“What's the point? Go ask them!” Kong Jie blinked with a soft sigh. “It’s always either power, profit, fame, or strength. There is no lack of ambition in this world, Li Hao, and no lack of evil characters in an age of chaos. They release the evil in their hearts when they come into power! The nine ministries are dragon slayers. When the royal family crushed the people beneath their iron boot, the ministries stepped forth to slay this evil dragon. Although they didn’t fully succeed, the ministries were heroes eighty years ago. Sadly, it’s only taken them a few years to go off from their original intent.3

“The nine ministries oversee the world and various clans control the nine ministries. Perhaps the first generation of ministers had great aims eighty years ago, but their controlling families are very different eighty years later!” Kong Jie sighed heavily.0

The first generation of ministers had nursed great aspirations. But when each ministry came under the sole control of one family, such as the Lius for the Ministry of Finance, they deviated from their original mission statement.0

The human heart was in a constant state of flux. The dragon slayers ultimately became dragons themselves and started guarding themselves against each other....0