April 15, 2018

At first, the commotion was only in the small square in front of the inner city gate. However, soon along the main road of Shencheng, the commotion spread rapidly like a lit gunpowder lead.

Anger was like litting a fire on the dry grassland, which instantly ignited the whole city. Shencheng, a city with a population of one million in the southeast, soon fell into a sea of ​​angry fire.

Accompanied by the boiling slogans, people's emotions were gradually provoked and escalated, from the initial support of the city lord to become more radical.

"Get into Jinyu City and capture Zhao Chenlu alive!"

"Kill the demon girl and kill the evil demon!"

"Go to the Holy Sect to ask for an explanation!"

...

"Zhao Chenlu...What a Zhao Chenlu."

In the air, Chen Ruoshi looked at the boiling grand occasion of the whole city and narrowed his eyes slightly.

He has seen through the problem in this riot.

Of course, this is not a spontaneous act of the people, but a conspiracy carefully planned and launched.

With Chen Ruoshi's eyes, he could scan the whole city at a glance and discover that this rapidly detonated riot had "nodes".

Just like a horn or a horn-like amplification device, when the crowd's oscillation passes through these nodes, it will be suddenly amplified and spread to all directions in a mighty way, and then further expanded by more nodes.

Starting from the first person to take the lead and shout slogans, among the tens of thousands, there were about dozens of leaders hiding themselves in the crowd, taking advantage of the fanatic atmosphere of the whole nation, shouting more radical slogans at the right time, making the situation more uncontrollable.

These lurkers have different identities and different strengths. The strongest one is to serve as the team leader in the inner city patrol team, and the weakest one is just ordinary grocery shopping aunts. But they act neatly and have very strong organizationality, and they are obviously strictly enforced orders under unified command. Moreover, regardless of their strength, they are all top-notch masters in fanning the flames and pulling the hearts of the people. Sometimes, just one expression or a slogan can make hundreds of people around them excited.

They are really such experts inciting civil unrest!

In Shen Ruoshi's eyes, these people were like an elite team that penetrated deep into the enemy's formation, using the sharp dagger in his hands to harvest the sleeping enemy heads without restraint.

What made Chen Ruoshi even more incredible was that during the whole process, the inner city troops trained for reverse infiltration were completely unresponsive.

Chen Ruoshi sneered slightly and said to himself: "I am worthy of being the Lord of Jinyu City who is worthy of being able to compete with the Holy Sect. He actually penetrated my impregnable Shen City to this point... But, if I made such a fool in front of millions of people, do you really think I, Chen Ruoshi, dare not kill anyone?"

Although Chen Ruoshi was indeed not a qualified city lord for decades after him, at least in the first half of his life, he was worthy of the title of Lord Shen City. Whether it was his ability or courage, he was the top level in the world.

A courageous city lord will never be lenient when cleaning up internal troubles. A strong ruler will not choose to give in because of the momentary anger of millions of people.

Even if he defeats the hearts of millions of people with his own strength, Chen Ruoshi will not hesitate at all.

In an instant, this great monk from the Inverted Sea Realm locked all the key nodes in the square in front of him with his soul, forty-seven people, each of whom seemed to be a well-trained elite. His external identity, whether it was a patrol team leader, a pork dealer or a grocery shopping aunt, was just a disguise. By piercing through his body and observing his soul, he could see that they had undergone extremely strict and even harsh training.

However, in the face of the magical art of gathering sand, these efforts are meaningless. The world of immortal cultivation is a cruel place, talent, resources, encounters... these things are much more important than personal efforts. Chen Ruoshi is a cultivator who has all the advantages.

As Chen Ruoshi slowly raised his right hand, the whole city began to rumble and tremble. The spiritual veins buried deep underground resonated with the vast real energy, and began to work together to build a magical art that was powerful enough to destroy the world.

Of course, Chen Ruoshi was not trying to destroy the world. His target was the forty-seven golden and jade lackeys dressed in the outer skin of Shencheng people. Such a huge magic trick was used to kill chickens, so it was simply a Yuan magnetic cannon to kill chickens. However, only by using the most cruel method to make their bodies disappear without any soul can he relieve his anger.

However, just as the spell was about to be detonated, a person suddenly rushed over and asked in horror: "Dad, why are you going crazy again!?"

Chen Ruoshi frowned: "Yueying? What are you here to do?"

"No... you are leading the 72nd Fortress of Shencheng. Are you trying to attack these millions of people?!"

Chen Ruoshi said angrily: "Who do you think of me? I am the Lord of Shencheng and not the Lord of Jinyu. It is certainly ignorant that these million people were incited by others, but how could I begrudge Chen Ruoshi with them? All I want to kill is the only Jinyu people who penetrated into the interior of Shencheng! It is said that you have always been responsible for this inner city troops, and it is really incompetent to let the Jinyu people penetrate to this level!"

Chen Yueying, who was sprayed with incompetence on her face, was also shocked: "Jin, Jinyucheng is infiltrated? It's impossible!"

Chen Ruoshi immediately used his soul to send the forty-seven people's appearance, true energy fluctuations, and spiritual marks to Chen Yueying's mind: "Look at it yourself! These forty-seven people are fanning the flames in the crowd, unscrupulous! They simply regard Shencheng as their back garden!"

However, before Chen Ruoshi finished speaking, Chen Yueying's face suddenly became extremely strange.

"...Dad, Shencheng is indeed their back garden."

"..." Chen Ruoshi was stunned for a moment, then gradually opened his eyes wide and showed an incredible look, "This..."

"The uncle who took the lead in selling meat is the captain of the inner city troops of Shencheng, Chen Tianqing."

“…”

"The one who served as the captain of the patrol team was the deputy captain who served as the concurrent position, Chen Sanfu."

"...What's going on?!" Chen Ruoshi finally restrained the true energy in his hand, and the trembling of the city finally stopped. Then he turned around and glared at Chen Yueying, "Is the inner city troops you have worked hard to rebel now?!"

"I'll confirm it later." Chen Yueying was also a little surprised. This army was the most core and confidential force in Shencheng. The strength of the members was second, but their loyalty must be unquestionable. How could they suddenly rebel collectively and destroy the city lord's station?

After a moment, Chen Yueying gave back with a serious expression: "They... did do it on purpose, but not for rebellion, but for maintaining your reputation."

"...Maintain my reputation?" Chen Ruoshi laughed furiously, "Do I need them to maintain it?? When did I say I want them to maintain it!? So is the troops in Shencheng's inner city taking their own initiative?"

Chen Yueying said: "A qualified subordinate must not wait until the leader speaks before he thinks of action. The first paragraph of the third section."

Chen Ruoshi was silent for a while and asked, "When did I say such shameless bureaucratic words?"

Chen Yueying said: "On May 15, 1985, when you represented Shencheng at the Immortal Cultivation Conference, you were too lazy to write articles, so you asked your men to dig up other people's manuscripts. At that time, the Lu family's articles were written the most beautifully, so..."

"Enough is enough. You were only 13 years old back then. Where did you get such a good memory?!"

Chen Yueying was silent for a moment and said, "I was the one who was responsible for copying other people's manuscripts at that time."

“…”

"Dad, you said that you looked down on plagiarism the most, but you looked down on such official articles, so you directly gave me the drafting work. I was only 13 years old at that time and I was not as clever as my sister, so how could I write such official articles? I had to copy them everywhere... Anyway, when I gave you the manuscript, you praised me for writing it well."

“…”

"In addition, in 1980, when the inner city troops were purged, you once emphasized that as a hidden force behind the scenes, they wanted to maintain not only the peace of Shencheng, but also the majesty of Shencheng leaders. At that time, you asked Sister Yue'e to fly all over the sky with her neck and was photographed by some people, intending to print it in the newspaper. Later, when you asked the inner city troops to quietly burn the original jade plate, you used this reason."

After being hit by his biological daughter one after another, Chen Ruoshi's anger, which was like anger like anger, finally collapsed. Seeing the rising waves of people in the inner city, he suddenly became discouraged.

He is old and really can't control the situation anymore. Maybe... he should really be shut up and turn a blind eye to the things outside the window.

"Dad, actually... you really don't need to worry about this." Chen Yueying advised, "You have bravely exposed the most shameful privacy in front of everyone. Who can compare with this courage in the world? How many of the so-called heroes can do what you do without considering vanity and tell the truth? As for how the people understand and react, it is not something you can decide. They are stupid and easy to incite. Do you still blame yourself?"

"..." Although Chen Ruoshi had no words, he couldn't help but feel that this sentence seemed to make sense.

"If you really estimate the people, then what's wrong with giving them a virtual idol and asking them to worship? Compared to a flesh-and-blood person, people actually hope that they are an omnipotent god. Dad, for your own openness, you broke the spiritual totem of the whole process... This... is actually not appropriate."

"this……"

Chen Yueying said again: "Now, you have achieved the openness and integrity that a hero should have. Thanks to the efforts of the inner city troops, the spiritual totem of the people has not been broken, but has turned into more sincere cohesion. This is crucial in the period when power transfer in Shencheng City. So, Dad, let them misunderstand like this, okay?"

Hearing this, Chen Ruoshi finally had nothing to say.

As a city lord, I am really old.

When the storm in Shencheng finally subsided and the anger of millions gradually faded, it was already after the early morning of that day.

The former city lord who caused the storm was disheartened and returned to his room and kept his door closed. Chen Yueying, who had only tried to calm the storm and waves, wrote a letter to his friends in the distance under the candlelight.
Chapter completed!