What's wrong with me, a powerful minister, supporting a few female officials?

Chapter 205 A miraculous medicine that is extremely useful to the Empress!

Enraged, Lord Nangong glared at Su Mo again before flashing away and heading straight for the Fu residence!
Su Mo gave a wry smile to himself, then said urgently, "My lord, please wait a moment!"

Nangong Sheyue quickly arrived outside the mansion and circled the mansion once.

Deep within his eyes, it seemed as if a silver disc was swirling, faintly emitting a silvery light, as he stared intently at the sinister and ferocious giant black spider!
Su Mo, who was closely following Commander Zuo, couldn't help but ask, "Sir, what should we do?"

Nangong Sheyue turned to look at Su Mo, her pretty face serious: "A person who can set up such a fifth-grade formation is not to be underestimated!"

"You must remember this!"

"In the cultivation world, higher cultivation level does not necessarily mean greater combat strength!"

"The vast majority of immortal cultivators are powerful in their offensive techniques and various spells, but they are generally much weaker than martial artists of the same level!"

"With your embryonic sword, if caught off guard, it could even kill a Grand Sorcerer at the Divine Realm!"

Su Mo's eyebrows twitched involuntarily.

What he thought was his best hidden trump card had been seen through by Nangong Sheyue long ago.

Fortunately, Nangong Sheyue treated him very well.

However, the Vajra Pestle can now store more and more energy, and his Yangtian Technique is improving at an increasingly faster pace.

Go back and practice dual cultivation with Lord Qianhu a few more times!

Su Mo could easily understand what Nangong Sheyue was saying.

In summary, it boils down to four words: Taoist sorcerers, high attack and low defense!

Nangong Sheyue then added, "If you are not careful, no matter how high your cultivation level is, you will perish one day!"

"We must not be careless, for we are in the dark while the enemy is in the light!"

Su Mo nodded emphatically: "Thank you for your guidance, sir!"

Without saying anything more, Nangong Sheyue took out an extremely small, dark brown sparrow from his treasure pouch at his waist.

It immediately opened its beak and spat a stream of magical power at the sparrow.

Then the sparrow spread its wings and fluttered away.

Su Mo watched as the sparrow disappeared into the black mist, seemingly oblivious to the giant black spider. He couldn't help but ask again, "Sir, is this your pet spirit bird?"

Last time, he saw Nangong Sheyue with a blood-red eagle, sending a message to the Empress.

This time it's another sparrow.

It seems the adult is an expert at keeping birds!
Nangong Sheyue shook his head: "This is a fifth-grade magic weapon that I crafted, named Sparrow."

"Although it lacks the power to attack, it has the ability to explore."

Su Mo: "The magic weapon is called Sparrow?"

Nangong Sheyue nodded: "Yes!"

Su Mo's forehead creased with annoyance.

Nangong Sheyue couldn't help but look at Su Mo suspiciously: "Doesn't it look like a sparrow?"

Su Mo was both amused and exasperated: "It looks just like it!"

"I almost thought it was a real sparrow!"

Lord Nangong's naming skills are terrible, so Su Mo naturally wouldn't dare to say anything!
But the methods of Taoist sorcerers are truly impossible to guard against.

For example, if you are at home, whispering with Lord Qianhu, and a sparrow is perched on the window, who would guess that this is a detection method of the Fengming Division!
Nangong Sheyue flipped his hand, revealing another bronze mirror.

With two fingers outlining in the air, they then touched the mirror surface.

Something magical happened!

The mirror surface rippled like water, and then the scene inside the house appeared!
Su Mo's eyes widened instantly!

It's like a surveillance camera, except the resolution is a bit low, so the image isn't very clear, and there's no sound coming out.

Nangong Sheyue's pretty face turned slightly pale.

Tiny beads of sweat also seeped from her fair neck.

On those beautiful, fine white downy hairs, there was a slightly larger bead of sweat, which looked rather out of place. Su Mo, who had OCD, really wanted to reach out and wipe it off for her!
It is evident that controlling these sparrows and bronze mirror ritual implements consumed a great deal of energy.

Ordinary Imperial Guards and secret agents of the Phoenix Cry Division certainly wouldn't have such methods.

He used a sparrow-shaped magical artifact to spy on the situation inside the house for a long time.

Nangong Sheyue's fair neck was covered in increasingly dense beads of sweat.

It flowed down the pink neck.

Su Mo swallowed hard, finally unable to resist making a move, when Nangong Sheyue suddenly made a hand seal and retrieved the sparrow artifact.

Su Mo quickly averted her gaze from Lady Nangong's fair neck.

"Sir, what's going on?"

Nangong Sheyue breathed a slight sigh of relief: "There are only three people inside: two ordinary servants and an old man. The old man should be a Taoist sorcerer, and his cultivation is quite profound!"

"There should be a cellar beneath the house where the old man is located."

Upon hearing this, Su Mo immediately became excited, rubbing his hands together eagerly: "Then let's attack now?"

"Sir, deal with the old ones, and leave the rest to me!"

Nangong Sheyue rolled her eyes and uttered two words in an annoyed tone: "Return to the city!"

Su Mo was taken aback: "Back to the city?"

Why is Lord Nangong not playing by the rules?
I'm all ready to make a move!
He was immediately startled and stared intently at Nangong Sheyue: "Could it be that even you, sir, are not confident in dealing with that old man?"

Nangong Sheyue was practically furious with Su Mo: "Who said I need to obtain evidence of Zou Hou's crimes right now?"

Suppressing her anger, she lowered her voice and said, "We have to wait until tomorrow, when the results of the court's recommendation are out, and His Majesty approves Zou Hou's recommendation and transfers Zhang Heng and others out of the capital, before we can proceed!"

"To act now would be to alert the enemy!"

"If this alarms Zou Hou and ruins His Majesty's plans, how could I possibly bear the responsibility!"

"And another thing!" Nangong Sheyue glared fiercely at Su Mo, gritting her teeth, "I can handle that old man!"

Su Mo suddenly understood.

It turns out that Lord Nangong was just here to scout the location and wasn't planning to make a move yet!

After the two returned to their original spot.

The white horse was indeed still there.

To Su Mo's surprise, the two women in black who had escorted him back to his residence last time appeared beside the white horse at some point.

Nangong Sheyue looked at the two women expressionlessly: "You two keep a close watch on this residence. If there is any unusual activity, send a message to me via Blood Eagle!"

Then, the red-clawed, red-eyed eagle emerged from Nangong Sheyue's wide sleeves and landed on the forearm of one of the women in black.

Su Mo sighed inwardly, "The master is indeed a master at handling birds."

He and she rode for a long time without him noticing that there was a falcon hidden in his sleeve!

Next, Nangong Sheyue brought Su Mo back to the city. When they arrived outside the Su residence, she finally couldn't hold back anymore and angrily tried to throw Su Mo off the horse.

Unfortunately, Su Mo reacted very quickly, releasing his large hand from Lord Nangong's waist and dismounting.

Nangong Sheyue glared fiercely at Su Mo, then whipped her horse and rode away.

Su Mo was in a good mood.

The Fu family and Zou Hou, whose names were written in the notebook, are doomed this time.

Add to that Lu Wenxuan, who is dead.

There are four names on the notebook, and you can cross out three of them.

Su Mo subconsciously put her hand under her nose, took a deep breath, and smelled Lord Nangong's faint fragrance.

It smells wonderful.

As soon as I entered through the side gate, I became suspicious, for the gatekeeper was nowhere to be found!
The whole house was quiet.

When they arrived at the Intermediate People's Court, they finally found Jiang Laoshi waiting outside the greenhouse.

Swinging away the White Tiger Pill that lunged at him, Su Mo frowned: "Jiang Laoshi!"

Jiang Laoshi was startled. He turned around and saw Su Mo. He quickly stood up and said excitedly, "Master, you're finally back!"

Su Mo snorted: "Where have all the people in the house gone?"

Jiang Laoshi was taken aback: "Sir, you didn't know?"

"The First Madam and the others have taken people to the Wannian County government office to select households; they haven't been gone long!"

He immediately became excited again: "Master is really amazing!"

"Just now, the clerk from the Wannian County Household Department came to inform you, sir, that His Majesty has ordered that you be granted a fief of three hundred households and request that you go to select households for the fief."

"I originally intended to inform the master, but since the first madam was also there, she said that there was no need to disturb the master with these matters, so I went with the second and third madams."

The second and third wives he mentioned naturally referred to Xue Yishu and Liu Siyun.

However, Jiang Laoshi was genuinely excited. Everyone knew how much Su Mo doted on his younger sister, Jiang Lan, and she would become the Su family's wife sooner or later.

At that time, his brother-in-law's status and position will naturally rise.

In fact, even though Jiang Laoshi is in charge of looking after the greenhouse, he's just like a doorman.

But he won't let others watch over the greenhouse!
Su Mo takes the greenhouse so seriously that he always inspects it first whenever he enters or leaves.

Entrusting me with such an important task, doesn't that just prove my important position in the heart of the Su family patriarch?
When he goes out, the neighborhood leaders and village chiefs all greet him respectfully, calling him Brother Jiang or Steward Jiang.
Su Mo nodded.

He really couldn't be bothered with these things.

Lord Qianhu and Liu Siyun went to Wannian County together; they certainly won't suffer any losses.

Xue Yishu?
This can be ignored!
However, Su Mo did not expect that Leng Xixi's efficiency was terrifyingly high.

Not long after returning to the city, the matter of the fief was settled, and Wannian County even sent people over to let the Su family personally select the fief.

Su Mo, having come from a background as a clerk in the government office, naturally knew just how inefficient the government offices were!

It’s so off the mark!

She's so cold and aloof, she's practically like an empress!
Su Mo recalled what Nangong Sheyue had just told her.

He quickly shook his head vigorously, banishing this terrible thought from the Lonely Peak Mountain.

Leng Xixi is the Empress's sister!

No matter who tells me, I believe it!
The cold and aloof woman can't possibly be an empress!

Su Mo whistled and walked briskly back to the study.

Everyone was gone, and the huge house was deserted; there wasn't even a maid to serve tea or water.

Su Mo could only brew a pot of tea himself, then his gaze fell on the desk, and his face suddenly darkened!
Who has ever been to his study?

Lin Moyin?
On the table was a brocade box.

Su Mo opened the brocade box with a dark expression and took a look.

Inside was an old-fashioned book with three characters on it: "游龙鞭" (Youlongbian).

On one side of the book was a whip that appeared to be made of twisted gold and black threads, exuding a chilling magical aura!

"It's cold?"

Su Mo was immediately stunned.

Last time at the Jade Sound Pavilion, I made a bet with Leng Xixi and won the Dragon Whip Manual.

Leng Xixi never gave it to him, and he was too embarrassed to ask for it.

They suddenly appeared in the study!

Even the magic weapon, the whip, is included!
Although Su Mo couldn't tell the grade of the whip, the aura emanating from it was probably no worse than Lord Qianhu's fourth-grade magic weapon, the Sword Control Manual!
Su Mo stared at the manual and the whip for a long time.

I think Lord Leng is actually quite nice.

He took his bicycle and carriage, and immediately gave them a whip in return.

Well, next time she goes to the Lone Peak Mountain Craftsmen's Camp, I'll return that big black carriage to her.

However, sneaking into someone's study is a bad habit.

It needs to be changed!

Su Mo glanced around.

Finding no sparrows or birds, he carefully moved aside the elegantly decorated scrolls and opened the hidden compartment.

Seeing that the hair in the booklet was still there, I breathed a sigh of relief.

A good memory is not as good as a bad writing.

I need to write down some key points about training troops so that I can train my own private army in the future.

To avoid not being able to remember it when you need it.

It's not that having a good memory means you can retrieve memories from your memory bank at any time.

Forgetting how to write characters is a common occurrence!
He wrote down some key points of the militia military training manual, and also included Sun Tzu's Art of War and the Thirty-Six Stratagems.

Su Mo then put the booklet back into the hidden compartment.

However, this time I was more cautious.

After all, they had just witnessed Lord Nangong's methods and knew the capabilities of the Embroidered Uniform Guard and the Phoenix Cry Division, which were impossible to guard against.

Su Mo wrote this time using simplified Chinese characters, and even occasionally added pinyin, and it was the original pinyin!

Don't be fooled by the simplicity of simplified Chinese characters.

But in the eyes of the ancients, it was probably no different from a celestial book.

Just like the people of the Dragon Kingdom in later generations, who could fully understand the Korean and Japanese scripts that were transformed from Chinese characters.
After putting the booklet away.

Su Mo then turned her gaze back to the brocade box.

He then couldn't resist taking out the whip.

With a flick of the whip handle, the slender and tough whip body stretched out, reaching a length of over ten feet!
It was unclear what material it was made of, but with a slight flick of the whip, the tip grazed a vase at the entrance of the study, and with a bang, the vase shattered instantly, shards flying everywhere!
Su Mo gasped in shock.

What a terrifying whip!

If this were to hit someone, wouldn't it shatter their bones and muscles?

Put the whip back.

Su Mo picked up the Dragon Whip again and examined it.

As expected, it was a technique that complemented the Swimming Dragon Step. Su Mo glanced at it and grasped most of it.

There are still three, three, two, two left...

Su Mo pulled out the cheat code hanging around his neck!
The Vajra Pestle is as powerful as ever.

The characters in the book appeared out of thin air, as if they had penetrated into Su Mo's brow.

I've mastered the secret technique of the Dragon Whip!

Dacheng realm!

He walked out of the backyard with the whip in his hand, flicked his wrist, and the Dragon Whip moved as if it were his own arm, transforming into a golden shadow, like golden lightning, constantly exploding into clusters of golden light in the void!
From a distance, it looked as if a golden ball had appeared in the courtyard, and wherever it went, stones shattered and withered leaves and branches turned to dust!
Suddenly.

The countless whip shadows scattered instantly.

The supple whip was taut and straight, its sharp tip reaching all the way to the courtyard wall.

A leaf that had just fallen was pinned against the wall by the whip. When Su Mo withdrew the whip, the leaf fell to the ground unharmed!

Su Mo looked at the long whip coiled around his wrist and exhaled a puff of white breath.

This Dragon Whip is indeed powerful.

I should say I've reached the pinnacle of skill, the ultimate level.
With his own magical power, he could probably easily kill a first-rate expert or even a half-step grandmaster without even using the sword embryo!
However, when combined with a magic weapon of unknown grade, the Dragon Whip is powerful enough.

Using this magical artifact is indeed very taxing.

Su Mo's magical power far surpasses that of ordinary Soul-Stabilizing Realm cultivators, but after this round of whip techniques, he felt that seventy or eighty percent of it had been drawn away!

Unfortunately, Lord Centurion is not here, so I have to cultivate on my own.

Su Mo returned to her study.

Sit cross-legged and circulate your energy to cultivate the Yangtian Technique!

A constant flow of heat surged into the body from the vajra.

After a full cycle, I felt completely refreshed, and my magical power had been fully restored.

He had just stood up.

Suddenly, Jiang Laoshi's voice came from outside: "Master!"

Su Mo slowly walked out of the study and looked at Jiang Laoshi: "Madam is back?"

Jiang Laoshi quickly shook his head: "No!"

"A servant from the Duke's mansion has arrived, saying he has brought soap water for you, sir. It's a huge cartload, and he asked where you put it."

Su Mo's eyes suddenly lit up!
Soapy water?
Glycerin, perhaps?
Glycerin is a byproduct of soap production and has a wide range of uses!
If it were made into nitroglycerin, it would be a miracle drug that could treat heart diseases such as angina.

Su Mo happened to know how to make nitroglycerin, but there was no need to explain the manufacturing method in detail to others.

Leng Xixi's face was always pale and her lips were slightly purple. Su Mo actually suspected that she had a heart problem.

Keep some nitroglycerin on hand; it might come in handy someday.

However, nitroglycerin has a major drawback: it is extremely unstable. If it is accidentally bumped, it will explode with considerable force.

It's so big that it could probably kill even a Golden Core cultivator.

　Uh, before tomorrow's update, I'll change the title back to "[Who Said I Rose Through Women]". I shouldn't need to change it again after that. Sorry for the inconvenience, dear readers. It's not easy being an author, so I hope you'll continue reading.

　　
　
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