Whoa! It Really Came Down!

" A mysterious person?" When Chen Luo returned to the residence and heard Ao Lingling's account, he froze for a moment. Then his soul plunged into the jade slip, and he immediately sensed the information stored within it.

"Win over the people's hearts!" Chen Luo's expression instantly turned peculiar.

Within the jade slip, the messenger had left a message telling Chen Luo that the Noble Families and Sacred Clans had joined forces and were secretly planning to trip him up, preventing his inauguration as a legal minister from going too smoothly.

Their purpose was simple: they feared that if Chen Luo remained a legal minister for too long, his abilities would create a conflict between legal rites.

Among them were Noble Families and Sacred Clans that followed the Way of Fang Rites, as well as those that followed other paths of ritual.

For now, their plan was to gather popular sentiment and win over the people's hearts, forcing Chen Luo to hesitate before acting.

Popular sentiment and the people's hearts were not the same as destiny. Rather, they referred to the degree to which the countless commoners of the human race relied on a certain power. They formed the foundation upon which destiny converged. For example, if the imperial court won the people's hearts, its destiny would blaze like a rainbow; if it lost them, its destiny would wither.

As for the Noble Families and Sacred Clans, they were themselves the primary vessels of human destiny and had Sacred Destiny suppressing everything. Thus, popular sentiment and the people's hearts did not affect them much. However, if the people's hearts leaned toward them, their clan destiny would become more closely linked to the destiny of the human race.

The foundation of "No Rank Punishment" lay in the fact that the clan