The hundreds of thousands of cultivators beneath the altar reeled in response to the lieutenant governor’s words. The mortals in the city were mostly confused, as not many of them were familiar with the history involved.2

Xu Qing himself had only learned about the history of the human species after becoming a swordsage and attending a class taught by the lieutenant governor. That was also his first time learning of the role played by the Crown Prince of Violet and Cyan in human history.0

Marquis Yao, who hovered in midair, the three deputy palace lords, and all the other important people present were looking at the lieutenant governor with complicated expressions that seemed mostly dazed.0

Although the lieutenant governor’s true identity was unexpected, it also made sense. The services he had performed over the years, and also the way he kept the county going during the war, hinted at past experience with government affairs. In fact, if you looked at what he did during the war, and ignored the fake exhaustion he’d employed to enhance his cover story, then the reality was that he had handled everything with skill and ease.2

And that wasn’t even to mention how smoothly the reconstruction work had gone after the war was over. Every single government decree issued by the lieutenant governor had been the perfect order to give at the time. He really was good at his job. Perhaps that was why, in the past, many people had believed him to be a bit more skilled than...0