"Your Excellency, was your compliment about the young man's potential to advance to the Truth-level merely a jest, or were you indeed serious?"
Afterward, Nan Liuzhi asked General Jiang.
Previously, when they just arrived in this old city, he harbored some disdain towards the locals beneath his tolerant and friendly facade.
After all, what kind of elites does he have at his disposal? Who were theimportant figures he had been in contact with in the past?
Having only third-tier strongmen as its highest-rank power, not to mention the absence of Deities and Quasi-Gods, this third-rate-city where not even a Rule-level could be found was in stark contrast to his past experiences and environment, with hardly anything worthy of respect.
Deep down, he mostly felt like a phoenix that had fallen into miserable circumstances and was even inferior to a chicken, having to smile and show sincerity to those clearly ordinary mortal bureaucrats.
