Chapter 375: 【157】White Lotus Changes Hands, Visiting the ’Godhood Plan’_4
As the saying goes, orthodoxy is not as good as the barrel of a cannon.
Back then, during the Qing Dynasty, when Cixi held power with great arrogance, yet when faced with the cannons of the Eight-Nation Alliance,
she had no choice but to cede territory and pay indemnities, becoming a lamb to be slaughtered by the West.
When Wang Longhu caught bullets up close and crushed the head of Jiang Xuanhe, a Gang Qi Grandmaster, with one palm, the intimidation it brought was no different than a cannon facing them.
Eunuch Jinbao dared not defy him at all.
With Jiang Xuanhe dead, now in the entire White Lotus Society, besides Li Qionghao, there is no one left who can match Wang Longhu.
To resist Wang Longhu is purely seeking one’s own death.
As the decree-transmitting eunuch beside the White Lotus Saint Emperor, Eunuch Jinbao holds a very high position and prestige within the White Lotus Society.
In the absence of Jiang Xuanhe, Eunuch Jinbao was the spokesperson for the White Lotus Saint Emperor.
Therefore, without anyone knowing the news of Jiang Xuanhe’s death, as soon as Eunuch Jinbao issued an order,
the remaining members of the Black Lotus Team and Red Lotus Team in the White Lotus Society immediately sprang into action.
One by one, they rushed to the Level 10 containment facility to conduct rescue operations.
In just a few hours, the White Lotus Society’s efficiency was remarkably high, extracting the ice block that encased Daoist Tianle,
along with Zhang Yuanying, Li Qionghao, and the surviving members of the Li family resembling primitive people, all rescued from the deep pit.
From then on, the overall situation within the White Lotus Society was settled.
The birth of a new White Lotus Saint Emperor was an inevitable event.
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The high-level structure of the White Lotus Society.
It was initially established by the White Lotus Saint Emperor, with the Duke and the Prince below, followed by ministers ranked from the first to the ninth grade.
These individuals were either prominent members of the Jiang and Li families, or Koreans who contributed to the White Lotus Society and were promoted.
Later, when the Li family rebelled, Jiang Tianzhen slaughtered all the Li family members, resulting in the abolition of ministerial positions from the first to the ninth grade.
In their place was the one-word Jiang family rule, defined as the ’Cabinet’.
It can be said that Nan Guocan is the only non-Jiang family member in recent years to obtain high office, a special case.
Also, because he was a follower of the dragon, Jiang Xuanhe gave him this position.
When Li Qionghao was rescued from the deep pit, he immediately launched a thunderous action, using his legitimate status as a member of the Li family, along with the matter of being a Gang Qi Grandmaster, intimidating many Jiang family members in the Cabinet.
By force, he took control of the White Lotus Society, of course, with Wang Longhu’s acquiescence.
Meanwhile, Zhang Yuanying went to inform the mistress and Jiang Yu about how the great ship of the White Lotus Society should navigate in the future, which had already become a very crucial matter.
If the mistress wanted to oppose Li Qionghao, then she also stood against Wang Longhu.
Faced with two Gang Qi Grandmasters, the mistress would surely die without doubt.
To prevent such a thing from happening, Zhang Yuanying could only do his utmost to dissuade the mistress’s intentions.
White Lotus Society, underground warehouse.
The mistress is still seated on that luxurious phoenix couch.
"You say Jiang Xuanhe released the Supreme Emperor? Good, good! Wonderful!" The mistress was greatly pleased, losing her composure for the first time.
"Where is the Supreme Emperor now? Has he slain that traitor Jiang Xuanhe? The power of the White Lotus Society is finally about to return to our hands."
Seeing the mistress smile so joyfully, Jiang Yu cooperated with a slight laugh from the side.
To be honest, she didn’t really care who held the power in the White Lotus Society.
She only longed for the day she could leave the White Lotus Society headquarters, which was like a prison, and see the outside world.
However, all means of transportation for leaving the mountain were controlled by Jiang Xuanhe, and they, as direct relatives of Jiang Tianzhen, had no chance of using them.
Jiang Yu had been trapped in the White Lotus Society headquarters for too long, and as a young person, she couldn’t understand the grudges of the previous generation.
"Mistress, the Supreme Emperor is already dead..." Zhang Yuanying hesitated, eventually revealing the truth reluctantly.
Instantly, the entire warehouse chilled.
The experts standing around all showed furious expressions in their eyes, and the mistress, with a hideous expression, screamed in shock: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!
The Supreme Emperor’s martial arts are peerless, immune to all poisons, how could anyone kill him! Even though that traitor Jiang Xuanhe had been plotting to harm the Supreme Emperor for years,
he couldn’t make any progress; how could the Supreme Emperor be dead!"
Zhang Yuanying explained: "Mistress, do you remember the master I mentioned before, the one who killed Jin Changxu with a single punch,
I infiltrated the Level 10 containment facility trying to seek his cooperation to rescue the Supreme Emperor; this person is extremely powerful,
even Jiang Xuanhe was not his match. Under this person’s coercion, Jiang Xuanhe had no choice but to release the Supreme Emperor,
but after his release, the Supreme Emperor did not feel grateful and instead fought with that person, and in the end... was killed."
The mistress’s face turned deathly pale, and she fainted on the bed from the shock and pain in her head.
All the experts around shouted furiously: "Revenge! We must avenge the Supreme Emperor! Kill that guy!"
Zhang Yuanying hurriedly stood up to persuade: "Everyone, don’t be impulsive. That person is so strong, even the Supreme Emperor couldn’t defeat him; aren’t you just going to die needlessly if you go after him?
Also, I saw the former Duke Li Qionghao, who is not dead, and now that he has been rescued, the future of the White Lotus Society may no longer belong to the Jiang family."
The mistress slowly awakened from her unconsciousness, viciously rubbing her temples: "Husband... how could you just die like this,
your martial arts had long been unrivaled in the world, how could anyone in this world have killed you."