"...That was more or less the situation," Aura explained to the three people present. "That Zhicheng Shuang wanted to perform brain and soul surgery on everyone in the present world, thereby preventing the birth of Hollows."
"...Leaving aside whether he was insane, didn't he know humans couldn't survive without negative emotions?" Chengzi said with a frown. "A creature that lost its desires lost the drive to move forward. If he cut away humanity's desires, it would be no different from racial annihilation." When Yan Limei entered the yamen and saw Prince Ming, she tossed the disheveled person before her onto the ground as if throwing away garbage.
"What! Damn it, Bean Sprout, take this!" An arm infused with lightning- and fire-natured chakra swept toward him.
This left us in a dilemma. If we went out, the strange thing we were looking for was inside, but we couldn't see it. If we stayed here, we wanted to go outside and find out what was happening, to see whether those brothers had any good news to report.
Jian Qing Yisheng also looked at his wife in surprise. Although they had reached an agreement not to defect to Fanxing, refusing Qi He was still a difficult matter. He hadn't expected Jian Qing Yishi to step forward at this moment, seemingly quite confident.
However, vague reports of troubling events came in. A rebellion had recently broken out in Yichuan, Shaanxi. The insurgents had captured Yanchuan and killed quite a few people, though Yichuan's county magistrate had fled to Yan'an Prefecture. But he had not escaped punishment. As the magistrate had a duty to defend his territory, the court stripped him of his office and had him escorted to the capital, apparently intending to make an example of him according to the law.
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