Chapter 1467: Chapter 1467

In Owen Bertram’s view, the Dragon Snake List was a great opportunity. These bull ghosts and snake gods were usually hidden all over the Wood Dynasty and not easy to find, but once they all gathered in the Capital, it’s the perfect time to catch them all!

Owen Bertram picked up the list, which had a total of twenty-three names. Among them, there was one who had sneaked into the Royal Palace Examination with ten others. His name was Jeremy, and he finally ranked seventh... very "coincidentally" just behind the notorious group of six.

Andrew Oamond said: "The Robin family has been under our surveillance for a long time. They collude with the Northern Plain and smuggle contraband. After Master Liam removed their protection in the Northern Plain, they stayed quietly for a while.

This time, their clan leader, Robin, also came, taking advantage of the Dragon and Snake List opportunity to carry out activities everywhere, probably trying to attach himself to a powerful person to continue providing shelter for them. However, the damage that the Robin family can cause now is limited, and their trip to the Capital is for seeking their own protection."

Owen Bertram’s gaze then moved to the second name: Preston Xavier.

His ranking wasn’t high, as he was only twenty-first out of the hundred people selected in the Third Stage Assessment of the Dragon Snake List. Only the top ten had the qualifications for the Palace Examination.

Preston Xavier came from an ordinary sect called "Angus Sect" in the southeast of the Wood Dynasty, bordering the former Nanni Nation. After Owen Bertram conquered Nanni Nation, the Horizon Bureau thoroughly investigated the forces in Wood Dynasty that had private connections with Nanni Nation, including Angus Sect.

However, what Angus Sect did couldn’t be considered as a cause for public indignation; they only sold some unimportant Cultivation resources to Nanni Nation. Many sects in that region bordering Nanni Nation did similar businesses at that time, and they couldn’t all be arrested and sent to prison. However, these forces would be closely monitored by the Horizon Bureau.

Andrew Oamond continued: "In recent years, Angus Sect seems to have colluded with the rebel forces in Nanni Nation." The rebel forces in Nanni Nation were getting weaker, but they kept reviving, and it was hard to eliminate them completely. This was an inevitable result, as it would take at least two or three generations of effort for Wood Dynasty to completely integrate Nanni Nation into its own rule.

Owen Bertram put down the list, his expression solemn and cold: "Are all the brigades in the Five Major Town Stabilizing Divisions ready?"

Andrew Oamond immediately replied: "Just waiting for your order!"

Owen Bertram nodded: "Go ahead. Give orders to all the Five Major Town Stabilizing Divisions of the Horizon Bureau, mobilize troops immediately, set a time to take action together, and capture all their sects and families!"

"Tell the fellows working on the ground that I don’t care how much they have usually been bribed. This time, no fish should slip through the net! If anyone gets away, they’ll have to put on shackles themselves and go to jail to take the blame!"

"In the Capital, you will be in charge personally. Arrest everyone on the list! David and the others will cooperate with you."

Andrew Oamond left, feeling excited and yet with a heavy sense of responsibility on his shoulders. This was truly a major operation! This was the real purpose of Owen Bertram’s trip to the Capital. Accompanying the younger generation to participate in the Dragon Snake List was just a convenience along the way.

Soon, a thunderstorm would break out in the Capital. Owen Bertram was going to catch some internal worms. At the moment, Wood Dynasty must be extremely united to gather all its strength together and completely defeat the real enemy, the Nine Witch Demon Court.

The Horizon Bureau issued the command for action. The local area was under the control of the Five Major Town Stabilizing Divisions, while Owen Bertram and Abner Lane were in charge of the Capital. On the day of the operation, Owen Bertram personally went to the Palace Gate and sat down cross-legged, covering the entire Imperial Palace with his breath!

The Ancestral Patriarch in the palace didn’t utter a word. If Owen Bertram’s breath was weaker than his, he would definitely come out and argue with Owen Bertram: Are you looking down on this old husband’s ability to protect the Royal Family?

Robin had been cursing Owen Bertram secretly these days. My son should have ranked in the top three on the Dragon Snake List, but because of Owen Bertram’s bullying, he ranked only seventh.

"Such an unfair Wood Dynasty deserves to be destroyed and conquered by the freelance cultivators in Central State!" Robin cursed, eagerly waiting for the invasion of the Douglas Country to hurry up and land in the Eastern Land. He was determined to lead the way, taking the most convenient route to march into the Capital, kill the Emperor, and hang the treacherous minister Owen Bertram on the flagpole!

Because Jeremy ranked only seventh, Robin still encountered failure after failure while trying to make connections in the Capital. He had spent quite a lot of money on bribes, but had not been able to meet any powerful person with real weight.

Jeremy was also very dissatisfied, always feeling that if it weren’t for Lily and the other six people excluding others, his ranking should have been higher.

Robin decided to go out and deal with the business first today, and sell the goods of the Merchant Team. In the following days, he would make a final effort; if he still couldn’t attach himself to a powerful person, he would prepare to return to his hometown. In the next ten years, he would shrink the family industry to preserve its strength, and quietly wait for the "Imperial Army" to arrive!

As the Robin family was about to take off and become a top-ranking family in Wood Dynasty, the Horizon Bureau had secretly surrounded the entire inn. As soon as Robin stepped out of the door, two cultivators from the Horizon Bureau at the Fifth Great Realm unfolded their standard Magical Instrument and threw the Artifact Lock Chain towards him!

Robin was taken aback, resisting desperately while shouting: "Jeremy, run!"

The situation in other places was unknown, but several mishaps occurred in the arrests in the Capital. Owen Bertram sat in the Imperial Palace, guarding against some treacherous officials who would make a desperate move to storm the palace. Those arrested collaborators, however, didn’t have the courage to do so and fled for their lives, rushing out of the Capital.