"What?!"
Inside the Sky-Patrol Bureau's main hall.
Xu Ming's eyes widened as he stared ahead in disbelief.
"Those are sixteen Heavenly-Grade Dao Chess prodigies! How could she... how could she still have to start as an ordinary Sky-Patrol Guard?!"
If the man standing before him had not been the genuine Provincial Commander, he would almost have suspected some demon or evil spirit was impersonating him and spouting wild nonsense.
Faced with Xu Ming's loss of composure, Provincial Commander Liu Qingshan frowned in displeasure. "Shouting and carrying on—what sort of conduct is that!"
"I..."
"You've spent so many years in the Heavenly Court. How are you still so ignorant of worldly ways, with your head full of childish fantasies?"
Seeing his subordinate act like this.
Liu Qingshan sighed, helplessness rising in his eyes. "Talent... what the hell is talent worth? To get by in the Heavenly Court, it's all about family background and roots, all about the ways of the world! No matter how gifted you are, without anyone backing you or a great clan supporting you, you're still just a rootless Rogue Cultivator."
"But... but this is too..."
Xu Ming opened his mouth, only to feel his throat tighten.
Too absurd!
Before bringing Jiang Yuechu back to the Heavenly Court, he had expected resistance.
After all, she had killed a Heavenly Court official—and even a Little Heavenly General.
But Xu Ming had believed even more firmly that such monstrous talent would surely shake the Heavenly Court and draw powerful figures from every side to vouch for her.
Yet he had never expected even Liu Qingshan, who had always cherished talent, to hold such an attitude.
Starting from the bottom, tempering her temperament... This was plainly driving the girl to her death!
The people behind the Cloud-Dream Palace Master were one