A Sixth-Order Evil God Loli Yasha (Thanks to "Handsome Void" for Becoming a Patron!)

Hearing Old Tang's words, Qiu Tu could not help but freeze for a moment.

To be honest, although Qiu Tu had reported that Old Pang might be a mole because he wanted to quietly earn some merit and enter the Shelter's upper ranks, he had not expected Old Tang to give any response.

After all, the most important thing for a country was not development, but stability. And among all forms of stability, political stability was the most important.

After all, if the lower levels were unstable, they could be bought off or suppressed. There were many ways to solve that.

But if the upper levels were unstable, it could lead to internal strife at best and fragmentation at worst.

And... the higher a person's status rose, the greater their "freedom" became.

Take Qiu Tu, for example. He associated with Evil Gods and used them to secure benefits for the Shelter. If someone at the level of a bureau chief or department chief did that, they would be directly purged by the iron fist.

But at his current status, with his strength, influence, position, and power all having risen, he had also gained a certain degree of say within the Shelter.

Then the Shelter's leaders would carefully consider his actions.

Even as a prospective council speaker, Qiu Tu possessed such authority. Old Pang, who held "shares" in the Shelter, had even more leeway.

Old Pang was the leader of the "Academic Faction," one of the Shelter's six giants. His students were everywhere, and he held enormous influence within the "Academic Faction."

A figure like that already stood at the pinnacle of the Human Faction. The limits of his "freedom" were nearly boundless.

As long as they had not sold out the Human Faction's "core secrets," any other actions could be