Li Changsheng Wakes Up

Li Changan hurried all over Merit City. With the great battle imminent, though so many elders were at home and even the family heads were two juniors, the busiest work still fell upon him.

No wonder Wenren Xianyi said he possessed the talent of a chief minister. With his robes neat, he traveled in all directions, handling everything in perfect order. As the saying went, harsh measures were needed in troubled times. With a wave of his hand, he had Li Jianshu—upright and incorruptible, swift and decisive—take charge of Azure Cloud Prefecture's laws. After traveling through every commandery and county, Li Jianshu seized cultivators who had run wild amid the chaos and killed them to warn the monkeys. Though this could not reverse the overwhelming panic in Azure Cloud Prefecture beneath the Blood Moon, it at least kept the prefecture from descending into utter disorder.

The great sects and immortal clans wished to flee, and Li Changan did not stop them. But once they left, their lands would be divided among other powers. At the same time, he brought out the records kept by Tianli Hall: evidence of the crimes the various factions had committed in Azure Cloud Prefecture, along with the taxes they had concealed for years, and more.

He did not press them to the absolute limit, either. These people had eaten Azure Cloud Prefecture's food for so many years; now, at the very end, they wanted to become deserters. They ought to leave something behind for those standing firm in their homeland.

Of course.

Lost in thought as he walked, he eventually reached Old Tree. Li Changsheng lay atop the tree, while Li Changyao beside it kept drawing her pink longbow. It was said to be a bow reforged by Yao Tie's high ancestor. Its string was