Without alerting anyone, a large contingent of experts from Lin Qi's main family moved into the garden where he was temporarily staying. Aside from the three ancestors—Shan, Luan, and Feng—who had urgently emerged from seclusion, there were thirty-six demigod experts who had been causing trouble for that demon grand lord in some abyssal world. Shortly afterward, another one hundred and forty-four Saint Masters stepped out of the teleportation array!
This force made Ying Zheng's mouth water with envy!
Unfortunately, the three ancestors, Shan, Luan, and Feng, seemed utterly impervious to persuasion. Otherwise, Ying Zheng would have dearly loved to marry off the current Empress Dowager to one of them—after all, Ying Zheng was not Ying Zheng of old. He had long been sick to death of that Empress Dowager who had carried on wildly in the harem. If he could send her away, it would leave his eyes that much cleaner.
While Ying Zheng single-mindedly sought to win over the three ancestors, Lin Qi led a great number of secret agents and tens of thousands of Imperial Guards out of the garden like a roaring torrent of iron, racing toward another grand residence in Peaceful People City. Xian Qianshan, the great merchant of Peace Province, lived there with his entire family. As one of the top three wealthy magnates in Peace Province, his residence covered several hundred mu, magnificent and imposing as a small castle.
Tens of thousands of Imperial Guards blocked both the front and rear gates of the estate, while several heavy siege crossbows were set up before the main entrance. Lin Qi rode to the front gate and shouted at the guards standing atop the walls, "By His Majesty's decree, we have come to arrest rebels of the Miro Divine Cult. Open the gates at once, and