Li Yang found it hard to believe how smoothly everything went.
He initially thought the nomination for Ren Zhong would encounter some resistance from the Frozen Elders.
After all, in any era, under any social background, military power is crucial.
The Frozen Elders had no reason to hand over military power so easily to someone of a humble origin.
Yet, mysteriously, it all happened simply and naturally.
Even with his assistance, Ren Zhong secured joint approval from the Nine Major Groups and received the voluntary abdication offer from Ying Ye, but it was still too astonishing.
It seemed as if, with the Great Migration day approaching, the Frozen Elders had changed their temperament, abandoned principles upheld for millennia, no longer pursued noble bloodlines, betrayed the harsh hierarchy they established, began selecting talents based on ability, even trusting those from the lower class.
