NOVEL WEB Chapter 491: State Preceptor, Don't Come In, Drinking with Ying Si at Night, _3
"Your Majesty, look at this Jianmu, how well it grows, and look at Falling Dragon Mountain, as well as the Great Formation enveloping it."
Yi Chen did not directly answer, but instead stretched out his finger, pointing towards the canopy of the Jianmu above and the various hidden sentries and formation nodes near Falling Dragon Mountain, before finally returning to the wine cup in front of him.
"If the person sitting in front of Your Majesty right now were not the Great Qin State Preceptor, could Your Majesty be sharing a drink with me atop this Jianmu?"
"This cup, to Your Majesty for taking care of my unworthy disciples and relatives," Yi Chen raised his cup.
"To the State Preceptor!"
Clink~
Torrential rain like a waterfall, at night, the two Golden Jade Cups suddenly collided.
"The return of the State Preceptor is a blessing for Great Qin. Does the State Preceptor have any plans next? My side can fully cooperate with the State Preceptor."
"I have some old grudges with Kutuo Temple and Mount Daguangming that I'd like to settle, but these are minor matters, I can go alone."
"Good, however, during the last Demon Realm invasion, Mount Daguangming contributed significantly, with all its elite forces deployed. Please, take it easy for the sake of their efforts,
As for Kutuo Temple, it's different. I've received top-secret information that a monk of Breakthrough Limit Third Layer is hidden within, and during the crisis in the Human Realm, this foe remained as stable as Mount Tai. If not for the disagreements within their temple, I would still be kept in the dark about such crucial information."
"In these troubled times, I've only just held myself back; otherwise, even if the State Preceptor didn't act, I would have taken matters into my own hands," Ying Si said gravely.
"Oh? Who leaked this information to Your Majesty?"
"Kutuo Temple, the abbot, a monk at Breakthrough Limit Double Layer. During the last Demon Realm invasion, he was a prominent figure from Kutuo Temple."
"Very well, I'll deal with this person and his lineage accordingly," Yi Chen nodded.
"My second agenda upon returning is to unify the Dao Sects of the Eastern and Central Continents. I heard that the Supreme Daoist Sect possesses the sole scripture of the Taoist Ancestral. I won't take the scripture, but I would like Your Majesty to put some pressure on them for me; I want to collect martial scriptures from all sects across the continents to leave some heritage for the Great Justice Martial Alliance."
Having reached his level of cultivation, Yi Chen's methods could naturally shift, no longer needing the same careful delicacy as before.
Fellow Daoists open your doors, free trade~
I will not take your Martial Scriptures for nothing, I'll exchange something for them~ Don't be ungrateful.
"The Supreme Daoist Sect has always been a bastion among Dao Sects, and getting them to give something up will be hard, but I will personally discuss it with Duke Huan, and if they indeed have Martial Scriptures compiled with commentary by the Taoist Ancestral like Wu Ding's Demon Sect, I will make them hand it over."
"As for the matter of unifying the Dao Sects, the State Preceptor will have to take action himself," Ying Si considered for a moment and then nodded in agreement.
"Excellent!"
"Does Your Majesty have any difficult tasks for me?" Yi Chen asked with a smile, holding up his wine cup.
"State Preceptor, there is trouble, great trouble coming from the West."
"This is the news the Master of the Heavenly Secret Hall conveyed to me; first the Demon Realm, now calamities from the Western Lands, our Human Race has truly lost the blessing of the heavens, the Mandate of Heaven is no longer with us..."
"If the Mandate of Heaven is not with us, then it simply means it is flawed; we shall cut down the heavens!" Yi Chen laughed and downed the fine wine in his cup, cutting off Ying Si's words.
His finger pointed at the torrential rain overhead:
"Just like this torrential downpour, when it falls on the common man, it is a raging wave, but when it falls on me, it is on a path to its own demise!"
"Great Qin has not failed me, and naturally, I will shield and shelter Great Qin!"