Master of Strange Dao

Chapter 1719 - 463: Passing By Each Other, Langya Traitor (5k)

In the court of the Daqian Dynasty recently, there has been endless arguing; a country cannot be without a ruler for even a day, especially the Divine Dynasty.Even if the Emperor does nothing, for the Divine Dynasty, having an Emperor is like a stabilizer, ensuring the stability of the national destiny.

Even in the worst-case scenario, not considering the stability of the national destiny, practically speaking, it can at least prevent the current chaos.

Administrative orders are not communicated effectively, and almost no new orders can be implemented. Let alone lower levels; the court itself is fraught with disputes.

Even though these people know what is crucial now, once it involves everyone's core interests, even the right thing must be argued over; their rivals must retreat one step first.

The original choice for succession was, in fact, not worthy of much consideration.

The Second Prince back in those days was the most suitable.

Back then, the Second Prince competed with the Crown Prince but lost purely because of Old Emperor Qian's overwhelming attack, directly appointing the Crown Prince with absolute power.

Old Emperor Qian was still alive then, even if the Second Prince was unwilling, he had to accept it.

After ascending the throne, the former Crown Prince turned into a madman, portraying benevolence and filial piety to outsiders, tolerating even those mad dog Imperial Censors, and naturally, he did not eradicate his second brother, even giving him additional responsibilities.

The new Emperor Qian gave much military power to his second brother, coupled with being made Sealed King and rewarded, in all aspects considerably stronger than when he was just the Second Prince.

Unfortunately, today's court of the Daqian Dynasty is no longer the same as back then.

Even if Old Emperor Qian hadn't caused those issues, turning the world into an enemy, the ones fearing Old Emperor Qian's return most are still the high officials in the Daqian court.

With Old Emperor Qian's iron-fisted approach, if he were to reclaim that position, he would at least kill half the court officials before doing anything else.

These courtiers of Daqian, having never experienced how enjoyable it is to have a kind Emperor on the throne, now that they have, naturally they want to promote another equally kind Emperor.

That Second Prince, who mingles daily in the military, barely managing his own fief, is naturally seen as unfit by the courtiers.

In the eyes of those behind them, in the complex web of interests even the Jinyi Wei might not untangle, a Sealed King with military power is even more unfit.

Thus, the Princes of the same generation as the new Emperor Qian, those who once competed for succession, the current Sealed Kings, began to have various figures appear around them.

Everything is moving rapidly toward chaos from top to bottom.

In this situation, Peeling started causing trouble in the coastal area of East Qian, taking away a large population. Even if someone saw it, they wouldn't care, and some even helped fan the flames, making Peeling's actions smoother.

Because if not for Peeling's nostalgia allowing early relocation and protection of a safe area, these people would have died about eighty to ninety percent when the first massive tsunami hit the coastline.

Apart from top experts, ordinary Cultivators wouldn't know about the impending tsunami, let alone how powerful that heavenly force would be.

Those mortals, who might have spent their whole lives within a hundred miles or so, couldn't possibly have known such news in advance.

They were abandoned from the start, without any intention of management, prepared to bear the consequence of losing so many people. Now someone manages them, they just consider them dead; anyway, the cost is less.

Peeling's operation of taking people away went especially smoothly.

With Yu Ziqing and the Black Ship Saint's help, Peeling had enough time to carefully sweep through the coastline.

Previously, he couldn't possibly protect everyone alone; now, from time to time, one could see villages disappearing two or three hundred miles inland from the coastline, some receiving news too late to escape.

With a mortal body, seeing the massive waves means being in a state of near-certain death.

Especially in some villages, where the collapsed small temples still worship Peeling himself.

This only made Peeling feel worse.

He did not wish to enter the court nor join a sect, standing alone, the only bonds he had formed was with the people near the East Qian coastline.

Back in the day, when he overturned the Evil Dragon at the East Sea, the people by the East Qian coast appreciated his actions, establishing Life Temples for him, worshiping him during festivals.

And when he got lost in the Void, it was these Life Temples and the worship that provided him a Dao Mark to return.

These mortals, this time also because of this event, received Peeling's protection.

Seeing this, Yu Ziqing was willing to get involved.

He believes that a group of people who understand gratitude, with their nature and long-term cultural influence, couldn't be too bad.

As the only warrior in East Qian willing to stand out, risking his life to protect a group of mortals, he can't be too bad either.

Frankly speaking, it's not just anyone Yu Ziqing is willing to pull to Dadui now.

"Hurry up, the next wave of tsunami is coming soon.

The issue in East Qian isn't about any one person or a few people's problems anymore.

Even if you are burning with anger and want to kill someone to vent, you probably won't find a specific person.

This is a root problem.

Hurry up."

Yu Ziqing looked at Peeling; Peeling brought a small mountain from not far away, directly placing it over a small village's ruins as a tomb for the people there.

Yu Ziqing softly consoled him for a couple of sentences.

Peeling was silent, nodded, and continued to speed up.