"Greetings, General."
Although Golden Scale Guard Commander Wang Quanzhong had already gone down a dark road to the bitter end, wholeheartedly following the Princess's residence, he was still uneasy upon learning of Lu Wu-bing's arrival and hurried forward to pay his respects.
As for the old eunuch Huang Chengzong, he radiated killing intent, his brow filled with grim resolve. "This servant has long awaited this day. That fatuous ruler does not do human things, hiding in the Hall of Mental Cultivation all day to ravage innocent women.
"The demonic Taoists of Reaching Heaven Temple go even further, exhausting every slander and committing every atrocity. With those two still around, how could the Great Li realm possibly avoid destruction?"
He had also brought three thousand inner palace guards, laying down defenses three layers deep inside and three layers out, their spearheads turned inward. Clearly, he was prepared to stake everything on a single throw.
By now, what he truly thought deep down no longer mattered. On the surface, he could not wait for the old Emperor Ji Jiufeng to breathe his last.
The court had taken on a flourishing, vibrant appearance after its reforms.
Even a grand eunuch like Huang Chengzong, who knew little about governing the realm, vaguely felt that Great Li might yet be saved with Lu Wu-bing taking action.
As for whom to be loyal to, and whom not to be loyal to—
Did that even require thought?
Not only was his newly acknowledged master divinely mighty, but he also possessed a secret art that could make his little brother grow back. For a neither-man-nor-woman thing like him, that was a chance to become a man again.
With that hope in his heart, even if the task meant losing his head, he would follow to the end of