Master of Strange Dao

The days passed, mundane yet fulfilling.

...

In the Southern Sea, Ji Meng returned to his temporary residence, where his wife had brought him a gift from Yu Ziqing.

Having absorbed the water replete with vitality, the weary aura on Ji Meng's body had vanished, and his injuries healed remarkably fast.

"This, accepting such a generous gift from little brother Ziqing seems a bit improper."

"The vitality within it is the strongest I have ever seen in my life, even the Dragon Clan doesn't need strange water with such intense vitality during gestation."

Ji Meng felt somewhat embarrassed.

"Since it's already accepted, you should hurry up and recover. I have promised that little brother an island, the finest one.

I've already picked an island. Be careful not to let someone else take it.

Recently, more people have been coming to the Southern Sea, and Daqian has reacted the quickest, with people already arriving."

"Then you should control it a bit. Don't let the Southern Sea recover too quickly. After so many years of storm and turmoil, if it recovers too quickly, and changes too drastically, that's not a good thing."

"I know better than you do, so don't meddle." Ji Meng's wife rebuked him, and after a moment of silence, she then said, "That little brother's family is probably not simple, these days, I've already heard people talking about Jinlan Mountain in the Southern Sea."

"Talking about what?"

"The king of the hungry ghosts is slumbering there; he is the Enlightener of those hungry ghosts.

But the one I met this time, an incredibly terrifying fellow, that little brother's elder brother, he definitely isn't a hungry ghost.

He's much stronger than you were at your strongest, with just a glance, he saw me."

"That is quite extraordinary." Ji Meng nodded.

"Listen clearly, it's not that he sensed me, but he directly saw me!"

Ji Meng was shocked.

"He could really see you directly?"

"Absolutely no mistake, he just saw that I was protecting that little brother, so he didn't make things difficult for me."

Ji Meng was profoundly shaken. His wife, without a physical body or Divine Soul, was fundamentally invisible, not even visible to him.

That person, from who knows how far away, with just a glance, was able to directly lock onto his wife's consciousness, he was indeed far stronger than him.

"Does the human race still have such strong individuals? That can't be possible, can it?"

"I don't know what he is, but he's definitely terrifying. Fortunately, we had no ill intentions toward that little brother..."

The couple was apprehensive, Ji Meng could distinctly sense that his wife was truly frightened.

Since his wife turned into rain, her consciousness has been dispersed, and theoretically, it should be impossible to lock onto her without knowing her roots.

"You should just recover well now. With your current power, you can't do anything."

"Yes, I understand."

...

"Investigate what? Surely, not everything should rely on the Jinyi Wei, right?"

Song Chengyue shook the documents in his hand and casually threw them back into the drawer.

Song Chengyue's recent days had been much more comfortable.

By wiping out the An Family, many people had become more subdued.

Regardless of whether the An Family had committed a taboo, in the end, it was because they had continuously pursued Song Chengyue and opposed him over the years.

Relying on their large family and business, losing a few members to Song Chengyue's attacks did not affect their foundation, and they relied on the fact that Song Chengyue could not always stay in the position of Commander, they really became quite presumptuous.

Now that Song Chengyue had caught a substantial piece of evidence against them, in one fell swoop he annihilated their clan. In all levels of the court, the only remaining person with the surname An, who was not related to An Family, had quietly changed their surname.

If anyone asked, they would say that their previous surname An was just a personal name, and now they had contributed enough to their family to be entitled to bear the surname outside.

Everybody would laugh behind their backs at this statement, understanding the situation.

The An Family was now like a stinking pile of excrement; no one wanted to touch it.

Song Chengyue, this mad dog, naturally, nobody dared to provoke him.

Even the Regent Crown Prince, during recent public affairs needing interactions with Song Chengyue, spoke much more politely.

This mad dog indeed couldn't do anything to the Crown Prince, but if he wanted to bite to death a couple of followers or forces supporting the Crown Prince, it was all too easy.

The Crown Prince couldn't believe that his closest aides, or their families, hadn't committed any illegal or disorderly actions over the years, nor did he believe that Song Chengyue did not hold any leverage over them.

Song Chengyue had recently been very quiet, occasionally attending the court but just idly dragging through the day, which reassured everyone considerably.

At least this fellow wasn't mad enough to lose his mind.

Even the Second Prince, behind closed doors, often cursed, "Why did that An Family have to provoke that mad dog for no reason? It was good enough that the mad dog wasn't chasing people to bite, why on earth did you go and bite him?"

"It's just a few direct family members died in the past; with such a big family and business, isn't it easy to just have ten more sons?"

Now look what's happened; they don't even have the chance to have more children.

Song Chengyue continued to slump over as he reviewed the documents, looking as though he was resigning himself to await death.

In recent months, the biggest event was undoubtedly the kidnapping within the Yin Family.

Even with such a sensational event, Song Chengyue didn't dispatch anyone from the Jinyi Wei to get involved.

The official reason given was that the reputation of Jinyi Wei wasn't very good. If they got involved in this matter and succeeded, people might still claim it was a self-directed act by Jinyi Wei to win over the Yin Family.

If they failed, it was likely that this dark pot would conveniently be knocked onto Jinyi Wei's head or even all of Daqian's head.

Song Chengyue spoke righteously, and others who wanted to argue couldn't find a reason to refute him.

Song Chengyue not only didn't get involved, but he even sternly ordered people from Jinyi Wei to absolutely not appear within a five-hundred-mile radius of those people.