"Have there been any obstacles with the martial arts schools?" Li Qingxian asked.
Lü Wenhua said, "The court wants to interfere, but who can do it now? The Inner Factory? They don't have enough people. Military officers? They have neither the authority nor the justification. Civil officials? These schools were opened by Gang Feng's son, and they're a righteous undertaking to resist the demons. What civil official would dare touch them? Besides, when Chief Minister Zhao heard about this, he said 'good' three times in succession. With a Grand Confucian chanting his approval, who would dare interfere? A few places mired in foul smoke and corruption are trying, but we only have to stir things up a little, tell people these martial techniques and spells will affect their children's futures, and thousands upon thousands of parents turn up on their own to block the doors. Heh, they're used to squeezing people's weak spots. Now they'll learn the consequences of exploiting them. However... the Devil Sect and the Evil Sects have taken very different approaches."
"Tell me."
"The Evil Sects devote themselves entirely to worshipping their gods and forbid cultivating anything else, so cultivation is strictly prohibited within their enfeoffed prefectures and territories. But they don't interfere much when other people cultivate. After all, the Evil Sects won't rise early without profit in it, and there's no need to be the first bird to stick its head out. The Devil Sect has imposed a blanket ban on cultivating the Idle Prince Cultivation Method-that's their collective term for those methods of above beyond-rank. In the Devil Sect's enfeoffed prefectures especially, anyone who dares learn them in secret is sentenced straight to death. They've already posted notices."
Li Qingxian merely nodded and said nothing.
"However, as increasingly outrageous stories about the Idle Prince