Xie Daoyun’s thoughts were in line with Zu An’s. She thought to herself, I really made the right choice in changing my outfit this time. Violet Mountain might seem calm, but it somehow feels as if there’s something brewing.

Zhang Zijiang stormed over and shouted, “Are you freaking… Ahem, we are the Armed Escort Division. We came on his majesty’s orders to repair the palaces on Violet Mountain. This one is our leader and general, Marquis Zu!” He almost went straight to cursing, but when he realized that the disciple belonged to the Righteous Sun Sect, he swallowed his dirty words back down.

Zu An’s forehead darkened. Why are you adding ‘marquis’ to my title? It sounds weird.

“Armed Escort Division?” the Righteous Sun Sect disciple repeated, his expression changing. He knew that the Armed Escort Division was one of the emperor’s personal armies.

Zhang Xi received the news and hurried over, saying, “So it was Sir Zu and General Zhang! The State Teacher told us about you before. Excuse me for not going out to meet you, truly.”

He had already lost count of how many things he had to apologize for today. No wonder none of his martial brothers from the...