Light Cultivation
Eps. 139 — Government Conflicts
Jian Chen laughed mockingly, "You better be like this..."
"Hey, you crazy, let me go!"
Jian Chen chuckled before swinging his hand, the instant the chains wrapped around Lily came off, the girl immediately grumbled in annoyance. "Say you're enchanted, not strong enough to hold my beauty."
Jian Chen did not particularly hear Lily's scolding, he opened his celestial eyes then looked at the cultivation within Lily's body to make sure the girl was indeed in the Earth Realm.
'It seems that he is indeed not evil to me, although our cultivation is almost balanced but Lily's strength is far above me...'
With his celestial eyes Jian Chen could see the pent-up aura of Lily that was stronger than him.
At least Jian Chen could defeat someone who was three stages above his cultivation, as of now since Jian Chen's strength equaled someone in the Earth Realm Stage 3 then he could defeat those in the Earth Realm stage 6.
Whereas if the Earth Realm stage 7 is beyond his ability but it depends on the situation.
If it had a great heirloom or there was good attacking momentum, Jian Chen could defeat an even stronger one.
The point is that the fight on the field is the determinant of everything, sometimes people who have a strategy can kill even strong people.
Jian Chen sighed, looking at Lily who seemed to be still grumbling annoyed by him he could no longer speak. Jian Chen instantly returned to his consciousness.
Jian Chen found the sky still overcast so he continued cultivating. The rain outside had only stopped when it was dark, because it was already night so Mu Yuan's entourage stayed here.
No one bothered Jian Chen during his cultivation, only then did the sun start to lift Mu Yuan towards the door of his room.
The girl looked doubtfully knocked on Jian Chen's room so before she did, Jian Chen first called out the girl's name.
"Broker Jian, sorry to disturb your rest."
Jian Chen shook his head, "No bother, does Miss need anything?"
"That's... Actually I wanted to ask you something..." Realizing Mu Yuan was about to speak seriously Jian Chen told him to enter. Both sit separated square table. "Broker Jian, do you know who sent the assassin earlier?"
Jian Chen frowned, not expecting Mu Yuan to ask about it even though the girl had already seen what she did to the Iron Crow assassins.
Jian Chen stroked his chin, "If the matter of the sender I don't know but I've heard that they were paid by a large clan."
"Big klan!" Mu Yuan's face paled, from his reaction he already knew which clan intended to kill him.
"Did Miss know?"
Mu Yuan nodded then explained that the great clan was none other than the clan that led the provincial government. Mu Yuan did not expect that they would have this ambition to kill someone.
"I don't understand, as far as I'm concerned the Mu Family is joining the ruling clan isn't it? Why would they kill their allies?"
Mu Yuan shook his head slowly. "Broker Jian, the situation is not that simple. In recent years the Yun clan, which was the clan leader of the Wind Dragon Province would lower its leadership to its son..."
Mu Yuan sighed heavily. "The problem is that the two sons are twins, when they find out that his father will step down, the two even fight for the throne from his father instead of being united and supporting each other..."
According to Mu Yuan, the sister is arguably more skilled than her brother, smart in politics and more popular, in contrast to her brother who is assertive and inclined to ambition.
The two twin sons were then competing to expand their influence throughout the province, clearly the younger brother would win while the brother was just the opposite.
Lately there is the issue that because the brother has difficulty finding supporters then the evil organizations are in his favor, and more seriously is one of the organizations that support it comes from 12 Shio Hunters.
Realizing that his brother was on the wrong path when he would lead later, The younger brother did not let that happen, he immediately increased his support of allying with the big families, the Mu family was one of them.
Jian Chen began to understand the essence of Mu Yuan's story, he explained that the older brother did not stay silent to see his younger brother continue to increase his influence so he tried to destroy his younger brother's supporters by hiring assassins.
'The political world does not use power struggle in its game but their world is not far cruel to the martial world...' Jian Chen shook his head slowly.
Jian Chen was actually not too concerned about the problems facing other provinces because indeed each province must have its own problems.
What bore his mind was that when he heard of the 12 Shio Hunter Organization, it was obvious that the influence of the organization was very strong in the Dragon Empire.
According to Jian Chen, the reason they had not acted so blatantly during this time in the Dragon Empire was because their strength had not been enough to control the entire 12 provinces.
Moreover, the Fire Dragon Province had many powerful warriors in it, if the 12 Shio Hunters were to take control of one of the provinces then the Imperial government would not remain silent.
"Broker Jian, after this we will plan to stop by the nearest city, besides there is a need there we also intend to hire some warriors for the security of my entourage."
"I see, that means we'll split up at the end of the road."
After no more need for Mu Yuan to immediately say goodbye, Jian Chen looked at the girl's back while shaking his head slowly, clearly Mu Yuan had an important position in his family.
Jian Chen guessed the reason Mu Yuan traveled like this was because of political affairs, although the power of the Nobles Family could not be juxtaposed with a clan but they also had great influence.
If what Mu Yuan said was true then the situation in the provincial capital was not fine now, Jian Chen hoped what sort of trouble their province did not interfere with his trip.
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Jian Chen was still accompanying Mu Yuan's entourage until they arrived at two different paths, this was the point Jian Chen parted with the entourage.
The path Mu Yuan chose was to where the small town was located while Jian Chen would continue to move straight towards the streets of the capital.
"Broker Jian, thank you for accompanying us here. If it wasn't for you, we'd be in a different state by now." Mu Yuan saluted followed by the bodyguards and the others.
"No need to hesitate, it is only natural that we help those who are in danger."
Mu Yuan then gave Jian Chen an identifying medal, "Who knows later Swordsman Jian will stop by the Mu family, we will welcome you by showing you this medal."
Jian Chen received the medal, although he did not know whether it would be used or not.
"Then I'll see you again, may your journey be safe until the destination." After speaking thus Jian Chen spurred his white horse southward.