I Just Won't Play by the Book - Chapter 270

270 Private Visit in Incognito
Late at night, Jiang Beiran pushed open a long coral window. Outside the window was a backyard filled with exotic flowers and plants, looking very beautiful.

Looking to the other side, there were sixteen tuber trees standing there, each of them tall and handsome.

At this moment, a gentle breeze blew over, causing the flowers to fall. Thousands and tens of thousands of flowers spread out on the ground. The pure white ling flowers fluttered in the backyard like the first snow, looking very beautiful.

A crescent moon streaked across the exquisite turret, casting a hazy and brilliant light on the high wall. In the bright moonlight, a figure gradually appeared.

The figure was wearing an ice-blue long-sleeved shirt with a pair of narrow sleeves. The front and sleeves were embroidered with the pattern of Soaring Clouds with sapphire blue silk threads. His indigo trousers were tucked into his brocade boots. He was striding toward Jiang Beiran.

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“Senior Brother.” Gu Qinghuan bowed to Jiang Beiran from the window.

“How’s the investigation going?” Jiang Beiran asked directly.

Taking out a small booklet from her Cosmos Ring and holding it in front of Jiang Beiran with both hands, Gu Qinghuan reported,””According to Shixiong, Qingce and I visited 26 towns and 84 villages. The results are all in this book.”

“Thank you for your hard work.”

Nodding, Jiang Beiran took the book and began to flip through it.

After the time it took to brew a cup of tea, Jiang Beiran slowly closed the book and shook his head.””I knew it would be like this.”

Within two months, Jiang Beiran had familiarized himself with the court and announced the new policies. During this period, he had dismissed a large number of high-ranking officials and brought in many officials recommended by loyal ministers.

Such a ” great change of blood ” could be said to have brought a new look to the entire imperial court, but Jiang Beiran knew that only this part of the imperial court had been renewed. It was far from enough to save the long-decayed Sheng Kingdom.

After all, being loyal did not mean that he was a capable official. There were plenty of ordinary people who were loyal to the court, and it was impossible for Jiang Beiran to find a large number of loyal and capable officials in a short period of time.

Therefore, he understood that even though the imperial court had said that the Sheng Kingdom was now peaceful and peaceful, with a peaceful government and people, Jiang Beiran, who had read more than a hundred issues of Today’s Law, understood that these high-ranking officials were easy to deal with. The troublesome ones were the local officials.
As the saying went, the lower the official position, the more capable they were. Most of the mayors and governors were worried about the country and the people, protecting the peace of the region, and promoting the local economy was their lifelong belief.

However, those county magistrates, county governors, county officials, assistant officials, elders, village chiefs, and village chiefs were all more capable of cheating the people. When they became greedy, it was simply a group of demons dancing around.

No matter how honest and capable the officials in the court were, it was impossible to discover all the corrupt people. After all, there were too many of them, and they had already formed interest groups. They covered up for each other and relied on each other. It was impossible to catch them all in one go.

Even if Jiang Beiran had the system, he would not be able to do so. After all, he had already found all the corrupt officials and killed them. He would not be able to find so many people to fill their holes. Or rather, even if he found people to fill their holes, these people would definitely corrupt quickly. After all, this was human nature.

Therefore, he asked Gu Qinghuan to help him check if the places that had issued the new decrees were properly implemented. In the end, the truth was just as Jiang Beiran had thought. Most of them were just putting on an act, casually dealing with the new decrees. Some even did not even put on an act, as if nothing had happened.

“Yes.” Gu Qinghuan accepted the scroll respectfully.

” The last time I saw Qingce,” Jiang Beiran asked,” he said that you’ve been making rapid progress recently. Have you grasped the profound meaning of the True Energy Heavenly Dipper Technique?””

Gu Qinghuan cupped his hands and replied,”Compared to Senior Brother Wu, Qinghuan doesn’t dare to say that he’s fast.””

In a flash, he appeared in front of Gu Qinghuan. Jiang Beiran casually activated the Qi Concealment Formation that he had set up in the backyard and said,””Use all your strength.”

“Yes.”

Gu Qinghuan immediately activated the True Energy Heavenly Dipper Mantra. In an instant, Jiang Beiran could feel the Spiritual Qi in the world rushing into his body and quickly transforming into Celestial Chi.

‘The speed at which I absorb spiritual energy is indeed much faster than other cultivation techniques.’

When a cultivator used some relatively ordinary moves, the speed of absorbing spiritual energy would not be affected too much.

However, when it came to using ultimate techniques that consumed a large amount of Celestial Chi, many people had so many pre-moves, such as punching left and kicking right, because they were actually absorbing the spiritual energy.

Under such circumstances, the fact that Gu Qinghuan could absorb spiritual energy at such a fast speed was already very shocking. It might take more than ten seconds or even dozens of seconds to use a unique skill, but Gu Qinghuan could complete the same move with only half of their speed.

“Stop.”

At Jiang Beiran’s command, Gu Qinghuan stopped channeling her Qi, and the surrounding spiritual Qi also calmed down.

Just as Jiang Beiran was about to praise Gu Qinghuan, something even more shocking happened. He realized that the Spirit Qi that Gu Qinghuan had absorbed into his body and transformed into Celestial Chi had actually turned back into lilac Spirit Qi and was being emitted from his body.

” I didn’t expect that when I trained to the extreme, I would really become a power bank.’

There was a limit to the amount of spiritual energy in a world. After absorbing all of it, it would take some time for it to regenerate. This caused many experts to fight further and further away from each other.

If he had a cultivator like Gu Qinghuan, who could generate spiritual energy by himself, he would have a huge advantage when he used his moves to attack.