"Old Li, you did well!"
In the Lord's Main Base of Hua Xia City, Old Dragon said with lingering fear after hearing Xiao Jiang's report of the entire process.
If this incident had been mishandled, Hua Xia City's official reputation would have plummeted!
The original plan had been for a few lords to resist. They would use Liu Guosheng to forcefully suppress them, then, before the other High Lords rose up together, have him and Old Li personally step in to mediate. That way, they could both suppress the family heirs under Liu Guosheng and demonstrate the official faction's power to all the new players—at the very least, showing them that Hua Xia City had the ability to punish High Lord players.
But reality had slapped them hard. Even Old Dragon had never imagined that, on the same platform, the gap between people could be so enormous. If this miscalculation had been handled poorly, Hua Xia City's reputation would have been plunged into the deepest depths.
They could only say they were lucky that the one who had stepped forward and beaten the Guard Army senseless was Qing Que, and lucky that Old Li had been the one to step in this time.
Qing Que's concession and Old Li's quick thinking had barely managed to shift attention away from the humiliation, turning it into an inspirational speech for those at the bottom. They had also done a good job suppressing that group of heirs.
Old Li sighed as he took a sip of tea. To be honest, if the person sitting over there today had been someone who did not give him face—someone like Leng Xing, who ranked even higher—then they really would have been finished today...
"Speaking of which..." Old Li said helplessly. "Didn't your daughter-in-law give you a