Qi Dao paused, then smiled. "I thought Spirit Hall's ultimate goal was to abolish the two empires and establish a Spirit Hall Empire."
Qian Renxue rolled her eyes at him. "You think governing a country is that easy?"
"At the end of the day, Spirit Hall is just a Soul Master organization. Soul Masters are far fewer than ordinary people, and finding capable administrators among them is harder still."
"If we put Soul Masters from Spirit Hall in charge of everything, the country could fall into chaos."
Clearly, Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong had entirely different visions.
Both wanted to unite the continent, but Qian Renxue wanted Spirit Hall to stand above the empire that ruled it. Everything else would remain unchanged.
Bibi Dong, on the other hand, wanted to destroy Spirit Hall and build an empire of her own.
The original story said she wanted to destroy everything, even the world. That plainly was not the whole answer.
After all, if she truly wanted to destroy the world, she would not have continued raising Hu Liena as her heir.
But even if they conquered the other two empires, someone would still have to govern them.
How many Soul Masters in Spirit Hall knew how to do that?
Soul Masters were few to begin with. Gathered together, they would be fine, but scattered across the provinces, they could easily be picked off one by one by the remnants of the two empires.
Spirit Hall had plenty of powerful fighters, but it could not use them all as a fire brigade.
So the continent did need unification, but it should not be united under the Spirit Hall Empire.
That was Qian Renxue's view, and it was also the approach ordinary people would find easiest to accept.
It had indeed been her