My cultivation disguise has been exposed by Xiao Sizi.

"Anyone who dares to cause trouble will be executed on the spot!"

"Anyone who dares to resist, we'll raze the mountain gate to the ground!"

Li Tai became more and more excited as he spoke, his chubby face glowing with excitement.

"Then comes the part our Tang army loves most—confiscation of property!"

"Sixteenth brother, you weren't here."

"You didn't see how those sect leaders cried and screamed when their treasure vaults were emptied. It was truly gratifying!"

"We transported all the cultivation manuals, weapon crafting diagrams, and fragments of formations that we had seized back to Chang'an."

"Father specially built more than a dozen towering 'treasure pavilions' in the palace! They are specifically used to store these rare treasures and martial arts manuals in a categorized manner."

Li Tai patted his big belly.

"I've practically lived in the array pavilion of the Treasure Pavilion this past year!"

"I have read extensively and have absorbed the strengths of many schools of thought."

"Not only did they see through your crude little formation, but they even combined it with the craftsmanship of the Tang Dynasty to develop many brand-new miniature formations and spiritual artifacts!"

Li Tai tilted his head back and looked down at Li Chen through his nostrils.

"How about it, Sixteenth Brother? Surprised? Unexpected?"

Quiet.

In the square in front of the Taiji Hall, even the sound of the wind seemed to have stopped.

Those cultivators who had returned from the other world with Li Chen were terrified upon hearing the report from this Tang Dynasty prince; their faces turned pale, and they swallowed hard.

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The result? They were completely wiped out by the army of the Mortal Dynasty?! They even ransacked their entire estate?!

This Tang Dynasty is practically a den of bandits!

And Li Chen.

At this moment, the muscles in his face were twitching uncontrollably.

He looked at the fat man in front of him whose face seemed to say, "Praise me!"

I took a deep breath.

then.

"I'm so surprised, you old man!"

Li Chen suddenly went berserk!

He pounced on Li Tai like a hungry wolf, grabbed him by the collar of his purple-gold python robe, and lifted his over 200-pound obese body off the ground.

"Hey! What are you doing! Let go! Let's talk this out!" Li Tai was so frightened that he waved his arms and legs wildly, struggling violently in mid-air.

"You good-for-nothing!"

Li Chen grabbed Li Tai's shoulders with both hands and shook him wildly back and forth, making Li Tai's eyes roll back in his head.

"Do you even know what that book, 'The Immortal Forging Dynasty,' means?!"

"That's one of my most prized possessions, kept hidden away!"

Li Chen was heartbroken, and tears were almost streaming down his face.

"I originally planned to wait until the time was right."

"Take that secret manual and go blackmail Old Deng... ugh! Go exchange it with my father for half of the treasures in his treasury, in exchange for my absolute financial freedom for the rest of my life!"

"And then what happened?"

Li Chen angrily pointed at Li Tai's fat face, which was red from being shaken.

"You idiot Da Chun! You actually pried it open like that? And then just handed it over for nothing!"

"With a talent like yours, do you know you'll never have any friends!"

"You owe me back my national treasury! You owe me back my priceless treasures!"

Li Tai was shaken so badly he was dizzy and almost threw up the bird's nest soup he had eaten that night.

"Help... Father, help me... Sixteenth brother has gone mad..." Li Tai foamed at the mouth, desperately pleading for help from Li Shimin on the dragon throne.

"That's enough!"

Li Shimin couldn't stand it any longer and coughed heavily.

"In public, brothers pulling and tugging at each other—what kind of behavior is this! Put Qingque down right now!"

Li Chen snorted coldly and threw Li Tai on the ground like a sack of potatoes.

Li Tai scrambled to hide behind Empress Zhangsun, panting heavily, looking at his violent younger brother with lingering fear.

Li Chen straightened his disheveled clothes.

He turned around.

Step by step, he trod the white jade steps and walked directly to the front of Li Shimin's dragon throne.

There was no respect for the relationship between ruler and subject.

Li Chen boldly extended his right hand, palm up, and laid it out in front of Li Shimin.

Li Shimin paused slightly in the hand holding the immortal tea, and raised an eyebrow.

What are you doing?

"I want a reward!" Li Chen said loudly and confidently.

"What benefits?" Li Shimin pretended not to know, his eyes looking as innocent as a two-hundred-month-old child.

"Stop pretending with me!"

Li Chen was so angry that he ground his teeth.

"That book, 'Forging the Immortal Dynasty,' is an unparalleled divine skill that I obtained through tireless and painstaking effort (it was spat out from my divine soul space)!"

"While I was away, you secretly took my secret manual and led a bunch of old scoundrels from the Tang Dynasty to take off together."

"Now that you've reached the Nascent Soul stage, you're awesome."

"If you don't pay some hush money... I mean, if you don't pay some royalties, is that reasonable?"

Li Chen rubbed his fingers together in front of Li Shimin, his eyes gleaming with greed.

"I don't want much."

"Take all those top-grade spirit stones and ancient herbs that you confiscated."

"Just give me ten or eight truckloads, and we'll call it a day."

Hearing Li Chen's outrageous demands...

The civil officials standing nearby, including Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling, all gasped in shock.

Ten or eight cartloads of top-grade spirit stones?

Do you think that's a cabbage?

however.

Faced with Li Chen's demands for repayment.

Li Shimin was not angry at all.

Instead, he put down his teacup and slowly stood up from the dragon throne.

He looked down at Li Chen.

A shameless smile, utterly unparalleled, suddenly appeared on that dignified, square face.

"Copyright fees? Ten cartloads of top-grade spirit stones?"

Li Shimin sneered.

Why should I give it to him?

Li Chen was stunned.

"You took my things, of course you have to return them! It's a perfectly reasonable transaction!"

"wrong!"

Li Shimin waved his hand, and his wide, bright yellow dragon robe fluttered in the wind.

His confident and assertive voice echoed throughout the entire Taiji Palace Square.

"I discovered that hidden compartment myself."

"That formation was broken by my son, Qingque."

"That secret manual was obtained by me through my own strength, openly and honestly!"

Li Shimin became more and more confident as he spoke, and even took a step forward, staring intently at Li Chen.

"Since I obtained it through my own abilities, it belongs to me!"

"Besides..."

Li Shimin opened his arms wide, embracing the world, his voice radiating an invincible domineering aura.

"Under the whole heaven, all land belongs to the king; on the shores of the earth, all people are subjects of the king!"

"Everything in this world, from the vast empire to every blade of grass and every tree, belongs to me!"

"If I take my son's things in my own palace, in my own son's room, can that be called stealing? Can that be called robbing?"

In the end, Li Shimin even showed a pained expression and started lecturing Li Chen.

"Children should respect and honor their parents; this is the fundamental principle of human relationships!"

"As my son, you don't offer good things to your father voluntarily, but make your father search for them himself."

"The fact that I didn't punish you for a grave offense, and that I confiscated the rent you've paid for your free food and lodging in the Cold Palace over the past few years, is already an act of divine grace!"

"How dare you shamelessly come to me asking for favors?!"

Quiet.

A deathly silence.

Not only the officials of the Tang Dynasty, but even the cultivators from other worlds who had just surrendered were completely shocked by these high-sounding yet utterly shameless remarks.

This logic is absolutely flawless!

This person's skin is even thicker than the corner of a city wall!

"Holy crap..."