Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 1409 - 1409 0799 Gold Core Stage Fifth Level

Chapter 1409: Chapter 0799: Gold Core Stage Fifth Level Chapter 1409: Chapter 0799: Gold Core Stage Fifth Level Chapter 0799: Gold Core Stage Fifth Level

This time, Qi Tian’s message didn’t vanish into thin air like the last one; shortly after he sent it, he received a reply from Xiao Xiaowu. Xiao Xiaowu informed Qi Tian that he would be traveling to Capital City in the near future, and then he would provide explanations and accounts to Qi Tian regarding the series of events that had occurred at Imperial Master Mansion.

Xiao Xiaowu arrived quite swiftly. On the third day after Qi Tian received the message, Xiao Xiaowu, accompanied by more than a dozen people, rushed to Capital City.

Upon meeting Qi Tian, Xiao Xiaowu immediately had the dozen people who came with him kneel before Qi Tian, and then Xiao Xiaowu offered some explanations.

Previously, Qi Tian had forcibly elevated Guan Xun to the Gold Core Realm and assigned him as the acting Mansion Master of Imperial Master Mansion. This appointment, though supported by a portion of people within the mansion, was met with more opposition. After all, Guan Xun lacked a solid foundation within Imperial Master Mansion. People remembered his unremarkable performance among the outer disciples, he had even been eliminated, and it was only by clinging to Qi Tian that he had risen to his current status. Whether out of disdain or jealousy, these people were never fully cooperative with Guan Xun’s work in the National Master Manor.

Though Guan Xun had been forcibly promoted to the Gold Core Realm by Qi Tian, his mentality had not shifted accordingly. He didn’t treat those who opposed him too harshly, sometimes even indulging them, which led to them taking even greater liberties and increasingly disregarding Guan Xun. Their behavior was kept in check solely due to the cultivation level Guan Xun possessed.

However, after Qi Tian left Great Zhao Nation with his followers, more and more cultivators from outside entered Great Zhao Nation. Inevitably, Imperial Master Mansion was affected. A portion of those dissatisfied with Guan Xun started colluding with these foreign cultivators, resulting in a sneak attack on Guan Xun. Outnumbered, Guan Xun was wounded and forced to flee Imperial Master Mansion.

At that point, the foreign cultivators intended to take over Imperial Master Mansion. The mansion’s members came to their senses and began to struggle against these outsiders. Initially, the mansion was at a disadvantage without Guan Xun, a Gold Core Realm fighter. They were no match for the foreign cultivators. Fortunately, when Qi Tian was choosing a new site for Imperial Master Mansion, in anticipation of unforeseen events, he had expended great effort installing several powerful formations. It was these formations that allowed Imperial Master Mansion to inflict heavy casualties on the foreign cultivators.

Realizing that they couldn’t easily take advantage, the foreign cultivators altered their tactics and opened negotiations with Imperial Master Mansion. In order to expedite the withdrawal of the foreign cultivators, Imperial Master Mansion made considerable concessions, compensating the cultivators with numerous cultivation resources, thereby securing peace.

All of this was a stain on their honor, which is why when Qi Tian returned to Imperial Master Mansion with Xiao Xiaowu, everyone from top to bottom, under Xiao Xiaowu’s interrogation, kept silent. They had no face to see Qi Tian, much less to recount what had transpired at Imperial Master Mansion to Qi Tian and Xiao Xiaowu themselves.

It took Xiao Xiaowu considerable effort to ascertain the full story. Upon learning of these matters, he was so enraged that he could have ascended to the heavens or attained Nirvana. He had not expected that these carefully selected high-ranking members of Imperial Master Mansion would behave well normally but betray such weakness when the mansion truly faced a life-or-death situation. In-house disputes, collusion with outsiders, victory in battle, yet offering recompense to the enemy – they brought utter disgrace upon Imperial Master Mansion.

Xiao Xiaowu wished he could crush those responsible to death on the spot. However, he restrained his anger. First, he took a considerable amount of time to find and return with Guan Xun to Imperial Master Mansion. Then, he publicly announced taking in Guan Xun as his personal disciple and explicitly declared Guan Xun the Young Mansion Master of Imperial Master Mansion, granting him authority over all the mansion’s affairs.

Dealing with this matter alone took Xiao Xiaowu several days, so much so that he didn’t have the opportunity to reply to Qi Tian’s first Message Paper Crane. Of course, at that time, he didn’t know how to respond to Qi Tian’s message.

Now that the situation was resolved, Xiao Xiaowu left Guan Xun in charge of Imperial Master Mansion and only brought the dozen responsible parties to Capital City to apologize to Qi Tian.

These weren’t all the people involved but merely a representation of those who had opposed Guan Xun’s appointment as acting Mansion Master. As for the cultivators who colluded with outsiders, not one was present. It wasn’t that Xiao Xiaowu didn’t want to bring them – most had perished in the fighting between Imperial Master Mansion and the foreign cultivators. The few who did survive had fled from Imperial Master Mansion and dared not stay on.

Xiao Xiaowu allowed Qi Tian to decide the fate of these dozen individuals – whether to kill or skin them, to beat or berate them was entirely at Qi Tian’s discretion. He had no objections.