You don't want your secret to be revealed by others, right?-Chapter 464 - 47, Discuss_2

"I’m afraid the only way to prevent Duanmu Yan from killing Fengtian Order again is to preemptively set up arrays capable of isolating Divine Thought across the land, and they have to be of Saint-level Arrays."

"Setting up Saint-level Arrays to isolate Divine Thought? Do you know how costly that is? We’d have to recalibrate the Essence of Heaven and Earth at hundreds of locations across Great Yong just to restore normal climate."

"Hundreds of Saint-level Arrays? Just to pay such a price for several billion mortals? Are you insane, or are we the crazy ones?"

"Let the mortals barely scrape by, aren’t they living just fine now? The national fate hasn’t been affected much at all."

At this, the envoy from the Seventh Princess Mansion became thoroughly enraged.

"Living just fine now? Do you know why these billions of mortals are surviving without food?"

The envoy from the Seventh Princess Mansion slammed the table in a fit of anger, exclaiming, "It is because Her Highness the Seventh Princess has been using Great Divine Power to grow batch after batch of autumn fruit to supply the mortals of Great Yong! Without her, relying solely on you, these billions of mortals would have starved long ago!"

"For the Seventh Princess and the Baili Anfu Shi of the Seventeenth Prince, this is indeed a big merit."

"Big merit? Do you know how many Immortal Pills are consumed for each batch of autumn fruit? You just look on indifferently? You could contribute to the consumption needed for cultivation; wouldn’t that also be merit? Why don’t you do it?"

"Haha, don’t drag our Prince Xian Mansion into this. Our Prince Xian Mansion has already sheltered tens of thousands of mortals. Even if half of those billions of mortals died, it wouldn’t have much of an impact."

"Not much of an impact? The lives of billions, a weakened national fate, and you call that not much of an impact?"

"The National Guardian Array doesn’t rely on the national fate; at most, it minimizes the sins of the Demon Clan lurking in, which hardly makes any significant impact."

"Everyone, enough."

The dean of the Divine Pivot Institute, who was presiding over the discussion, gave a low shout and said, "The lives of billions of mortals cannot be abandoned. We must trouble the Seventh Princess to continue planting those autumn fruits. As for the Immortal Pill materials consumed, all parties will jointly provide them. Let’s proceed with the vote. According to the Crown Prince’s decision, as long as half agree, it shall not be violated."

"Agree."

"Disagree."

"Disagree."

"Agree."

...

Soon, the representatives of over a hundred different factions present had cast their votes.

"The numbers are over half."

The dean of the Divine Pivot Institute spoke up, "Henceforth, the consumption of the Seventh Princess’s cultivation of autumn fruits will be collectively provided by us, with certain compensation."

No party had any objections.

After all, once the cost was distributed among over a hundred factions, it became negligible, and they could gain some merit.

"However, this situation cannot be sustained indefinitely."

The dean of the Divine Pivot Institute said, "The pressing concern is still to address the source of this disaster, Duanmu Yan. Does anyone have any good methods?"

Representatives from various factions all shook their heads and sighed.

"This Duanmu Yan kills without scruples, not caring about the sins. He is also proficient in the incomparably bizarre Dream Realm Path..."

"My Yizhi Temple has already requested the Daoist Ancestor to divine the machinations of Heaven, but we can’t calculate anything about this person."

"The Tian Shu Bodhisattva of my Yi Fo Temple also asked the Buddha Ancestor, but he couldn’t find out anything about Duanmu Yan either."

"Divination methods are rare, but they seem to be of no use."

"As long as Duanmu Yan’s true body remains hidden and repeatedly sends out avatars, using the bizarre and formidable Dream Realm Path, he can kill invisibly."

"What’s more, besides self-preservation, destroying some of Duanmu Yan’s avatars, what other methods are there?"

The Dream Realm Path may be bizarre and difficult to guard against, but if his true body can be located, killing it would solve the problem.

However, once a Saint-level practitioner hides their aura and seals their Inner Heaven and Earth, only divining the machinations of Heaven offers any hope of finding their location, but if that’s ineffective, there’s truly no other method.

Moreover...

Duanmu Yan hadn’t killed anyone else; he only killed Fengtian Order.

Fengtian Order’s death only affected the mortals.

It hadn’t reached the point of truly inciting public outrage, so all parties were unwilling to exhaust every means to deal with Duanmu Yan.

...

Seventeenth Prince Mansion.

"You’re back."

Lin Yue sat by the lake, fishing, and glanced at Baili Fengzhi, who had just returned. He asked, "What were the results of the discussion?"

"It only resolved the consumption issue of the autumn fruits cultivated by the Seventh Princess, but there’s no solution for Duanmu Yan." Baili Fengzhi shook his head slightly. freewēbnoveℓ.com

"As expected..."

Lin Yue nodded slightly and continued, "Moreover, Duanmu Yan hasn’t truly harmed the core interests of any party and hasn’t incited public outrage, so naturally, all parties wouldn’t use every means. Otherwise, even if they couldn’t deal with him, they could still impose heavy restrictions on him."

"Your Highness has no way either?" Baili Fengzhi asked.

"Me?" Lin Yue laughed silently, "I’m just a prince who hasn’t even been sealed king, what could I do?"

Baili Fengzhi was taken aback but didn’t say anything further.

She always felt that His Highness knew many secrets, presumably through some innate Divine Skills or powerful artifacts.

However, if His Highness said so, he likely had no solution.

Lin Yue also contemplated in silence.

"I’ve known about Duanmu Yan for several months, yet I haven’t uncovered his secrets... Is it because it’s difficult to obtain the secrets of someone inscrutable to the machinations of Heaven?"

He had known the secrets of the Star Lord only after meeting him several years later.

Duanmu Yan, too, was someone with Heaven’s inscrutable secrets. Would it take just as long?

"There’s nothing to do but wait."

Lin Yue had no other options; he could only continue his cultivation and strive to advance to the point where he could confront the Temple of Thousand Gods of the Xiahong family sooner to see what the legendary greatest reward the prince received truly was.

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In a secret underground chamber...