Chapter 159: Passing Through Southern Cliffs City (1/2)

Chapter 159: Passing Through Southern Cliffs City

Being struck so suddenly, the eunuch’s face turned deathly pale and he quickly kowtowed again and again, begging for mercy, “This servant be damned, this servant be damned!”

Not long after that, the news of King Lu Zhe conferring Huang Peng with the title of Grand Duke spread throughout the Royal City, and the entire city boiled into commotion.

“Huang Peng? Huang Xiaolong’s father? Even if Huang Xiaolong represented our Luo Tong Kingdom and won first place in Duanren Empire’s Imperial City Battle, King Lu Zhe can’t just confer such a high noble title as Grand Duke to Huang Peng, right?!”

“That’s right. Moreover, that Huang Xiaolong has yet to win first place! Huang Xiaolong hasn’t even broken through to the Xiantian realm, who’s to say he will even stay alive until the end in the competition!”

“Did King Lu Zhe lose his marbles after being kicked in the head by a donkey?”

From the top of the social ladder to the very bottom, frenzied discussions took place between all of the large and small scale forces.

Even the commoners residing within the Royal City walls felt their King had gone crazy.

In the palace’s main hall.

Both civil and military ministers filled the huge hall.

Marshal Haotian stood at the leading position on the military side, and standing at the same position opposite Marshal Haotian was a tall, robust old man with a full head of white hair who appeared to be in his eighties. This eighty-something year old fellow was the leader of the civilian faction, Prime Minister Wu Feng.

“Your Highness, conferring Huang Peng with the title of a Grand Duke is highly inappropriate.”

Highly inappropriate!

Perhaps amongst the many numerous ministers of the kingdom, only Prime Minister Wu Feng and Marshal Haotian would dare to speak in such manner with King Lu Zhe.

“That’s correct, Your Highness. Since the founding of our kingdom, only three people had the honor of being conferred with the title of a Grand Duke and each one of them performed great meritorious deeds towards the founding of the kingdom!” A civil minister stood out and said.

Following his example, more and more ministers spoke, which eventually led to most of them voicing their objections.

“Enough!” Just as another minister objected, Lu Zhe, who had been quiet the entire time suddenly stood up from his throne. One finger pointed at Wu Feng and the ministers behind him, snapping loudly in frustration, “All of you are blabbing dogfarts! Dogfarts in every word! I-am-Luo-Tong-Kingdom’s King, I get to say who gets conferred as Luo Tong Kingdom’s Grand Duke!”

All the ministers were struck speechless.

The palace’s main hall seemed crushed by a thick silence.

Dogfart?!

The perpetually dignified and calm King Lu Zhe actually behaved like a commoner thug on the streets, cursing at them and calling their words dogfarts?

While the Luo Tong Kingdom’s King was arguing about Huang Peng’s Grand Duke title, Huang Xiaolong’s small group of four had cut through Big Dawn County and arrived at one of Luo Tong Kingdom’s borders.

On the way, Huang Xiaolong also received news that Lu Zhe wanted to confer his father, Huang Peng, with the title of a Grand Duke, but he couldn’t be bothered with it. For him, whether his father had the title of Luo Tong Kingdom’s Grand Duke or not was moot.

When he settled down in Duanren Empire, he planned to move the Huang Family over to the Imperial City.

Half a month later, they arrived at Luo Tong Kingdom’s most southern border, Southern Cliffs City.

Arriving in Southern Cliffs City, Huang Xiaolong suddenly thought about the scene of the last Castellan of Southern Cliffs City, Wei Yang, and his concubine’s death. After Wei Yang died, the new Castellan who replaced him was named Sun Qing.

Before being promoted to this post, Sun Qing was a general guarding one of the kingdom’s borders. A subordinate of Marshal Haotian’s subordinate’s subordinate.

By the time Huang Xiaolong’s group entered Southern Cliffs City, it was already late. Thus, Huang Xiaolong decided to stay in the city for one night and continue his journey the next day.

Huang Xiaolong did not bother Sun Qing with his stay in Southern Cliffs City.

The four of them simply chose a passable inn close to the Castellan Manor called Warm Fragrance and rented four rooms for the night.

The night gradually deepened.

The surrounding was quiet with most of the people asleep.