Chapter 602: Chapter 188: A Change of Approach—Becoming the Emperor’s Brother-in-Law, The Judge Department Is Established

Using wildcats and dogs as "eyes" can never compare to using birds.

Birds disregard terrain, flying straight from one place to another.

But wildcats and dogs have it tough; getting into the city is hard, and leaving it is harder...

Li Yuan simply stopped thinking about the cats and dogs in the city.

He tried hard to direct the wild cats and dogs outside towards the source of the sound.

However, the mountains that birds can fly over with a flap of their wings require wildcats to climb up and down.

The distance that birds can cover in a minute takes wildcats a full hour.

This made Li Yuan feel that Grand General Lü’s "no-fly plan" was indeed halfway successful.

And soon, he realized it wasn’t halfway successful but completely successful.

Because his eavesdropping also failed.

After that sentence, "Two honored guests, this way please, the National Preceptor and Sect Leader Peng will lead the way upfront," the voices on that side quickly vanished, turning into a kind of rumbling sound "like veiled by mist," making it impossible to hear clearly what was being said.

It can be said that the other party completely blocked Li Yuan’s spying.

And Li Yuan was helpless.

He lost this round.

The other side was targeting him.

Li Yuan was not discouraged and couldn’t help but let out a laugh. He sat by the stream deep in Xiao Mo Mountain, holding a bamboo stick, gently playing with the water.

Anyone in his situation should be very anxious.

Because everyone knows that a conversation protected by such a layout must be a very important conversation, inevitably involving many secrets.

If you can’t spy, you should move closer.

After all, Li Yuan is not weak, he has the ability to approach, and he has the qualification to approach.

However, Li Yuan was not in a hurry.

’If you don’t let me listen, then I just won’t listen now.’

He stretched out his right hand, the tip of the emerald bamboo branch drooping slightly between his five fingers, with green leaves brushing the water, causing not a single ripple in the flowing stream.

Yet, from afar, it looked like a fishing rod.

But there can be no fishing rod more perfunctory than this one.

Li Yuan felt a calm inside.

’Jiang Taigong at seventy or eighty was still patient enough to fish, why should I be anxious?’

He yawned, took off his boots, wiggling the bamboo stick with his toes on the water, his eyes wandering to the sky.

On the midsummer sky, large clouds drifted by.

Li Yuan looked at this sky, a thoughtful expression flickered in his eyes.

He raised his hand to summon some sparrows.

Sparrows, these small, common, airborne beings, are the best eyes.

Once new eyes were formed, he avoided Lü Xuanxian’s "no-fly" zone and instead sent the sparrows towards the distant Antelope Pass.

’Since you are honored guests, after visiting the host, you will eventually leave.

And once you leave, you will definitely pass through Antelope Pass.’

’A guest being escorted for a thousand miles, there will be a farewell.

This Antelope Pass is still within the Lotus Sect’s domain, so... surely there will be masters to escort them.

The Lotus Sect will escort these honored guests across Long Sleep River.

And if my estimate is correct, there may be people waiting on the other side of the river.

Of course, it’s also possible there are none...’

’I just need to listen to where they are leaving from, then meet and talk to these two honored guests.

As long as I am courteous, these two honored guests should not hesitate to speak.’

Thinking of this, Li Yuan left some wildcats and dogs here to continue eavesdropping, while he himself went in the direction of Antelope Pass.

If he wants to cross the river, he will have to do it himself, because ordinary sparrows cannot fly over the river, and he... cannot just summon the Ninth Grade Demon Sparrow.

... 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

...

Three days later.

Above the valley on the side of Antelope Pass.

A filthy Li Yuan lay there, idly playing with mud.

He was very patient; he could continue to play with mud for three months.

But his few "eyes" had already covered this area, and he even crossed the river himself, placing down eyes on the other side.

Whenever those "two honored guests" leave, he will surely know.

He traced his finger in circles on the ground.

And every piece of soil circled by him was driven by a kind of pulling force, used to pile it into a pointed little mound on the ground.

Though Li Yuan was playing, he was actually still contemplating his own power.

It’s easy to release power, but to gather it is very difficult.

Li Yuan thought about his new power after breaking through Fourth Grade.

The bursting power of Yang Qi, and the vibrational force of the Ancestral Talisman, combined with the power he comprehended to conceal, and the power to encompass domains, forming... a red Crescent Blade Qi? And then his Nine-Nine Returning to One Blade will become a flaming Nine-Nine Returning to One Blade? Or transform into something else?

Li Yuan felt some anticipation.

However, now he not only needs to fight great battles, but also needs to mess with the Emperor. Even if he can’t kill him, he must make his "path arduous," make a "path that could be traversed in one step turn into needing two steps, or even three, four."

This was because of his father-in-law.

The father-in-law was just an ordinary Weapon Forger.

Now, it seems he received some kind of legacy, and succeeded.

Just from the fact he forged twenty Spiritual Artifacts in one go, it can be seen... the father-in-law has already become a "high-end weapon wholesaler," such a being is indeed "worth a hundred," not to mention the father-in-law seems to be capable of forging Fourth Grade Spiritual Artifacts, whose value is even higher.

The Emperor wants to tie the father-in-law to his war chariot, naturally wanting to restore the "father-son-in-law" relationship, so "whether or not there are real husband and wife matters between Princess Consort Yin and him is actually unimportant," what’s important is "Princess Consort Yin has to be the link maintaining his relationship with the father-in-law."

In short, the Emperor... what he really wants to marry is the father-in-law.

Originally, the conflict between Li Yuan and the Emperor was mostly "Li Yuan not wanting the Great Unity of Yin Yang while the Emperor does."