Chapter 296: Foul-Mouthed Young Master

"Which three rules?"

Cao Hanyan pursued the question.

Yin Suqin slapped the table, just like a storyteller slapping a wooden block, and said with cadence.

"The first rule: 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-Viewing'."

"These 'Moon-Viewing' sects must regularly submit the head of an evil person to the Embroidered Uniform Guard. In return, they can receive support from the imperial court. The more heads submitted, the more support they get."

"'Ascending' sects are the same, 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 the Jianghu is in turmoil right now, and I don't know how many evil people are mingling in the Jianghu. The Embroidered Uniform Guard is not incapable of verifying, and they wouldn't dare to deceive that demon—what if they are discovered?"

"This person strikes so ruthlessly, I think he also has the intention of deterring them in advance. At the very least, for a few years, there will be enough evil people 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 on behalf of the imperial court. If they find any acts of bullying the good, they can strike directly and take the heads to the Embroidered Uniform Guard to claim rewards."

"The objects they supervise include 'Ascending' and 'Moon-Viewing' sects."

Cao Hanyan sighed and said in a deep voice.

"This is, dividing the Jianghu people."

"But will these ten major sects really strike at fellow Jianghu colleagues? Even if they don't follow Jianghu rules, just looking at interests, they wouldn't easily strike, right?"

Yin Suqin smiled mysteriously.

"This is where the third rule comes in."

"Any sect with a 'Heaven-Man' expert is not allowed to strike at those who do not know Wu Gong."

Yin Suqin finished speaking and drank wine by himself, leaving Cao Hanyan there in deep thought.

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

"I understand."

"His rules are level by level."

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

"The major sects that can sit in the Peak position basically have Heaven-Man experts in their sects. So they cannot strike at ordinary people, so they can only stare at Jianghu people to kill."

"Ordinary petty thieves are not worth their strike, so they can only kill those Jianghu people with faces and reputations—which includes Ascending and Moon-Viewing sects."

"Sects are divided into three grades, the second and third grades kill petty evils, the first grade kills major evils, and then the Embroidered Uniform Guard presses on the very 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, will Moon-Viewing and Ascending sects kill for his rules? I can understand that. Will the ten Peak major sects really kill for his rules? What rewards can he give them?"

"These major sects have been passed down for at least hundreds of years, deep-rooted, they shouldn't need to fight for the imperial court's support, right?"

Yin Suqin smiled and lowered his voice.

"This, he didn't say it publicly, but there are some guesses in the Jianghu—this is the condition for them to keep their Heaven-Man inheritance."

"Before, Heaven-Man experts didn't dare to appear in the Jianghu, the root cause could only be the imperial court. Now he has opened this opening, the condition for exchange is to do this for the imperial court. Doing righteous deeds is what should be done, and they wouldn't refuse."

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

Cao Hanyan then nodded slowly.

"So it is."

"Although the means are cruel, and it doesn't look like a long-term plan, it is a suitable means for now."

"It seems 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 this person does things that are beneficial to the world, the starting point is to stabilize the Great Shuo imperial court. Right now it just overlaps for a while, but if it requires doing evil to stabilize Great Shuo in the future, he definitely won't be soft-hearted!"

"I only talked about the Moon-Viewing Banquet just now, now I will tell you in detail about this person."

His alcohol surged, and he waved his arms, pointing and gesturing.

"This person is not only cruel! And lecherous! Simply not a bit worse than that An Ziyang who is famous with me!"

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

"She was forced to submit to him!"

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

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

"Not only that, Ming Sect Leader, you know her, 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 has already died, and in recent years it has been his daughter pretending to be him walking the Jianghu—she was also taken into his room!"

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

"Love! Turns! Into! Hate!"

"Directly went crazy, did this kind of thing, and the entire Ming Sect was buried in Shuntian together!"

Cao Hanyan was already dumbfounded.

After a while, he breathed a sigh of relief.

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

Yin Suqin slapped 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 strolling at the foot of Hengshan 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 character, really makes people 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 smiled at him, his left hand pressing on his shoulder, and his other hand behind his back. Beside him was a woman, with a long sword hanging at her waist, her appearance 80-90% similar to the man.

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

"Who are you?"

"Nobody."

The man was not polite at all, stretched his leg to hook a chair and sat down, poured himself a small cup of wine, his hand still on Yin Suqin's shoulder, smiling at him.

"Just heard your Excellency telling stories so well, so I came over to listen together."

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

"Why don't your Excellency continue—what does this, fierce and cruel, lecherous Lord Li look like?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 297 =====