Great Li Martial God

"Lord Fu, do you think I'm easy to fool? That I don't know what kind of force Falling God Peak is?"

Li Musheng chuckled and looked at Fu Qiwen with a sidelong glance as he spoke.

Upon hearing this, Fu Qiwen lowered his eyes slightly, his face revealing nothing, and said, "Falling God Peak's reputation in the martial world is known to almost everyone. As one of the four top sects in the martial world, they are indeed extremely difficult to deal with, but..."

Li Musheng waved his hand, directly interrupting him, and said bluntly, "Don't give me any 'buts.' The job you're describing isn't easy to do. The silver and house His Majesty gave aren't worth that price."

This time it was Fu Qiwen's turn to show a strange expression. He raised his head and looked at Li Musheng with surprise, asking suspiciously, "Could it be that Your Highness has thoughts of taking on this matter?"

At this moment, Fu Qiwen truly couldn't quite figure out what this Eighth Prince before him was thinking.

By all rights, as long as the other party had even a slight understanding of Falling God Peak, he would refuse without hesitation, but the current situation was that he had not done so.

At this time, Li Musheng leisurely observed Fu Qiwen for a while, stroking his chin as he said, "Falling God Peak is ranked as one of the four great sects in the martial world, with many Martial Dao Masters, and their forces are entrenched across four provinces of Great Li. To try to deal with them would be extremely difficult."

Speaking of which, he suddenly changed his tone, narrowing his eyes as he said, "However, if you want me to agree to you, it's not impossible, just... you'll have to add conditions."

Hearing this, Fu Qiwen said nothing, merely fixing his gaze on Li Musheng. However, he did not see the slightest trace of pretense on the other party. The other party consistently displayed a casual attitude, as well as an undisguised mockery toward himself.

"Your Highness must think this through carefully. This matter is definitely not child's play."

Fu Qiwen withdrew his gaze, and his expression immediately became extremely serious. If the other party was only treating this matter as a joke, that would be a grave mistake, and he would inevitably pay the price for it.

Li Musheng shook his head and smiled, saying, "I've thought it through very clearly. Now the one who should consider carefully should be Lord Fu. What conditions can you offer that would be worth my help in destroying Falling God Peak?"

Li Musheng naturally saw very clearly that even if Emperor Yuanwu had no feelings for this son of his who had been lost for twenty years, he wouldn't immediately send him to his death from the start.

Therefore, having him deal with Falling God Peak was definitely the deliberate work of this kind-faced but black-hearted official before him.

Of course, Li Musheng also knew that Fu Qiwen actually wasn't trying to put him to death either. Even if he were, he definitely wouldn't use such crude methods.

He estimated... well... probably this official saw that he was handsome, while he himself fell far short, so he found him disagreeable and wanted to deliberately make things difficult for him.

As for dealing with Falling God Peak, Li Musheng actually didn't care. On the contrary, rather than having Emperor Yuanwu and the other people of the imperial capital entangle him with trivial matters, he might as well directly do something big.

Otherwise, continuing to be an idle prince with a title but no real power would truly be of limited use for what he wanted to accomplish.

At this time, after hearing Li Musheng's words, Fu Qiwen fell silent. He naturally didn't believe Li Musheng could deal with a martial world force like Falling God Peak.

But being pressed so aggressively by the other party's questioning made him somewhat uncertain, where exactly did the other party's confidence come from?

Fu Qiwen showed a thoughtful expression as he considered, and finally still gazed at Li Musheng and asked, "What kind of conditions does Your Highness want?"

However, Li Musheng waved his hand and said, "We'll talk about what conditions later. First tell me, why do you want to deal with Falling God Peak?"

"To be honest, this approach is completely killing a thousand enemies while losing eight hundred of your own. Moreover, I don't believe your Tianjin Guards can destroy such a massive martial world sect."

Hearing this, Fu Qiwen stared at Li Musheng for a while and said, "Your Highness may not know, but now the five nations of the world have been divided for a hundred years, and in truth each is burdened by martial world forces. To attack external threats, one must first stabilize the interior. If these scourges of martial world forces are not eliminated for even a day, how can Great Li speak of contending for supremacy over the world?"

"Therefore, His Majesty has long had plans to take action against Great Li's martial world forces, but constrained by the instability at the borders and the immaturity of the timing, it has only been in the planning stages and has never been implemented."

Li Musheng raised his eyebrows, showing a curious expression, and said, "You mean to say that now the timing has matured, and you can take action?"

However, Fu Qiwen shook his head and said, "We are not yet prepared to take action."

Li Musheng furrowed his brows, about to speak, when Fu Qiwen immediately sighed and said, "In this subject's view, there will never be a time when the timing is completely mature. We can take action at any time, but we also cannot take action, because we don't have absolute certainty of destroying them."

"What you've said is as good as saying nothing."

Li Musheng pondered for a moment, waved his hand, and said, "Give me a reason to destroy Falling God Peak. Even if they are powerful and threaten Great Li's rule, but if they stay peacefully in their own territory and haven't done anything bad, if you go and destroy them without reason, wouldn't that be acting without justification?"

Hearing this, Fu Qiwen gave a light, cold laugh and said, "There are far too many reasons to kill them. Just the case files our Tianjin Guards have collected fill more than a dozen bookshelves."

"These so-called martial world sect forces are no longer simple martial Dao sects. They are more like bandits who occupy territory and declare themselves kings. Without the constraints of imperial law, it can be said they act completely according to their whims. Bullying the weak, forcibly seizing property, these are all common everyday occurrences."

"Otherwise, does Your Highness think these powerful martial world forces have developed so rapidly and occupy various provinces to the point of being able to rival the imperial court by what means?"

Li Musheng said nothing. For the past fifteen years he had stayed in Shun'an City and had not truly witnessed too many martial world forces.

On this journey to Shangyang City, he had personally encountered a Blood-Bathed Alliance, and that even Cang Yinyue was unwilling to provoke them and took a detour. One could see how domineering martial world forces were throughout Great Li's territories.

Moreover, on this journey, although it was not enough to see the full picture of the martial world, he had also discovered that the martial world was truly too chaotic. Various sects fought endlessly with each other, with bloodshed and conflict everywhere.

Aside from Jing Province, the common people of the other provinces suffered greatly from this. To say that the people's livelihoods were in ruins would not be an exaggeration.

Although Li Musheng knew that his martial Dao cultivation had long reached the absolute peak and was practically an invincible existence, he was equally clear that an individual's martial prowess was limited and could not change the reality of this world.

Therefore, he only single-mindedly wanted to pursue martial Dao transcendence. As for the sufferings of the common people, he couldn't manage it and was powerless to do so.

Perhaps when traveling the martial world, he would see injustice and eliminate the strong to help the weak. With his abilities, he could naturally accomplish this with ease.

He might even, on a whim, help a small city or town eliminate a local evil force and receive people's praise and acclaim, winning the reputation of a great hero in the martial world.

But Li Musheng knew this was only temporary. After eliminating one force, before long another force would make a comeback.

Wave after wave, they simply could not be completely cut down.