As the southern feudal lords seethed with indignation, Chao Tian, who should have been at the racecourse outside the city, suddenly entered the palace to request an audience.
Zi Shou immediately claimed he was feeling unwell, forcibly ended the court session, and summoned Chao Tian to a side hall.
"Your Majesty is truly wise! News really did arrive from Three Mountains Pass!"
Chao Tian admired him enough to prostrate himself in utter reverence. His Majesty had sent him to intercept reports from the south, and he had assumed he would be intercepting bad news about the plague spreading, unrest in the Southern Borderlands, or a disastrous loss of popular support, preventing anyone with ulterior motives from taking advantage of the situation.
But who could have guessed that he would be intercepting good news instead?
The epidemic at Three Mountains Pass had been resolved!
Zi Shou breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he had thought.
When the feudal lords had indignantly remonstrated with him using news from half a month ago, he had already sensed something was wrong.
The plague had been going on for so long that it should have been resolved by now. Even taking ten thousand steps back, if Wen Zhong had failed to find Lü Yue, would the other cultivators simply leave it alone?
This was all merit waiting to be earned!
Never mind those two bald fellows in the west, who excelled at looting a burning house-even ordinary cultivators of the Daoist School would not stand idly by.
Shi Ji, for instance, had previously spent her time either cultivating in her cave abode or dispensing medicine in nearby villages. All of that accumulated merit.
With such a massive plague in the Southern Borderlands, was there any need to worry about finding cultivators willing to help?