Dan Feng pressed a hand to his forehead and signaled for the clan members to withdraw.
The Dragon Lord had not slept all night.
In this entire upheaval, both he and the Vidyadhara clan had benefited.
He needed to follow the current Marshal's intentions, make it clear that the Vidyadhara held absolutely no rebellious thoughts, and offer enough sincerity.
He needed to contact the other Dragon Lords. He needed to think for the sake of the Luofu's people.
He also needed to leave enough assets behind for Yingxing and for his own reincarnation.
Dan Feng had spent the entire night organizing and inventorying the treasures in his private vault with the help of attendants.
The assets left behind by generations of "Imbibitor Lunae" for their reincarnations were beyond counting. The private vault had been expanded multiple times, with each floor covering well over a thousand square meters.
Dan Feng decided to donate most of the collection to the Xianzhou.
This was the sincerity he intended to show during his trial at the Ten-Lords Commission.
To Dan Feng, the balance in his accounts was nothing more than a number.
They were all worldly possessions. Having enough was sufficient.
Besides, Daiyang had always disliked him.
Even though Dan Feng had committed a grave mistake, the sincerity he showed… would be enough to move the other party.
As for the remaining treasures… Dan Feng planned to transfer them to Yingxing.
The reason was simple. In order to restrict the Vidyadhara, Daiyang had deliberately raised inheritance taxes.
As for his savings… he would transfer them to his friends before undergoing rebirth.
Things Dan Feng gave away while alive did not count as inheritance.
If he didn't use this roundabout method…
That bastard Daiyang would absolutely seize on his mistakes and raise the tax rate again.
If he waited until after rebirth… his reincarnation and Yingxing probably wouldn't even receive a fraction of the assets.
And if all they got was a fraction, only a few hundred billion… how could that possibly be enough? How could it survive all the deductions?
The money wouldn't even last a few generations before it was all taken away.
Dan Feng's head throbbed. Looking at Jingliu, who had arrived uninvited, only made the headache worse.
He took a deep breath and tried his best to control his tone.
"What is it this time?"
Jingliu answered, "Premarital medical examination."
The face that hadn't changed even while cutting down abominations instantly cracked apart.
As though he hadn't understood, Dan Feng stared back at Jingliu blankly.
Jingliu patiently took out the various documents she had brought and explained them to the high-ranking Cauldron Master, who had never once approved a premarital medical report in his life.
Dan Feng listened for quite a while before finally processing it.
No...
How many episodes of the plot had he missed exactly?
Yesterday, Jingliu had just said she was preparing to propose to Zero.
How had they already moved on to preparing marriage paperwork today?!
At the end, Jingliu calmly explained that only this final paper document remained. After that, they just needed both parties' superiors to stamp it, pass the review process, and they could go to the Divination Commission to receive the marriage certificate.
Dan Feng strongly suspected that Zero knew nothing about any of this.
With Zero's personality, if he truly planned to marry Jingliu… how could he possibly let his friend run around handling everything alone? He would definitely be preparing the documents together with her.
Dan Feng chose his words with extreme care.
"Then have him come to the Alchemy Commission."
Jingliu looked at Dan Feng without saying a word.
The corner of Dan Feng's mouth twitched.
So she wanted him to forge the medical report and skip the whole process entirely.
Dan Feng could verbally shut down dragon elders and physically slaughter abominations.
The patients he had treated all praised him endlessly.
He considered himself an excellent physician, and an exceptionally qualified Cauldron Master.
The reason Dan Feng sat in his current position was not solely because he was the Vidyadhara High Elder, "Imbibitor Lunae."
But never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that one day he would use the authority of his office to help a friend do something like this.
"Fine. I understand."
As Dan Feng picked up his jade abacus and instructed his assistant, he casually asked, "He hasn't signed yet, right?"
Jingliu frowned slightly.
"Imbibitor Lunae doesn't have it?"
Dan Feng, "...No."
Any document personally reviewed by that person had naturally been treasured away by subordinates!
As for his signature… that was one of the Xianzhou's highest-level confidential items.
'Wait...'
'So you're planning to act first and report later, forge Zero's signature, and directly file the marriage application?!'
Dan Feng fell silent for a long while before speaking with difficulty.
"Are you sure you want to do this?"
Jingliu nodded, "He owes me once."
Dan Feng inexplicably thought of that pigeon-blood ruby ring.
He hadn't even asked Jingliu about it, yet she had proactively explained it to him herself.
Dan Feng had immediately decided not to ask further questions.
Who would have thought Jingliu would speak again?
She listed several famous planets across the universe one after another, then interstellar battleships, and finally briefly mentioned the most expensive districts on each Xianzhou.
Jingliu's expression remained the same as always, though her tone carried a faint trace of helplessness.
"All of these were gifted to me through forged transfer agreements he made."
Dan Feng, "..."
'No.'
'Who asked you?'
Dan Feng swallowed the humiliation.
"Zero really does value you greatly."
After following Jingliu's lead and praising her once, he hurriedly returned to the main issue.
"In a bit, go to the Divination Commission first to get the stamp..."
Dan Feng abruptly stopped, rummaging through his memories. He discovered that within the Divination Commission, aside from Zero, the name he remembered most clearly was actually the Master Diviner herself.
He continued, "Then go find Xiaolin and access the personnel records from when Zero first joined. There'll definitely be a signature in there."
Jingliu was the Luofu Sword Champion, and also an Emanator acknowledged by the Reignbow Arbiter. Simply asking Xiaolin to access some records… what problem could there possibly be?
After parting with Jingliu, Dan Feng summoned his clan members and once more confirmed the assets he was about to transfer to Yingxing. Only then did he arrive at the Alchemy Commission exactly on time.
He accepted the two reports his assistant handed over, both already stamped in advance, and signed his own name in the "Chief Examining Physician" section one after another.
Before the ink had even dried, the Master Diviner of the Divination Commission sent him a voice call.
Completely baffled, Dan Feng accepted it. After only a few exchanges, he finally understood the purpose behind Xiaolin's call.
So Xiaolin thought he and Jingliu were colluding together to persecute the subordinate Zero that she valued highly.
'No, seriously, Jingliu, what exactly did you do?!'
Dan Feng couldn't help sighing internally.
What else could he do? Of course he had to help his friend.
The Dragon Lord gave a perfectly legitimate explanation.
Don't ask. If you ask, it was internal review procedures within the Alchemy Commission requiring cooperation from the Divination Commission.
As for why he didn't invoke General Tengxiao's name or the current Marshal's…
He had only just walked out of the Ten-Lords Commission, and immediately afterward he was going to borrow his two superiors' names to stir up trouble across departments?
At that point, he probably wouldn't even be able to keep the rest of his assets.
Dan Feng brushed off the Master Diviner and ended the call.
After thinking for a moment, he handed the premarital medical report to his assistant and instructed, "Deliver this to General Tengxiao's residence."
That was all the Cauldron Master could do.
———
An hour later, Zero woke up.
Still half asleep and looking thoroughly confused, he picked up the continuously vibrating jade abacus and opened the flood of unread messages.
It was the internal group chat of the Divination Commission, a place with no supervisors present.
[You really don't want to take any unnecessary detours at all, huh? @Zero]
[Zero really married into a great family!]
Zero, "???"
[The other party withdrew a message]
[Zero, you really found yourself a great spouse!]
Zero's drowsiness vanished instantly. His eyes widened as he exited the chat window and opened the conversation with Xiaolin, Master Diviner of the Divination Commission, among the unread messages from Zandar, Guanliang, Hua, and the others.
Every few minutes, the other party had sent another message.
[Zero, do you and Jingliu have some kind of conflict?]
[Do you have some sort of grudge against Dan Feng? Why is he insisting on accessing your records?]
[You know General Tengxiao?]
The software showed that half an hour later, Xiaolin had sent another message.
[...]
[Things have already reached this point. There's no turning back now, but I still have to ask you one thing…]
[Zero, are you willing?]
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