Breaking into the Boss's Bedroom at Night
"Perspective?" Qian Lei didn't understand Yi Xuan's meaning at all, but he could still sense from the tone that Yi Xuan didn't seem to be there to cause him trouble.
Although he wore a smile on his face, Qian Lei breathed a sigh of relief inside.
It should be noted that after six months of wandering, he was quite satisfied with his life with the Xia Kingdom Law Enforcement Team.
Although the Xia Kingdom is not comparable in size to its neighboring countries, its emperor is a wise and capable ruler who transformed the Xiong Province, which had been in chaos for nearly a thousand years, into the Xia Kingdom in just half a year.
Furthermore, in order to maintain the stability of the cities within the Xia Kingdom and prevent the people from being frequently disturbed by cultivators and martial artists.
After pacifying the entire Xia Kingdom, Zhuo Ning established an enforcement team. Each city had only one team, with no more than ten members, but each member was Cultivation Realm.
Qian Lei joined the enforcement team voluntarily when it was first established.
At first, he only wanted to find a temporary place to stay, but he never expected that the emperor of the Xia Kingdom would be so generous.
The treatment given to their enforcement team was even better than what he received at the Gazing Immortal Sect. It's no wonder, considering that the Xia Kingdom is backed by the Azure Cloud Sect's Sect Protector.
After all, no matter how wealthy an ordinary mortal kingdom is, it's impossible for it to afford so many Spirit Stones to command such a large number of cultivation experts.
The most important reason why Qian Lei stayed with the Xia Kingdom Law Enforcement Team was that Qian Lei arrest warrant in Southern Frontier was still in effect.
In other words, within the territory of the Xia Kingdom, Qian Lei, because of his status as a member of the law enforcement team, not only had free access to his territory but was also respected by others.
Once he leaves the territory of the Xia Kingdom, the overwhelming pursuit may return.
However, Qian Lei never expected that his peaceful day off work would lead him to run into Yi Xuan, the last person he wanted to see.
Yi Xuan put down his wine glass, looked at Qian Lei, and said, "It seems you're quite comfortable here in the Xia Kingdom! Aren't you planning to revive your sect?"
Despite Qian Lei being chased and hiding because of the Gazing Immortal Sect incident, Yi Xuan had overheard Qian Lei's conversation with his fellow disciples in the Artifact Ruins using a drone.
The fervent expectation for the sect's prosperity in his words even moved Yi Xuan. Yi Xuan believed that such fervor would not disappear; it was just that he was hiding it now.
Sure enough, upon hearing Yi Xuan's words, Qian Lei, who was about to pick up some food, paused, but then continued eating as if nothing had happened.
But the desolation in his eyes couldn't be hidden from Yi Xuan and Liang Shi, who were present.
Qian Lei shakily picked up his wine glass, clinked it against Yi Xuan's, then seemed to remember something, remained motionless for a long time, and then gulped it down in one go.
With a wry smile, he said to Yi Xuan, "Forget it, I've come to terms with it. What sect can last forever? I'm just unwilling to accept it. To others, Gazing Immortal Sect is a ladder to strength, a sect that protects them, but to me, it's my home!"
It turns out that Qian Lei was not one of the disciples selected by the Gazing Immortal Sect from its subordinate mortal kingdoms.
He was discovered as an infant by a cook from the outer sect of the Gazing Immortal Sect on their way up the mountain.
That cook was a menial disciple of the Gazing Immortal Sect. He had spent his entire life in the outer kitchen of the Gazing Immortal Sect, cooking immortal dishes for immortal masters below the Grain Avoidance Realm. He lived a solitary life.
After discovering Qian Lei, they kindly took him to the outer kitchen to raise him.
The sect elder in charge of the outer sect did not reprimand Qian Lei after learning about it, but instead tacitly accepted him as a menial disciple of the Gazing Immortal Sect.
From that day on, Qian Lei was raised by the group of cooks in the kitchen.
Therefore, Qian Lei, who had lived in the Gazing Immortal Sect since childhood, naturally had a deeper affection for the sect than anyone else.
Moreover, he later passed the entrance test of the Gazing Immortal Sect and became a true disciple of the Gazing Immortal Sect, making his bond with the Gazing Immortal Sect even more inextricable.
It wasn't until Sect Leader Liu severed ties with the various factions in Southern Frontier that Qian Lei found himself in a dilemma.
On the one hand, the sect was facing annihilation at that time, and Qian Lei was unwilling to see his childhood home turn into ruins.
On the other hand, he knew that the fate of the Gazing Immortal Sect was sealed, and even if he fought back, there would be no change. The most rational thing to do was to leave immediately, leaving enough Seed for the sect to sprout again in the future.
In the end Qian Lei chose the latter, but he did not expect that many sects in the Southern Frontier were determined to eradicate them completely. After several months of experience, Qian Lei realized that rebuilding the Gazing Immortal Sect was no longer possible.
So even though he still harbored some convictions, he ultimately compromised with reality.
In fact, Yi Xuan had already greatly admired Qian Lei back in the Artifact Ruins.
I admire his loyalty to the sect, his care for his fellow disciples, and most importantly, his ability to assess situations.
Seeing Qi Yun lose his mind due to his sudden increase in strength, he decisively chose to observe instead of going to watch the final showdown between Yi Xuan and Qi Yun like the other disciples.
As it turned out, his decision was extremely wise. Had he acted impulsively and taken his fellow disciples to watch the battle instead...
After Qi Yun's defeat, facing nearly two hundred disciples in the Southern Frontier who had reached the completion of the Grain Avoidance Perfection, the fate of his fellow disciples was predictable, and they would not have experienced the series of events that followed.
Yi Xuan's visit to Qian Lei this time was certainly not to cause trouble, after all, the other party was already the captain of the law enforcement team in the Xia Kingdom.
It should be noted that the proposal to establish an enforcement team was made by Yi Xuan in the first place. The requirements for recruiting personnel were also very simple: as long as one was truly loyal and abided by the rules of the Xia Kingdom, all past transgressions would be forgiven, even if one was Evil Dao cultivator.
Therefore, Yi Xuan would never contradict himself for Qian Lei's sake.
Moreover, in Liang Shi's eyes at this moment, although his master was drinking, the admiration in his eyes for Qian Lei was almost overflowing.
"Alright, you know you're no match for me anyway, so I'll decide how to deal with you! Come with me!" After finishing his drink, Yi Xuan strode out of the private room.
Liang Shi and Qian Lei exchanged a glance and had no choice but to follow.
As they passed by the door, the shopkeeper behind the counter was about to greet Qian Lei when he heard the words "put on the tab." After that, Qian Lei and a young man chased after him out of the shop.
Yi Xuan remained silent the entire way. This left Qian Lei, who was completely bewildered, speechless, as he was under Yi Xuan's roof.
But as they walked, Qian Lei realized something was wrong; the three of them had somehow entered the royal palace of the Xia Kingdom.
And after Yi Xuan showed a token, the palace guards acted as if they couldn't see them, and the group didn't stop until they reached a palace called Hall of Mental Cultivation.
Upon seeing the large characters for "Hall of Mental Cultivation" above, Qian Lei was greatly surprised, for this was the palace where the emperor of the Xia Kingdom rested.
In fact, if it were any other country, Qian Lei would not have reacted this way at all. But Xia Kingdom is different, after all, he belongs to the Xia Kingdom Law Enforcement Team, and the emperor of the Xia Kingdom is equivalent to his boss.
What does it mean to break into the boss's bedroom at night? Qian Lei felt that he had been completely screwed over by Yi Xuan this time.
Even if the emperor dares not punish Qian Lei because he is a cultivator, he will certainly lose his job as a member of the enforcement team, and it is still uncertain whether the Xia Kingdom can be preserved.
At this moment, Qian Lei saw himself back to the life of wandering and displacement he had lived six months ago, and he was truly heartbroken.