Superhumans of the Dome City-Chapter 1405 - 16: The Imperial Family’s Shadow

"I can’t fathom the logic of Emperor Central Spirit," Qiluo said. "Let’s assume he’s someone stronger than the Eternal King... In theory, this super-powerful person could establish a stellar civilization, yet he built a primitive nation on our planet; he could have completely resolved the Fan Ding Realm but chose to seal it; later, he abandoned his own immortality, but then created the long-lived Qin clan; he split his Constant Law, yet left behind the risky Impermanence Skill; he intended to pass down the Unity Skill, but he made it a piece of scratched glass which took future generations two thousand years to reluctantly restore..."

"His actions and purposes are self-contradictory. He seems like a mentally split old creator who wishes for people to be strong and wise yet also desires them to be blindly ignorant," Shiyu Ling concluded.

"I wonder if Emperor Central Spirit is also worried about the Eternal King?" Qin Qianbai said, "Without passing down technology, people can’t survive the Dragon Disaster; but if complete technology is passed down, perhaps a new Eternal King would emerge, so he made a reluctant decision."

"If Emperor Central Spirit himself is opposed to the Eternal King and the Constant Law, then all his actions have reasonable explanations," Alandia agreed, "He was forced."

This way, all the seemingly contradictory choices make sense. A person hostile to the Eternal King would naturally not want to become an Eternal King, thus Emperor Central Spirit abandoned his own immortality, gave up the power to rule forever. Thinking of this, Qin Qianbai felt a heaviness in his heart, as if this country has been filled with a suffocating atmosphere since its founding, and behind the grand ambition of founding a nation by slaughtering dragons lies the compromise and necessity of the strongest person.

Even the strongest person in the world cannot do as they please; what about others? 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

"Suddenly, I feel like I can understand Yan Qi..." she whispered.

"We’re just getting started, there’s still a lot you don’t know," Shiyu Ling sneered, "The great detective has been digging into archaeology these days. I’ve been busy too. A certain pillow can be said to have a point; the emperors of this country are all a bunch of self-contradictory people."

Qiluo reacted quickly: "You’re investigating Emperor Chong Xiao?"

"Of course, I’ve got to examine it. I can’t trust Mr. Xuan Zhi’s evasive attitude entirely, and Chi Zijing may not know all the inside details; intelligence is always most reliable when you find it yourself." Shiyu Ling pulled out a document, "I’ve found an interesting entry point. Remember the kid Gongsun Ce met 13 years ago?"

"A transmigrator in the Grotto Heaven and Blessed Land? I remember it was verified as harmless, unrelated to the disorder factor," Qiluo said.

"Indeed, he never gained any more in-depth knowledge of the inner world; he’s now just an ordinary person with a secure job inside the system living a happy life," Shiyu Ling said. "But there’s something unusual about this ordinary person; the Yiji Hall has been monitoring him comprehensively to this day, with An Yushi watching over him for a full 13 years."

"Why?" Now it was Qin Qianbai’s turn to be surprised. Every agent in the Yiji Hall is elite among elites, and those like An Yushi chosen from among them often take charge of tasks in major cities or even entire provinces. Assigning An Yushi to monitor an ordinary person is a huge waste of resources, equivalent to sending them on a field mission in Cangdu would make the Imperial capital heavyweights distressed.

"I found it strange too. Ordinarily, wouldn’t you just send some local officers?" Shiyu Ling chuckled coldly. "So I secretly checked the internal documents of the Universe Patrol Department in the Yiji Hall, focusing on their evaluation criteria for transmigrators. That’s when I discovered Gongsun Ce misunderstood; there is no ’harmless’ rating within the Universe Patrol Department. The true meaning of talisman paper being all white is that ’the disorder factor temporarily loses its threat,’ even the lowest-level ’harmless’ transmigrator is still considered a disorder factor in their eyes!"

"That overly cautious rating really has the Empire’s style," Qiluo said, "but I guess it’s nothing, after all, it’s a transmigrator, so paying extra attention is understandable..."

"No, this kind of handling is the real problem." Shiyu Ling’s tone turned cold, "The Yong Guang Empire has more than 2 billion citizens, and within this world’s largest country, a ’disorder factor’ from the past has emerged. This disorder factor has no ability, no backing, and isn’t even counted as a current ’citizen,’ so considering the nation’s interests from top to bottom, what is the best way to deal with him to maintain stability?"

She made a slicing motion with her hand: "Kill! Give the disorder factor no opportunity; eliminating these disconnected transmigrators is the most efficient decision!

Don’t tell me I’m thinking too dark; just because Zero Island is a mess doesn’t mean other countries are clean. I bet the Empire has more assassins than Zero Island’s ninjas. Yet the emperor chose to forgo the optimal solution, not only sparing the transmigrators but also selecting the most gifted ones among them to train within the Imperial Academy’s inner door. What do you think he’s doing?"

Qin Qianbai had an absurd suspicion: "Is His Majesty deliberately cultivating... those who would endanger order?"

"Another self-contradictory choice appears: the ruler of order fully aiding a traitor," Shiyu Ling spread her hands, "I truly cannot understand what Emperor Chong Xiao is thinking; such a ruthless ruler... shouldn’t make this kind of mistake, right?"

Everyone knows Emperor Chong Xiao is one of the brightest monarchs in history; he actively promoted reform domestically, leading the once bloated Empire to rise again, and handled foreign affairs with great flexibility, helping the Empire endure a decade of secret warfare. Yet behind his farsightedness lies the shadow of ruthless methods; Emperor Chong Xiao’s control over the court could be described as harsh, with fifty percent of high officials being purged in the past fifteen years, leaving the rest in constant anxiety. His foreign strategy is undoubtedly radical, where the thick atmosphere of gunpowder during the secret war period is intertwined with the Empire’s hard stance. Such an emperor is certainly not known for mercy, making it hard to imagine he would care about the lives of just one or two individuals.