It doesn't matter what the lord is.

"I know."

"You knew that too? Never mind... If you had tried to kill me, I would have made you pay the price. It's not because you wanted to kill me, but because you dragged Alayya into this, which I couldn't agree to. Although I said I would give you a chance to kill me, it was actually just a test."

"……I know."

Lid tilted his head to the side, looked at Shiloh who was holding him up with difficulty, and asked:

"How come you know everything?"

Shiloh replied:

"I didn't know that before. But you were able to beat my teacher tonight, which means that there was no way I could kill you that day. So I knew it."

Reed laughed.

Shiloh whispered:

"So I'm far less important than Alayya."

Lied coughed and said incoherently:

"Now... this is it..."

Shiloh hugged his waist and pursed his lips.

In the darkness, she whispered:

"Scumbag."

58. The Emperor's Mindset

Lingwu Territory, Lord's Mansion.

In a room as spacious as a palace, a young woman with her face covered by a red veil sat on a high throne.

The bright red dress was embroidered with flowing clouds and peonies in bright yellow gold thread, and the loose hem and cuffs were dragging on the ground. Her jet-black hair was tied into a high bun, and the blood-red hairpin and gold and jade beads showed her elegant and noble demeanor. The snow-sable fur collar wrapped around her jade neck, and her slender fingers deftly turned the bamboo tube in her hand.

She stared at the bamboo tube in her hand with her beautiful eyes, saying nothing.

Below the stage, on both sides stood solemn civil and military officials with serious expressions, and in the center knelt two men and two women, sweating profusely.

The first palace is King Qin Guang, the second palace is King Chu Jiang, the ninth palace is King Ping Deng, and the hidden guard’s messenger, Shuang.

Lord Lingwu said nothing, and the four people felt as if their hearts were sinking into an icy cave.

Even the calmest of the four, King Qin Guang, respectfully put his forehead to the ground. He knew very well what the woman on the stage meant to Lingwu Territory. She was omnipotent in both civil and military affairs, but it also meant that the power of life and death in Lingwu was all concentrated in her hands. His Majesty the King, who was sitting in the capital, still had hundreds of officials to balance the royal power, but in Lingwu Territory, the Lord of Lingwu was the only authority.

Besides, the Grand Commander of the [Hidden Guard] was standing in the third position among the military officers, and was looking at him coldly.

As long as Lord Lingwu gives the order, the four people kneeling on the ground will all be beheaded.

After a moment, Lingwu Lord raised his head, glanced at the four people with his beautiful eyes, and said:

"So, you guys escaped back in such a mess?"

King Qin Guang said:

"I am incompetent, please punish me, Your Majesty."

The Lingwu Lord held the bamboo tube in one hand and said:

"Incompetent...? Humph."

She exhaled a puff of white mist and folded one leg over the other.

Holding one end of the bamboo tube with his five fingers, Lingwu Lord said calmly:

"Of course you are incompetent. But King Qin Guang, you are at the highest level among the Ten Kings of Hell. Since even you can't beat him, it doesn't mean you are incompetent, but the entire Hidden Guards are negligent. If I hadn't suddenly wanted to plant a pawn outside Yuxi City, I'm afraid you, the entire Hidden Guards, wouldn't have been able to notice that there is a young tiger lying in the west, right?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the third person from the right came out, knelt down beside King Qin Guang, lowered his head, and said:

"I failed in my duty."

Lingwu Lord laughed, held the bamboo tube in his hand, and said:

"I'm actually very curious, where does Lid get such courage? To negotiate with Lingwu... Haha. Although Lingwu can't be said to have everything, what can he, a down-and-out city lord, give us?"

Before the three members of the Ten Courts of Hell could react, Shuang seemed to realize something, and suddenly raised his head and said in a trembling voice:

"Your Majesty..."

The Lingwu Lord cast a glance at her.

Their eyes met for only a brief moment, then Shuang lowered his head, his expression changing, and suddenly he spoke loudly:

"Li De knew that His Majesty would say this, so he asked me to tell His Majesty: Don't let your arrogance ruin Lingwu's future."

There was a hint of smile in the eyes of Lingwu Lord, but his voice was filled with a majesty that made it difficult to breathe:

"Oh? He's trying to figure out what I'm thinking?"

Frost answered loudly:

"He said that the emperor's mind is hard to predict. But if Your Majesty is someone who ignores the overall situation for such trivial matters, then just ignore what he said. Your Majesty can just send all the Yama Kings to see who will have the last laugh. But he wants to remind Your Majesty that Lingwu is rich in resources and powerful, but it is being dragged down by the giants. The 80,000 iron cavalry are majestic and the 150,000 armored soldiers look down on the common people, but behind them is the bitter cold land where every family is in mourning!"

The expression of Lord Lingwu turned cold, and his phoenix hairpins and rings jingled. His terrifying aura made the people in the hall unable to raise their heads.

The commander-in-chief of the Hidden Guards raised his head and said in a cold voice:

"Your Majesty, I failed to discipline him properly, and this person offended Your Majesty. Your Majesty, I..."

Lingwu Lord ignored the words of the Grand Commander, stared at Shuang, and asked:

"Did he say anything else?"

Shuang lowered her head, feeling as if her heart was about to burst. Her lips trembled, and she could not say a word. She could only take out a note from her bosom. It was originally pinned on the bamboo tube by Lid. She did not take it seriously at the time. After opening it and reading it, she found that the note was not written to the Lingwu Lord, but to her, telling her how to persuade the Lingwu Lord to open the bamboo tube.

At first, Shuang didn't take it seriously. What did it have to do with her whether Lord Lingwu could open the bamboo tube or not?

But when Lingwu Lord said, "What can a poor city lord like him give us?", Shuang's heart suddenly jumped, and then fear surged over her like a tide. She suddenly realized that the failure of this secret guard operation had greatly lost the face of Lingwu Territory, and someone had to take the blame for this.

If the Lord of Lingwu sends out the Ten Hells again, then the three of Qin Guangwang will have a chance to make amends. But I am just an ordinary messenger, my rank is not high, and I am also Xiluo's mentor. If Xiluo rebels against the hidden guards, she will not be able to get rid of the charge of poor supervision. This is a dead end.

Unless the gift given by Reed can please the Lord of Lingwu.

Only in this way can I have a chance of survival!

So at that moment, Shuang found that she had no choice but to do this and fight for the annoying Lord of Yuxi City.

Lingwu Lord raised his head and signaled. The middle-aged man who was the first among the civil officials stepped out, took the note from Shuang, walked to Lingwu Lord, and handed it to her. Lingwu Lord glanced at the note and found that the previous conversation with Shuang was similar, except that there was another paragraph at the end:

"If she still refuses to agree, tell her this."

Lord Lingwu turned over the note and saw a line of large, scribbled characters on the back:

"I was wrong this time. I would like to offer you a small gift to express my apology. If we meet again someday, I will go barefoot and lead your horse."

Lord Lingwu was stunned for two seconds, then suddenly laughed out loud.

She hadn't laughed so happily in a long time. As she laughed, she threw the note in her hand to the ground and said:

"This man is interesting. Let's see what he paid as tribute."

She opened the bamboo tube in her hand. The tube was not heavy and contained a rolled-up drawing.

Lord Lingwu unfolded the blueprint and saw densely packed text and sketches. As she looked at it, the smile on her face disappeared.

After a moment, she handed the drawing in her hand to the middle-aged man who had just passed the note to her and said:

"Prime Minister, please take a look."

The middle-aged man took it and unfolded it. He frowned at first, then looked shocked. After a moment, he knelt on the ground holding the blueprint and said loudly:

"Congratulations, Your Majesty! The world will finally be dominated by Lingwu. Once the northern defense line is freed, 80,000 cavalry can attack the capital at any time! This time, I will make that mean and ungrateful monarch pay the price! I have waited for twenty years, and this day has finally come——"

The Lingwu Lord narrowed his eyes, ignored the weeping Prime Minister, leaned against the back of the throne, and said calmly:

"...Grand Metropolitan Commander."

The man kneeling on the ground stood up, bowed his head and clasped his fists, saying:

"The minister is here."

Lingwu Lord thought for a moment and said:

"From today on, Lid and Shiloh will be removed from the Hidden Guard's assassination list. The Hidden Guard will not enter Yuxi City for three years."

"Yes."

"Take one of my tokens and give it to Li De. Tell him that he doesn't need to lead the horse. If he loses to someone in the future, he can come to Lingwu Territory with the token to find me. He can choose any civil or military position."

"Yes."

"Besides that, he not only wants Shiloh, but he also wants to form his own ANBU organization, right? He can't do that without the right people. Shuang, from today on, you are no longer a member of the [Hidden Guards], go to Yuxi Castle and help."

Shuang raised her head and said in a trembling voice:

"Your Majesty..."

Lingwu Lord did not look at her again. Shuang wanted to argue, but she swallowed the words back.

She suddenly realized that she had no choice but to go to Yuxi City. No matter how much she had offended the city lord before and how difficult her life would be in the future, she had to go.

Because it's the only way for her to survive.

The Lingwu Lord glanced at the people in the hall and said:

"Except the Prime Minister, everyone please step down."

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59. The Young Man in White

King's capital.

There are many prosperous cities in Yongtian Kingdom, and each territory has several well-known prosperous cities. But the most prosperous one is the capital in the northeast. It's not because other lords have no money, but according to the standards of Yongtian Kingdom, many buildings are only worthy of the royal family. This also makes the capital have a sense of transcendence. Just talking about the palace, the palace in the capital has three layers inside and three layers outside, rolling like towering green mountains.

People living in the imperial city gradually got used to it, but those who came from outside, entering the royal capital for the first time, would most likely crane their necks to look for a long time. In the end, they would smack their lips in amazement and say sincerely:

"This is too impressive."

But the capital city is not full of royal relatives and officials, most of them are ordinary people. For these ordinary people, they live in a prosperous capital city, but it is hard to imagine how those people live. For example, it is said that a popular minister in the city has forty-three women sleeping with him every night. Some are responsible for massaging his feet, some are responsible for pounding his shoulders, some are responsible for warming the bed, and some are responsible for singing and dancing. There are also women who serve as spittoons with their mouths open, and some take small sips of wine and feed it to the master, that is, as leather cups. There are also some things that are not worth telling outsiders. After counting, forty-three is actually not enough.

For example, the young master of a certain royal branch was a famous gourmet who was extremely particular about food. A meal would cost him at least twenty gold coins, and he would only have a few bites of such expensive dishes. Although he could never get tired of eating them, it also made people curious about what kind of food could be so expensive.

Of course, the legends of the royal capital are not limited to these negative ones, there are also some purely mysterious ones.

For example, the [Prime Minister in White] who just entered the imperial city this year was said to be an ordinary farm boy.

He was only about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, dressed in white, with his sleeves rolled up and a white sweat towel tied around his waist. He did not look like a superior at all. This person was not hard to see, and he often wandered around the outside of the capital with a little follower.

Just like it is now.

"My Lord, my Lord, please walk slower. I can't keep up with you!"

The little boy with red lips and white teeth supported himself on his knees and gasped for breath. It was freezing cold, and every breath he exhaled condensed into a ball of white mist.

The man in front of him turned around. He was not handsome, but his smile was like the warm sun. He had short hair and regular features. Seeing that his follower was so useless, he couldn't help but tease:

"Little Deer, you need to exercise more."

The boy called the little deer raised his head and complained unhappily:

"Sir, it's not that I don't exercise. When they become high-ranking officials, they eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks. We are the opposite. We only eat boiled vegetables all day long. I don't have enough to eat. If I go out to exercise, I will starve to death."

The young man smiled and said:

"Poison attacks evil, five grains are for nourishment, five fruits are for assistance, and five vegetables are for filling. Take them together with the right smells and flavors to replenish essence and benefit qi. Do you understand? Eating more five grains, five fruits, and five vegetables is very beneficial to the body. Can I still lie to you?"

The deer protested loudly:

"No, sir. I remember there is a saying, 'Five domestic animals are beneficial.' Cows, sheep, pigs, dogs, chickens, I don't eat any of these five!"

When I looked again, the young man had turned around and walked away, obviously unwilling to talk about this topic anymore.

The little deer murmured:

"You are such a stingy person, you will never get a wife in your life!"

The young man said:

"If I can't find a wife, I'll sell you, get some money, and go to a brothel to buy a girl to live with me."