Cultivation knew no years. In the blink of an eye, more than a month had passed since the Black Fiend Sect was destroyed.
The fact that the disciples of the Flame Immortal of Wuzhuang Temple, along with the Ink Fairy and a group of senior and junior fellow disciples from Yellow Maple Valley, had caused a huge commotion in the imperial palace of the Xu Kingdom and even executed the Xu emperor—the Black Fiend Sect's leader—on the spot naturally sent the once-peaceful kingdom into an uproar. It had nearly plunged the entire country into chaos.
Fortunately, Han Li, Liu Jing, and the others were sensible and capable. Before the Seven Great Sects could receive the news, react, and send down punishment, they had immediately used their status as "immortal masters" to support a powerful member of the Xu royal family and put him on the throne.
Then they brazenly twisted the fact that "an immortal executed the emperor" into a tale of "the new emperor launching a coup, purging the court, and successfully seizing the throne"!
Afterward, they had relied on their "immortal" abilities to personally and swiftly quell various minor disturbances within and beyond the Xu Kingdom. The new ruler of the Xu Kingdom, still on edge, had managed to secure his throne in a state of shock and "grateful tears."
As for what the new ruler of the Xu Kingdom really thought, Han Li and Liu Jing couldn't have cared less.
After all, he was merely a mortal. They had dared to execute the previous ruler of the Xu Kingdom in full view of the public, right there in the imperial palace. They certainly weren't going to take this new ruler, whom they had put on the throne themselves, seriously.
In short, they hadn't taken any of those