Chapter 354: Chapter 75: The Overly Long Experience Trough
Screams emanated from the Shen Mansion, turning the vast estate into a noisy uproar.
Even with the Second Prince’s cultivation, he could clearly discern words like "murder" and "the master is dead."
The Second Prince halted his step out of the carriage and sat back down.
"Lawless madmen!" His face turned an iron blue.
If Jiang Li’s earlier actions had ignited the Second Prince’s ambition, his current actions were like setting a fire behind the Second Prince, forcing him to quickly enter the fray and take swift action.
He could have removed Shen Yuan through legitimate means and replaced him with his own man.
With the Emperor now focused on longevity, there was a significant chance he would pay no heed. The other princes were lying low, unable to compete with the well-prepared Second Prince.
He could also manipulate Shen Yuan, subjugate him, and use this chess piece at a critical moment.
Both methods had been excellent, excellent indeed, but now they were useless.
Shen Yuan was dead, leaving the position of Left Inner Historian vacant. His brothers might see this as an opportunity to step in, and the Emperor could think that a prince could not hold back anymore, setting off a series of issues due to Shen Yuan’s death.
If someone else were to discover the Second Prince’s carriage outside the Shen Mansion...
No, there were no ifs.
If investigated, it would certainly be found out.
"Go!"
The Second Prince gritted his teeth, "To the Yin Law Department."
At this point, he had to act.
Whether to avoid passivity or for his own ambition, he had to enter the fray and stand against the Emperor.
The carriage moved once more, hurrying away from the place before the guardians of the Shen Mansion noticed anything unusual.
A Blue Butterfly gracefully left the top of the carriage, fluttering in the rain, landing on a nearby roof, settling on Jiang Li’s fingertip.
[Your integration with the Pure Yang Ancestor’s Dao Fruit has progressed further, filling your physical body and Primordial Spirit with Pure Yang Qi, the Taoist Body beginning to form.]
Jiang Li, looking at the refreshed text in the Karma Collection, felt his pulsating qi and blood, squinted slightly.
Simultaneously, Divine Farmer’s appearance further stimulated, if one could see inside Jiang Li from a Crystal Belly, they would find his organs glowing crystal-clear without any impurities.
Furthermore, Jiang still maintained a Child Body, making the Pure Yang Body appear even more pure.
This was good news.
But the bad news—
[Participants in the calamity in Yong Province, the kind-hearted Left Inner Historian of Jingzhao Prefecture, Yang Ji, and some prisoners who died in the Five Vile Qi in the Heavenly Prison, accelerated Jiang Li’s Dao Fruit’s integration. But at the same time, he sensed the vastness of the Pure Yang Ancestor’s Dao Fruit.]
[To achieve Sixth Grade Dao Fruit Perfection, Jiang Li would likely need to expend much more Heart Power than an average Sixth Grader.]
[In simpler terms, his experience bar is longer than others.]
Jiang Li, seeing the text materialize before him, felt both resigned and as though it made sense.
Dao Fruit is a collection of karma; the stronger the Dao Fruit, the more and more powerful the karma within. Jiang Li’s Sixth Grade Dao Fruit was not just a Uniqueness Dao Fruit, but a fusion of two such Dao Fruits. If karma could be quantified, Jiang Li’s Dao Fruit quality would far surpass ordinary ones.
’So, how many villains must I kill to reach Perfection?’
Jiang Li instinctively looked toward the Imperial City, ’Would one Emperor be enough?’
If he could slay the Emperor, Jiang Li dared say his Dao Fruit could reach Perfection in one go, but currently, his strength required strategizing even against fifth-rank, and he couldn’t guarantee a kill. Tackling the Emperor was a difficult task!
At best, he could play a supportive role, hoping to get a share when the Emperor died.
The premise was that the Emperor would die.
If the Emperor didn’t die, then everything should be dropped, and he would have to deal with the Taiping Sect’s rebellion.
’So... can I kill the Emperor? Kill him before his life ends?’ Jiang Li’s gaze was distant.
Historically, Emperors died of old age, none had been assassinated. Could this generation be an exception?
Jiang Li didn’t know.
With his experience, he wasn’t qualified to judge beings of the Supreme level. Without having seen such a scenario, how could he judge the persons in it?
But now, he could only do his best.
He retracted the Dream Butterfly and was about to leave.
Just then, a faint Yin Qi emerged from within the Shen Mansion.
Amidst the rain, under a gloomy sky, a white bull-headed carriage seemed to rush out from the void and stopped in the garden of the Shen Mansion.
On the carriage, a bull-headed man stood imposingly like a black tower.
’Yin Law Department’s Soul Hooker? Not someone from the Southern Heavenly Department?’ Jiang Li halted his Sword Light and looked down.
Shen Yuan’s death naturally alerted the government, especially since it was entirely unnatural, clearly a murder. In theory, this should be a case for the Southern Heavenly Department.
It’s not that the Yin Law Department couldn’t intervene, but their position was quite ambiguous.
The Ji Family’s old folks mostly held power in the Yin Law Department, and those not in power were also registered there. Most of them were disgruntled Ghost Cultivators who had survived by changing their paths, all of them seasoned old ghosts.
It was said that the oldest among them could even trace back to the founding of the Great Zhou, a congregation of old ghosts with profound backgrounds.
Although there weren’t many at the fourth-grade level, and only one at the third-grade, the number at the fifth-grade was indeed surprising.
However, these foundations had greatly diminished...
In the past, the Ji and Jiang families shared the world, and the Yin Law Department was not only composed of Ji Family’s old ghosts but also Jiang family’s old ones. Then, during the standoff between the two families, they fought fiercely.
With equal rank and status, the members of the two families fought each other, and after settling the karma, they more or less faced Heaven’s Punishment, although the severity varied. Since both sides were Ghost Cultivators, who feared heavenly punishment the most, most were one-for-one swaps, with only a few being two-for-one, extremely brutal.
Afterward, the Jiang Family’s Ghost Cultivators followed their main house overseas, leaving only the greatly weakened Yin Law Department, to the extent that it now equaled the Southern Heavenly Department and even sometimes was suppressed.
The Yin Law Department was basically controlled by the Ji Family’s elders, who naturally leaned towards tradition. Apart from the enfeoffed princes, the rest of the Ji Family’s power was mostly in the Zong Zheng Residence, with a significant portion in the Yin Law Department. It’s safe to say that the majority of the Ji Family’s opposition against the Emperor was in the Yin Law Department.
Under these circumstances, the Yin Law Department was actually also limited, being inactive since the rumors erupted.
But now, people from the Yin Law Department had stepped forward.
’Has the Emperor negotiated with the people of the Yin Law Department? Or was there another situation? What about Wan Dingtian?’
Jiang Li unconsciously wanted to perform divination, but since the heavens were still chaotic, even though he was an Affiliated Son-in-Law cadet not affected by the Qi disturbance of the Ji Family, he still couldn’t determine the outcome.
However, Jiang Li was sure of one thing.
If the Southern Heavenly Department had other urgent matters, likely, they were related to him.
If they could find Jiang Li, then the current situation built upon Jiang Li’s death would crumble.