Power over court and country, a furious slap for Huaining, Xu Qingxiao enters the Second Sage realm

The Great Wei Imperial Palace.

Inside the Great Hall.

It could be said that all of Great Wei was waiting for Xu Qingxiao to return.

Yet many people did not want him to return.

At court, the ministers of the Six Ministries and the various dukes, kings, and marquises actually did not want Xu Qingxiao to return at this critical juncture.

Ji Yuan, Wang Chaoyang, and Prince Huaining had long been watching like hungry tigers, waiting for Xu Qingxiao to return.

Unless Xu Qingxiao could produce compelling evidence, he would struggle to give a convincing account of what had happened in the Demon Domain Sea.

Especially the ministers of the Six Ministries.

They had spent this entire time trying to minimize the repercussions.

Within the Great Wei Dynasty, things were manageable. After all, the common people trusted Xu Qingxiao. What he had done over the past two years had genuinely improved their food, clothing, housing, and travel, leaving them well fed and warmly clothed.

Under these circumstances,

there was naturally little need for publicity. The people were willing to believe that Xu Qingxiao was not a demon.

Outside the Great Wei Dynasty, however, things were somewhat different.

After all, events outside the dynasty lay beyond their control. Moreover, the Tuxie Dynasty and the Chuyuan Dynasty were enemy nations to begin with. Naturally, they did not want peace to settle over the Great Wei Dynasty.

They naturally began spreading all sorts of rumors, letting those rumors run unchecked without offering any explanation. They might even have secretly sent people to add oil to the flames.

As for the forces among the populace, anyone could figure out, even thinking with their toes, that Great Wei's vassal kings and Wang Chaoyang were pulling strings behind the scenes.

In short, a storm of public