"You may find this unbelievable, but it was no lie, because I experienced it firsthand—" Gongshu Feng took a deep breath and slowly recounted that experience. "Yongding City's order was never replicated elsewhere. Those Bureau of Military Affairs branches that temporarily took over governing power were no better than the old government offices—if anything, they were even more chaotic and more brutal. To those people, Qi State was a completely foreign land, a perfect opportunity to indulge their desires without worrying about any oversight or impeachment."
Chu Pu opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but the words lodged in her throat.
Treating refugees as goods to be plundered and sold?
Hunting down common people in the countryside simply because they refused to become slaves?
How could Sorcery Art practitioners of the Bureau of Military Affairs do such things?
No... she did know. There had always been an atmosphere within the Bureau of Military Affairs: only Qi Sense Users counted as their own kind. Tracing it back, it went all the way to the Yong Dynasty. Though every generation of Seven Stars had tried to erase this sense of division, even among the Seven-Star Envoys themselves, complete unity had never been achieved.
After all, awakening the ability to sense qi meant gaining power ordinary people could never imagine. How could Sorcery Art practitioners and common folk possibly possess true equality?
That left Chu Pu unable to offer any rebuttal.
Because she had never truly considered this question before. Sorcery Art was everything; nothing else mattered. But now that she thought about it, without the restraints of the Yongding Bureau of Military Affairs, it was hardly surprising what these Sorcery Art practitioners might do.
"Then everyone here... was part of Liuzhou's rebel army?"
"My lord!"
"They were only—"
Chu Pu raised