Though it sounded as if he were following De King's lead and telling the great aristocratic families to behave themselves, upon closer consideration, he was actually lightly letting the matter pass—even giving those families an excuse to purge petty villains and evil demons...
How could De King not know what they would do? Naturally, anyone who criticized them would become an evil heretic, a petty villain!
How could this be?!
De King was deeply baffled. He had thought Xuan Mingyu would seize this chance to ruthlessly rein in those lawless aristocratic families and reclaim some of the authority they had encroached upon. But now, how had he, one of the little emperor's most steadfast supporters, become completely unable to understand what the other was thinking?
Could there be... something more to come?
Yet after that, the little emperor upon the throne said no more, as though he had sunk into thought and left everything for the ministers to decide among themselves.
Prince Zhong and De King exchanged a glance. From Prince Zhong's seemingly calm and gentle eyes, De King could discern nothing at all.
To be honest, De King had never been able to understand what Zhen King, who had begun assisting the Emperor Lord before him, was truly thinking... This brother of his had been chosen as Zhen King since childhood and had always displayed unwavering loyalty. When the little emperor was selected by the Emperor Court and became the current Xuantian Emperor Lord, he and Prince Jing had both left their fiefdoms to personally stand guard at his sides.
Loyalty—without question, by the principles of the mortal world, this was loyalty taken to its utmost extreme. Even De King himself could not leave his fiefdom for long. If he failed to tend properly to the Earth Veins and