247: Chen Heguang's troubles

Two hours later.

Jiang Lan lay on the wooden bed, content, while Gu Yan's face beside him was so red it looked like it could drip blood.

Initially, he had refused.

But after being away for so long without tasting meat, and with Gu Yan's teasing, what happened next was only natural.

Even then, Jiang Lan had deliberately held back.

Otherwise, he could have easily made Gu Yan split open with a single thrust.

After all, no matter what, he was a Soul Transformation cultivator.

And Gu Yan was just a Mortal without any cultivation.

So, Jiang Lan had been extremely careful just now, afraid of using too much strength; even when passion ran deep, he didn't dare to exert himself, keeping all his physical data at a Mortal's level.

Embracing Gu Yan, Jiang Lan pondered for a moment before saying, "After today, I'll have to leave again, but this time it will be convenient for me to travel back and forth, so perhaps I'll return in just a few days."

After waiting for a long time, there was no reply, and the room was silent.

Jiang Lan then turned his head to look at Gu Yan, only to find that the young girl had fallen asleep at some point.

She was clearly exhausted.

Jiang Lan twitched the corner of his mouth, feeling quite proud.

It seemed he was still quite formidable.

He didn't wake her up; being this tired, she deserved more rest.

Jiang Lan quietly put on his clothes, then vanished from the room in a flash.

Appearing in the courtyard, Jiang Lan saw Uncle Chen and Aunt sitting at the stone table in the yard.

Chen Heguang looked at Jiang Lan, a teasing expression on his face.

"Nephew, tired out, aren't you?"

The customs of Great Yan were not particularly open, so Chen Heguang didn't express himself too explicitly.

However, Jiang Lan could still sense the meaning behind Chen Heguang's smile.

If Jiang Lan could sense it, Aunt could sense it even more.

She pinched a soft spot on Chen Heguang's waist hard.

Chen Heguang's expression immediately changed, showing three parts pain, three parts distortion, and four parts grimacing.

"Ow ow... Wife, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts."

Aunt spat.

"You know it hurts, yet you're still not serious."

After dealing with Chen Heguang, Aunt looked up at Jiang Lan and said,

"Nephew, Aunt will cook for you to nourish your body."

Jiang Lan: "..."

Aren't you doing the same thing?

Before he could speak, Aunt, realizing her slip of the tongue, quickly added,

"Previously in that... Secret Realm, yes, you consumed so much in the Secret Realm; you must properly recuperate now that you're out."

Jiang Lan twitched the corner of his mouth.

"No need to trouble yourself, I'm going out for a bit and will be back for dinner tonight. Aunt, you don't need to cook yourself, aren't there servants?"

This residence hadn't changed much since Jiang Lan left.

The servants arranged by the emperor were all doing their respective jobs.

"How can that be?" Aunt said, "Can what the servants make be the same as what Aunt makes? You wait, I'll go prepare it now."

Seeing Aunt say that, Jiang Lan couldn't refute.

It was her kind intention; he only needed to be polite once. Refusing repeatedly, what kind of behavior would that be?

After Aunt left, Jiang Lan sat beside Chen Heguang and asked,

"Uncle Chen, during my absence, has there been any movement from the emperor?"

Before Jiang Lan left, he had intimidated the new emperor more than once.

Logically speaking, the new emperor should be terribly afraid of him.

But people are always fickle.

After being emperor for a long time, sitting in such a high position for so long, one's courage inevitably grows.

So, a show of force is useless; even if the emperor was terrified of him to his bones before, over time, he wouldn't take it seriously anymore.

It just so happens that he's back this time; when he has a moment later, he should visit the imperial palace again.

"Yes! Nephew, I really don't know why the new emperor is so afraid of you. After you left, he would occasionally send people to see if anything was lacking here, and last month he even came in person."

Chen Heguang continued with an exaggerated expression, "Nephew, you don't know, in all my life, this was the first time I saw an emperor in person. The pomp, I tell you... it was incredibly exaggerated."

Jiang Lan smiled faintly.

"If you're so envious, how about I let you be emperor tomorrow?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Heguang immediately seemed to have a bucket of ice water poured over his head, sobering up instantly and waving his hands repeatedly, saying,

"Don't joke, Nephew, I know my own capabilities. If I really became emperor, Great Yan would be destroyed within a few years."

Jiang Lan, however, shrugged indifferently.

"If it's destroyed, it's destroyed. If you want one, just build another. If that doesn't work, just go and plague other countries."

After seeing so much, Jiang Lan indeed didn't think much of Great Yan anymore.

Before, he felt that Great Yan, though small, was at least a country.

But from Jiang Lan's current perspective... what country? At most, it was just a large county.

As for political power and such, it was even more laughable.

To put it bluntly, it was no different from children playing house.

As long as Jiang Lan wanted, let alone one Great Yan, establishing a country a thousand times larger than Yan Country would only be a matter of time.

But he didn't have that much energy, and Jiang Lan was truly not very interested in being an emperor.

Now he had only one goal.

Become stronger.

At the very least, he had to first undo the Severing the Connection Between Heaven and Earth.

Even if he couldn't undo it, he had to at least clear the Secret Realm.

The rewards of the Secret Realm, whether Cultivation Technique or Martial Skill, were absolutely top-tier.

And Jiang Lan also had the System; by infusing lifespan, he could directly enhance himself.

As long as he kept repeating this cycle, one day he would be able to completely pass the Secret Realm.

"Nephew, just forget it," Chen Heguang said, "Your Uncle Chen is already very content with the life he has now. Being emperor? How can being emperor be as leisurely as now? I tell you, I'm almost getting sick from idleness."

"Oh? How so?"

Chen Heguang said,

"Don't even mention it. Now when I go to work, I don't have to do anything. I just sit there all day drinking tea and reviewing documents. After a while, I'm practically useless."

Hearing Chen Heguang say this, Jiang Lan understood.

His act of killing the emperor, if not known to everyone, was certainly known to the entire Demon Suppression Division high-level.

Since they knew, with Jiang Lan's connection, who would dare to make Chen Heguang work?

It's estimated that the leaders in the Demon Suppression Division now would rather enshrine Uncle Chen and let him be a mascot.

"Look at you talking like that, why don't you find something to do yourself?"

"I'd like to," Chen Heguang said helplessly, "But they don't give me a chance to do anything. Whatever needs to be done, someone else does it. Even if I secretly try to do something myself, I'll surely be stopped halfway. The key is, I can't refuse their reasons."

"Oh? What reasons?"