Tainting This King's Good Name

Before releasing the Soul Origin Golden Dou, Lady Bixiao and the others communicated with Yang Jian, Nine Heavens Profound Maiden, and Nine Nether Pure Maiden to create a stir and use this treasure to screen out the Qi Cultivators from the crowd.

The process was divided into two main steps. The first step was to intimidate them with empty threats, pretending to refine these people, thereby inducing those with cultivation to believe it was real and attempt to escape.

This step had already yielded initial results, with the Nine-headed Pheasant Demon exposing herself because of it.

If there were any who slipped through the first step, once they were sucked into the Soul Origin Golden Dou, their fate unknown, they would surely react and try to escape. This way, they could be screened out.

Lady Bixiao was currently in the midst of the second step.

Since the first step hadn't screened anyone out, she concluded that the thief must have been sucked into the Soul Origin Golden Dou.

When that young man directly accused Di Xin, his reason was that he hadn't cried.

This made Lady Bixiao somewhat speechless.

"Are you sure no one else showed any abnormality? And that everyone else cried?" she asked for confirmation.

The young man nodded heavily. "Everyone else reacted as expected, either crying or throwing a tantrum, collapsing in an instant. Only he was very calm. Everyone present can testify..."

As the young man spoke, his body suddenly sank strangely, and he inexplicably fell to the ground as if a heavy weight was pressing down on him. He tried to get up but failed.

Lady Bixiao's gaze lingered on him for a moment before she withdrew her Magic Power.

She had secretly used her Magic Power to test him. If he possessed Magic Power, he would have reacted instinctively under such a surprise attack.

After all, the thief crying "stop thief" happens all the time.

However, after the test, she discovered that he was indeed just an ordinary mortal, with no Magic Power to his name.

Only then did Lady Bixiao look at Di Xin. "Why didn't you cry?"

"Hmph... Do you think you can do whatever you want just because you have divine abilities? I am Di Xin, the Lord of Shang. You inexplicably dragged me into your magical artifact, and now you're asking me why I didn't cry? Am I a three-year-old child who has to cry?"

Di Xin looked up at the crowd above, his face darkening. He questioned them righteously.

Normally, he might have chosen to keep a low profile and blend in. But just now, he had received a system prompt with options. The first was to endure humiliation and compromise.

The second was to speak righteously and say the words he just did.

The reward for the first option was the Immortal Beast Azure Ox, while the second option was a Spirit Pill equivalent to ten years of cultivation.

Di Xin, naturally, chose the second option with practiced ease.

"King Zhou?"

Hearing Di Xin's words, everyone looked at him in surprise.

Di Xin rarely appeared in public, having lived in the deep palace. Not only did the common people in the city rarely see his true face, but the Three Lady Bixiao, Nine Heavens Profound Maiden, and Nine Nether Pure Maiden also didn't recognize him.

King Zhou appearing here and being sucked into the Soul Origin Golden Dou by Lady Bixiao was something they hadn't anticipated.

"Nonsense, how dare you impersonate King Zhou!" Lady Bixiao's expression shifted, and she then snorted coldly, sending a wave of Magic Power towards Di Xin silently.

In an instant, Di Xin felt as if a mountain was pressing down on him. He glared at the Qi Cultivators above and strained his body. "You want to plot against me..."

Before he could finish speaking, he fell to the ground with a thud, struggling.

"You want to plot against me... I am the Human Emperor..."

He kept shouting, but Di Xin secretly thought himself lucky. Fortunately, that young man had taken the hit first, making him wary. When the pressure came, he only resisted with his physical strength a few times.

If he hadn't had the prior warning and had forcefully resisted the pressure of the Magic Power, he might have exposed the fact that he possessed Magic Power.

Lady Bixiao retracted her Magic Power expressionlessly, not even glancing at Di Xin, as if nothing had happened.

"Great King Di Xin, as the Human Emperor and Lord of Shang, why are you on this street?" Zhao Gongming asked thoughtfully from the side.

Di Xin was tall and imposing, his demeanor definitely different from that of ordinary people. In Chaoge, no one would dare impersonate the Great King.

If they did, they would surely be exposed.

"Can't this King go out incognito for an inspection?" Di Xin slowly got up, sticking his neck out, his previous anger seemingly not yet subsided.

"Incognito inspection?"

Zhao Gongming pondered, his gaze falling on the little palace maid beside Di Xin. He pointed and asked, "Is your Great King really out for an incognito inspection? If you lie even a little, I'll refine you into ashes."

Gun Juan was so terrified by Zhao Gongming's words that she immediately fell to her knees on the street, trembling. "Reporting to the Immortal, the Great King is not out for an incognito inspection. He left the palace to meet me in secret. I was a palace maid by the Lady's side. I slept with the Great King last night, and when the Lady found out, she banished me from the Royal Palace. The Great King couldn't bear to part with me, so he secretly left the palace to find me. Everything I've said is the truth, please Immortal, see clearly..."

Anger flashed across Di Xin's face. He stomped his large foot on Gun Juan's shoulder, then kicked her down to the ground, roaring, "You spineless wretch, you've ruined my good reputation."

"Good reputation?"

Nine Heavens Profound Maiden let out a disdainful cold laugh.

The palace maid had made the situation quite clear. No matter how Di Xin tried to whitewash it, it was impossible.

Especially Di Xin's various misdeeds, including the poem he inscribed in the Nuwa Palace, were something she and Nine Nether Pure Maiden knew very well.

He was just a lecher. It was perfectly normal for him to get involved with a palace maid.

Hearing the cold laugh, the terrified Gun Juan suddenly sobered up a little. She realized she might have angered the Great King again. Disregarding the number of people around her, she hurriedly crawled to Di Xin's side, hugged his thigh, and pleaded bitterly, "Great King, it's my fault, I didn't mean to. What I said earlier was also unintentional. Love runs deep, and reproaches are sharp. Great King, please don't be angry..."

In the space of the Soul Origin Golden Dou, Gun Juan had cursed Di Xin to no end. She had thought she was about to be refined into ashes, so she had no reservations. Now that she hadn't died and had come out alive, she still had to rely on the Great King.

At this moment, she regretted it immensely, begging him desperately.

"Get lost..."

Di Xin pointed into the distance and roared.

"Great King, please call me Juan, not Gun."

Gun Juan pretended not to understand what was happening and refused to leave, clinging tightly to Di Xin's leg.

Many people around watched this scene with various expressions. Regardless, the Great King had become famous overnight; the people here would remember their Great King.

"Guards, drive her out of Chaoge and never let her set foot here again!"

At this moment, Di Xin saw a group of Imperial Guards approaching and quickly waved them over.