Chapter 846: Li Xuanyong's Good Fortune—Was It Time to Strike the North? Late at night.
The lights in the Internal Affairs Hall were still burning.
Li Xinge stood in the shadows outside the courtyard, his hands clasped behind his back.
Through the half-open window, he quietly watched the figure bent over the desk inside—Third Elder Li Xuanyong.
On his desk.
Ledgers were piled into a small mountain.
Just how vast had the Li Family become?
It ruled over hundreds of millions of miles of territory.
The living beings under its jurisdiction numbered in the hundreds of billions.
Revenue and expenditure, the allocation of resources—every single matter was extraordinarily tedious.
And all of it rested on this old man's shoulders.
Everyone else secluded themselves to cultivate, pursuing immortality.
He alone.
Kept watch over this heap of dull ledgers, decade after decade.
Never once had he uttered a word of complaint.
Inside.
Li Xuanyong had just finished examining a thick ledger.
After finding discrepancies and circling them in red, he set the ledger to one side. Tomorrow, the people of the Internal Affairs Hall would examine it in detail.
Only then did he pick up the cup of tea beside him, long since cold, and take a sip.
After drinking, he set the cup down, picked up another ledger, and began leafing through it.
Li Xinge withdrew his gaze.
In terms of cultivation talent, the Third Elder ranked at the very bottom among the Li Family's elders.
By now, almost all the elders of his generation had reached late-stage innate or innately great perfection, and even the First Elder had entered the Divine Mansion Realm.
Yet the Third Elder had only barely broken through to the Innate Realm.
Barring some unexpected turn of fortune, he had no hope of reaching the Divine