Martial Cultivator-Chapter 930.1: Insolent! To Dare Pee on the Lord Warden Commander’s Face! - Part 1
Up until the days just before New Year’s Eve, Yu Qingfeng and He Liang took solid beatings for several days straight. But after being beaten so many times, both of them improved at a startling pace. Take Yu Qingfeng for example - now, when being fed punches at the same realm, he could firmly endure thirty six punches.
This was already extremely impressive. One had to know that in the present world, aside from a mere handful of people, it was exceedingly rare for anyone at the same realm to withstand thirty punches from Chen Chao.
However, Chen Chao was feeding punches, not engaging in a life-and-death battle. This meant that Yu Qingfeng often resorted to trading injuries for survival. If Chen Chao were feeding punches with killing intent as the premise, then that number would have to be halved.
Yu Qingfeng would not last past twenty punches.
Even so, that was still very remarkable. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚
With Chen Chao’s killing intent already aroused, there were truly not many martial artists in this world who could endure twenty punches from him at the same realm.
In fact, as early as last year, people in the foreign lands had drawn up a ranking list out of idle curiosity. Only the top four were listed, because the strongest powerhouses of the present age had never been able to be ranked against one another. As such, this ranking was done by classification. For the daoist lineage, Yun Jianyue, the young great daoist sage, was ranked second among daoist powerhouses.
Occupying the top spot was the current palace lord of the Myriad Heaven Palace.
As for the sword cultivator lineage, the Sword Sect’s Sect Master naturally stood alone at the peak. After him, although there were still two great sword immortals who rarely showed themselves, Yu Xiyi, this newly advanced great sword immortal, had already ranked fourth.
When the ranking list came out and happened to be discovered by Jiang Xiao’an, the little girl mercilessly mocked Yu Xiyi for it, infuriating him to the point where he declared that he would immediately return to the Sword Sect to seek a duel with those two seniors.
That was right, among sword cultivators, the top four sword immortals of the present age all came from the Sword Sect.
As for the ranking of martial artists, the one sitting firmly at first place was naturally Chen Chao, the Lord Warden Commander who had already slaughtered until the foreign lands was in terror. Following closely behind him was Ning Ping, the current Great General of the Northern Frontier. Excluding these two who stood at the end of Nepenthe, the Northern Frontier’s cavalry great general Li Changling temporarily occupied third place.
It was said that this cavalry commander had already touched the threshold and was on the verge of breaking through. Unfortunately, this martial artist, long hailed as being capable of rivaling ten thousand men, had always been regarded as a general of troops rather than a commander of armies. Otherwise, the next Northern Frontier Great General would likely have been this fierce martial artist whose achievements and prestige were more than sufficient.
Outside the top three, the next three were the current Right Guard Commander Song Lian, Left Guard Commander Chen Wannian, and Jiang Wanfu.
Among the top ten, a full six had already stepped into Nepenthe. The remaining four were all martial artists just a hair’s breadth away from Nepenthe, and every single one of them came from Great Liang.
During these days, Chen Chao was in fact pushing for the establishment of the position of Deputy Lord Warden Commander, intending for Song Lian to become the first deputy commander. After that, Jiang Wanfu could naturally and smoothly assume the position of Left Guard Commander.
However, the biggest obstacle to implementing this position was Song Lian’s resolute opposition. This martial artist had served under two Lord Warden Commanders, and his reasoning was simple: Great Liang had always had only one Lord Warden Commander. If a deputy were added, how would the uniqueness of the position be reflected?
Chen Chao was rather helpless about this. Before long, however, he came up with another solution - the creation of the position of Divine Capital Commander, placing both the Left and Right Guards under this Divine Capital Commander’s authority.
With that, Song Lian had nothing more to say. Chen Chao then naturally drafted a memorial and sent it to His Highness the Crown Prince. Over the past few days, the Six Ministries had already begun discussing it. In truth, this was merely a formality. After all, within the warden faction, it had always been the Lord Warden Commander alone who had the final say. Over the past two hundred years, new positions had not been unheard of. As long as the Lord Warden Commander wished it, there was never really a problem.
The reason Chen Chao did this was actually also a gesture of goodwill toward the court officials.
Afterward, when Xie Nandu, far away in the Northern Frontier, learned of this matter, she even added a line of praise for Chen Chao’s seasoned handling of affairs in the letter she sent back to the Divine Capital.
A few days ago, Chen Chao had already received word that the position of Divine Capital Commander would be formally established at the first court session after the New Year. Chen Chao’s official document had long since been written, the great seal already affixed, and during this period he was even selecting a site to construct a Divine Capital Commander’s office.
In fact, once this office was established, it would allow official posts to be added for quite a few martial artists who had defected to Great Liang, which could be considered a good thing.
After all, gathering people’s loyalty could not rely on empty words alone - one had to have grain in hand.
Today, Chen Chao sent several of his disciples into the streets to purchase New Year goods. Yu Qingfeng was the most excited, but before leaving the bamboo building, he looked pitifully at Chen Chao, who was seated in a chair, and asked, “Master, we won’t still have to get beaten when we come back, right?”
Chen Chao smiled and shook his head. “No, because I’m about to head out.”
Yu Qingfeng cheered with delight and immediately called for Little He and Ning Qingnian to head out together. After watching the three disciples leave, Chen Chao also went out, first taking a carriage to the Right Guard's office.
He had already visited the Left Guard once before, so he could not show favoritism. Coming to the Right Guard now counted as keeping things even on both sides.
When the Right Guard officials heard that the Lord Warden Commander had arrived in person, all of them perked up, eager to catch a glimpse of the strongest martial artist of the present age.
In fact, early on, after Chen Chao took up the position of Lord Warden Commander, the Right Guard officials had all been quite worried. After all, this Lord Warden Commander had come from the Left Guard, and the Right Guard had previously even schemed against him. Fortunately, all of this turned out to be needless worry. Still, in the hearts of the Right Guard officials, it was naturally clear that between the Left and Right Guards, the one that carried more weight in Chen Chao’s heart was still the Left Guard.
When Chen Chao saw Song Lian, he smiled and said, “Walk together?”
Song Lian nodded and followed Chen Chao out of the Right Guard's office.
Chen Chao went straight to the point. “I’ve already chosen the site for the official residence. The Ministry of Works has started construction. That Minister Du gave me a thorough scolding, spraying spit all over my face. It’s really not something an ordinary person could endure.”
Song Lian smiled helplessly. Chen Chao opening with this made it clear he was setting the tone for the matter.
This left Song Lian, who had never truly supported establishing the position of Divine Capital Commander and had instead wanted to give up his own post as Right Guard Commander, with nothing he could say.
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