Long Zhaofeng yelled out, “Archers, whoever shoots down Jiang Chen will also be made lord of ten thousand households!” The depths of Long Zhaofeng’s hatred for Jiang Chen was not something that could be summed up with a few short words.
Except, how would Jiang Chen give him this opportunity? The Goldwing Swordbird easily swept away the arrows that shot into the sky, streaking through the sky with a dashing figure and vanishing in the distance.
“After them!” Long Zhaofeng was unable to contain his anger.
The sweet joy he’d had in killing Eastern Lu had mostly disappeared after Jiang Chen’s act.
If he couldn’t kill Jiang Chen, so what if he wore the royal robes of yellow? So what if he held the position of king?
As long as he hadn’t exacted revenge for his son’s death, he would have never fully vented his spleen.
“Long Zhaofeng, wash your head well. I will come for it sooner or later.” In the great expanse of the sky, Jiang Chen’s remote voice seemed to emit from the air. Intangible and ethereal, mysterious and difficult to locate.
What did it mean to feel aggrieved? Long Zhaofeng’s current feelings were aggrieved.
He, Long Zhaofeng, had been domineering and tyrannical all his life, the hero of his generation and now even the territory of the Eastern clan was within his hands.
But, he could not devise a suitable plan against a mere youth.
Shame. This was practically the epitome of shame.
“Convey my order! Gather the troops of the various dukes, I want to personally conquer the Jiang Han territory. I want the Jiang family to disappear from the landscape of the kingdom, and the Jiang bloodline to disappear from this world!”
Long Zhaofeng was thoroughly infuriated.
“Your Majesty.”
All the people around him knelt down.
The Duke of Yanmen was the first to speak. “Your Majesty, the traitor Jiang Chen must be killed, and the Jiang family clan must be exterminated. But Your Majesty has just consolidated your grasp on the nation and must first ascend to your throne, and consolidate the heavens and earth. Only in this way will the public’s hearts be assuaged and the lands united as one. Afterwards, those matters of conquering a territory will certainly be achieved irresistibly like sweeping up dead leaves.”
“Please ascend to the dragon throne first Your Majesty.”
“Please ascend to the dragon throne first Your Majesty.”
The voices sounded out in unison and filled every corner of the capital.
Long Zhaofeng ascended to the throne and changed the name of the kingdom to Zhao, the Great Zhao Kingdom.
This news made its way into every corner of the capital over the course of one night, traveling to every household.
Some rejoiced and others sorrowed in that moment.
Those who supported the Eastern clan were all privately disappointed and exceedingly pessimistic.
Those who supported Long Zhaofeng proclaimed the news from the rooftops and congratulated each other on the prospect of getting good appointments.
Within the Hall of Healing, they too had received swift intelligence and the executive levels had gathered together at the fastest speed.
“I said long ago that it wasn’t a good thing to walk too closely with the Jiang family.” That Elder Blue was the first to step out and jeer mockingly.
“Your networking strategy was obviously wrong, number three.” The second hallmaster Yue Qun also stood out in admonishment.
“Absolutely wrong, our Hall of Healing is in great trouble this time. We thoroughly offended the Duke of Soaring Dragon in that fight with the Pill King Garden. No, he’s not the Duke of Soaring Dragon now, he’s now His Majesty.” Another elder spoke up.
In the span of a moment, fully one half of the senior executives of the Hall started admonishing Qiao Baishi.
Even the lord hallmaster Song Tianxing hadn’t anticipated on such a large backlash. One had to know that when the Hall of Healing benefitted previously, these people had praised Qiao Baishi up to the heavens.