That wave of psychokinesis was extremely powerful. Even from such a distance, Li Mu could clearly feel it.
He walked out of the house and onto the main street, causing an uproar among the people of the Divine Capital.
"It's Constable Li!"
"Constable Li is here …"
…
Li Mu was still confused. He didn't understand why there was so much psychokinesis targeting him from the people of the Divine Capital. Then, he realized that it must have something to do with his performance in the morning court.
At that time, Li Mu didn't think so much. The scene in front of him could be considered a pleasant surprise.
Every time he did something to win the hearts of the people in the Divine Capital, the psychokinesis of the people would reach a peak in a short time. Li Mu obviously wouldn't waste this rare opportunity. In the next half a day, he walked through the streets and alleys and walked through half of the Divine Capital.
At night, when he returned home, Li Mu sat cross-legged on his bed with two pieces of spiritual jade in his hands. Under the urging of his psychokinesis, the spiritual power in his body circulated rapidly. The spiritual power in the two pieces of spiritual jade was instantly sucked dry and turned into powder.
Li Mu didn't sleep the whole night and cultivated until dawn. There was already a lot of spiritual jade powder piled up in front of his bed.
After a night of cultivation, Li Mu used up half of the spiritual jade that the Empress rewarded him last time.
If he could obtain so much psychokinesis every day and have the support of a steady stream of spiritual jade, it wasn't impossible for him to reach the Upper Realm before the age of 30.
Unfortunately, spiritual jade was hard to find and psychokinesis was even harder to obtain. Only the royal family could take the psychokinesis of the people of the Great Zhou and condense it into Emperor Qi to directly create a Seventh Realm powerhouse. Even so, this process would take at least ten years or even decades.
In terms of cultivation alone, Li Mu was very close to the peak of the Jushen Realm. However, it wouldn't be easy to break through to the next realm.
Some people reached the Jushen Realm before the age of 30, but they couldn't achieve remarkable power in their lifetime.
In addition to the accumulation of spiritual power, the breakthrough of a major realm also required opportunities.
Without a doubt, Li Mu's opportunity was Liu Hanyan. Unfortunately, she was far away in the North Region. The two of them were thousands of miles apart.
However, even if there was a chance to break through now, Li Mu did not dare to touch it lightly.
His mana was growing too fast, and his foundation was not stable. It was easy for his inner demons to invade him, and when he was advancing, it was the easiest time for the inner demons to invade him. Before he completely settled the woman in his dreams, Li Mu did not dare to try.
Speaking of the woman in his dreams, she had not appeared for a long time. Although Mr. Mei had told him not to worry and to let nature take its course, Li Mu could not be at ease when it happened to him and was out of his control.
It was a pity that he didn't have a chance to meet Her Majesty other than the morning court assembly. Otherwise, he could ask Her Majesty how to suppress and eliminate his inner demons. As a Level-7 cultivator, this should be a simple matter for her.
Although Li Mu had become an internal guard, he was still quite a distance away from becoming the Empress's personal guard.
If he wanted to get more benefits from her, he first had to know what Her Majesty wanted.
According to Mr. Mei, what Her Majesty wanted was the faith of the people in the Great Zhou. She wanted to gather the faith of the people in the Great Zhou's 36 counties and create the next Emperor's Qi as soon as possible.
But according to Li Mu's understanding, the thing called Emperor's Qi by the royal family was actually the Spirit of Faith.
It could allow an ordinary person to have the cultivation of the Upper Realm overnight. It could steal the fortune of heaven and earth and go against the heavens. The difficulty of this was obvious.
This required 36 commoners to visit the State Temple frequently, and after decades of accumulation, a strand of Emperor's Qi could be formed. The strand of Emperor's Qi that the Empress had was the accumulation of two generations of Zhou Dynasty Emperors for nearly half a century. Now, the Empress had only been on the throne for three years, and the next strand of Emperor's Qi was still far away.
Li Mu still had a lot of doubts in his heart. As an Upper Realm cultivator, Her Majesty could do whatever she wanted. If she didn't want to be Emperor, she could just not do it. With her strength, no one could force her, unless there was some secret that Li Mu didn't know.
These weren't that important to Li Mu. He just needed to know that whatever Her Majesty wanted, he would give her.
To obtain a continuous and stable faith of the people, as long as the people of the Great Zhou lived in peace and contentment, lived prosperous lives, and didn't have to worry about not having enough to eat, they would naturally be convinced by the imperial court and Her Majesty.
This was simple to say, but extremely difficult to do. It was necessary to create a prosperous Great Zhou to win the hearts of the people and shorten the time needed to condense the Emperor's Qi.
This was a long-term thing that couldn't be done overnight.
The most important thing now was to help Her Majesty get rid of the control of the four academies.
For more than a hundred years, the important officials of the imperial court had all come from the four academies, which led to the current situation of the imperial court. The imperial court urgently needed new blood.
To change this situation, the imperial court could imitate the imperial examination and independently select talents from the 36 counties outside of the four academies. It even required the students of the four academies to pass the imperial court's selection exam before they became officials, completely taking back the imperial court's power to select officials.
Of course, it wasn't easy to completely change the situation of the imperial court.
Jiang Zhe's incident only damaged the reputation of the Hundred Rivers Academy. Li Mu spoke bluntly in the golden palace, but the four academies wouldn't give up their power just because of Li Mu's words.
The Empress and the four academies were in a state of balance.
Although this world respected the strong, the imperial court's affairs could never be resolved simply by force, unless Her Majesty could break through to the eighth realm.
If she could reach the eighth realm, disbanding the four academies would be just a matter of a word from her. There was no need to find any extra reasons.
However, she couldn't do this at the moment.
Jiang Zhe obviously couldn't represent the entire Hundred Rivers Academy, and it wasn't enough for Her Majesty to make a move on the Hundred Rivers Academy, let alone the other academies.
Li Mu couldn't find any other way to break through at the moment.
He walked out of the house and prepared to patrol the areas that he didn't have time to patrol yesterday to absorb telekinesis. If he didn't need it for a while, he could store it in his body.
In the imperial court, Li Mu found that the few censors of the Censorate and a small number of officials in the imperial court had very thick telekinesis.
They were all ordinary people who had never cultivated before. Once they started cultivating, this power of thought would allow them to break through several realms in a very short period of time. This speed was even faster than those unorthodox methods that could extract souls and steal souls.
As he closed the door and prepared to leave, Li Mu found a carriage parked on the street in front of his house.
A hand lifted the curtain of the carriage, and a face that Li Mu wasn't unfamiliar with appeared.
When he saw Zhou Zhong, Li Mu's face darkened. He asked, "Assistant Minister Zhou, what brings you here?"
Zhou Zhong said, "I'm just passing by and stopped to take a look."
Li Mu waved his hand and said, "There's nothing to see here …"
Zhou Zhong shook his head and said, "I'm not here to see Constable Li. This mansion used to belong to a close friend of mine. I happened to pass by and couldn't help but think of him."
Li Mu didn't say anything else and prepared to patrol.
At this moment, Zhou Zhong suddenly said, "Do you think you can change anything by making a scene in the imperial court?"
Li Mu asked, "What do you mean?"
Zhou Zhong laughed mockingly and said, "The current situation in the imperial court has been stable for a hundred years. Do you think you can shake the Hundred-Rivers Academy and force the other academies to give in by punishing Jiang Zhe? The three academies have more than one 'Jiang Zhe'. Do you think you've changed anything? In fact, you haven't changed anything …"
After mocking Li Mu, Zhou Zhong lowered the curtain of the carriage and it slowly left.
Li Mu's face was cold. He resisted the urge to strike him with the Heavenly Thunder of Purple Heaven.
Indeed, it was satisfying to curse in the Golden Hall, but it couldn't solve any practical problems.
Jiang Zhe was just a special case. He could only represent himself, not the Hundred-Rivers Academy.
Unless he could catch more 'Jiang Zhe'.
Wait … What did Zhou Zhong mean when he said that the three academies had more than one Jiang Zhe? Could it be that Jiang Zhe wasn't a special case of the Hundred-Rivers Academy?
Li Mu pondered for a while and gave up the idea of patrolling first. He went to the government office and walked into the duty room where the case files were kept.
There weren't many files in the Luoyang government office. Before Li Mu and Zhang Chun came, the Luoyang government office was just a decoration. All the big and small cases in Luoyang were handled by the Ministry of Justice.
Soon, Li Mu walked out of the government office and went straight to the Ministry of Justice.
The Ministry of Justice.
When the director of the Ministry of Justice heard the report, he ran out anxiously and asked, "What brings you here, Lord Li?"
Li Mu smiled and said, "Lord Yang, I'd like to see the case files of the Ministry of Justice. Is that okay?"
The director of the Ministry of Justice shook his head like a rattle-drum and said firmly, "No, no, the Ministry of Justice has a rule that outsiders can't enter the case files of the Ministry of Justice."
Li Mu said, "Then can I trouble Lord Yang to check it for me?"
The director of the Ministry of Justice hesitated for a moment and asked, "What do you want to check?"
Li Mu said, "Similar to Jiang Zhe's case, all the case files related to the four major academies."
The director of the Ministry of Justice immediately said, "No, the case files of the Ministry of Justice were all made by me. Except for Jiang Zhe's case, there are no cases related to the four major academies …"
The director of the Ministry of Justice didn't seem to be lying. Li Mu thought carefully. It wasn't that there were no cases related to the four major academies, but that the Ministry of Justice didn't dare to accept them.
Li Mu smiled at the director of the Ministry of Justice and said, "Most of the cases in the Ministry of Justice are handled by Lord Yang. Even if there are no files, Lord Yang should know something about them …"
The director of the Ministry of Justice shook his head and said, "There really isn't …"
Li Mu thought for a moment and said, "Lord Yang, you've been working hard on the cases. The next morning at the court, I'll definitely put in a good word for you in front of all the officials and His Majesty …"
The director of the Ministry of Justice's heart skipped a beat and cold sweat broke out on his back.
This was a threat. This was a naked threat.
Li Mu was good at scolding people, but how could he put in a good word? If he was scolded in front of all the officials and His Majesty like the assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel, how could he have the face to stay in the officialdom in the future?
Li Mu asked again, "I'll ask one last time. Do you have any cases related to the four major academies?"
The director of the Ministry of Justice swallowed and said, "Yes, we do …"
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