My version of Heavenly Dao is too old, so it's full of bugs.

Chapter 173: Deceiving the world and stealing fame
Even after the press conference ended, the reporters were still unwilling to let Li Wei off the hook and wanted to ask him for more details.

They were all top reporters from their respective newspapers, and their cultivation levels were generally no lower than Li Wei's, so they were incredibly persistent. In the end, Li Wei even had to transform into a Kunpeng and rely on the Kunpeng's extreme speed to successfully lead his subordinates to get rid of the reporters' entanglement and rush back to the Thunder Department.

Lao Xinzhi immediately came to greet him.

"You've worked hard, Inspector! Our Central State Pharmaceutical Group's publicity campaign has begun. Soon, the entire human realm of the Five States will know that we use divination to directly investigate people. No matter how well they do their accounting, they can't escape the calculations of Heaven!"

"In this way, we can definitely curb the arrogant arrogance of those descendants of divine blood who trade in black cultivation!"

The power of divination is not absolute. If you have some special and powerful attributes, you can block it. For example, Li Wei's title of Junior Priest has a 50% chance of being immune to divination.

The problem is that the entries for preventing divination are extremely rare and precious. Even some gods do not have them, let alone their descendants of divine blood left in the mortal world.

Therefore, most of the divine children cannot escape divination, and they are the largest consumer group of medicine in Zhongzhou. As long as they know that Li Wei is a sword hanging over their heads and can use the divination results as evidence to arrest people at any time, that will be enough!
These guys will definitely be hesitant to act rashly and dare not openly purchase large quantities of black cultivation materials anymore! And most importantly, this will definitely greatly boost the confidence of stock market investors in Zhongzhou Pharmaceutical.

Beep!
Beep!
Lao Xinzhi's phone rang.

After the call was connected, Chairman Jiang of Zhongzhou Pharmaceutical Group said excitedly, "Hahaha! Mr. Lao and Inspector Li, you did a great job this time. After the press conference, the stock price of Zhongzhou Pharmaceutical finally stopped falling and stabilized, rising by 0.8 percentage points again."

"Next, you must continue your efforts and severely punish those divine sons. If the stock price rebounds, I will give you two a big reward!"

"Don't worry, Director Jiang, we will do our best."

After ending the call, Lao Xinzhi didn't relax; instead, he became even more serious. After several seconds of silence, he said to Li Wei, "My boss has always liked to make empty promises, so instead of expecting his reward, we should be extra careful about the retaliation from the Divine Blood Family."

Director Jiang didn't mention a word about the Divine Blood Family's revenge, which made Lao Xinzhi a little scared.

"We definitely need to be careful!"

Li Wei walked to the window and pointed to the reporters who were still unwilling to leave outside the Leibu building:
"Right now, Xinhai City is the epicenter of the storm in Zhongzhou. The more people pay attention to us, the brighter the spotlight shines, the less likely anyone will dare to make any underhanded moves. So the bigger this matter gets, the better!"

"It seems Inspector Li already has a plan?"

"Mr. Lao, did you not expect this?"

The two exchanged a glance, then simultaneously uttered two words—"Public opinion!"

"Hahaha! It seems we really are on the same page. In that case, I'll get started on the arrangements."

Once the great roc rises with the wind, who in the world will not know you!

Li Wei is famous!

It's become an absolute sensation!
His heroic act of stepping forward and taking all the danger upon himself under the spotlight changed everyone's stereotype of the celestial officials as cowardly and shirking responsibility. So, not only ordinary people, but even the high-ranking officials of the Xinhai City Celestial Palace who had been tricked by him changed their opinion of him.

Li Wei may be greedy and ruthless, but perhaps he genuinely wanted to do something for the Three Realms.

These two things are not contradictory!
It's a pity that his status was too low, his cultivation too weak, and his divine position too insignificant; otherwise, he might have really accomplished something.

Even some people in the Immortal Abode who knew Li Wei's true identity thought so, not to mention the ordinary cultivators who saw the news. When they looked at Li Wei's youthful face in the newspaper, they seemed to recall the time when they were young and full of hope for cultivation.

Back then, they were just as passionate, firmly believing that the righteous path in the world was full of vicissitudes. It wasn't until they constantly encountered setbacks on the path of cultivation and suffered various blows from reality that their rough edges were finally smoothed out.

"Sigh, only a young person like that would do something like this, right?"

"Damn Zhongzhou medicine, damn Xinhaixian Mansion, damn the Heavenly Emperor's envoy! So many people didn't dare to take responsibility, but in the end, only Li Wei took the blame. He's practically a saint!"

"Waaaaah! He really did! I'm going to cry my eyes out!"

No one knew about the private deal between Li Wei and Zhongzhou Medicine, so they all assumed that Li Wei was doing such a dangerous thing for the sake of justice and to uphold the laws of Heaven.

As a result, a large number of cultivators spontaneously became fans of Li Wei.

Just then, several online groups such as "Aiwei Society", "Aiwei Forum", and "Aiwei Chat Group" suddenly appeared, quickly attracting many cultivators to enter the forums to discuss everything about Li Wei. The more they learned about this man, the more they admired him.

Born into a third-generation immortal, he rose to prominence through a mutated cultivation path paved with loans. He passed the most difficult immortal examination in history and, after being personally reviewed by Venus, was admitted to the Central State Thunder Academy.

After enrolling, he worked part-time while studying, constantly fighting on the front lines of the Thunder Officials, solving the corruption case and the collapse case of the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm, and participating in the major case of the Evil God's Descendance. Even the Heavenly Emperor's special envoy trusted him greatly, publicly praising him as a talent that even the Heavenly Emperor needed. What kind of protagonist template is this?

Li Wei's life was a life of struggle and hard work!
What's most remarkable is that after experiencing so much, he still hasn't forgotten his original aspirations and continues to defend the Heavenly Court's laws with unwavering passion, risking his life to capture those descendants of gods who are sucking the blood of their ancestors' divine authority!

What kind of Dao heart is this?!

One cultivator, moved to tears, said, "Those fellows in the New Sea Immortal Mansion have long had their initial aspirations for the Dao corrupted by the passage of time! We absolutely cannot allow a good divine official like Inspector Li to be harmed!"

"That's right! We must protect Inspector Li and safeguard the last ray of light in the Heavenly Court's law enforcement!"

Under the guidance of some well-intentioned individuals, many cultivators from various parts of Zhongzhou organized themselves and spontaneously went to Xinhai to participate in the "Protect and Maintain" march, resolutely resisting the sinners who shed divine blood!

And beyond that,
Many other monks with other needs were also guided to New Sea City.

For example, many cultivators who had been cultivating diligently for many years but had difficulty breaking through to higher realms were almost driven mad with anger after seeing the evidence of the illegal trading of cultivation by the descendants of the divine bloodline!
So they immediately went to the gate of the Leifen branch in Xinhai City, holding up various banners and cursing:
"Damn it! It took me over a hundred years to cultivate from the early stage of the Golden Core realm to the middle stage, but these damned descendants of the divine bloodline just rely on their rich families and spend hundreds of millions of cash to reach the middle stage of the Golden Core realm in a minute. If this continues, will we as ascetic cultivators still have a chance to become immortals?"

"That's right! The Heavenly Court has banned cultivation techniques and suppressed our cultivation speed. We have no other way out except to work and buy medicine! But now the rich are directly buying cultivation. Does the Heavenly Law still exist in the Three Realms?!"

"Severely punish the criminals!! Support Inspector Li Wei!"

"Severely punish the criminals!! Support Inspector Li Wei!!!"

"I love Li Wei! I love Li Wei! I love Li Wei!!"

Amidst the protests from the pro-Victoria and pro-punishment factions, groups of nuns were also organized, waving various cheering sticks and constantly screaming towards Lei Bu's side: "Brother Li Wei, you're amazing! We, the Victoria's Secret Fairy Support Group, will always support you!!"

These are all fans of Li Wei's looks; they're simply there to support their idol.

There were at least 30,000 to 40,000 cultivators with various demands, including those who wanted to protect Li Wei, those who wanted to severely punish the criminals, and those who were fans of Li Wei's good looks.

The reporters who hadn't left yet were even more excited by the grand scene, constantly moving through the crowd to conduct interviews, making this news story even more sensational.

Inside the Raid Department building.

After seeing the outside world through the floor-to-ceiling windows of Li Wei's office, Bai Jie couldn't help but swallow hard, feeling a chill run down his spine. He said, "Inspector General, have we gone too far this time?"

Li Wei looked at the crowd below the square and smiled broadly: "Don't be afraid! The bigger the commotion, the more attention we get, the safer we'll be."

These people were originally organized by Li Wei and Lao Xin.

This is to prevent some people from engaging in underhanded tactics!
And now it seems that the effect is indeed very good. Many families with divine bloodlines do not dare to show themselves easily and can only negotiate with Li Wei by phone. All these matters are left to Lao Xinzhi to handle, and he himself is happy to be free.

Looking at the magnificent scene before him, Li Wei's eyes were filled with admiration.

I never imagined that I would one day be considered a good person by others. This world is truly blind.

Just as Li Wei was thinking this,
A beam of golden light descended from the sky and landed on his head.

[Heavenly Title - Deceitful and Impersonating!]

Along with the title came countless golden crystal particles.

Before Li Wei could examine the title closely, he was drawn to the crystal before him, for he could hear countless voices emanating from it, as if someone were sitting cross-legged within these tiny particles, reciting his name.

"What's this?"

Li Wei's eyes suddenly widened, and he couldn't help but tremble all over, because he felt that his body seemed to have undergone some strange change.

Bai Jie, standing next to him, immediately covered his mouth, exclaiming in disbelief, "A crystallization of merit and vows! This is one of the essential elements for becoming a god! You...you...you..."

Aunt Bai was so excited that she couldn't speak.

Willpower!!
That's the power of willpower!!
That bastard is only at the Golden Core stage, how could he possess something like this? What if people found out?
Bai Jie suddenly realized what was happening and hurriedly said, "Quickly hide these things! Don't let anyone find out that you've been worshipped and have gained merit and power!"

(End of this chapter)