Initially, Yu Ci was indeed uninterested in the competition for Taishi Star.
In his view, the true "scholarship" had already been completed during the earlier side-choosing and the negotiations among the top brass of the Xiyu Alliance. All he needed to do was to make an appearance in the final talisman combat and defeat his opponent.
Yet judging by the current situation, matters were still subject to change!
Xue Pingzhi said softly, "I wonder if those people's target is several of the void worlds, or if it falls upon Flying Soul City itself?"
This remark went straight to the core of the problem.
If it fell upon the void worlds, it could only be regarded as dissatisfaction among certain people and factions with the distribution of shares among the truly core upper echelons of the Xiyu Alliance, wanting to pull some strings behind the scenes.
If it fell upon Flying Soul City, then that person's appetite could not be satisfied by a mere few void worlds.
However, Yu Ci felt that the latter possibility was much greater.
If it were merely petty scuffles in the void worlds, it would at most be like Zhengyi Dao and the Sea Merchant Guild making some transactions behind the scenes, and they would never deliberately provoke a giant like Madam Xia.
Only by harboring a stronger and more explicit purpose would someone directly shake the authority and prestige of Madam Xia.
Even so, two possibilities diverged within it.
One was simply seizing power and usurping authority, which would be the internal affairs of Flying Soul City. Of course, there would certainly be participation from various sects of the Xiyu Alliance, but it would ultimately remain within the framework of the Xiyu Alliance.
As for the other, it was like Zhai Que'er and Su Shuanghe,