86.Chapter 86: Acting Out! (44k)
Chapter 86: The Acting School! (4.4k)
Auspicious?
Linglong’s heart was scoffing when she heard the passerby’s explanation.
There might be auspiciousness in this world.
But definitely not this group of foreign beasts that bowed and kowtowed to people just for a bite of food.
With Linglong’s mind, it was easy to guess that this was a man-made show.
And she guessed that the instigator behind it was probably Zhao Yi.
“Why would he do that?”
Linglong didn’t realize that Zhao Yi did this in order to lower the heat of General Zuo Luo.
And Zhao Yi did succeed.
Ever since the auspicious beast entered the city, no one talked about General Zuo Luo anymore.
It’s just that something happened later and Zhao Yi didn’t reject General Zuo Luo as much, so the subsequent plan didn’t unfold.
What Linglong saw was only the first step of Zhao Yi’s whole hype program, without the follow-up action, the beasts entering the city became a tiger’s head and a snake’s tail, Linglong naturally couldn’t understand what Zhao Yi was trying to do by getting a group of demonic beasts.
Linglong asked the people watching next to her, and it was obvious that the people of Shengjing City didn’t know what His Highness the Crown Prince was up to.
However, they didn’t care either.
The prosperity of Shengjing City had nothing to do with ordinary people, and the daily entertainment of ordinary people was actually very scarce.
These foreign beasts raised by His Highness the Crown Prince were all very smart, although they wandered around outside every day, they were very disciplined, they never touched what others didn’t give them, and they would kowtow and thank them for the food they were rewarded with.
Since these beasts came to Shengjing City, the city has a lot more fun to watch every day, the city is much more lively than before.
Linglong listened to the people around her talking about the Crown Prince being a bright ruler, and in her heart, she suddenly understood the reason why Zhao Yi did what he did.
Although Linglong seldom came to Shengjing City, after all, this was the center of power in Da Xia, a place that all the Immortal Cultivation Clans and Families did not dare to ignore.
Therefore, Linglong had read a lot of Shengjing City’s intelligence, of which the Sixth Prince Zhao Yi had the most ink in the intelligence.
For no other reason, Sixth Prince Zhao Yi was the one who did the most out of the ordinary things among all the princes.
Even in the Zhao Clan, which was famous for producing lunatics, Zhao Yi’s behavior was considered deviant.
It was hard for Linglong to not pay attention to him.
It was because of this reason that Sixth Prince Zhao Yi had always been considered the least likely to ascend to the throne among all the princes.
As a result, he didn’t expect that it was this prince that everyone didn’t favor, but actually won in the end.
This is not the most surprising.
The most unexpected thing was that for Zhao Yi to be crowned as the Crown Prince, whether it was the Sovereign’s Office or the other eight Crown Princes, all of them had no objections.
Zhao’s choice of crown prince had always been the prince with the highest cultivation realm.
Nowadays, among Zhao’s nine emperors, the one with the highest cultivation level was Grand Emperor Zhao Coronation, and the one with the highest natural talent was Second Emperor Zhao Mian, and although the other emperors were slightly inferior to these two, they all had their own unique characteristics.
Sixth Prince Zhao Yi had the worst cultivation within these emperors, and was so notorious that he was on the verge of becoming the laughing stock of the Da Xia Imperial Clan.
Almost everyone thought that Zhao Yi was the least likely to become the Crown Prince amongst the emperors.
As a result, Zhao Yi was the one who won in the end, and no one in the royal family opposed it.
When this news spread out, the entire Grand Xia was in an uproar.
Linglong came to Shengjing City this time, and besides dealing with some matters of the Immortal Cultivation Conference, she also brought with her the task of observing Zhao Yi.
The Yao Clan had always been the most loyal vassal of the Zhao Clan, the royal family of Grand Xia.
What Linglong hadn’t told Yao Qing before was that not only was the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce the one that Zhao Clan had made his fortune from the great war with the Chaotian Clan, but Yao Clan was the same as well.
During the reign of the Chaotian Sect, it was a completely barbaric rule over the Immortal Cultivation World and mortals.
The Chaotian Sect viewed ordinary mortals as ants and took whatever they wanted from them.
For the other sects in the Immortal Cultivation World, the Chaotian Sect’s tactics were equally brutal; those who obeyed me prospered, and those who disobeyed me perished.
The reason why the Zhao Clan of Daxia was able to overthrow the Chaotian Sect in a single battle had the support of many Immortal Cultivation Clans behind it, and the Yao Clan was one of them.
Ever since the Zhao Clan’s uprising, a large number of Yao Clan members have served in the imperial court and the military.
When Zhao attacked the Immortal Cultivation World, the Yao Clan was the biggest bandwagon party.
The Yao Clan had assisted the Grand Xia in ruling the world for a thousand years, and the Yao Clan’s children had long since been branded with the Zhao Clan’s imprint.
Therefore, the kind of character the future emperor would have was very important to the Yao Clan.
Linglong’s mind kept recalling the images of her previous contact with Zhao Yi in the Monument Forest, and as her understanding of Zhao Yi deepened, she realized that this future Lord of the Grand Xia was afraid that he would be more difficult to deal with than any of the previous emperors.
Due to his special physique, after ascending to the throne, the emperors of the Grand Xia tended to pay more attention to themselves, and most of their time was also used to collect feats and resources to strengthen themselves in an attempt to prolong their lifespan.
Therefore, most of the time in the Daxia courtroom was spent with the Empress listening to the government and the ministers of the various ministries handling their own affairs, with the Emperor acting like a mascot, mainly serving to stabilize the dynasty.
However, Zhao Yi didn’t seem to be quite the same.
Linglong didn’t see what Zhao Yi’s move of pardoning Chaotian Zong meant until now.
Although the Da Xia imperial court had always been high-handed in its management of the Immortal Cultivation world, it basically didn’t interfere in the internal affairs of the Immortal Cultivation Sect, except for banning the Immortal Cultivation Sect’s contact with secular mortals.
In short, it meant that the Immortal Cultivation Sect could not influence mortals.
Other than that, Zhao didn’t care about the fights between Immortal Cultivation Sects, even if they beat the brains out of dogs.
It was because of this reason that since the Great Xia Imperial Dynasty had taken over the world, the Immortal Cultivation Realm hadn’t produced a decent Demon Cultivator in a thousand years.
The Daxia Imperial Court did not prohibit demonic cultivators.
As long as the demonic cultivators cultivated according to the rules, the Grand Xia also recognized them as a member of the Immortal Cultivation World.
But the problem came.
If devil cultivators cultivate step by step, what kind of devil cultivator are they?
The reason why a devil cultivator is a devil cultivator, isn’t it that the figure is to cultivate fast and can take shortcuts!
If a devil cultivator wants to grow fast, they can’t get around killing and looting.
Assassination of Immortal Cultivators is too difficult and troublesome, and can only be done to mortals.
However, often, just as they moved, the Great Xia’s forbidden army came to their door.
The Daxia imperial court was extremely harsh in dealing with Immortal Cultivation Sects that brutalized ordinary mortals.
Light cases were executed on the spot, while heavier cases directly annihilated the entire clan.
The Chaotian Sect was wanted by the Great Xia court because it had killed too many mortals.
In order to eliminate the Chaotian Sect, the Grand Xia court had spent countless manpower, material and financial resources, and it was difficult to count the number of forbidden soldiers who had died at the hands of the Chaotian Sect, and the number of remaining members of the Chaotian Sect who had been killed by the forbidden soldiers was also countless.
The two sides had long been in a deadly feud that would not end.
Moreover, many ministers and gate families above the courtroom would not agree.
There are no wars around Daxia, the only turmoil in the North, all of the war effort is held by the armor-breaking army, outsiders can not enter the water.
In the court, the ministers and the untalented sons and daughters of the families want to stand out, then the only way is to conquer the remaining members of the Chaotian Sect.
Zhao Yi suddenly wants to pardon the Chaotian Sect, which is tantamount to cutting off the upward mobility of those sons of the rich and powerful, is he not afraid of triggering turmoil in the court?
The Daxia Dynasty has been in existence for thousands of years, and the gateway families have been intertwined, and have long formed various interest groups.
If Zhao Yi suddenly wanted to pardon the Chaotian Sect, not to mention the reaction of the major sects in the Immortal Cultivation World, the gate families would definitely oppose it as well, so how should they react then?
Did he really not care what those people thought?
Once the Immortal Cultivation World and the Dynasty Hall were all in turmoil, could the Zhao Clan hold them down?
How would the Yao family be able to handle themselves during this change?
Linglong thought about things in her mind and unknowingly came to the entrance of the Crown Prince’s residence.
Suddenly, she felt that she stepped on something, and then she heard the sound of a dog barking next to her.
Linglong froze for a moment and hurriedly turned her head to look.
Then she saw a black dog with one foot raised, baring its teeth at her and barking angrily!
Linglong recognized that this was the same black dog that had eaten the meat buns in front of Cao Sanniang’s bao store and then kowtowed to others to thank them.
“Yeah, sorry!”
Linglong looked at the black dog’s raised leg and was a bit embarrassed, obviously she had just stepped on someone’s foot.
“Woof woof!”
Learning to be good is not easy, learning to be bad is a slip of the tongue.
Black Stripes just came into town and learned the hard way.
In the past, in the forest, not to mention being stepped on, it almost got smashed to death twice and didn’t say anything.
Now just by Linglong only stepped on a foot, black stripe will not relent, deliberately pulling the voice howling, just to notify the yellow warbler to come out to blackmail it!
Sure enough.
Hearing Black Stripe’s miserable scream, Huang Ying rushed out like a gust of wind.
There are quite a few pedestrians on the roadside who know Black Stripe, seeing it being stepped on, they all gathered around and blamed Linglong.
“Do you little girl walk without looking at the road, such a big auspiciousness stepped on it with one foot, see how Mr. Black Stripe was stepped on, his feet don’t dare to touch the ground!”
“Nowadays young people are just impetuous, without a bit of reverence, when I was young and saw the auspiciousness, it was all about kneeling down and kowtowing!”
“Little girl, hurry to apologize to Mr. Black Stripes, its old man in a good mood may forgive you!”
Linglong: “……”
Although she didn’t pay attention just now, her instinctive reaction as an Immortal Cultivator was still there, and after realizing that there was something under her feet, she immediately retracted most of her power, and definitely didn’t step on this black dog so miserably!
Also, this dog is called Black Stripes?
Linglong suddenly remembered that when she was at the Four Seas Restaurant, Yao Qing had told her that when the main character fell from the cliff, he hit a demonic beast named “Black Stripe”.
Could it be a coincidence?
After all, no matter who heard the name “black bar”, their first reaction would definitely be a demonic beast like a snake or python.
No matter how, it couldn’t be a dog!
At this point, Huang Ying had already asked out what happened from the onlookers.
She looked at Linglong and frowned slightly, “This girl, I see that you look unfamiliar, you shouldn’t be from Shengjing City, why did you specifically come to my Crown Prince’s Residence to hurt my family’s Xiangrui?”
Huang Ying did not recognize Linglong, but Linglong knew this first female official of the Crown Prince’s residence.
She bowed slightly towards Huang Ying and made a bow, “I am Linglong, the daughter of the Yao Clan, and today, I am specially here to pay my respects to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince by order of the head of the family!”
Huang Ying’s eyes lit up when she heard Linglong’s name, “You are the Yao Clan’s female phoenix? Legend has it that Yao Clan’s daughter Linglong is extremely gifted and intelligent, a female phoenix that is hard to come by in a thousand years from the Yao Clan!”
After saying that, she looked Linglong up and down once and said with a smile, “Once I see you today, your name is indeed true!”
Linglong shook her head repeatedly and respectfully said, “Lord Huang Ying is too kind, Linglong is not worthy of it!”
Huang Ying waved her hand, signaling that she didn’t need to be nervous, and said with a smile, “Miss Linglong, my Highness is practicing in the martial arts field, let me take you to see him.”
Linglong hurriedly thanked again.
Huang Ying smiled and nodded, then came to Black Stripes’ side and asked with concern, “Mr. Black Stripes, are you alright?”
Black Stripe had already heard Huang Ying’s conversation with Linglong, it knew that Linglong was Zhao Yi’s guest, so it definitely couldn’t be blackmailed, so it shook its head, and with great dedication, it still lifted one of its feet and walked towards the gate of the Crown Prince’s Mansion with a bounce.
Seeing this scene, Linglong was a bit skeptical if she really pushed too hard and really stepped on Black Stripe.
She apologized and said to Huang Ying, “Lord Huang Ying, I just lost my concentration while walking and actually stepped on Lord Black Stripe, I would like to pay for the medical expenses, please ask Huang Ying to oblige.”
Concerning Black Stripe, the auspiciousness, Huang Ying didn’t dare to make the decision, and could only say, “In a moment, I’ll go to ask my highness, it’s better to wait for him to send it down.”
Linglong hurriedly nodded, “It should be so!”
Huang Ying saw the matter resolved, cupped his fist to the surrounding pedestrians watching, “Folks, thanks for taking care of my family’s Xiangrui just now, the Crown Prince’s residence has prepared some small gifts, please don’t be polite to all the relatives.”
After saying that, she waved towards the two boys behind her, those two immediately came forward holding a plate, in the plate was a dish of golden melon seeds.
Boom!
At the sight of the golden melon seeds, the crowd burst into life.
These people didn’t expect that after just watching the bustle for a while and saying a few painless words, the Crown Prince’s residence would directly reward the melon seeds.
The crowd thanked them one after another.
“Many thanks to the Crown Prince!”
“Thank you, Your Highness the Crown Prince!”
“Don’t worry, Your Highness the Crown Prince, we will definitely take care of all of you auspicious people!”
“Long live Your Highness the Crown Prince!”
The crowd was in an uproar, saying anything and everything, all of which were beautiful words of compliments and flattery for Zhao Yi.
Huang Ying smiled, pointing at the boy to give out golden melons to everyone, especially the one who just shouted “Long live the Crown Prince!”, while others rewarded him with one golden melon, he gave him two!
Leaving the boy to give out the reward money, Huang Ying brought Linglong into the Crown Prince’s Mansion.
Coming to the Crown Prince’s residence, Linglong’s first feeling is big.
Zhao Yi’s Crown Prince’s Mansion was directly changed from the previous Sixth Prince’s Mansion.
He was so used to living here that he was too lazy to move, so he directly changed the plaque even if the enthronement was finished.
Zhao Yi is a famous rich man in Shengjing, his official residence is naturally the largest.
Coming in through the front door, Linglong was directly stunned.
Pavilions and pavilions, carved beams and painted buildings, mountains and lakes, birds and beasts, the Crown Prince’s Residence’s territory is so large that it is comparable to a county town, and is even bigger than the Imperial Palace!
Linglong smacked her lips for a while as she watched.
Fortunately, Daxia Zhao’s not too much about the rules, otherwise on the scale of the Crown Prince’s residence, Zhao Yi a crime of trespassing certainly can not run away!
Linglong followed Huang Ying for half an hour and finally came to the martial arts arena.
From afar, Linglong saw a green silhouette flashing extremely fast in the field beating a hanging sandbag!
When she got closer, the green silhouette was Zhao Yi who was wearing a green tunic.
The sandbag was . Taotie?
Linglong did recognize Taotie, and she had even eaten Taotie’s meat before in the Stele Forest.
Although she knew that Zhao Yi didn’t take Taotie too seriously, but directly using it as a sandbag, wasn’t it a bit too disrespectful to the divine beast?
As Linglong was thinking, Zhao Yi stopped, and the little poisonous creature waiting at the side immediately and attentively handed up a warm towel with just the right amount of humidity.
Snap!
On the other side, a cold-faced young girl in a long blue dress, Green Bee, sheathed her long sword and released the hanging Taotie.
Taotie was beaten like a puddle of mud, and only his mouth was good all over his body.
It looked at Zhao Yi and licked its face to curry favor, “Master, can I choose veal for the extra meal later?”
Linglong: “…”
Giving someone a beating as a sandbag for a mouthful of beef?
Is this really Taotie?
PS: Brothers, I’m really stupid! These days and coughing and high fever, did a variety of checks, thought I was going to die, the results did not go to do a test, damn actually Yang, these two days almost gave me a scare to death!
Since it’s fine, there’s nothing more to say! Starting tomorrow, keep being cruel!
(End of chapter)