Your Lord Has A Screw Loose?
Chapter 707 - 709: Are You Going to Ally with Emperor Qian to Fight Against the Lord of the Endless Abyss?

Chapter 707 -709: Are You Going to Ally with Emperor Qian to Fight Against the Lord of the Endless Abyss?

“What is She Xi up to now?” Qin Muye looked at the letter sent to him through some channels, unable to make up his mind for a moment.

The gist of it was that he wanted to defect from darkness to light, claiming that although he was of the Snake-man Clan, his heart belonged to the Human Clan. He also revealed to Qin Muye that besides their Snake-man Clan, there was another force hidden in the world called the Endless Abyss. This force had ambitious plans, daring even to strike at the Snake Father.

He himself was deeply entangled in it, but had borne the humiliation to steal a great deal of intelligence for Qin Muye, all to help him exterminate the place known as You Si and the Endless Abyss.

“He isn’t planning to set one against another and then reap the benefits, is he?” Although the letter seemed sincere, making Qin Muye see him as a talent, had it not been for the Endless Abyss, he might have been truly deceived.

“So through what channels did this letter really come?” Qin Muye asked.

“A merchant group bought by She Xi on the surface, which he remotely controlled. Although he acted covertly, our people caught him, and all the members of the merchant group have been detained,” the Sound Transmission Tube·Evangelical Spirit Monster recited the intelligence and the outcome verbatim.

“Well, these merchants are really willing to serve the Alien Clan for money. Handle it, replace the man with a Spirit Monster, and see what She Xi is up to,” Qin Muye squinted his eyes, not minding playing this game with She Xi.

Looking at the situation, he surely wanted to make use of the fate of the Great Qian Country. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have approached him, particularly since his current position was very stable.

A month ago, She Xi had successfully conducted the ritual using the signal jammer provided by Qin Muye. Of course, the embarrassment and power struggles he had imagined did not occur; instead, everything went smoothly, and even the High Priest abruptly resigned and fled, all very different from what She Xi had suspiciously concocted.

This left She Xi completely bewildered, even disrupting his subsequent plans.

However, contrary to this, the reclamation of power went smoothly, and the position of the High Priest of You Si remains vacant to this very moment. She Xi probably intended to put that position on hold, preventing any Snake-man from obtaining it.

The former High Priest of You Si was a common, not foolish, Snake-man. Seeing the situation clearly, power had been monopolized by She Xi, and with the Snake Father pressuring him, he plainly resigned. Otherwise, why would he openly confront She Xi? Even if he wanted to, it would require sufficient strength.

The Snake Father did not grant the former High Priest of You Si the strength, making him inherently weak. Moreover, with the power borrowed by She Xi from Qin Muye, anyone with a bit of brains would know how to choose. She Xi didn’t personally kill him because of considerations, but taking a seat as the High Priest of You Si would be akin to seeking death.

It was precisely because of this that She Xi was able to so easily reclaim the authority, with the former High Priest willingly stepping aside.

“So, do you want to reply, or shall we have Shadow write it?” the Evangelical Spirit Monster asked.

“Let Shadow write it. He has the experience. Also, have the people from Suspended Mirror Bureau check if there are any other forces serving Snake-man. I just can’t believe that She Xi only communicated with one merchant group; there must be more secrets hidden,” Qin Muye proposed.

Qin Muye also noticed that, although it had been two years since the Alien Clan matter, it had not much affected the regions outside the Imperial City; in some places, despite being aware of the propaganda, there wasn’t much concern.

After all, it was too far away to be perceived directly.

If anyone in the Imperial City dared to secretly communicate with the Alien Clan and got caught, they’d likely be smashed to pulp on the spot.

As someone who had experienced it firsthand, though he wouldn’t say it felt like yesterday, the memories were still vivid after two years.

Because the core of the Alien Clan was in the Imperial City, the impact caused by the four Barbarian tribes entering Qian at that time was felt mostly there. Thanks to the Iron Blood Army’s proper clean-up, only places with a lot of intellectuals suffered, while other areas fared relatively well.

As for the more remote and border regions, they didn’t feel much belonging to Great Qian, and although there had been some improvements over the past two years, one shouldn’t overlook the past simply because they were being treated better in the present; after all, just a few years earlier, the land was rife with corruption.

“Alright, but this might be hard to investigate. The majority of the Suspended Mirror Bureau’s staff currently lack professional discipline and rely more on force,” the Evangelical Spirit Monster conveyed Shadow’s message.

Most of the people in the Suspended Mirror Bureau were decent members of the Green Forest, which is to say, those Rangers who barely managed to rob the rich to help the poor, the tallest ones among the short.

Although they had undergone training, their primary role was to maintain regional balance, which generally involved deploying a well-connected constable with great social skills. Their first approach would be to try to win people over, and if the local bandits refused, they’d simply kill them and settle the matter.

The current responsibilities of the Suspended Mirror Bureau were executed in this way, in coordination with local personnel to maintain public order.

Given the vast territory of Great Qian and the shortage of staff in the Suspended Mirror Bureau, it was quite an accomplishment. Otherwise, what more could be done? It couldn’t just sweep across the world in three days; that would require a Spirit Monster.

“The operational capabilities of the Suspended Mirror Bureau need to be improved… well, the capabilities of the entire four pillars of Great Qian need improvement. Consider the Qintian Bureau’s Historian, whose main function today is to provide support in battle, a complete deviation from his official role. Even though he has the ‘Myriad Clan Chronicles’ Martial Arts techniques, with only the Snake-man Clan left alive, having something useful wouldn’t have resulted in being sent out on assignments,” Qin Muye also added a complaint.

The cultivation levels of Martial Arts in this world still left a bit to be desired, with only two years of development and managing to have someone reach the Fifth Realm was already impressive.

The difficulty would only increase going forward. Qin Muye had only theorized up to the Sixth Realm, which involved the Innate countering the Acquired. It might seem a bit improper to have the Grandmaster Realm followed by the Innate Realm, but no matter, he had set the rules. Anyone with objections were welcome to seek him out; he guaranteed he wouldn’t kill them.

For Wang Kai, the Qintian Bureau’s Historian, reaching the Innate countered by the Acquired also had a long way to go. Even in a nine-level world, there had to be some logic unless Qin Muye intervened to help. Otherwise, it would take about twenty years of training for Wang Kai to achieve it on his own.

Starting from the Fourth Realm, Martial Artists had already differentiated themselves from ordinary people, capable of mobilizing the Primordial Qi of heaven and earth with every gesture. It was only because Wang Kai spent two years deepening his studies in the Primordial Dragon plan that he could smoothly enter the Fifth Realm. Otherwise, the qualitative transformation from the Fourth to the Fifth Realm alone would likely have taken at least a decade.

Like the other three members of Great Qian’s four pillars, they still struggled to grasp the Grandmaster Realm of the Fifth Realm and probably needed much more time.

Fundamentals were all about innovation; one had to possess their own unique Cultivation Techniques, carving out a unique place within Martial Arts, setting a distinct mark. Otherwise, how could one be called a Grandmaster?

Fortunately, Qin Muye did not need the military support of the four pillars of Great Qian since Martial Arts were barely emerging. Aside from the Snake-man Clan, there really wasn’t much of a threat.

“The training that needed to be done has been done. Once on the job, they can only rely on themselves, after all, we’re not nannies,” the Evangelical Spirit Monster continued from where Qin Muye left off.

Although most of the power now concentrated in the hands of Qin Muye’s Spirit Monsters, in reality, it was consciously nurturing a new generation. However, this was limited to training and did not include after-sales service. How capable they became after training completion had nothing to do with them. They couldn’t necessarily keep giving forever.

If they really were to give to the extreme, it wouldn’t involve walking ten thousand li, but rather sending them rapidly to the Western Heaven.

“Fine, let the shadow closely monitor it from now,” Qin Muye said, then immersed himself in studying the Destiny Dynasty system. The data collection was almost complete, and probably in another year or two, a complete project could be formed for experimentation.

The difficulty of researching this system was still significant; after all, it was capable of influencing a ninth-level order, even suppressing the ninth-level of death, which was quite formidable.

If the Destiny Dynasty system had been on the Magic Continent Server back then, the Matron of all species wouldn’t have thought about resurrection and would have just stayed put in death.

Qin Muye speculated that if he really enhanced the Spirit Monsters, perhaps stacking all the Spirit Monsters of the Endless Abyss might be enough to injure a ninth-level entity, limited to injuring. Beyond that, what could possibly be done? With an eighth-level damaging a ninth-level, it was already challenging enough.

If it were truly possible to overpower and kill a ninth-level being, the Destiny Dynasty system wouldn’t possibly have been ruined by the Alien Clan in such a manner.

However, it might be a different story if Qin Muye modified it.

After all, Spirit Monsters could perhaps become ninth-level, but only if Qin Muye became stronger, since the Spirit Monsters were his creations, not his cheats.