Was that guy really Puhaman?
A smiling Meng Lei complimented, “That looks a lot more pleasant to the eye now!”
Puhaman was the picture of a mild-mannered and refined gentleman as he did a graceful nobles’ bow in response. “You may not know this, Master, but before I’d begun to cultivate Dead Souls Magic, I was a human king.
“Unfortunately, my country was destroyed later on. For the sake of seeking revenge on the Dragons, I had no choice but to switch to cultivating Dead Souls Magic and ended up a monster that was neither human nor ghost.”
At this point, Puhaman cast a glance at Thaniel. His eyes carried a look of malice, causing Thaniel to tense up all the way to his anus and become all creeped out.
“Little did I think that you’d have gone through something like that. That’s surprising!”
Meng Lei said with a laugh, “I happened to have just destroyed the Dragons and am intending to take over Dragon God Empire. Since you’re experienced in this aspect, you should be able to be of assistance to me, right?”
“Keke, I’m glad to offer my services to you, Master!”
Puhaman was awfully excited. “Don’t worry, Master. I had reigned for over 40 years back then, so I have great experience in governance. I should be able to provide you with some suggestions!”
“I hope so!”
A gratified Meng Lei nodded. He had previously been troubled over Dragon God Empire’s matter—after all, the Dragons were gone, and he had slaughtered all the court officials.
A moment of carelessness and the juggernaut that was Dragon God Empire might just collapse anytime.
When that happened, chaos ensuing would be nigh impossible to avoid.
The ones to suffer would still end up being the common people—this was something that Meng Lei didn’t wish to see.
As such, how he should go about taking over Dragon God Empire peacefully while avoiding strife was something that Meng Lei needed to think about.
If possible, he would also like to spread his faith along the way and get the empire’s citizens to believe in him. That would be even more ideal.
However, Meng Lei knew that this would be an extremely difficult task.
Taking control of the empire wasn’t that bad; the level of difficulty wasn’t very high.
What was difficult was to spread faith!
Having been established for over 40,000 years, Dragon God Empire’s faith in the Dragon God had long since become ingrained and deep-rooted.
Getting the citizens to abandon their faith in the Dragon God and switch over to worshiping him was definitely no easy task!
Meng Lei had also considered this problem previously. He had thought of a few ideas, but he ultimately still found them too unreliable.
Now that he had taken Puhaman in, he could, however, discuss this with him. That old fiend had once been a king, as well as even an evil god; surely he could provide some assistance in that respect?
“Where do we go next, Master?”
At the sight of Puhaman gaining Meng Lei’s trust so quickly and even vaguely seemed as if he’d be given great responsibilities, Thaniel panicked somewhat.
He’d clearly been the one that had submitted to their master first, so why was that fiend edging him out now?
After a moment of consideration, Meng Lei replied, “Let’s go to the Imperial City!”
“Alright, Master!”
After responding, Thaniel flapped his wings and flew toward Dragon Island’s exit.
Upon departing Dragon Island, as Puhaman overlooked all the sights outside, he became so worked up that scalding tears filled his eyes, and he fell to his knees before Meng Lei.
“I’ve finally seen the light of day again after being sealed for 50,000 years! I am grateful to my great, noble master! Thank you for saving my life!”
Isn’t that reflex arc of yours a little too slow? Why didn’t I see you thanking me when I saved you from that cave just now?
Meng Lei grumbled inwardly, though outwardly, he said, “Congratulations on regaining your freedom, Puhaman!”
“Thank you! Thank you, Master!”
Puhaman cried tears of joy as he sniffed the air intensely, an expression of intoxication all over his face.
“This is the smell of Heaven’s Vault Continent! It’s truly too wonderful and too nostalgic...”
“Let’s go!”
Meng Lei patted Thaniel on the back.
“Yes, Master!”
Then, Thaniel flew toward the Imperial City.
“Puhaman, I’d like to take control of Dragon God Empire. Do you have any suggestions?”
“I’ve been sealed for too long, Master. Therefore, I’m not very clear on Dragon God Empire’s current situation. May I trouble Master to give me a simple explanation first?”
“Alright!”
“...”
“Little did I think that Dragon God Empire would still be this much of a loser even after 50,000 years have gone by.”
Then, an emotional Puhaman said, “Master, if you wish to take control of Dragon God Empire, you can do it in four steps.”
“Four steps? Tell me about it,” replied Meng Lei with great interest.
“The first step is to take control of the empire’s court administration.
“Now that the Dragons’ high-end combat power have all been wiped out by Master, the remaining Dragons are not much of a threat anymore.
“The matter of highest priority now is to take control of court administration and control the steering rights of the giant ship that is Dragon God Empire, so as to stabilize the overall situation and prevent chaos from ensuing.”
“That makes sense. Go on,” Meng Lei commented with a nod.
“You can’t take control of court administration if no one’s there.”
Puhaman asked with a sinister smile, “Master, you previously mentioned that you’ve slaughtered all the court officials, both civil and martial, but I don’t believe that. If my guess is right, you’ve actually only killed the
