My gorgeous wife-Chapter 1712 - 1683: My Name Is Behemoth

Nanxiang Prefecture, Formless City.

A bearded man walked back and forth in the City Lord’s Mansion’s grand hall, an anxious expression on his face.

"Damn it! Damn it! I’m the Prefecture Master, yet those guys dare to disobey my orders!"

"So what if you are the Prefecture Master? Your cultivation is too low, your power too weak. Why should people let you walk all over them?" A cold voice echoed.

"And what about you?" Ling Canghai sneered.

The cold voice fell silent: "The old me was too arrogant, thinking everything I knew was everything there was. Little did I know, in the end, it was all meaningless, and even I am just a remnant soul someone left behind."

"You know you’re just a remnant soul, yet you dare to boast?" Ling Canghai scoffed.

"I said before, if you are willing to help me accomplish that task, I will grant you a fortune beyond your imagination."

"Stop dreaming, you’re just a remnant soul that I can turn into soul nourishing medicine anytime, yet you dare talk about fortune?" Ling Canghai mocked.

The cold voice was silent for a moment before speaking again, self-mockingly: "True. Even now, I don’t know if my body is still alive, so indeed I have no right to promise you anything. Of course, if you ever run out of options, you can come to me and try."

Ling Canghai no longer spoke, and the cold voice also went silent.

"When I’m out of options?" Ling Canghai’s eyes suddenly reddened as he looked at the magnificent Prefecture Master’s hall, gritting his teeth: "I’m already almost out of options now."

The old him was just a Path Envoy, the most common kind.

Because even in the most ordinary city, there were hundreds or thousands of Path Envoys.

And now, he had become the Prefecture Master of Nanxiang.

Prefecture Master and Path Envoy, that was a leap across countless grades.

In the eyes of others, this was almost an unbelievable feat, yet he achieved it and became someone envied and jealous; however, no one knew his current predicament.

It was because his previous grade was too low, his cultivation too weak, and even his interpersonal skills weren’t great. After becoming the Nanxiang Prefecture Master, he didn’t have a single capable person under his command. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

In some ways, the current Prefecture Master was almost like a puppet.

Other than the enjoyment and cultivation resources being many times more than before, he no longer had any practical power.

One had to admit, Yue Gouchen’s move was vicious enough.

Indeed, he elevated Ling Canghai, treating him as a model example, telling his men that if they served him with devotion, he would never skimp on rewards.

But similarly, elevating too high would lead to destruction.

And Ling Canghai now was in such a situation.

With insufficient background and inadequate cultivation, how could you be a Prefecture Master? How could you lead so many people and cities?

In such circumstances where no one listened, Ling Canghai had no opportunity to exercise any control.

Yet if something went wrong below, it would naturally be blamed on him.

At that time, it would be the Prefecture Master’s time to step down, and the people below could smoothly ascend.

In reality, many smart people in Nanxiang Prefecture have already seen that Ling Canghai, this new Prefecture Master, would not last long; sooner or later, he would step down.

Only time will tell whether the stepping down will be voluntary resignation or being collectively overthrown when something goes wrong below.

Returning to the study, Ling Canghai continued to organize the document jade slips.

Although most of the time the Prefecture Master did not have any real meaning, the established processes still had to be followed. No matter how bold the people below, some matters still had to be organized and handed over to the Prefecture Master for review.

Thus, at least on the surface, no one would make an issue of these, so Ling Canghai still had to review these information documents from all over.

As for how to handle them specifically, it’s estimated that the people below had already taken care of it themselves, and his review was just a formality.

"Hmm?!"

Ling Canghai suddenly clutched a piece of jade slip in his hand so hard that his knuckles somewhat whitened at that moment.

"A powerhouse appears in Guangzhao Prefecture’s Ciran City? Smashed the Extreme Wing Sect’s powerhouse with a flick of the hand, crippled a large group of City Guards with First Level Cultivation, and the city’s City Lord didn’t dare make a peep?"

Such information was not uncommon. The Heavenly Realm was vast, and no one knew how many powerhouses were hidden, nor where they were cultivating in hiding.

But the last sentence of this information made Ling Canghai’s face turn somewhat pale.

"Someone heard that powerhouse’s friend call him... Lin Chen?"

In investigating Li Chen’s information for Yue Gouchen, he had also come across some previously unknown information.

Back then, Li Chen, to avoid being hunted down, changed his name to Lin Chen after concealing his identity, and appeared in a small town where loose cultivators gathered.

"Lin Chen... Li Chen... It must be a coincidence!" Ling Canghai’s face turned paler: "Impossible, he’s only been missing for a few years, how could it be him? It must be a chance coincidence of names, it must be!"

He was scared.

He could not help but be scared.

Because, according to the message, this Lin Chen could kill a Heaven Following Realm powerhouse with a mere flick!

If this Lin Chen indeed turned out to be Li Chen, given their past enmity, he couldn’t imagine the kind of revenge he would face.

Even though many years had passed, Ling Canghai’s fear of Li Chen had not diminished, not just because of the old grudge of a severed arm, but also because of Li Chen’s terrifying strength when he was at Earth Level!

At Earth Level, he was able to cut off an arm of Ling Canghai in the Mid-Heaven Realm. If his cultivation increased, what would Ling Canghai count as?

Recalling the information he obtained from the Star Palace, Ling Canghai couldn’t help but feel apprehensive.

After ascending to the Heavenly Realm, within just a few months, he broke through from Earth Level to the Mid-Heaven Realm.

A year later, he was discovered in a small town where loose cultivators gathered, Auspicious Clear Town, with his cultivation reaching the Envy Heaven Realm, and had a conflict with a small chamber of commerce, which resulted in the chamber’s Heaven Following Realm chairman disappearing without a trace.

"If... if it’s really him, then I..."

Ling Canghai’s body couldn’t help but shiver.

"Hey, what exactly is the fortune you mentioned earlier?"

"In this starry sky, the greatest fortune is, of course, power. If my body still exists, I would give you a colossal fortune, granting you unimaginably immense power. Moreover, there’s a high possibility because my body possesses numerous alter egos, even if my main body dies, as long as there’s one alter ego alive, after merging memories, strength can quickly recover... Of course, all this depends on your success."

"I haven’t asked before, what’s your name?"

"In your Heavenly Realm’s language, I should be called... Behemoth."

"Alright, Behemoth, tell me what should I do." Ling Canghai said, his expression shifting unpredictably.

"What you need to do may be difficult, or it may be simple... Hmm, just unlocking a Great Formation’s seal."