Even If the Young Protector Wasn't One, He Was Still an Immortal from Heaven, Essentials of Governing the North

Lu Yu stared at the edicts, which ran to tens of thousands of characters. He could not understand them. If a martial arts manual had been set before him instead, he might have shown more interest.

But everyone else in the room!

Liu Wen, Dou Gu, and the others looked ready to enshrine the words on those pages.

Lu Yu had no idea what made them so impressive, but impressive they clearly were!

He wondered if his elder brother had been reading books on governing the realm at Mount Zhongnan rather than Daoist scriptures.

Yu Ke's gaze moved slowly around the room. Outside the window, the sky had begun to pale.

He knew his personal participation in the simulation was drawing to a close.

He hoped the effort he had put into it this time had not been wasted.

He looked once more at the people in the hall.

There!

Zhou Jinyu, the woman who resembled a "Kun Void Reba," was staring at the passages describing strategies for uniting several kingdoms, disbelief shining in her eyes.

Clearly, the ingenuity and daring of those strategies had gone far beyond anything she had expected.

Liu Wen and Dou Gu examined each edict word by word. As they read, their expressions shifted from calm to shock, then to deep thought.

Prince Jing, Zhou Cheng, seemed even more absorbed. He copied them out line by line, pen gripped tightly in his hand, pausing now and then to annotate the paper.

Whenever a line struck him, he would stop writing, delight spreading across his face.

Yu Ke shook his head. A thought surfaced unbidden.

I barely had to lift a finger, and I've already reached the limits of this world!

The sweeping changes of five thousand years had not been written by wind and thunder,