Records of the Human Emperor Chapter 1604: The Confucian Sect Moves Out (I)

Chapter 1604: The Confucian Sect Moves Out (I)

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

"Young Master, we've just received a letter from Ishbara Khagan of the Western Turks harshly criticizing us for the misdeed of our attack on the Western Turks. At the same time, he demands that Young Master resolve this situation, that we must bring those two Western Turkic soldiers back to their homeland."

The Confucian Sect expert offered a letter as he spoke.

Li Junxian took the letter and glanced at it, and his eyes immediately went to the large square seal stamped upon it. This was the Seal of the Khagan, which was an imitation of the custom in the Central Plains.

"Senior Brother, what do we do?" the white-clothed girl suddenly asked, her expression grave. Everyone else in the room had similarly grave expressions.

"Young Master, it hasn't been very long since the Public Order Squad incident, but the King of Foreign Lands is already causing trouble on the border. If this continues, our Confucian Sect's thousand-year wish, the ideal that generation after generation of sect masters have sacrificed themselves for, will all be destroyed at his hands!" a Confucian Sect expert resentfully said.

"But we don't have any evidence," Elder Song suddenly said, his face fraught with concern. "Everything right now is just a one-sided accusation from Ishbara Khagan. The King of Foreign Lands simply needs to flatly deny it and we'll have no way of getting at him."

The entire room fell silent. Yes, although the incident in the north had caused a great stir and was the focus of all sides, the Confucian Sect had no evidence with which to make trouble for Wang Chong.

"That's not all. Even if there was proof that this was the handiwork of the King of Foreign Lands, we still can't do anything to him. The laws of the empire state that the great clans, including the noble houses, do not break the law as long as their number of private soldiers remains at one thousand or below. Those four hundred men are well below that limit, and the Ki

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