Chapter 5071 — Equal Partnership?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 3
"Absolutely. With Wei Zhao at the lead, that Xue Jianming fellow isn't even fit to shine his shoes, yet there he was, putting on that lofty, preening air, and the moment he opened his mouth he wanted Sister Lingshan to go with him—the man's begging for death." Kang Xiaofeng was seething.
"Ah, but there's nothing we can do to reach Leader Wei Zhao right now. Even if we wanted to write him a letter, we've no way to get one to him, let alone ask him to come back here and pull us out of the fire." Wu Chengtian smiled bitterly.
"Distant water can't put out a fire close at hand. This time we'll have to rely on ourselves. Oh, right—we should also let Senior Lin Dongfang know. Who's to say he might not have a way?" Zhao Qilei suddenly clapped a hand to his head.
"Yes, yes!" Everyone nodded at once. Senior Lin Dongfang's performance last time had left a deep impression—he had dealt with several Heaven Grade grand-completion experts as if it were child's play. Perhaps this time he would have a way to handle things too!
"And there's something else. Sister Lingshan, that primordial-spirit cultivator you mentioned—from the sound of it, it's most likely just a pretext the Tai Gu Alliance cooked up to pick a fight. But if it happens to be real, we might be able to make something of it." Wu Chengtian spoke thoughtfully.
"Make something of it how?" Qiu Lingshan didn't catch on right away, and the others all wore looks of confusion as well.
"Think about it, everyone. The Tai Gu Alliance has come on strong, and with the strength of our mortal world, we simply have no power to fight back against them. Even if they have a rule that they cannot disturb the order of the mortal world, rules are dead and people are alive. As long as someone among them takes a notion to, finding a pretext and exploiting a loophole is child's play—and this time that Xue Jianming has already shown signs of exactly that, hasn't he?" said Wu Chengtian.
"Quite right. The man was plainly out to make an issue of it—that much is obvious." Qiu Lingshan nodded.
Using the death of two Tai Gu Alliance disciples as grounds to force his way into the Mystery Bureau, not only compelling the mortal world to conduct an investigation but also seizing the moment to propose selecting outstanding disciples from the mortal world—and even demanding to his face that she come with him—it was clear that Xue Jianming's focus was not on this primordial-spirit cultivator at all. That was purely a pretext.
"So, considering the big picture, it isn't just us here—the cultivators of the entire mortal world will face two choices. Either submit utterly to the tyranny of the Tai Gu Alliance, accept whatever they say, obey in all things and resist in nothing." Wu Chengtian laid out his analysis.
"That's just too infuriating!" Qiu Lingshan and the others all frowned. True, their strength was far inferior to the other side's, but this was the mortal world after all—by what right did the Tai Gu Alliance get to call all the shots?
"Quite right, it is infuriating. Where there is oppression, there is resistance. If the Tai Gu Alliance chooses a soft approach, well and good. But if they find some pretext and simply take what they want by force, I believe the vast majority of the mortal world's cultivation factions will not accept it—especially the ancient sects and great families." Yu Bing nodded.
This was not hard to understand. Better the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix—these people had been exalted masters in the mortal world, lording it over all, and to suddenly be made to bow and scrape and dance to another's tune was a fall no one could adapt to overnight.
Unless the Tai Gu Alliance tore off all pretense and carried out a bloody suppression, washing the mortal world's cultivation factions in blood from top to bottom—only then could they truly cow everyone. Fortunately, there was no sign of that yet.