Family Management Game In Immortal Continent Chapter 864: Imperial Clan’s Hunting Dog
Previously on Family Management Game In Immortal Continent...
The Imperial Capital.
Even though the court assembly had wrapped up for the day, countless immortal bureaucrats from the Dynasty still hung around inside the Heavenly Palace.
Crown Prince Sheng had once wiped out plenty of top officials in the past, but a fresh wave of newcomers had stepped in to replace them now.
These leftover officials headed one after another to the Government Affairs Hall, the spot where Crown Prince Fei Heng held court.
Li Changan stood out among their ranks.
"Looks like Fei Heng didn't squander those three hundred years spent reclaiming territory."
A subtle smile crossed Li Changan's face as he eyed the crowd of cultivators up front.
Through the years, the Family wasn't the only one thriving; right after claiming the Crown Prince title, Fei Heng had started building his influence too—pulling in big groups and rooting out opponents.
Back then, when Azure Cloud Prefecture's powerhouses wouldn't bow to the Li clan, the Family's plan involved teaming up quietly, borrowing others' might to hit foes hard, then crushing them with sheer dominance.
With Fei Heng now gripping the reins of the court, he rolls out strict rules to calm the heartlands and lock down the frontiers.
The folks showing up today were all Fei Heng's die-hard allies, knitting together a tight-knit group.
They comb through the different prefectures and big influences, digging up proof of wrongdoing.
Once they spot anyone threatening the Imperial Dynasty's benefits or security, they pass it straight to the Crown Prince.
On top of that, they hold the right to swing the execution blade in the Crown Prince's name—letting them strike first and fill in the details after!
Before long, Li Changan stepped into the Crown Prince's Hall.
Fei Heng perched straight in the hall's middle, radiating a growing vibe of command.
Chairs lined both sides, packed to the brim.
This inner circle sprang from the "Immortal Suppression Department."
The majority here hailed from the Department's own cultivators, mixed with envoys from assorted major forces.
The Immortal Suppression Department formed the Imperial Family's truest bedrock of devotion; ever since it started, the group swore fealty to the Human Sovereign.
Previously, they followed just Crown Prince Sheng; these days, they answer solely to Fei Heng's orders.
For more than a hundred thousand years, the Immortal Suppression Department clamped down on demons and cleared out wickedness across the Dynasty, chasing rogue cultivators who tore up the realm.
Long ago, every Skynet member got nabbed by this exact Department, no exceptions.
The fellow planted right at the head was a middle-aged type, so plain he'd blend right into any mob, but nobody in the room dared slack on showing him top-tier deference.
The Immortal Suppression Department's peak post was Chief Commander, backed by four Grand Commanders under him; this guy was Chief Commander Wu Neng.
From what Li Changan recalled, Chief Commander Wu Neng had pulled the Human Sovereign from death's door once.
He ranked as the Human Sovereign's fiercest loyalist, famous to everyone as the "Imperial Clan's Hunting Dog."
Each person there shared the dirt they'd collected lately on troublemakers stirring global mess, plus how many rebels they'd put down.
Li Changan's gaze sharpened while he took it all in.
In a single brief year, as many as a hundred groups had been butchered clean.
The mildest hits meant wiping out whole bloodlines, and even a pair of secret sects got quietly erased.
Li Changan chimed in too, covering the goings-on in the Forgotten Immortal Lands and Eastern Border City—nothing out of the ordinary at all!
Once the gathering broke up.
Clutching the Immortal Suppression Department's warrant, Li Changan fired off a note through Dark Crow back to the Forgotten Immortal Lands.
As he observed the huge flow of cultivators streaming out, a wave of profound feeling washed over him.
"The era... has shifted."
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[Your descendant, Li Yaotie, has slain Tang Miao!]
[Loot gained: One corpse at the early Void Refining stage.]
[High-Grade Dharma Treasure: Star Cluster Pendant.
This pendant holds twelve stars set in a formation. It calls down stars to smash foes; the greater the Spiritual power poured into the Dharma Treasure, the more stars it pulls in. It taps stellar power for shielding or attacking.]
Tang Miao had thrown out all his hidden aces.
Amid Li Yaotie's wild barrage, this stayed as the sole Dharma Treasure still whole.
Post-kill, Li Yaotie and Zhuo Linlin turned back toward Azure Cloud Prefecture.
Right then.
Li Wei popped up next to Li Yaozu in a flash.
He caught sight of Li Yaozu posted at the front of a Spirit Ark, guiding the Hall of Heavenly Principles crew toward the Forgotten Immortal Lands.
"Brandishing the Crown Prince's order, breaching lines to strike down."
Watching the Family move so freely, a grin lit up Li Wei's features.
Ever since Fei Heng grabbed the Crown Prince spot, the world looked steady on the surface, but shifts had crept in under the radar.
Fei Heng wasn't some pampered tyrant like Crown Prince Sheng; he pushed for solid rule and slammed down tough laws to tame these wild days.
Anyone itching to spark chaos in this storm now fell under his sharp eye.
And the Li Clan loomed large in the Immortal Suppression Department's lineup, packing real clout.
Thanks to the Family's massive sway, their standing matched a Grand Commander's in the Department!
Half a month on.
Li Yaozu's Spirit Ark touched down in the skies over the Forgotten Immortal Lands.
This so-called Forgotten Immortal Lands stretched as a barren waste, an enormous realm of raw, reddish earth.
Still, it sheltered thousands of groups.
They claimed scores of ancient Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands, burrowing into the sands, growing and breeding inside those pocket realms.
With Li Yaozu's Spirit Ark pulling in.
A bunch of Immortal Suppression Department Spirit Arks, sent from the Imperial Capital, rolled up one by one too.
In their midst, the vibes of two Void Refining cultivators stood out clear.
"Phew."
Li Yaozu let out a deep sigh and beamed a voice message to the powerhouses on those Spirit Arks.
"On the Eastern Border front, Marshal Dongfang Liancheng dug up crime proof.
Tang Miao from Cloudreach Mountain in the Forgotten Immortal Lands abused his army post for selfish ends, putting troops at risk.
Lots in the Forgotten Immortal Lands tie into this mess.
We've got to raid the big groups here for signs of their wrongdoing, to jolt the homegrown cultivators awake."
"I declare the Crown Prince's decree now: Wipe out the Cloudreach Mountain line, to hammer home a fierce lesson to the rest!"