"I don't think it's a problem. With His Highness's current Fortune and Merit, he can suppress it."
"Tell me, can His Highness's Fortune and Merit now compare to that person's?"
"Which person?"
"His Majesty."
"Oh, you mean Xiao Dingzi..."
"That form of address is improper, after all."
"Pah, at a time like this? Ever since those military orders came down, guarding against us like we're demons, who can't see what's going on? Ask He Bao what he thinks."
Everyone turned to He Bao.
He Bao gave a cold chuckle. "What else is there to say? That old bastard is definitely preparing to make a move. It's just that he can't get a read on the situation right now. On top of that, he just wiped out the Devil Cultivators and won the hearts of the realm, so he doesn't dare act rashly."
"I heard that imperial decree called the Devil-Banning Edict was issued ten times and rejected ten times. In the end, the civil officials felt it would look bad to keep sending it back, so after discussing it, they approved the Devil-Banning Edict. On the surface, it bans the cultivation of devil arts throughout the realm and forbids the study of cultivation methods not recognized by the court. In truth, it officially regulates the Idle Prince Cultivation Method."
"Then won't the number of people learning the Idle Prince Cultivation Method plummet?"
"That's why Literary Cultivators are thieves. The Devil-Banning Edict was issued, but exactly which devil arts were banned was left to the Ministry of Rites. The Ministry of Rites had only one word for the Idle Prince Cultivation Method: delay. They neither said it was a devil art nor said it wasn't. They just said it was under review and required further study. Then guess what the Literary