From Joy of Life, the Tian Gang is reversed

Chapter 167: Locked Gate, Lights Burn in Turbulent Times (Part )
Kyoto was bustling throughout the summer.

With the arrival of autumn, the heat of the dismantling of the Censorate gradually subsided, and the court gradually calmed down.

His Majesty, sitting high on the dragon throne, and the ministers in the court suddenly discovered that it didn't matter if one person was missing.

There is not much difference between Chen Pingping being alive and Chen Pingping being dead.

It turns out that this world can function normally without anyone!

Of course, it would be better if there were fewer bastards like Guo Baokun.

The Supervisory Council fell, the Daoshensi rose, and Guo Baokun's position in Chengtian Hall moved up several places.

He caught more people.

"You must be careful with your words and actions. Don't make any mistakes that might give the Daoist Court a handle on you!"

This is what the bigwigs and new and old officials of each faction said.

Guo Baokun is such a jerk, and the Daoshensi is such a jerk too.

Ever since the First and Fourth Branches of the Supervisory Council were merged into the Provincial Court of Justice, the entire capital was overcrowded with officials for a period of time.

Although the Moral Review Department is still based on the five bottom lines set by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince that day, what are the first and fourth points for?
That was originally a department that supervised all officials. It had a lot of negative information about officials in the court. After Guo Baokun got it, he used the information to secretly monitor anyone who had violated the five bottom lines, and he would catch them all.

This caused widespread complaints in the court, but there was nothing that could be done.

What annoyed him most about this guy Guo Baokun was that he would always have sufficient evidence for anything he did. With sufficient evidence, no matter who you were, he would dare to arrest you, without even giving face to Prime Minister Lin.

In addition, he has the support of the great prince behind him, so no one dares to do anything to him.

Now this guy is like a crab in the court. Whoever his eyes fall on will be frightened and break out in a cold sweat.

"You can't do this. If you keep going like this, you won't be able to suppress your aura." Donggong looked at the complacent Guo Baokun and said, "Since the establishment of the Dao Judicial Division, you have been going smoothly and your cultivation has advanced by leaps and bounds, but you haven't honed your skills enough. The conditions for breaking through the Mysterious Gate are not yet ripe. You need to suppress it."

"I've also been feeling something's amiss lately. My cultivation has improved, but my Xuanguan acupoint seems to be getting stronger and stronger. I almost feel like I can't move."

"There's no need to rush this kind of thing. You're only in your early twenties, and you're already a ninth-rank expert. It's okay to wait for a few years first!" Li Chengqian looked at Guo Baokun, feeling a little guilty.

"The prince is right. I am now a ninth-rank master." Thinking of his experiences in the past few years, Guo Baokun felt like he was in a dream. In the past, he would never have thought that he could become a ninth-rank master even in his dreams. But in just a few years, it has become a reality. What else is there to complain about?
He had nothing to complain about, but Li Chengqian felt guilty, as if he had betrayed Guo Baokun.

The so-called Four Vajras of the East Palace, each person's path was paved by him according to their respective characteristics. This is also the greatest achievement after his in-depth study of the martial arts in this world. But he is a pioneer after all, and the experience he can learn from is limited, and he is still immature in some areas.

Perhaps it was because the primordial energy of this world was nuclear radiation, its rules vastly different from those of other martial arts worlds, or perhaps it was because he had seen too many mysteries in his past life. In short, the path he had blazed to the Grandmaster level unexpectedly contained a hidden condition. To become a Grandmaster, one must complete a ritual-like act to unlock the Mysterious Light.

Like himself, he was walking the path of a martial saint and was considered a pioneer. So when he opened up a path and someone (the eldest prince) succeeded, he easily opened up the mysterious gate and achieved master-level true qi.

As for the eldest prince, he followed the military way of killing. He needed to achieve something on the battlefield, win a major battle, and kill people all over the place. The eldest prince did it, so he became a master.

Qin Yuan also took this path, but he has not had the opportunity to lead troops to fight, so he has been trapped in the realm above the ninth rank.

Mao Qiwu used social engineering, drawing nourishment from the relationships between people, and achieving his own goals by plucking the strings of fate and influencing the fate of others. Therefore, after trying his hand at it, plucking a string of fate and killing Chen Pingping, a great man in the world and the king of darkness, he also completed the ceremony and naturally advanced to the realm of grandmaster.

Gui Zitian, his path is very straightforward and simple. Killing a grandmaster with poison will complete the ritual. I just don’t know whether he will choose Si Gu Jian or Ku He. We’ll see when the time comes.

Only Guo Baokun had betrayed himself. The path he had chosen was the most difficult, or rather, the one Li Chengqian was least confident in. It borrowed from Western magic, the art of verbal spirits, and merged the philosophies of two completely different martial arts worlds. In Li Chengqian's ideal, this path resembled the Legalist cultivation techniques he'd seen in those Confucian and Taoist novels of his past life: words followed by laws, transforming words into rules.

But he overlooked an important point. There is another idiom in the world, "golden words and jade words", which is used exclusively by the emperor. In this world, most people believe that only the emperor can make his words become laws and his words can be followed by laws. Only then can he have golden words and jade words. Guo Baokun also thinks so.

In the martial arts he pioneered, which was mixed with a certain degree of idealism, this cognitive bias almost doomed Guo Baokun to never become a master, because he was not an emperor.

Do I have to make him an emperor?

So after realizing this, Li Chengqian still felt a little guilty. It's not that there is a way, there is a way, but it is not available now. It can be imagined that Guo Baokun will be the last of the four Vajras of the Eastern Palace to achieve the mastery.

"I heard that you went to Prime Minister Lin's residence recently."

"It's not that I want to cause trouble for him, I just can't help but get angry!"

Speaking of this, Guo Baokun's face darkened. "I used to think that officials in this dynasty were a bunch of maggots feeding on history. They could tolerate some disgusting things, but now one place and four places have been combined. I've also read some of the materials there. Can you imagine, these maggots...!"

"Okay, okay, I know what you mean." Li Chengqian smiled bitterly. This is also a problem in the martial arts of this world. When you truly embark on your own path, your will, beliefs, and thoughts will resonate with your own path. Like Guo Baokun now, he really regards the court as his own.

When the Provincial Court was newly established, its intelligence system was not yet complete. Now that the First and Fourth Courts have been merged, there is a wide variety of negative information about officials in the court, which opened his eyes but also angered him.

"Eat your food one bite at a time, and do things one step at a time. The goals of your current rectification campaign are too scattered. You need to focus on them. Also, once you've determined your target, you must produce all the evidence, make the matter bigger, and discredit them. Don't give them any chance to turn the tables."

"I understand. Who does Your Highness want to deal with?!"

"Could you please not be so blunt? It makes me feel embarrassed." Li Chengqian cursed with a smile.

(End of this chapter)