Above The Sky
Chapter 1072: 141 Mortals and Sages (Part 1 of 2 Big Chapters, Xiawei Territory Plot Ends, Thanks to Alliance Leader Flying Heart Like an Arrow!)_8

Chapter 1072: Chapter 141 Mortals and Sages (Part 1 of 2 Big Chapters, Xiawei Territory Plot Ends, Thanks to Alliance Leader Flying Heart Like an Arrow!)_8

“Yes. Undertaking large-scale infrastructure and education, combined with gradual industrial upgrading, is the best way to maintain employment, taxation, and economic circulation in the territory—it’s also laying the groundwork for the long-term expansion of production in the future.”

Rising from the stone, Ian lifted his head and looked towards the sky.

“Scott.”

He said calmly, “What I want from my territory and domain residents is not a group of primitive mountain tribes, nor a seemingly prosperous city that feeds on people’s blood and bones. I don’t want a herd of ignorant yes-men, nor do I want sycophants who only echo my decisions.”

“What I want is a group of independent thinkers with individuality, a population that has undergone higher education. I want an entire set of advanced laboratories, inhabited by scholars educated through the most advanced educational systems. I want a group of well-fed, well-clothed free individuals who can support me in doing anything, living in the most advanced, thriving metropolis.”

“I want their minds. I want their wealth. I want their lives and future to forge my dreams.”

“Scott, do you understand?”

The young man turned his head back.

Scott saw those eyes.

Just like nine years ago, those eyes shimmering with aquamarine light.

Rather than the perfect, art-like face, or the power strong enough to influence the surrounding Natural Spiritual Energy Field, what Scott noticed first was still those eyes… those ever-constant, radiant as the sun, never confused and never hesitant eyes.

Facing those eyes, Scott’s body trembled slightly… not from fear, but from excitement.

——Ian is extraordinary——

He understood from nine years back that he was fortunate enough to have found someone he could follow for life and never regret.

A sage who could transform ordinary people, enabling them to shine as well.

“I understand.”

Thus, the Iron Folk rose. Facing his lord, he solemnly declared, “My lord, your will is my direction!”

“Don’t feel too pressured, just do whatever comes to your mind when I’m not around. I trust you, and I’ll forgive you even if you’re wrong.”

Facing the suddenly serious Scott, Ian waved dismissively with a bit of amusement, “We aren’t the kind of high-pressure organization that doesn’t forgive mistakes. The ones I trust are few, so of course, I allow you to make mistakes—I make mistakes myself.”

“Just like this time, Scott, when you asked me about Thunder Sect’s Sublimation Skills, you need to personally endure one attack to learn it… Many things cannot be understood without making mistakes.”

“Sometimes, it’s through such learning, enduring the assaults of life, that one learns important things.”

——The assaults of life.

Scott pondered on this phrase.

Even as Ian departed the Xiawei Territory, headed to Nauman City to board the ship to Canaan Moore, Scott was still reflecting on this phrase.

Indeed. Life is constantly attacking everyone who is alive. It is through the repeated assaults of life that he gradually developed his current personality.

He doesn’t want the elderly to die so abruptly. He doesn’t want people to be attacked by Magical Beasts, to disappear due to accidents. He doesn’t want people to suffer from war again.

Each assault from life spurs the formation of dreams.

To let everyone live peacefully, he still has much to do.

“My lord doesn’t specifically intend to do this—it’s just that his dreams require a prosperous territory and a group of well-fed, educated people.”

Standing by the window of the top floor of the town hall, Scott watched Ian’s carriage gradually recede until it disappeared at the end of the road: “I don’t know his true dream, but it surely must be something grand like the Arcane Pathway that can change the world.”

“And I can help him.”

Ian is always busy. Ian always has many things to do.

He’s always moving from place to place, always unable to rest.

So, Scott too cannot stop.

For Ian’s wish, for the wish of one who can change the world.

For the wish of the Pioneer.

——Yes. I finally understand.

He thought, as a smile appeared on his face.

——The reason I came into this world was to follow him in changing the world.