I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 486 - 379: New - _2

Chapter 486: Chapter 379: New Chapter_2

Qi Xiangyun rolled her eyes at Lin Yaoyao, "Why would you want to do that? I want to be a Dusk mercenary in the future too. After conquering the world, wouldn’t I be even more tied down?"

As for the thoughts of those Diviners? They can have their thoughts, but she didn’t want to be held hostage by them. Why should she have to act according to the Diviners’ thoughts? Diviners are just employees, not beings that can plan Heaven’s Mandate. Once she understood the true nature of Diviners, she wouldn’t be fooled by them.

Since the Diviners have come to her side, they should just honestly work, an employee wanting to control the boss? What a joke.

"Are you trying to eliminate a competitor by any chance?" Qi Xiangyun said with a sharp gaze fixed on Lin Yaoyao.

Lin Yaoyao looked out the window, "Ahem, Brother Chang Qing still hasn’t returned, and some of the princes and nobility are getting restless. What do you plan to do about it?"

"Let them be restless, I have no plans on cooperating with them," Qi Xiangyun shook her head. The collective pressure from some of the princes and nobility wasn’t to attack Qi Family Town. The princes and nobility weren’t that foolish, nor did they want to become the talk of the town because of this.

Their main reason for coming here was ’cooperation’, the princes and nobility wanted to ally with Qi Family Town to search for traces of the Supreme Demon and to acquire the treasures left after its demise. Qi Family Town would become the primary collaborator, as those princes and nobility wished to leverage the Daughter of Heaven’s Mandate’s fate to achieve their goals.

"There won’t be a shortage of rumors and gossip..."

"Ah, I’m so sick of all this," Qi Xiangyun slammed her hand on the table, "I’m still a child in Brother Chang Qing’s world, why do I have to deal with these troublesome matters? Otherwise, just like Hong Zhao said, just kill all of them, even if it ends up benefiting some prince, it’s better than the way things are now!"

Lin Yaoyao looked at Qi Xiangyun, whose mood had suddenly exploded, and after being stunned for a moment she said, "Have you found the right person then? I’ll help you."

"Hmm, let me check first..." Qi Xiangyun pulled a stack of documents out of the drawer. It contained information on various princes and nobility, not too detailed, the kind that every prince would basically have a copy of.

As she looked at the information, she first ruled out the previous dynasty. Her fondness for the former dynasty was one of the lowest. They were too arrogant when they initially appeared, wanting them to marry into the previous dynasty and acting as if it was a great honor that they were bestowing upon ’common women’.

Only after interacting with Diviners did she realize how disgusting the plans of the previous dynasty were. The past dynasty wasn’t worth a dog, at that time the former dynasty was merely interested in their Heaven’s Mandate fate, attempting to freeload their fate-granted ’dowries’ without giving anything in return.

With Heaven’s Mandate on their side, the former dynasty could stand out from the competition between princes and restore the glory of the former dynasty.

She never had much affection for the former dynasty, and after learning these deeper motives, her affection for the former dynasty plummeted to freezing point. It’s fine to use some tactics to revive the dynasty, but don’t blame others for their attitude after being exposed.

And now among the princes and nobility gathered here was the former dynasty.

If she really considered starting a massacre, the forces of the former dynasty would definitely be within her preferred range. But she had to admit one thing, although she had no fondness for the former dynasty, it had the treasury of the dynasty, was developing rapidly, and the civilians within its borders were also among the best off.

Also, it had the most population; after all, this area was under the rule of the dynasty before the calamity struck. After the calamity faded, the former dynasty stepped forward, and with the legacy it had left, ordinary people tended to choose allegiance to the former dynasty.

Moreover, the former dynasty had not been inactive in using the Demon Flower disaster for propaganda. Although they didn’t outright claim they ’solved’ the disaster, the tales of how much effort they put in during the disaster and how many calamities they prevented were plentiful. Not a word said it was they who resolved the disaster, but it seemed as if the Demon Flower disaster was solved by them all the same.

Of course, many other nobles had followed the former dynasty’s example, scrambling to claim credit, those with cultural heritage crafted rumors like the former dynasties’—appearing very ’modest and low-profile’ while maximizing effect. The poorer examples were those who blatantly waved their banners, telling others that without them, the Demon Flower disaster couldn’t have been resolved or wouldn’t have been as easy to resolve.

This one actually had a bit of a brain and didn’t directly claim that they were the ones who resolved the Demon Flower disaster. Such an outrageous boast wouldn’t be believed by anyone.

Now it seemed as though every one of the princes and nobility had been the main force in resolving the Demon Flower disaster, and the ’legitimate’ bickering over the matter never stopped.

While a major war hadn’t broken out, the war of words was relentless with new stories concocted today and evidence surfacing tomorrow to debunk them.

Even without the internet in this world, the bits and pieces of information Qi Xiangyun got her hands on made her feel stuffed from gorging on melons.

She had no good feelings toward these princes—they could all make it onto her hit list. Initially, she had witnessed Zheng Yichen’s efforts in eradicating the Demon Flower and knew how hard the whole process had been. In order to eradicate the Demon Flower, Brother Chang Qing had come close to being killed by Battle Maniac Asura.

Now that the disaster was gone, did everyone suddenly become as brave as Lü Bu?

Choosing the lucky ones wouldn’t be possible from these powers either, so the stack of documents in his hands had shrunk significantly. It wasn’t as if there were no princes who hadn’t tried to exploit the Demon Flower disaster for fame; it was just that there were too few of them, not even one-tenth of the known princes.

"How about these?" Qi Xiangyun placed the remaining list of names on the table and said.

Lin Yaoyao casually picked up a list and glanced at it, "Could this be a bit too unreliable? Those chasing clout might be shameful, but at least they have the guts to fight. These people could be described as low-profile, but in these chaotic times, not striving for more could mean they won’t develop much further. You’re not planning to be a nanny, are you? If so, you might as well step in yourself."

Qi Xiangyun’s mouth twitched, "A weaker position is still a weaker position. I can’t stand those who make a fuss over the Demon Flower disaster!">

Lin Yaoyao nodded, "I can’t stand them either."

After all, weren’t they the true participants in this matter? Although during the whole process they were responsible for the chatter and Zheng Yichen took on the messy killing, they were the witnesses to the entire event. The stories they were involved in weren’t as exaggerated as those made up by others.

It was made out to be like the Supreme Demon war. Although there indeed was a battle between the Supreme Demons at the end, which did match some of the story’s content, ultimately it wasn’t the Supreme Demons that put an end to the disaster.

"Shall we pick one from this lot then? But before we decide, you better investigate thoroughly; in case the chosen one gets the wrong idea, you’re going to have to deal with it."

"Like the ’life illusions’ mentioned in the storybooks Brother Chang Qing brought over?" Qi Xiangyun pondered, not ruling out such a possibility. She waved her hand, "If it can make the transition for the common folk a bit smoother, it’s okay to switch someone out later. I don’t want Brother Chang Qing to misunderstand because of something like this."

Afterward, the two fell silent. After a while, Lin Yaoyao began to laugh, "Hahaha, the things we’re discussing now, aren’t they a bit too far-fetched, deciding so many matters in this small study?"

Qi Xiangyun couldn’t help but laugh as well, "Yeah... Although it wouldn’t be difficult for us to do such things, the key is still the common people."

Without the common people, some things would’ve been done just for the sake of doing them. But with the involvement of the common people, many concerns arise when attempting certain actions. As Lin Yaoyao said, if she were also to get involved in the struggle for dominance, it wouldn’t matter; she could simply take in all the commoners afterward and even expand her own power.

But she had no intention of doing so, making it a burden. Just managing Qi Family Town was already draining enough of her energy. What was the fight for domination compared to being a Dusk mercenary and frequently visiting Brother Chang Qing in the future?

She was indifferent to the nobility’s desire for domination. As long as Qi Family Town returned to its former peace after the world settled, that would suffice. But those people always wanted to drag them into their mess.