"Oh? What sort of people are they?" Li Ling asked casually.
"Remnants of the Heavenly Goods Trading Company. So far, we've identified only a dozen or so Qi Refining cultivators. Garrison Commissioner Feng worries there may be another mastermind behind them, so he specifically instructed us not to beat the grass and startle the snake. He wants to see whether letting them conspire and expand will bring whoever is behind them to the surface."
Li Ling said, "Handle it yourselves. Unless a Nascent Soul cultivator is involved, there's no need to report it again."
"Yes!"
Li Ling knew that, with the Incense Market replacing the Heavenly Goods Trading Company as the power in charge here, a backlash from those remnants of the evil demons was inevitable. Some former beneficiaries were also unwilling to lose everything. Unable to win on an open battlefield, they could only hope to stir up the situation through underhanded means and fish in troubled waters.
But anyone who truly understood the situation could see that these were merely futile struggles.
Xi Yuanlin, for instance, had long since arranged for his lineage's elite descendants to join the Netherworld Sect. Even now, with the Garrison Commissioners hunting them, they could not be apprehended for the time being. Zhu Tianxiang had turned his sails with the wind and immediately joined the Righteous Immortal Sect, securing a thread of survival for his lineage's forces. Nie Yong, meanwhile, relied on the General Association to sit on the fence and watch, no longer daring to show hostility.
There might well be no mastermind behind those hoping to seize the opportunity to cause trouble. Even if there was, it would merely be a few individuals dissatisfied with the current situation, incapable of accomplishing much.
By comparison, Li Ling was worried about something else.