Great Li Martial God

In the pouring rain, Fu Qiwen left the palace and hurried back to the Tianjin Guards headquarters.

As soon as he stepped into the great hall, Suppression Commissioner Yu Jin immediately stood up to greet him. However, Fu Qiwen just waved his hand and walked straight to Li Musheng, bowing in salute, ”This subject greets Your Highness.”

Seeing this scene, how could Yu Jin not know what had happened? After reacting, he also hurriedly walked to Fu Qiwen’s side and saluted Li Musheng.

”His Majesty has already confirmed the Eighth Prince’s identity. However, due to being in seclusion for martial Dao cultivation, he temporarily cannot summon Your Highness. He has specially ordered this subject to handle the subsequent matters.”

Fu Qiwen spoke slowly, holding that bright yellow scroll in his hand.

On the way back, he had already roughly reviewed the scroll’s contents. He was already clear about all of Emperor Yuanwu’s arrangements for the Eighth Prince before him.

”Eighth Prince?”

Li Musheng heard the discrepancy in Fu Qiwen’s words.

How had his ranking suddenly been lowered by one position?

Regarding this, Fu Qiwen’s expression remained normal. He then roughly repeated Emperor Yuanwu’s explanation to Li Musheng.”So that’s how it is. Eighth Prince it is then.”

Li Musheng waved his hand. He actually didn’t care much about this matter. Just now was only a subconscious question.

Fu Qiwen glanced at Li Musheng and didn’t see any dissatisfaction or other emotions on his face. He still had that calm and casual appearance.

Even after learning that his prince identity was recognized by Emperor Yuanwu, he still had the same attitude, neither surprised nor particularly happy.

Fu Qiwen narrowed his eyes slightly and continued, ”His Majesty has already selected a manor for Your Highness on Vermillion Bird Avenue. However, because it hasn’t been renovated yet and servants and guards need to be selected, Your Highness cannot move in temporarily. For the next period of time, please reside in the Tianjin Guards headquarters.”

Hearing this, Li Musheng swept his gaze around. Fairly satisfied with the environment here, he nodded, ”No problem.”

However, after thinking, he looked at Fu Qiwen and asked, ”Besides this, are there any other benefits?”

Fu Qiwen’s eyelid twitched slightly. He cupped his hands and said, ”His Majesty sympathizes with Your Highness’s past hardships and has bestowed extremely generous gold, silver, and treasures, which will be given to Your Highness together with the new manor in the future.”

Then, after a slight pause, he said, ”Additionally, His Majesty has also selected three excellent teachers for Your Highness.”

”One is Grand Secretary of the Wenyuan Pavilion and Left Vice Minister of Rites, Zhang Song. One is a military general, General Wu’an Guo Zhenang. The last is the Vice Pavilion Master of Tianwu Tower, Master Xuanyi.”

”These three, one has vast learning, one has outstanding military achievements, and one has profound martial arts. They will certainly be of great benefit to Your Highness.”

However, Li Musheng raised his eyebrows with a disgusted expression, ”Well, I really thank you all.”

He glanced at Fu Qiwen and waved his hand, ”The gold, silver, and manor are acceptable, but those so-called excellent teachers, I don’t need any of them.”

”Besides, isn’t General Wu’an the Second Prince’s man? Are you sure he’ll teach properly?”

Hearing this, the deep wrinkles on Fu Qiwen’s forehead furrowed. He looked at Li Musheng with considerable surprise, seeming somewhat unexpected that he actually knew about this relationship behind General Wu’an.

However, he quickly shook his head, ”This matter is not for this subject to decide. If Your Highness doesn’t like it, you can discuss it again after His Majesty emerges from seclusion.”

But just at this moment, Li Musheng stroked his chin and suddenly said, ”Forget it. When I have time, I’ll meet these three.”

The reason Li Musheng changed his mind was naturally not because he really wanted the three to teach him.

Rather, he thought that since these three were personally selected by Emperor Yuanwu as excellent teachers, they should have some extraordinary abilities and knowledge. He wanted to ask them about martial Dao transcendence.

If there was a gain, it would naturally be an unexpected delight. If not... of course he would dismiss all three with ”You don’t even know this?”

Additionally, Tianwu Tower was an institution where the court recruited jianghu people. It gathered quite a few jianghu figures and could be considered a good channel for obtaining information. Making contact wouldn’t be a bad thing.

Hearing Li Musheng agree, Fu Qiwen seemed somewhat surprised.

After all, the other didn’t even regard him seriously. He truly didn’t quite believe this Eighth Highness could think highly of those three.

However, he didn’t say much more. His eyes moved slightly as he cupped his hands toward Li Musheng, ”Currently, the five nations are divided and the jianghu is chaotic. The court is precisely when it needs people. If Your Highness has thoughts of establishing merit and achievements for Great Li, why not first try handling some affairs to let His Majesty see Your Highness’s abilities. Perhaps he’ll entrust you with important responsibilities afterward.”

Hearing this, Li Musheng’s eyes narrowed slightly as he looked at Fu Qiwen.

Speaking so seriously, with such a stiff transition, one would think an NPC was assigning a quest.

However, Li Musheng didn’t directly refuse. Instead, he asked with a thoughtful expression, ”What do you want me to do?”

Logically speaking, even though Fu Qiwen commanded the Tianjin Guards and wielded enormous power throughout the Great Li court, it would be impossible for him to assign tasks to a prince.

This matter very likely had Emperor Yuanwu’s tacit instruction behind it. If what needed to be done was relatively easy, he truly didn’t have much reason to refuse.

After all, he’d already accepted the money and house. Helping with some work was reasonable.

At this moment, Fu Qiwen was silent for a while with lowered brows and downcast eyes, then suddenly said slowly, ”Your Highness should have heard of Falling God Peak, one of the four great sects in the jianghu.”

Hearing this, Li Musheng raised his eyebrows, ”What do you mean? The task you want me to do is related to Falling God Peak?”

Fu Qiwen nodded and cupped his hands, ”This subject requests Your Highness to destroy Falling God Peak.”

Li Musheng: ...

At this moment, what Fu Qiwen was thinking was that Emperor Yuanwu told him to find difficult matters for Li Musheng to handle, but didn’t specify what matters.

For him, currently destroying Falling God Peak was the most difficult matter at hand. His proposing this request to the Eighth Prince before him should naturally also fall within this scope.

”Since we’re tempering his character, might as well do it in one step.”

Fu Qiwen narrowed his eyes looking at Li Musheng. The other’s face clearly showed a trace of unusual expression.

Fu Qiwen had exceptionally high martial Dao talent and extremely strong abilities. He had always been strict with himself and devoted to his duties, not forming factions or seeking private gain, completely loyal to the Great Li court. This was also an important reason why Emperor Yuanwu trusted him extremely and let him manage the Tianjin Guards.

However, this didn’t mean Fu Qiwen had no temper. As the dignified Tianjin Guards Commander, being looked down upon was a first in history. This feeling, when carefully considered, actually wasn’t pleasant. So don’t blame him for giving someone petty revenge for the first time.

Of course, he assumed Li Musheng would definitely refuse.

After all, even he himself couldn’t accomplish this matter. It was only because Emperor Yuanwu had this requirement that he reluctantly included it in the Tianjin Guards’ future plans.

But regarding this, he still had no clues and didn’t dare have thoughts of taking action.