Chapter 11666 — Would Your Majesty Find That Easier to Accept?
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Yet from where he stood, the Wei Zhao planted before him was the real wretch, the one he had driven into a corner.
The Zhou Son of Heaven's mouth curved faintly at the corner, but his face remained the very picture of selfless devotion as he bowed his head to the ground once more.
"We beg you to put the countless souls of the realm first!"
The tide of public sentiment surged higher still.
In answer, Wei Zhao merely gave him a faint glance, and in the next second a single movement set the whole hall ablaze.
He raised a hand, one punch, Earth-Shattering Star, and the mountain of public sentiment above his head burst apart with a thunderous roar.
Public sentiment had collapsed.
Invisibly, the entire Inner Royal Court shuddered along with it.
Every face in the hall went stark with horror.
One by one, the looks cast at Wei Zhao were as though they had seen a ghost.
The Zhou Son of Heaven himself stood gaping, dumbstruck.
In his understanding, public sentiment could of course be stirred up and exploited, but once it was fully roused as it was now, it became a thing as vast as heaven itself.
Anyone with even a shred of sense would never choose to defy public sentiment to its face.
To say nothing of smashing it apart before the eyes of all with a single punch, the way Wei Zhao had just done!
"Do you know what you are doing?"
The Zhou Son of Heaven could not help but murmur, his voice breaking.
Wei Zhao looked down at him. "And if I said I didn't, would Your Majesty find that easier to accept?"
"..."
The Zhou Son of Heaven was struck dumb on the spot.
But at this very moment, in the eyes of nearly every great figure present, Wei Zhao had already sunk to the image of a reckless fool who did not know death when he saw it.
Qin Siren could not help clicking his tongue. "So he has this side to him too. Poke him and he flies off the handle. Seems I overcomplicated the man."
Bai Shizu nodded along.
They had expected that Wei Zhao would not swallow this loss meekly, that he would certainly strike back.
They had even envisioned several possible ways he might retaliate, and the most feasible of them was unquestionably to wrest control of public sentiment from the Zhou Son of Heaven.
After all, when all was said and done, however insidious the Zhou Son of Heaven's maneuver, the man's own abilities were limited. So long as Wei Zhao managed to disrupt the rhythm of it, this contest over public sentiment had every chance of turning defeat into victory.
But who could have imagined that Wei Zhao would choose such a brute's way of breaking the board!
Smash public sentiment apart with a single punch?
Anyone with even a shred of sense could not possibly do something so senseless.
Old Qin said darkly, "Public sentiment may be deceived, but those who openly make an enemy of it have never come to a good end since ancient times."
That single sentence was as good as passing a death sentence on Wei Zhao.
However formidable Wei Zhao might be, he could hardly be formidable enough to defy the laws of history.
In truth, the long history of the Inner Royal Court had never lacked towering figures who blotted out the sky with one hand. Many of them had commanded a momentum that matched or exceeded Wei Zhao's present stature, and some could even be said to have stood far above him.
Yet their ends were uniformly the same, each more wretched than the last.
At this, the Prince of Qin spoke. "There is one exception."
Qin Siren and the others all started.
Two seconds later, Bai Shizu was the first to recover. "The Banished Immortal, Li Zui!"
Old Qin and Qin Siren in turn showed looks of astonishment.
The Banished Immortal Li Zui was an utterly singular figure even by the measure of the Inner Royal Court's entire history. Every event connected to the man bore the legendary coloring of myth.
Most importantly, openly shattering public sentiment was something he too had done.