Hou Niao left through the main gate and headed straight for the Minister of Justice Prefecture.
The time had come. There was no need to drag things out any longer. If either he or Li Chuping had to make the first gesture, it would have to be him.
As it happened, they could help smooth over that little business with the Duan Household's young master. Once he wore the Minister of Justice Prefecture's skin, facing off against the Duan Residence would be another matter entirely.
He felt no psychological burden over this. An ordinary person might have been terrified at offending such a colossal power, but at its heart, the matter was actually quite small.
The Duan Household's young master had not died. In the cultivation world, broken arms and legs hardly counted as injuries; the retainer who had died was a Rogue Cultivator of unknown origins, so his death could be attributed to an ordinary clash between cultivators. Nothing could have been more normal.
After all these years on the path, he had come to understand some of the cultivation world's rules of conduct. There was no need to fear making trouble, nor to doubt the wisdom of those above. They knew perfectly well what should and should not be done.
So, with him clinging to the Minister of Justice Prefecture's thigh and E Huangshi stirring up public opinion, this storm would at least be settled for the moment. As for later, he would not be staying in the Jade Capital permanently. Once he found the complete Body Sword Technique, he would withdraw unscathed. However far the Duan Prince's Residence's influence reached into the heavens, could they chase him all the way to the Lizhi Sea?
The Jade Capital's Minister of Justice Prefecture was not somewhere just anyone could