Three months had already passed since Xia Li took over the Holy Son Palace.Qiu Fu had nearly filled its ranks, reaching the maximum number of disciples a Ninth Holy Son was allowed to recruit: two hundred.Only if Xia Li's Holy Son sequence rose and he entered a broader, higher-ranked Holy Son Palace would he be able to recruit more.Outside the library hall.At that mont, three outer disciples were sweeping the entrance. Every so often they would glance toward the library hall, knowing that its true master was inside."Sigh. Ninth Holy Son has no heart for managent, and Lady Holy Pet lets those inner disciples form cliques and squeeze us out. To enter the library hall, we even have to hand spirit stones and pills over to the inner disciples. It's outrageous!""A demon is still a demon. What would a demon understand? A few words of flattery and she forgets her own place."Two of the outer disciples were full of resentnt and badly wanted to report the matter to Xia Li. Unfortunately, even if they entered the library hall, once they saw Xia Li's intensely focused reading posture, almost like soone in the middle of enlightennt, they knew they could not casually disturb him.If they interrupted a Holy Son's enlightennt, then even being expelled from the Holy Land would leave them with nowhere to argue their case."Stop gossiping. Entering the public scripture pavilion costs even more. Contribution points are hard to earn, but spirit stones are easier to get. Being able to enter here at all is already fortunate enough. In the Holy Land's history, very few outer disciples have ever been lucky enough to beco followers of a Holy Son. We should be thanking Lady Holy Pet instead.""Leaving all that aside, just the spiritual energy inside this Holy Son Palace is leagues above the outer sect. How many spirit stones does that save us invisibly? Besides, those inner disciples wanted to bring in their own friends and relatives too. If Lady Holy Pet hadn't blocked them, we'd have been kicked out long ago."The most honest-looking of the three understood very clearly that simply being able to walk the grounds of the Holy Son Palace was already a blessing. Why ask for more? This opportunity had been given by the Holy Pet.And there was another unique advantage here at Xia Li's place: although Xia Li himself never showed his face, the forr Ninth Holy Son Kang Renquan was still guarding the gate here. They could frequently seek his guidance, and Kang Renquan never refused them.For outer disciples, an opportunity equivalent to one-on-one guidance from a Holy Son was simply unimaginable."Even so, can you really swallow this?""I think Senior Brother Kang should be the one managing all of this. In the end, Lady Holy Pet is a demon. She doesn't understand us humans."Those two outer disciples truly wanted to push Qiu Fu out and support Kang Renquan in her place. Since Xia Li clearly was not going to manage anything, then they wanted soone who could.The Ninth Holy Son Palace housed only two hundred disciples, but those two hundred ca from different levels, with different relationships and different desires for better treatnt. Those who supported Qiu Fu and those who supported Kang Renquan had already split into two factions, fighting fiercely within the not-so-large Holy Son Palace.As the three sweeping outer disciples chatted, a female disciple arrived, dressed so brightly it was almost excessive, even a little too revealing.She wore a light short robe that left both her shoulders and thighs fully bare. Just looking at her was enough to make the heart stir."Greetings, Junior Brothers. Thank you for your hard work. Has Ninth Holy Son still not co out?""Senior Sister Li Yue, you've seen Ninth Holy Son's expression when he reads. Even the elders can't bear to disturb him. They issued a strict order that anyone who interrupts Ninth Holy Son will be expelled from the Holy Land at once. If you ask , Ninth Holy Son won't be coming out anyti soon.""I see... If Ninth Holy Son shows any sign of coming out, please notify at once, Junior Brothers."With that, Li Yue took out three top-grade spirit stones and gave one to each outer disciple."Certainly, certainly.""If anything changes, we'll notify Senior Sister Li imdiately.""Thank you for the reward, Senior Sister!"The three outer disciples nodded and bowed cheerfully. Once Li Yue had walked away, the two who were fond of idle gossip imdiately started running their mouths again."That Senior Sister Li Yue really has no sha. She's set on climbing into Ninth Holy Son's bed. Isn't she afraid the Second Holy Maiden will cut her down?""She's only daring because the Second Holy Maiden is cold by nature. I heard the Second Holy Maiden rarely takes the initiative to do anything. If she weren't lacking in initiative and unwilling to fight, with her talent, would she really be stuck in second place?""So you're saying the Second Holy Maiden is even stronger than the First Holy Maiden?""Shh. Don't say nonsense. The First Holy Maiden loves to fight and compete. Talk wildly like that and you'll suffer for it sooner or later. But putting the Second Holy Maiden aside, Senior Sister Wei Hongyin, the Fifth True Transmission, has been hinting openly and in private that the chief side-consort position belongs to her. Senior Sister Wei's kinsman is the Seventh Holy Son. If you ask , Li Yue won't end well."
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"Sigh... this Holy Son Palace..."The three outer disciples could only sigh. The Holy Son Palace, which everyone wanted so desperately to enter, did not seem quite so transcendent after all. Once enough people gathered, everything ca with them. All the filth and gri that ought to exist showed up here too.Inside the Holy Son Palace, they could release their natures. The rules were far less strict than outside. But the other senior brothers and sisters, repressed for so long, were thinking the exact sa thing.Only the true master of the place, Ninth Holy Son himself, stood at the highest point and yet managed nothing at all, allowing filth to flow through the palace unchecked.Before anyone knew it, another month passed.Li Yue ca again today to the front of the library hall, still dressed as alluringly as ever. In the refining room directly facing the library hall, a disciple occupied the chamber without doing any refining at all, staring only toward the distant library hall. When he saw Li Yue arrive, he took out a ssaging jade slip and sent a ssage."Senior Sister Wei, Li Yue ca again."Before long, the jade slip received a response."A re clown. Her looks may count for sothing in the inner sect, but how could she enter a Holy Son's eyes? Keep watching. The mont the Holy Son leaves the hall, notify imdiately.""Yes!"The disciple continued staring at the library hall without relaxing in the slightest.At the front gate of the Holy Son Palace, Kang Renquan lounged lazily in a stone chair, sunning himself. An inner disciple was currently complaining to him."Senior Brother Kang, you're the first close attendant at Holy Son's side. Do sothing, won't you? Senior Brother Wang keeps occupying the refining room without refining anything. I don't even know what he does in there all day. I'm still waiting to refine a weapon!""Well... I don't manage things. I'm just here to guard the gate. You'll have to take that up with the Holy Pet.""But she doesn't manage anything either!""Then there's nothing I can do."Kang Renquan spread his hands. If people wanted guidance in cultivation, he did not mind. But asking him to manage affairs? Forget it. He was far too lazy to try balancing all those relationships.When he had first beco a Holy Son, he had recruited followers too. But because of his temperant, although he could manage matters properly, it consud an enormous amount of effort and ntal strain. He always wanted everyone treated fairly. He always wanted everyone to be well.But the inner disciples would ask: why should they receive the sa treatnt as outer disciples?The outer disciples would resent it too. Since they were all Holy Son followers, all working for the Holy Son, why should there still be ranks of high and low?The True Transmission disciples were even worse, haughty beyond asure. They always thought they could challenge his position. The mont they had eaten their fill, all they wanted was to kick over the pot.So later, he had dismissed all of them. There was no chance he would ever go looking for that kind of trouble again.At that mont, Qiu Fu passed by the gate with more than a dozen disciples trailing after her and fussing over her. Kang Renquan looked at Qiu Fu with weary helplessness, but Qiu Fu acted as though she had not seen him at all, rely smiling as she passed.Qiu Fu only found it fun.Truly, deeply fun.She was beginning to understand human nature, and as the saying went, things learned from books always remained shallow. Nothing compared to direct observation. This Holy Son Palace was her experint ground.Those struggles were exactly what Qiu Fu wanted to see. She was beginning to understand how those in power thought, to understand the pleasures they took in all this, and from there reason backward to the things they least wanted to see.If she wanted to overthrow those above her, then she first had to beco one of those above her.If she did not hold the pieces, how could she understand the board?At that mont, Qiu Fu deeply regretted one thing.She regretted it very much.She regretted smashing the peerless masterpiece Xia Li had given her back then. She should have kept it and studied it over and over again.It seed that next ti she saw Xia Li, she would have to ask him for another copy and study it carefully.Then she could turn the pressure up a little more on everyone inside the Holy Son Palace. If you'd like to support the translation and read 10 chapters ahead,[/PoppingDino]
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