"Your Excellency truly sees everything coming. The moment the news spread, those greedy bastards really couldn't hold themselves back, just as you predicted!"
"The Demon Suppression Division hasn't made a move, but I hear some civilian Gu controllers have already started heading for Nanchuan County!"
Deep within the prefectural city,
inside a grand mansion of carved balustrades and jade-like ornamentation, a slick, worldly middle-aged steward stood bowing respectfully, fawning over the eminent figure seated at the head.
"Your Excellency only needed to wave your hand lightly, and that ignorant brat was doomed to fall into a fate of ten thousand calamities. Better yet, the boy is surrounded on all sides and still has no idea!"
"I'm afraid that brat won't understand until the day he dies that everything was manipulated behind the scenes by Your Excellency!"
"Magnificent! Your Excellency's scheme is so profound that it's truly breathtaking!"
The steward stood below, bent at the waist, his face wreathed in smiles as he flattered him.
Upon hearing this, the eminent figure seated at the head curled his lips into an almost imperceptible sneer, but did not respond at once.
He leisurely took a sip of tea, his eyes gleaming with inexplicable confidence, his face wearing an expression that suggested everything was under control.
"Some lowly people think that merely grasping a little hodgepodge of strange powers will let them climb to the heights and become superior people."
"Heh, what a joke!"
"Those above rack their brains; those below exhaust their strength. Anyone who doesn't know how to use his mind will spend his entire life as nothing more than a tool that some eminent figure can discard at will!"
Recalling what he had encountered in that shabby rural city, the eminent figure still felt deeply displeased, even though more than a