My Wife is Unbeatable in the Whole World, Touch Me If You Dare!-Chapter 414 - 277: Dual Breakthrough【Combined】_3
If they persist in not giving it up, the Ministry of Justice might accuse them of harboring fugitives.
This time, more officials will probably suffer.
At a minimum, it's estimated that over two hundred officials will either lose their positions or their lives.
With so many positions suddenly vacant, the court's reserve talents are far from sufficient to fill these gaps, creating yet another headache...
The main culprits behind this matter, King You and King Han, are truly pitiable yet detestable.
Why did you have to provoke him...
Li Mansion.
Li Nuo looked at the Law Code in front of him, his expression thoughtful.
A new portrait had just appeared on the Law Code, one of the Grandmasters who had stormed into Li Mansion.
The portrait was rather dim, indicating he had probably been executed.
His death had altered Li Nuo's lifespan, but not significantly, it had only added a hundred days.
Normally, legally killing a Grandmaster should add more than just a hundred days to one's lifespan, considering that the Fourth Realm itself guarantees a hundred days; the lifespan increase for a Grandmaster should logically be several times that.
However, that applies when the death is closely related to oneself.
The death of this Grandmaster wasn't greatly connected to Li Nuo, so it was normal that his lifespan wasn't fully increased.
What he was concerned about was the disposition of King Han and King You.
How much cultivation and lifespan could be gained from two First Rank Kings was unimaginable to him...
Yet, according to the Legalism Classics, Li Nuo had a rough idea. Under normal circumstances, this case would definitely allow his cultivation to soar directly from the Third Realm to the Fourth Realm without encountering any bottlenecks and even leave some to spare.
Li Nuo was getting a little impatient, planning to visit the Ministry of Justice to see the situation.
Anning had been sitting there in a daze since a while ago, not saying a word.
Li Nuo walked over to her, took her hand, and asked, "Do you want to go see the Ministry of Justice?"
Li Anning took a deep breath, stood up, and said, "Let's go."
She had been prepared in her heart, but now that the day had really come, her emotions were unavoidably mixed.
She quickly adjusted her mood, and the two left Li Mansion to go to the Ministry of Justice.
Today, the Ministry of Justice was guarded extremely rigorously, and the entire place was surrounded by the Imperial Army, hardly a fly could escape.
Almost all the cells inside the Ministry of Justice were overcrowded, including those outside used to detain officials in solitary confinement, filled with people crying out their injustices.
Li Nuo casually summoned an official from the Ministry of Justice and inquired about the situation.
The Emperor's decree had been sent here just now, from now on, King Han and King You had been demoted to commoners, while King Xin, King Xuan, and King Ji had been stripped of their regency powers.
Other arrested officials and nobles had to accept the Ministry of Justice's investigation to ensure their non-involvement in those past cases before they could leave.
As Li Nuo was learning the specifics, an official from the Ministry of Justice approached and said, "The Princess, the Prince Consort, Lord Li invites you both over."
Li Nuo and Anning went to the Si Minister's office, and Li Xuanjing came out from behind his desk, saying, "You've come at just the right time; this case was caught out by you both, so let's use the seals together on this judgment..."
Li Nuo and Anning approached the desk, where a written judgment lay.
Once stamped, the judgment would officially come into effect.
This judgment, unlike those Li Nuo had previously seen, was written on bright yellow silk.
This was the decision concerning King Han and King You.
Since they were the Emperor's own sons, even though they committed such deep crimes, they were only stripped of their titles and placed under house arrest, at least their lives were spared.
If it were someone else, their entire extended family would have been implicated.
Such a punishment did not comply with the Law, but no one would argue with the Emperor about these matters.
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Li Nuo, in his father's presence, was also not overly courteous.
Although it was just a formality, it still represented a slight increase in cultivation, which for Legalism was also an important ceremonial aspect.
He held Anning's hand, and she, holding the Minister of Justice's seal, pressed it onto the lower right corner of the document.
As soon as the seal appeared on the document, the numbers on the Law Code immediately changed.
In recent days, dealing with no major cases, his lifespan just barely stayed slightly over three thousand.
In that moment, it had increased by two thousand, for the first time surpassing five thousand.
A prince could add a thousand days, almost three years, to his lifespan.
And his cultivation was also growing rapidly.
Legalism cultivation usually lagged; ordinary cases, even homicides, could scarcely let someone see the cultivation change instantly.
But this case, too big and involving too much, was different.
A homicide case normally caused an imperceptible change in cultivation from ninety-nine to one hundred and one, requiring lengthy and sustained efforts for an evident change.
However, an extraordinary case like this, on a foundation of a hundred points of cultivation, could bring about a thousand points of change in cultivation—a completely different process.
The process of cultivation growth was extremely apparent.
Not only him but Anning also experienced significant fluctuations in her cultivation.
And hers were even more noticeable than Li Nuo's.
Li Nuo felt that the power within him was rapidly growing and soon hit a clear barrier, but that barrier merely hindered for a moment before being smoothly broken through.
