But he quickly understood. Cultivators were simply too powerful. Even if righteous cultivators would not forcibly intervene in mortal kingdoms, so what? If royal power did not hold absolute authority, it was meaningless. What was more, fiends and demons had never hesitated to strike at ordinary people. If the Cultivation Realm were ruled by imperial power, it would most likely become a hotbed for breeding fiends and demons.
Wen Xu did not even need to think deeply to guess why royal power had gradually vanished from the Hengze Continent. Just as he could understand why the new king had moved against Wen Chishan the moment he ascended the throne.
Why? The answer was simple. The new king had been raised by Wen Chishan, so he clearly knew the capabilities of his "foster father." As long as Wen Chishan lived, he would never be a true king.
Because he knew the origin of the "auspicious phenomena at birth," he understood clearly that he could easily be replaced, just as he himself had replaced the brutal old king.
Any ruler with ambition would never tolerate such an existence.
"You actually agree with that ungrateful wretch? Are all emperors so cold-hearted?"
"To ordinary people, cold-heartedness is indeed a derogatory term. But for a monarch, it is not entirely so. You think he was ungrateful because you are viewing this from the Venerable's perspective. But what if you viewed it from the new king's perspective?"
Wen Xu stood with his hands clasped behind his back and continued, "The new king was merely an ordinary mortal. He grew up looking up at the Venerable, knowing that he would one day become the king of this nation. Yet when he ascended the throne, he would discover that he was still living beneath the Venerable's gaze. The