280 Chapter 273: Undercurrents! (1/2)

Tap! Tap!

The Empress walked towards Duan Li with casual steps as her maids, attendants and Advisor Chen followed closely behind her. In addition, their overbearing aura made the whole crowd swallowed their saliva, not daring to look directly!

”Hmph! So that's the Queen? Husband, you only need to say the word and I shall kill her in an instant. To think that existences of our caliber would be forced to single kneel like this..” Queen Levy said to Duan Li telepathically with gritted teeth as anger was boiling within her!

”Shush! We need to keep a low profile before my coronation day. I don't want to complicate others around me, so you better stand down and not do anything else!” Duan Li stared towards the latter with a reprimanding look.

”Hmph!” Queen Levy could only pout and suppress herself even though she was not willing. Had this been the olden days, she would have killed everyone here without a doubt for witnessing her kneeling to a mere ant!

”You are Duan Li? Congratulations for being the Champion of the Competition tonight.” the Empress said promptly, her tone indifferent.

In her eyes, the fellow in front of her was nothing but trouble. She had expected that Duan Li would win the fight, but she had imagined it to be an arduous battle consisting of a few gory scenes where he broke a few of his bones, ribs and the likes..

Not with a single punch!

A person with a fighting prowess as such would be nigh impossible to suppress once he becomes the official Imperial Overseer of the Jiu Empire! Not only that, the position and influence of the Royal family would be put in jeopardy!

Just what in the world was his husband thinking, electing this fellow as the Imperial Overseer?

”Thank you for the kind words your highness. Today was only won by a mere struck of luck, not worth a mention at all.” Duan Li replied casually, trying to sound low profile as possible.

In his mind though, from what Queen Levy told him, it was highly probably that the puppet was tempered by the Empress herself. But since the Emcee told him that it will be explained to him later on; he refrained from asking, afraid that it would send the wrong interpretation to others around them if he carelessly asked.

”Y-You!” Advisor Chen was about to lash out at Duan Li for daring to speak with such an arrogant tone before the Empress.

To him, the underlying meaning behind Duan Li's words just now contained hints of disdain towards the Empress!

In other words, it could be translated as;

”Your petty tricks in the puppet before meant nothing to me.”

However, surprisingly, the Empress signalled for him to not interfere.

”Interesting.” the Empress smiled.

To think that not only this fellow has the brawns but also the brains as well!

This fellow is definitely the cunning type!

Meanwhile, Duan Li was oblivious to their inner thoughts. From his perspective, unless his opponent was above the Nascent Soul realm level which would give him some trouble, everything else was really nothing to him by now.

Thus, how could he know that his simple reply of nonchalantness would instead resulted in misunderstanding by the two people in front of him?

”Kukuku!” Queen Levy by the side could hardly suppress herself from laughing out loud.

My husband is the best! Take that you filthy woman!

The trio beside them; Wang Dong, Lu Bu and Zhang Liao was sweating profusely as their teeth clattered together.

Brother! We know that you are daring okay! But you are in close proximity to us right now! If something were to happen, we will be complicated!

That's the Queen of the Jiu Empire damn it!

In the Tian continent, hierarchy was kept extremely strict, especially between the commoners and royalties. If the former were to somehow offend the latter, then even if they were sent to the execution block, there was nothing they could do!

The only exception to this was of course, cultivator with great power. After all, in front of true power, titles meant nothing!

”Our meeting tonight is short, but seeing you like this face to face, I finally know just what kind of person you are. Let's hope that we will meet again next time for an even longer chat.” the Empress said as she turned around and left, along with her followers.

Scratching his head, Duan Li could not help but to become confused.

”That's all? She sure is a person that don't talk much...”

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