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Chapter 671 - 671 671 This Is Getting Chaotic

671: Chapter 671 This Is Getting Chaotic 671: Chapter 671 This Is Getting Chaotic In the Xuanwu Territory, ever since Zhao Guang had left, a power had begun to secretly stir.

No, it wasn’t just one power, but many forces were secretly active.

To this, Xi Fei and others seemed oblivious, as if all their energy was focused on the development and construction of their territory.

Hence, these people grew increasingly bold.

Gradually, some people started organizing special organizations, forming various underground societies.

These societies began causing disturbances everywhere and, due to their existence, the public order in the entire territory started to disintegrate.

Additionally, the development of the territory was relatively recent, so there were few soldiers, most of whom were still in training.

There were too few public security personnel, and as the chaos in the territory escalated, more and more people began to voice their grievances.

The major merchants, however, remained inactive, as they were more experienced and worldly.

They knew what a powerful Great Mage represented and hence dared not act rashly.

But it was different for the smaller merchants and some commoners.

After they had just settled down in Xuanwu Territory, they found it very easy to be swayed in their thinking.

Especially when they saw some people benefiting from various means without being punished.

Some people’s courage started to grow gradually, initially spreading from minor villages and towns, becoming increasingly severe.

As time passed, some realized that the initial benefits they reaped were insignificant as the environment turned chaotic, and their quality of life began to visibly deteriorate.

With this decline in quality of life, their dissatisfaction only mounted.

Since the territory had not taken any measures against them, these individuals became increasingly arrogant.

“How is it, have those people started acting yet?”

Xi Fei sat in her seat, the highest position was left vacant, for that seat belonged to Zhao Guang.

Qiao Miya, seated below, spoke up, “Not yet, but it feels like it could be soon.

The Temple folks have been very active lately, and it seems most of the disturbances are instigated by them.”

“Very well, proceed according to our plan.

Do not bother with them openly.”

Qiao Miya nodded slightly; they had already discussed this.

After all, they absolutely controlled the territory and could manage many things with slight adjustments.

Perhaps they didn’t understand these at first, but the talents brought by Zhao Guang were very familiar with these matters.

The result was that initially, those causing trouble could gain some benefits, but with their secret manipulations, the instigators would definitely end up worse off.

However, such adjustments could directly counter an entire region.

The affected weren’t just the instigators, but also many innocent people around them.

But now, for their own purposes, some impact on those people was unavoidable.

After all, even if impacted, those who would be blamed were only those who had caused the disturbances.

“According to this document, it seems some people are contacting outsiders, and activity has been increasing in the southern territories lately,” Qiao Miya presented a document and began to speak.

“The south?

Aren’t they still dealing with the Undead Mage’s move south?”

“That’s true, but it’s said that many powerful individuals are reluctant to confront the Undead Mage directly, not to mention there are some internal issues now.

So their current focus is on dealing with their own people internally.”

Xi Fei was somewhat puzzled, as she couldn’t understand the rationale behind these actions.

However, all they needed to do was to round up some individuals and intimidate others.

“Record everything, list all those causing trouble, and when the time comes, arrest them and turn them into slaves, the kind that are never released,” Xi Fei’s approach to dealing with these people was completely different from Zhao Guang’s.

Qiao Miya greatly agreed with this, as indeed some people were unforgivable.

Secretly, they had already prepared various means, just waiting for the troublemakers to start bigger disturbances.

Gradually, as these people stirred up trouble, the entire territory began to descend into chaos.

Perhaps it wasn’t evident on the surface, but delving deeper, one would find chaos everywhere.

Some newly arrived refugees felt a stark contrast between the reality of the turmoil here and what they had heard previously.

But now, there was no turning back, as the refugees who had arrived here had no choice but to stay.

Meanwhile, some of the underground organizations had finally started to emerge.

Upon investigating, even Xi Fei and her associates found it incredible.

Among these people, there were those backed by major territories and nobles, all eager to monitor Xuanwu Territory while also profiting from it.

It was undeniable that the elements Zhao Guang introduced were indeed alluring.

While Zhao Guang was absent, their goal was to climb to high positions within the territory.

Once the high positions in the territory were almost fully occupied, even if Zhao Guang, the Lord, returned, he would be unable to clean up.

This was their reasoning, or rather, among conventional tactics, this was one of the most effective.

Meanwhile, there were many rival nobles involved, such as those from two Prince factions.

No, even people from the Second Princess faction were involved, with a simple motive of merely causing destruction.

Lately, even some special industries had been impacted.

Though it was just ordinary people causing the disturbances, it was clear that some aimed to target these industries for attack.

There were also people from the King’s faction, although they intended to cooperate with Zhao Guang, they, too, harbored ideas of secretly controlling the Xuanwu Territory.

Now, with the ongoing chaos, these people had all jumped in.

But the most severe troublemakers were still those from outside, especially those sent by Marquis Coruas.

Because a large portion of the local commoners originally came from the territory of Marquis Coruas as refugees, and also from the surrounding subordinate territories, Marquis Coruas still had significant influence over them.

Now that a group of people outside had begun to rally, some of the original refugees joined them.

While still in Xuanwu Territory, their behavior was entirely different from before.

Seeing this kind of behavior made it tempting for Xi Fei to want to teach these scoundrels a lesson if not for Zhao Guang’s control.

When the master returns, she definitely needs to report all their actions to him.

However, it was not yet time to shut down the operations, as there were still some people observing the situation.

At the same time, these troublemakers hadn’t caused enough havoc yet, and there was still a lack of evidence to clean them up.