was like Qin Shubao, who was holding the Imperial Sword. I was worried that I would be beheaded as a demon!”

Xu Cengshou nodded repeatedly to show that his experience was similar to Xu Cengming’s.

Xu Cengming took a deep breath. “I have been to the commissioner’s mansion before. I saw Li Keyong when he was in Taiyuan, but I didn’t feel the same as today. Since I walked into the door, there seemed to be an irresistible majestic will, making me involuntarily reflect on what I have done...”

Xu Cengshou sighed and said, “Me, too. Brother, to tell you the truth, I think that we were too arrogant before. We thought that we were in charge of the military and political affairs in Daizhou and had the credit of the Daibei Border Army’s defending the border, so we didn’t have to be afraid of His Highness Prince An and the commissioner.”

“Now I think we were too arrogant and unruly before. I’m afraid that His Highness and the commissioner hate us. With His Highness Prince An’s great power and the commissioner’s shrewdness, if our Xu family doesn’t pull back before it is too late, we will be expelled from Daizhou... If things really come to that, can our Xu family resist?”

Xu Cengming glanced at him. “If not, I wouldn’t act like that in front of the commissioner. Fortunately, I was decisive and resolute and confessed my guilt neatly, so the commissioner didn’t blame me. If I really agreed to be the Inspector General, I’m afraid that I would have been beheaded now! It’s not a big deal that I die, but if I get my family into trouble, how could I face my ancestors under the ground?”

Xu Cengshou patted his chest and said, “Brother, you’re wise.” After a pause, he hurriedly asked, “In your opinion, what will the commissioner do next?”

Xu Cengming thought for a moment and said, “Commissioner was magnanimous, and he didn’t blame us, but I think he will dismiss the youths in our family, who are officials or soldiers, from Daizhou and the border army to weaken our influence and foundation!”

“Then what should we do?” Xu Cengshou asked anxiously and nervously.

Xu Cengming gritted his teeth and made up his mind. “We’ll move the whole family to Taiyuan! Instead of waiting for the commissioner to take action, it’s better to show our loyalty. In this way, we will do him a favor. I think that it won’t be too difficult for us to live in the future. As for the foundation in Daizhou... Is there anything more important than protecting the family?”

If their whole family moved to Taiyuan, they would live under Li Zhen’s watch in the future and be restricted everywhere. They would no longer be free as a local despot in Daizhou, and their family power would also be restrained. In a sense, it was like the whole family was held hostage.

Hearing this, Xu Cengshou thought it was good to do so and breathed a sigh of relief. “It’s great that you think so!”

...

Li Ye looked at it carefully. Under the light of the Dragon Qi, the light spots were like hot red dots, and the halos gradually spread out.

So the spots around them lit up one by one. It was as if those who were not loyal to Li Ye were infected by these people’s behavior under the influence of the Dragon Qi, speeding up the process of loyalty, and began to be loyal to him.

The power of Luck emanated from these light spots and converged to Li Ye.Updates by vi p novel

The speed of Li Ye’s cultivation improvement accelerated more than one level.

At the beginning of Li Ye’s transmigration, before he comprehended the Way of Emperor, the power of the Dragon Qi was very small and only active when necessary. Later, when he comprehended the first realm, the Dragon Qi was more condensed and more powerful. After he comprehended the second realm, the Dragon Qi could perfectly integrate with the emperor’s sword so that the power of Li Ye’s every strike was qualitatively enhanced when he fought against the enemy.

Now that he had comprehended the third realm of the Way of Emperor, the Dragon Qi was no longer the form of “Qi”, but a living dragon. And now it could integrate into the Immortal Area and apply its own power to those who were loyal to Li Ye so that they could affect more people and greatly speed up his cultivation.

It was incredible.

Now, Li Ye was close to the middle stage of the Ground Immortal Realm. He estimated that he could advance to the middle stage before he arrived at the fierce beasts’ nest according to this trend.

Breaking through to the Sky Immortal Realm was just around the corner.

...

When Li Ye comprehended the Way of Emperor, he sat still and closed his eyes slightly. He looked like an old monk who sat in meditation.

But his breath was inadvertently emitted. His vast, distant, and domineering will covered the area within a radius of 10,000 feet, like the thick clouds in the sky.

Within this area, all the cultivators felt something and couldn’t help looking at Li Ye.

The cultivators in the Ground Immortal Realm and below desired to bow, as if they had seen their emperor. The cultivators above the Ground Immortal Realm could slightly steady their minds in front of this will. And those cultivators in the Spiritual Master Realm or at the Qi-refining Stage couldn’t control themselves and bowed to Li Ye in succession.

When Li Ye opened his eyes, he saw more than a thousand cultivators bowing at the campsite.

The cultivators who didn’t bow also looked surprised and shocked. They looked at Li Ye, speechless. The cultivators in the Real Immortal Realm even looked serious with fear. They were awed by Li Ye very much.

It was the first time for Li Ye to see the cultivators of the demon clan take the initiative to bow.

He wanted to ask the cultivators to stand up. But when he spoke, his tone became majestic, and his words became the simplest and the most wonderful. “Stand up, my ministers.”

The more than a thousand cultivators who bowed all stood up involuntarily, as if they had heard an edict. They shouted, “Thank you, Your Highness!”

Like the tide, their sound swept mountains and forests.

Li Ye was almost stunned.

“Is this the leakage of an emperor’s momentum?”

Before he could think too much, he was struck by the strange scene before him. The power of Luck went out of the heads of the bowing cultivators of the demon clan, converged to him, and integrated into the Dragon Qi in his Ocean of Qi. Li Ye widened his eyes. It turned out that he could also gather their power of Luck after the cultivators of the demon clan were loyal to him.

This surprised and delighted Li Ye.

After getting up, the cultivators of the demon clan who had bowed looked at Li Ye with piousness in their eyes, just like the believers in the human world who believed in the immortals of the Taoist sect and the Bodhisattvas of Buddhism.

They didn’t feel anything wrong with their action of bowing just now. They did that from the bottom of their hearts. At this time, they just wanted to follow Li Ye to fight and conquer the world!

Wei Weiwu and the other two cultivators in the Real Immortal Realm looked at each other and noticed each other’s abnormal expressions. The cultivators who bowed just now included the members of their own organizations. They also felt that the cultivators were pious to Li Ye, which distressed them.Updates by vi p novel

It seemed that these members were no longer loyal to them. If they parted ways with Li Ye, they were very suspicious that these members would follow Li Ye directly!

Realizing this, Wei Weiwu and the other two cultivators ducked their heads and fell silent. They were caught in a deep sense of self-doubt and doubt about the world. The cultivators that they had worked hard to recruit and train were going to be out of their control and run into someone else’s arms without a word?

It made their hearts ache.

The key point was that it was only two days before the change happened!

Almost overnight, their cultivators became someone else’s lackeys, but they didn’t do anything or make any mistakes. They felt wronged! Whoever encountered such a thing, he would suspect his life.

...

The team had rested for a long time. Since the direction was decided, it was time to continue on the way. The campsite was about 50 kilometers away from the fierce beasts’ nest. Originally, it would take two days, but Li Ye didn’t intend to waste time on the road.

According to his investigation, although there were many fierce beasts in the nest, many of them were injured. He should give them a Thunderstorm Attack before they recovered. So he ordered the team to rush to the edge of the basin in one day so that they could launch a surprise attack at night.

In this way, the cultivators with low cultivation needed the others’ help. It wasn’t difficult. As long as their cultivation reached high-level Qi-refining, they could run quickly with a companion.

However, not many cultivators were willing to help the others previously, and they were unwilling to waste their Spiritual Qi. After all, if they encountered fierce beasts halfway and their Spiritual Qi was insufficient, that would be bad.

Now that Li Ye had explored the situation of the road ahead and asked the cultivators in the Ground Immortal Realm to be scouts, the team didn’t need to worry about repeating the same mistake and being attacked again, so the cultivators were relieved. Moreover, Li Ye’s authority was established, so the cultivators would naturally obey his command.

This time, Li Ye didn’t continue to go with the cultivators at the Qi-refining Stage. He achieved his goal, so he didn’t need to gild the lily.