Protect Our Chief

In this small realm, snow is perpetually covering the land.

Ancestor Yinda of the Wang Family, Ancestor Zhouhui, Wang Shouzhe, Ancestor Longyan, and others float above a small iceberg.

Inside the iceberg, there is a Phoenix Nest belonging to the Profound Ice Phoenix.

Ancestor Yinda lamented, "The main bloodline of our Wang Family is the Ice Phoenix bloodline. Unfortunately, generations of children rarely awaken the Ice Phoenix bloodline."

Since Ancestor Dingxuan, the Duke Dingguo’s Mansion has produced thirteen Divine Skill Ancestors, but only four inherited the Profound Ice Phoenix Suffering Technique.

According to the inheritance mechanism of this technique, it conservatively takes about five hundred years to accumulate enough energy for one inheritance, with a maximum of two inheritance cycles. Currently, a thousand years have passed without an Ice Phoenix inheritance.

"Ancestor Yinda, if no one inherited the Ice Phoenix bloodline a thousand years ago, wouldn’t that mean energy and opportunities were wasted?" Wang Shouzhe asked with a hint of confusion.

"Well... it won’t be wasted..." Ancestor Yinda said with a slight blush, "We rotated the inheritance opportunity, each time for about six to seven hundred million Qian Gold."

"Rotated..." Wang Shouzhe was speechless. Rotated sounded nice, but it was essentially sold off.

"Shouzhe, we had no choice. Since Emperor Longchang ascended the throne, he has been making things difficult for our Wang Family, leading to our worsening economic situation. You may think six to seven hundred million Qian Gold is a lot, but on average, that’s only about one million a year," Ancestor Yinda said with a face full of helplessness, "Our Wang Family has too many people, and the annual expenses are significant, not to mention raising many Purple Mansion Species and ensuring the Divine Power Species inheritance~~sigh~~"

Ancestor Yinda’s sigh revealed that life for the Daqian Wang Family was quite tense.

"Ancestor, thanks to Shouzhe, the family’s situation will improve from now on," Ancestor Zhouhui said contentedly, "Especially with the cooperation with Shouzhe’s Shouda Trading Company, we host various businesses in Gui Long City, and the annual earnings are not insignificant. In the future, I won’t need to squeeze the cultivation resources of clan members."

As a Divine Power Species, the exterior seemed glamorous, yet Ancestor Zhouhui’s heart was troubled. The family was poor, but maintaining the huge expenses of being a Divine Power Species naturally required squeezing others’ resources.

Thus, the Daqian Wang Family fell into a vicious cycle.

Ancestor Yinda also felt revitalized and full of energy. "This is all thanks to Shouzhe’s blessing. I have never experienced such a highlight in my life," indeed, Ancestor Yinda never imagined having a chance to be involved with the Prime Minister of the Inner Pavilion.

Amidst praises, Wang Shouzhe was humble and said, "The ancestors have flattered me too much; we are of the same clan and should support each other. Well then, it’s getting late. Ancestor Longyan should quickly go to accept the inheritance."

"Right, right, I will now activate the inheritance land. Longyan, prepare yourself slightly and go inside to accept the inheritance," Ancestor Yinda said seriously and began to exercise divine techniques to activate the inheritance of the Profound Ice Phoenix Suffering Technique.

"Yes, Ancestor Yinda." Ancestor Longyan’s clear and deep eyes revealed a fervent light. Once she obtained the inheritance of the technique, her future path of divine skill would be extremely smooth.

The inheritance land underwent dramatic changes, the sky turned wild with snow followed by hail coming down like a storm.

The time had come.

The Ice Phoenix Dharma Aspect behind Ancestor Longyan spread its wings, with a clear phoenix cry, she threw herself into the inheritance land.

Time passed slowly, snow and hail fell increasingly heavier, almost burying the small iceberg.

Wang Shouzhe felt a sense of gratification, Ancestor Longyan could finally rise, and perhaps she had a chance to become the family’s first Divine Power Realm ancestor.

Although he himself did not have divine skill inheritance, he wasn’t anxious, knowing that the Officer Academy would have solutions in the future.

...

The case of Prince Kang’s smuggling and colluding with the enemy was handled swiftly due to conclusive evidence.

Chen Jinglong, Meng Yuanbai, and others, worried about procrastination, didn’t dare take breaks, and spent endless hours interrogating those involved.

In a short period, the interrogation results came out, and once cross-referenced with Zhao Zhikun’s testimony and the accounts from Prince Kang’s Mansion, the evidence chain was complete.

Meng Yuanbai and others breathed a sigh of relief, quickly closed the case, and transcribed the records to present to Emperor Longchang.

This smuggling and colluding trial, which had stirred colossal waves in Upper Capital City, finally came to an end.

Though the case changed frequently in the early stage, with Wang Shouzhe’s side of Prince Anjun and Prince Kang’s side fighting back and forth and complicating the matter immensely, when it was time to determine winners and losers, it ended surprisingly quickly.

Under Emperor Longchang’s furious directive, the Three Talents Department, Criminal Law Department, Inspectorate, and Ancestral Mansion jointly issued an announcement, declaring that the smuggling and colluding case had new developments, confirming Prince Kang as the mastermind with undeniable evidence.

According to Qian Kingdom law, his quasi-crown prince status, prince title, royal family council voting rights were revoked, his assets confiscated, and he was punished by being sent to the Cannon Fodder Camp for redemption among other penalties.

The announcement made the entire Upper Capital City erupt with astonishment.

Even the Noble Families focused on the battle between the Deposed Prince Kang’s faction and Prince Anjun’s faction were caught off guard, momentarily bewildered.

This feeling was akin to an intense world war yesterday, only to wake up to sudden world peace and tranquility.