It was now deep into the night. The lotus flowers in the lake were just starting to bud. The fat merchant that Wei Xianwu entrusted all of his hopes onto had his sight removed and soul force crippled, tossed onto the meadow like a straw sack.

Compared to the empire’s heaven supporting pillar Yuhua Family, the convictions of a mere Thousand Chief like Wei Xianwu were like praying mantis under a carriage’s wheels.

However, those who wanted to deal with Lin Xi weren’t only these individuals.

As early as a day ago, Bai Yulou and Hong Shenwu broke out into conflict over Lin Xi’s reward and punishment. After that night, at sunrise, news already reached many people’s ears.

Liu Ziyu was included among those people.

Since everyone’s wills were different, the things they wanted also different, even though they were from the same academy, the same batch of students, many of them would still be like water and fire in the royal court, completely incompatible.

In the dozens of years after Yunqin was founded, it had always been like this.

Even though there were only some small disputes in the academy, Lin Xi was already destined to become an enemy of Liu Ziyu.

Since neither side liked each other, this type of most direct emotional opposition, after taking a step on the paths they chose,...