Emperor Yuanjing's Headache

That night, Henghui caused a huge uproar in the city, injuring many people on her escape route, leaving the city's residents in a state of panic.

The Demon Race used a special secret method to make Henghui's walking corpse merge perfectly with Shenshu arm, thereby allowing her to unleash even greater power.

He has already surpassed the Fourth Grade rank; even an ordinary Third Grade would have to fight him to find out who is stronger.

This is why even the three Nightwatchers with their Golden Gong, along with Yang Qianhuan, a Fourth Grade array master from the Directorate of Astronomy, couldn't capture him.

Richard and the others also watched a grand performance.

Any extraordinary system becomes extremely difficult to deal with once it reaches the Third Grade or above.

The Great Feng has no shortage of Fourth Grade- and Fifth Grade professionals. Just in the Nightwatchers's office alone, the ten Golden Gong are all Fourth Grade or even peak Fourth Grade martial artists.

There are quite a few Fourth Grade and Fifth Grade among the Silver Gong below.

However, once they reach the Third Grade, they become extremely rare. There are very few in the entire Great Feng, and even fewer who remain in the Capital City. Moreover, they are all high-ranking figures in various factions, and it is impossible for them to be ordered around like the lower-ranking officials.

This is also why Emperor Yuanjing gave up testing Ice Empress and Xiao Yao after discovering they might be Third Grade transcendent beings.

Because he didn't have any experts at his disposal who could deal with Third Grade- grade Transcendent Realm expert.

At this point, Emperor Yuanjing somewhat regretted having made Wei Yuan cripple his own martial arts. Of course, only slightly; he couldn't allow Wei Yuan to continue developing his abilities.

At that time, Wei Yuan Wei Yuan was already Second Grade military officer. If he were allowed to continue developing, he might become First Grade officer. What if Wei Yuan rebelled then?

Although there was still the Imperial Supervisor, First Grade sorcerer who was invincible even within the Capital City, Emperor Yuanjing would not gamble his safety on Supervisor.

He was unaware that Wei Yuan was the Gatekeeper chosen by the Supervisor, a decision based solely on the emperor's suspicious nature.

Even Wei Yuan himself was unaware that the Supervisor had such high hopes for him.

Wei Yuan's story is a bit old-fashioned. Henghui and Commandery Princess Pingyang were not the first couple to want to elope. Wei Yuan was even earlier than them.

After Wei Yuan was caught eloping with Shangguan Xixue, he was castrated by the Shangguan Family and became a eunuch, while Shangguan Xixue entered the palace and became the empress.

He commanded the Battle of Shanhai Pass to a great victory despite being a eunuch, and was revered as a military genius.

Afterwards, as was the case, his merits became so great that they threatened the emperor. In order to protect the empress and put Emperor Yuanjing at ease, Wei Yuan abolished his Third Grade cultivation and retired to the court.

After Wei Yuan crippled himself, the Supervisor felt that he was too sentimental and not suitable to be Gatekeeper, so he decided to train another Gatekeeper, Xu Qian.

Emperor Yuanjing didn't know was that Wei Yuan had actually secretly recovered his Third Grade with the help of the Supervisor.

Although the Supervisor had given up on making Wei Yuan the Gatekeeper, it didn't stop him from helping Wei Yuan out.

Emperor Yuanjing felt a headache coming on; the Great Feng was helpless against two outside Third Grade experts.

The Great Feng is not without its experts, but those people will not act easily, nor can Emperor Yuanjing command them with ease.

For example, the Confucian masters at the Cloud Deer Academy.

Zhao Shou: Second Grade Confucian scholar and the head of the Cloud Deer Academy, located in Qingyun Mountain on the outskirts of Beijing.

Yang Gong: Third Grade scholar at the Establishing Fate Establishment Realm, a great Confucian scholar at the Cloud Deer Academy, also located in the suburbs of the capital.

However, he was beyond his control, which is why Emperor Zhen De devoted herself to cultivation, not only for immortality but also for power. To this end, she did not hesitate to create Clone of her own son, who is now the Emperor Yuanjing.

The entire Great Feng was a collection of interests. The emperor was not supreme, but rather the leader of this entire interest group. If he could not satisfy all the various forces, his position as emperor would be unstable.

Emperor Zhen De not only desired immortality, but also wanted to possess supreme power so that she could be the truly supreme emperor for all eternity.

We can't just let him go himself, can we? Although Emperor Yuanjing possesses the strength of Second Grade Daoist Sect Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivator and the cultivation of Third Grade martial artist, his cultivation is hidden in the shadows and he dares not reveal it.

Stop thinking about these headaches; he still has to deal with the mess from the day.

Richard and his men left, but the elite troops of several thousand remained behind, half frozen in ice and the other half bound to thin branches, rolling on the ground like pupae.

Those who were frozen were not dead; they still had a chance to live. They could live as long as the spell that froze them could be removed.

He couldn't possibly abandon an army of several thousand men; doing so would cause a mutiny. If an emperor didn't care about the lives of his soldiers, who would dare to pledge allegiance to him?

He could think that way, but he couldn't do it.

In fact, Emperor Yuanjing had already ordered these people to be brought back.

In the square outside the Imperial Palace, thousands of frozen people were placed there.

Those who were bound were placed on the other side.

Fortunately, the commanding general was only bound, not frozen, so after summoning him, he roughly understood what had happened to them.

But letting them continue like this isn't a solution, especially for those soldiers who are frozen in ice. They need to be unfrozen quickly, or they'll really die in two more days.

But he had already had someone test it; the ice looked no different from ordinary ice, yet it was incredibly hard, even harder than the hardest divine iron.

It should be hard and show no signs of melting.

He had a Fourth Grade expert from the palace test it out; one palm strike did not even cause the solid ice to react; one slash did not even cut off a single shard.

It was then burned for a long time, but there wasn't even a trace of it melting; it was truly strange.

He suspected that the guy's strength might be more than just Third Grade expert; Third Grade transcendent being wouldn't have such strength.

The people on the other side, bound by thin branches, encountered the same problem; they couldn't untie the tiny branches.

These seemingly small branches are impervious to swords, spears, water, and fire. There's absolutely no way to remove them.

He even secretly tried it himself, and the ice was fine; he could melt it without using his full strength.

But those seemingly small branches were completely helpless; even with his full strength, Second Grade Daoist Sect cultivator, he couldn't budge them an inch.

He couldn't even imagine how strong the little girl in the intelligence report must be. To casually wield a small branch against thousands of people and it was so powerful—was she only First Grade? Or was she more than First Grade?

After seeing the condition of those soldiers, he had absolutely no desire to provoke those mysterious people again.

Although he felt extremely sorry for losing Mu Nanzhi and Luo Yuheng, his own life was the most important thing.

What's the point of all his scheming if he loses his life?

If he could, he would ignore those people, as if they didn't exist.

But the problems of these soldiers need to be solved.

He ordered Princess Huaiqing to handle the matter and to contact those people. The core objective was simple: to restore the soldiers to normalcy.

In his view, since those people were willing to give Princess Huaiqing even the Nation-Guarding Divine Sword, it meant that they did not dislike her, so he could allow Princess Huaiqing Princess Huaiqing continue to have contact with them.

Even if Huaiqing can't extract more information, shouldn't he at least resolve the soldiers' problems?