Chapter 1224 - 1081: Uprooting
"Cao Da, how are the preparations going these years?"
Li Zhirui looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, whose temples were streaked with white, and couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.
To this day, he had already spent ten years in the Dafeng dynasty.
Originally only in his early thirties, Cao Da had now crossed into his forties.
And after ten years of concealment, his entire demeanor had transformed, no longer resembling a humble farmer but exuding an icy, eerie presence, as if he were a venomous snake lurking in the shadows.
The matter Li Zhirui was inquiring about was the chessboard he had begun constructing years ago to overthrow the Dafeng dynasty.
As for Cao Da and those like him, driven to ruin—widowed and orphaned—by the Liu family’s disciples, they now formed a group of "Living Souls." Over the years, their size had grown to more than 400,000!
If not for Dafeng’s vast territory and its rulers’ outwardly successful efforts to win over the people’s loyalty, combined with Li Zhirui’s insistence that they remain hidden, the sheer intensity of their resentment alone would have shaken the foundations of the dynasty’s fortune.