"Officer Li, there's nobody else around, you don't need to keep bringing up His Majesty at every turn..." Yu Ping said.
"My sincerity was absolute. It made no difference whether anyone else was here." Li Qingxian replied solemnly.
Han Anbo secretly gave him a thumbs-up.
Yu Ping curled his lip. "You're becoming more and more like an official."
"You've reminded me," Li Qingxian said. "I need to study the spirit of His Majesty's latest address."
Li Qingxian opened his Notes on Reverently Hearing the Sage's Interpretation. After thinking for a moment, he picked up his brush and began to write.
"His Majesty's establishment of the Patrol Bureau must carry profound significance. Alas, I am far too dull-witted; only after studying from many sources did I grasp His Majesty's intentions. His Majesty is wise indeed! Under the whole sky, is there any land that is not the king's land? Along the borders of the land, is there any subject who is not the king's subject? Cultivators too are His Majesty's people, and if they are his people, they should listen to His Majesty! It is precisely because those cultivators refuse to listen to His Majesty that they have turned this fine world into such a state! If everyone listened to His Majesty, doing whatever His Majesty told them to do, saying whatever His Majesty told them to say, eating whatever His Majesty told them to eat, the realm would have been at peace long ago..."
Li Qingxian finished writing with great satisfaction, bent at the waist in a bow, and placed it atop the Classics of the Sages.
Then he closed his eyes, gathered his focus, guarded his Spirit Platform, and studied Fate-Seeking Arts.
Li Qingxian had originally thought this set of Fate-Seeking Arts was merely a basic edition. Only after