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It seemed that Zhou Qiping had also caught sight of the three characters "Xia Ruizhe," and his eyelids twitched. Come to think of it, Xia Ruizhe had once fought him tooth and nail. If not for his wife, he probably would have remained in the Jiuzhou Realm. Now that both of them were in the Divine Court, and Xia Ruizhe had come to visit me at this special time, whether the two of them had joined forces and colluded was something worth pondering.
"Is he the only one?" Unable to figure out their relationship, I hesitated before deciding to first see what Xia Ruizhe wanted and deal with the rest afterward.
"Yes, he's alone. My lord, shall I let him in?" the guardian replied.
I nodded, but still wasn't at ease, saying that I would go take a look myself. Meanwhile, Zhou Qiping continued accepting the congratulations of the many officials as though nothing had happened. By now, this no longer looked like my welcome banquet, but a preparatory reception for the birth of his wife's child!
When I arrived at the Boundary Dock, Xia Ruizhe appeared there in the fourth-rank official robes of the Imperial Astronomy Bureau. As for his dao body, it was impossible to determine anything as long as he didn't cast any spells.
Still, people like him clearly had someone backing them. Aside from dao bodies not being included in the criteria for evaluating official rank, even the basic menial task of governing a realm was waived for them. They could also be promoted directly and gain wealth, which was enough to make anyone envious. Moreover, their records all contained entries showing that they had guarded realms before. I heard that most of the realms they governed were the Fly-Mosquito Realms, where the time span