Cao Mengde

The Outsiders seemed to know Cao Mengde's interests unusually well. They were always finding roundabout ways to send every scrap of gossip about Ding Ling to his Imperial Study.

That let Cao Mengde hear about Ding Ling's exploits as soon as they happened.

The more he learned,

the more Cao Mengde admired and marveled at Ding Ling.

More than once, he said to Dian Wei, Xiahou Yuan, and the others:

"Gold really does shine wherever it goes!"

Ding Ling had been unrivaled in the Three Kingdoms World.

He had gone to other worlds and conquered them just as easily, even ascending the throne and taking control of world after world. The territory he ruled was far vaster than the Great Wei Empire!

After all, Ding Ling was now the founding emperor of several worlds!

If Ding Ling hadn't been interested in becoming emperor in the Three Kingdoms World, how could Cao Mengde ever have had the chance to take the throne?!

Years of thinking it over had made Cao Mengde see things clearly.

That was why he had grown ever more cautious. He didn't dare withhold the slightest resource from the Wang Residence. Whatever they asked for, he gave them!

He was afraid that Ding Ling might suddenly descend from the heavens one day. What would Cao Mengde do then?!

Cao Mengde had originally assumed that Ding Ling would meet stronger people in the Upper Realm and that life there would be harder for him.

The truth had taken him by surprise.

In every world Ding Ling entered, he swept aside all opposition. No one could match him!

Every person and nation that dared oppose Ding Ling had been destroyed.

And many of those nations had been far stronger than the Great Wei Empire!

Even when Cao Mengde was resting,