Chapter 260

"Which three?"

Cao Hanyan asked.

Yin Suqin clapped his hands, like a storyteller hitting a gavel, and said with cadence.

"First, from today on, the sects in the Jianghu are divided into three grades; the ten major sects are 'Peak', and below them are 'Ascending' and 'Moon-Gazing'."

"This 'Moon-Gazing' must regularly submit the head of a villain to the Embroidered Uniform Guard. In return, they can also receive support from the imperial court. The more they submit, the more support they get."

"The same applies to Ascending, but they have to submit more heads."

Cao Hanyan frowned.

"This, it sounds like a good thing, but will there really be no cases of killing the innocent to claim credit?"

Yin Suqin spread his hands.

"Perhaps, but right now the Jianghu is in turmoil, and I don't know how many villains are mingling in the Jianghu. The Embroidered Uniform Guard is not incapable of checking, and they wouldn't dare to deceive that demon—what if they get caught?"

"This person acts so ruthlessly, I think he also has the intention of intimidating them in advance. At the very least, for a few years, there will be enough villains for these major sects to squander."

Cao Hanyan then nodded: "Brother Yin, continue."

Yin Suqin continued.

"The second rule is that these ten 'Peak' major sects must patrol the Jianghu for the imperial court; if they discover any bullying of the good, they can take action directly and take the heads to the Embroidered Uniform Guard to claim rewards."

"The objects they monitor include 'Ascending' and 'Moon-Gazing'."

Cao Hanyan sighed and said in a deep voice.

"This is dividing the Jianghu people."

"But will these ten major sects really take action against their Jianghu peers? Even if they don't follow Jianghu rules, just looking at interests, they wouldn't easily take action, right?"

Yin Suqin smiled mysteriously.

"This brings us to the third rule."

"Any sect with a 'Heavenly Being' is not allowed to take action against people who do not know martial arts."

After Yin Suqin finished speaking, he drank his wine, leaving Cao Hanyan to ponder.

After a while, Cao Hanyan raised his head and said in a deep voice.

"I understand."

"His rules are one level suppressing another."

"Using Ascending and Moon-Gazing to patrol the world, and using Peak to suppress Ascending and Moon-Gazing."

"The major sects that can sit in the Peak position basically have Heavenly Beings in their sects. So they cannot take action against ordinary people, so they can only stare at Jianghu people to kill."

"Ordinary petty thieves are not worth their action, so they can only kill those famous Jianghu people—which includes Ascending and Moon-Gazing."

"Sects are divided into three grades; the second and third grades kill petty villains, the first grade kills big villains, and then the Embroidered Uniform Guard presses on top, staring with wide eyes to see if they killed the wrong people."

Yin Suqin nodded.

"That should be the meaning."

Cao Hanyan still frowned.

"But, I can understand Moon-Gazing and Ascending killing for his rules. Are the ten major sects at the Peak really willing to kill for his rules? What reward can he give them?"

"These major sects have been inherited for at least several hundred years, deeply rooted; they shouldn't need to strive for the imperial court's support, right?"

Yin Suqin smiled and lowered his voice.

"Well, he didn't say it in public, but there are some guesses in the Jianghu—this is the condition for them to keep their Heavenly Being inheritance."

"Before, Heavenly Beings in the Jianghu didn't dare to appear; the root cause could only be the imperial court. Now he has opened this gap, and the condition for the exchange is to do this for the imperial court. Acting chivalrously is what they should do, and they won't refuse."

"Killing like this, although it treats the symptoms but not the root cause, it can at least stabilize the turbulent world a little, which is also a hundred benefits and no harm to the imperial court."

Cao Hanyan then nodded slowly.

"So that's it."

"Although the means are cruel and don't look like a long-term solution, they are appropriate means for now."

"It seems that this Lord Li is not as cruel and ruthless as Brother Yin said."

Yin Suqin slapped his thigh.

"That's where you're wrong! Brother Cao!"

"Although what this person does is beneficial to the world, the starting point is to consolidate the Great Ming imperial court. Right now it just happens to coincide, but if it requires doing evil to consolidate the Great Ming in the future, he definitely won't be soft-hearted!"

"I was just talking about the moon-viewing banquet; now I will tell you in detail about this person."

His wine-induced energy surged, and he waved his arms, gesturing as he spoke.

"This person is not only cruel! And he is lecherous! He is not even half a point less than An Ziyang, who is as famous as me!"

"Hengshan Sect Leader, Yin Minjun, you know her, right?"

"She was forced to submit to him!"

"Even Yin Minjun's closing-door disciple, Shen Xun, was taken into his room together!"

"He especially likes master-disciple pairs; Huashan Sect's Heroine Liu Baiyun and her disciple Mei Qinghe were also taken by him! And there is also Heroine Gao Ling of the Taishan Sect. He directly ruined three of the Five Great Sword Sects!"

"Not only that, you know the Ming Cult Cult Leader, right?"

Cao Hanyan was shocked.

"Ji Tianrui? Isn't he a man!"

Yin Suqin shook his head.

"Brother Cao only knows one thing and not the other; Ji Tianrui is dead, and in recent years it has been his daughter impersonating him in the Jianghu—she was also taken into his room!"

"The Ming Cult's assassination of the Emperor happened because the Cult Leader was... taken of her virginity by him, and then discarded like a worn-out shoe."

"Love! Turns! Into! Hate!"

"She went directly insane, did this kind of thing, and brought the entire Ming Cult down with her in Shuntian!"

Cao Hanyan was already dumbfounded.

After a while, he let out a long breath.

"Heaven... Brother Yin, who did you hear these words from?"

Yin Suqin patted his chest.

"I naturally have my friends, all from Shuntian Prefecture, guaranteed true!"

"At the beginning of the year, someone saw him appearing on the streets of Shuntian with Gao Ling, Liu Baiyun, and Mei Qinghe; in the middle of the year, someone saw him wandering at the foot of Mount Heng with Yin Minjun."

Cao Hanyan shook his head slowly.

"It is truly, unbelievable."

"I don't know what this person looks like; putting good and evil aside, such a person really makes one want to see him."

Yin Suqin slapped the table and laughed loudly.

"Hahaha! I know what he looks like!"

"He—"

Suddenly, a hand was placed on his shoulder.

"Oh? What does he look like?"

Yin Suqin frowned and turned to look behind him.

A man with a heroic appearance looked at him with a smile, his left hand pressing on his shoulder, and his other hand hidden behind his back. Beside him followed a woman with a long sword hanging at her waist, whose appearance was eighty or ninety percent similar to the man's.

Yin Suqin looked him up and down and said in a deep voice.

"Who are you?"

"No one."

The man was not polite at all, hooked a chair with his leg and sat down, poured himself a cup of wine, his hand still on Yin Suqin's shoulder, and looked at him with a smile.

"I heard you telling a good story just now, so I came over to listen together."

The fingers Li Miao pressed on Yin Suqin's shoulder tightened slowly.

"Why don't you continue—what does this... fierce, lecherous Lord Li look like?"