Lin Ke divided his attention between two tasks. While his main body was taming the Golden Leopard, his duplicate had just finished the complete run of "Pokémon."
He was about to go into the courtyard and dance a little to stretch his limbs when someone knocked.
"Young Master Lin Ke, your teacher numbered ninety-six has come to visit. He has no appointment, but he says he belongs to one of the Beast-Taming Sects..."
Constable Xing's voice sounded from beyond the door.
After the first contest, some people in the Punishments Department had switched sides.
Li Hanlin, for instance, had gone over to Minister Qi's side, along with some of Li Chungang's former subordinates.
Although an official one rank higher could crush those beneath him, when officials banded together to protect one another, even the Minister of Punishments could not blot out the sky with one hand.
Of course, these defections had happened because of the Punishments Department's peculiar nature. It was a place where fish and dragons mingled, with people of both the noble registry and servile status.
The Constable Office, for example, was among those that had switched sides this time.
That was because the head of the Constable Office had risen through the ranks from an ordinary constable.
And Li Hanlin, who had previously come to investigate the Little Golden Crow Prince, was actually a member of the Constable Office.
In short, this tangled web of connections had resulted in Constable Xing becoming an odd-job man on Chaoyang Street, and eventually even Lin Ke's doorkeeper.
"A Beast Mastery Sect?"
Hearing Constable Xing's voice, Lin Ke headed out.
He had indeed taken someone from a Beast-Taming Sect as his teacher last time.
A moment's thought brought it back to him.
That person from the Beast Mastery Sect was a