Su Jin looked at Pei Jingzhi and asked, "Pei Jingzhi, are you willing?"
"I am willing!" Pei Jingzhi replied without hesitation.
In the past, he had cursed the Demon Suppression Division, believing it to be a corrupt agency that disrupted the law and brought chaos to the court. But now... from questioning, to understanding, he was more than willing to follow them for the rest of his life.
"That is good. Now..."
Su Jin's gaze shifted as she called out, "Chen Youli, Wu Mingyu, Yang Tao."
Three elite warriors stepped forward in unison.
"Pei Jingzhi has just arrived at the Demon Suppression Division and still needs to learn many rules, especially how to kill the demons of passion. The three of you will be responsible for supervising him."
The three of them were momentarily stunned.
They were elites, so it was normal for them to lead subordinates. However, they were known for their ruthless methods. Given Pei Jingzhi's age and former status, could he endure their training?
However, the three were also smart.
They quickly understood Su Jin's intention.
She wanted to thoroughly train Pei Jingzhi, to forge him into the sharpest blade of the Demon Suppression Division!
They immediately dropped to one knee and accepted the order in unison.
How could Pei Jingzhi not understand the underlying meaning?
But right now, he didn't have the slightest thought of refusing.
He was willing!
More than willing!
To start as a common foot soldier, a soldier who wielded a blade to kill!
Throughout his life, he had been loyal to the sovereign, the country, and the ancestral shrine.
But in the end, the sovereign was false, the country was in chaos, and his family was broken!
The Empress had usurped the throne and ruined the court, the Great Yu Dynasty was utterly corrupt, and even the person sharing his bed and the children at his knees had all been deceiving him!
In this world, there was no longer a sovereign to be loyal to, nor a country to protect!
Today, he would abandon that false imperial lineage and the rotten Great Yu, and serve under a wise lord!
For the Duke, for the Demon Suppression Division, he would hold the whip and stirrups, purge the wicked monsters, and restore order to the world!
Ren Tianye took in Pei Jingzhi's expressions and movements.
He was very satisfied in his heart.
It seemed that this Pei Jingzhi was not completely stubborn.
Or rather, his stubbornness had already been shattered.
This gave him something to work with!
He called out, "Su Jin."
"Your subordinate is here!"
"Take the people from the Demon Suppression Division and escort Lady Liu and her daughter away. Pei Jingzhi will stay; I have matters to ask him."
"Yes!"
Su Jin led her people away, and Ren Tianye looked at Pei Jingzhi.
Pei Jingzhi was truly beginning to adapt, treating Ren Tianye as a wise lord. He quickly jogged a few steps to stand before Ren Tianye.
"I have a matter that it seems only you know about."
"Please speak, Your Grace. I will tell you everything I know without reservation." Pei Jingzhi's posture was respectful, yet it still carried a sense of integrity. Such people were always the most appreciated by leaders.
They didn't want someone who only knew how to flatter, but someone with their own thoughts, ideas, and initiative, who would prioritize the greater good when a leader assigned a task.
Pei Jingzhi was clearly such a person.
Otherwise, under Xiao Mingzhao's rule, he would have either been assimilated or died a staunch and fiery death long ago.
"Do you know of the White-robed Chancellor?"
"The White-robed Chancellor?" Pei Jingzhi was taken aback. "I only know a little. It is said she was a close boudoir friend of the former Empress. However, I am not too clear on the details. After all, I have always been dispatched outside by the Empress and have not spent much time in the capital."
"It is said that only you know the current location of the White-robed Chancellor?"
"Me?"
Pei Jingzhi was stunned again. How would he know?
However, he quickly realized and said, "Your Grace, it seems I really do know."
"It's just that I never paid attention to it."
"Your Grace, may I be permitted to go to the study? There are blood edicts the Empress once gave me. One of them is addressed to the Eldest Princess, Xiao Ruyi, and it indeed mentioned this."
Ren Tianye nodded. Pei Jingzhi hurried to the study and quickly brought out three blood edicts.
Otherwise, how could Pei Jingzhi have become a pillar of the Great Yu Dynasty? His political acumen was absolutely not low.
Among these three blood edicts, two were more or less targeting Ren Tianye. Yet at this moment, Pei Jingzhi had no intention of hiding them, boldly letting Ren Tianye read them.
He was betting that Ren Tianye would not blame him for past matters.
Sure enough, Ren Tianye didn't mind at all.
Ren Tianye directly threw away the blood letter Xiao Mingzhao gave to Pei Jingzhi. Of the remaining two, he first opened the one Xiao Mingzhao addressed to him. Upon reading it, he almost laughed out loud.
This could be considered a love letter, right?
He didn't expect that Old Ren would also get to enjoy such fine things, actually reaping the benefits of this absurd female-oriented novel world. To think there was a woman who held such great expectations for him—it was truly ridiculous!
He casually tossed it aside.
Looking at the edict Xiao Mingzhao gave to the Eldest Princess, Xiao Ruyi, he found the relevant passage. It clearly stated: If Xiao Ruyi encountered an indecisive matter, she could visit Chongning Nunnery.
It further wrote: If she could not find the person at Chongning Nunnery, she could go search in Wuyin Valley outside the city.
Wuyin Valley?
Ren Tianye's spirits lifted. "Wang Ming, Wei Shuo."
"Your subordinates are here!"
"Lead the army out of the city. The target is Wuyin Valley."
"Yes!"
The two responded in unison.
Wei Shuo took the lead.
There was no helping it. For outsiders like Wang Ming and Ren Tianye, they had no idea where Wuyin Valley was located. In fact, let alone Ren Tianye and Wang Ming, even Pei Jingzhi didn't know.
Only Wei Shuo knew the approximate direction.
To be safe, before leading the men out, Wei Shuo sent someone to notify Su Pengcheng, the head of the Su family in the capital.
Su Pengcheng was much more familiar with the terrain inside and outside the capital than Wei Shuo. With Su Pengcheng there, they would definitely be able to find the specific hiding place of the White-robed Chancellor.
Wei Shuo's prediction was not wrong.
He and Wang Ming led the army to the western outskirts of the capital but could not find the specific location of the White-robed Chancellor. After all, Wuyin Valley was situated at a bend of the Hanyan River, a tributary of the Wei River. It was surrounded by mountains on three sides and faced the water on one. The mouth of the valley was narrow but widened inwards, and its internal area was unknown.
Furthermore, Wuyin Valley was shrouded in mist all year round, making it difficult to distinguish figures beyond five steps. With towering ancient trees and intertwining vines, anyone not extremely familiar with the area could easily get lost.
As a result, even though Wei Shuo and Wang Ming brought a large army with numerous men, they could not discern the direction for a time and failed to find the true residence of the White-robed Chancellor.
Fortunately, Su Pengcheng arrived.
"Your Grace, Generals, there is a small cottage within Wuyin Valley that is quite extraordinary. I have always known about it, but I was unaware that it was related to the White-robed Chancellor. Please forgive my ignorance."
Su Pengcheng personally led the way, and the group followed him through the winding paths. They found that the valley was quite dilapidated, with seven or eight ruined thatched huts scattered about. Their walls were collapsed, windows shattered, and overgrown with weeds, looking as if they had been uninhabited for a long time.
Only one small hut remained relatively intact.
"It should be here."
Su Pengcheng said, "I have been here before. This... this small hut couldn't possibly hide the White-robed Chancellor, right?"
Wei Shuo's thoughts were completely different from Su Pengcheng's. Just because Su Pengcheng had been here didn't mean he had seen the true face of the White-robed Chancellor. Moreover, this small hut might not necessarily be unable to hide someone.
He led his men to search inch by inch and quickly discovered a clue.
"Your Grace, there is a secret passage here!"
Everyone was momentarily stunned and gathered to look. They saw a trapdoor on the floor inside the hut. After opening it, a winding path leading underground was revealed, which was actually quite spacious.
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ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
