Light Cultivation
Eps. 270 — Power of Two Empires
After Miou Xian left the main room of the clan, one of Yang Tian's subordinates approached and knelt before his throne.
"Chairman Yang, is it alright for him to lead this clan that we have mastered?" The subordinate questioned about the whereabouts of Miou Xian who would become the head of the Miou clan.
"It doesn't matter to me, from the start all we need is his association, not his clan."
"But Elder Yang, I don't understand, if we can get both why take one? Wouldn't it be better for the Miou clan to be on our side as well?"
"I see what you mean, as a warrior from the Qilin Empire who was about to colonize the Dragon Empire, taking the Miou clan as our territory is a natural thing but the situation is not as simple as you can see..."
Yang Tian explained that the Qilin Emperor would attack the Dragon Empire at the appointed time, as long as that had not happened, the Qilin Emperor did not allow the warriors in his kingdom to fight first.
Yang Tian then said that now that he had taken over the government of the Miou clan, the other clans would be suspicious of his arrival especially if the clan that had been in this coup had great influence in the Dragon Empire.
"For the time being we let the old jackfruit lead the Miou clan as our cover, although the Qilin Empire will one day rule over this region but we should not take risks for something we do not need."
The explanation made his subordinates understand, indeed as far as they were concerned, the strength of the Qilin Empire could not be juxtaposed to the weaker Dragon Empire.
Since the Dragon Empire had always been underestimated by its wealth, if not the Miou clan association they might not bother to be here.
The man then asked something else. "Elder Yang, according to the old man of the Miou clan, there is another female Elder that we have not captured yet, he said he was having a meeting with the Dragon Emperor. What are we doing with this last elder?"
Yang Tian had indeed been told that when the coup occurred, there were Elders who had not been captured by them because they were not in his clan.
The female elder held an important position in the Miou clan until Miou Fan had to represent her during a meeting with the Dragon Emperor.
"For that Elder I've handled it, I ordered the Waves Dragon Group to head off their journey on their return to this province."
"The Waves Dragon Group! Aren't they the Empire's elite group that's great at fighting in that water?" The subordinate was shocked after hearing the group that Yang Tian was saying.
The Waves Dragon Group was a group of pirates working under the Qilin Empire's rule.
Even if they are called part of the empire, their actions tend to be criminal.
If not for the Qilin Empire government giving them enough money each month, perhaps the Waves Dragon group would have already become the most evil pirates there.
Yang Tian nodded, he had already told the Waves Dragon Group to destroy the association ship that the female Elder was riding on along with the people inside.
Yang Tian did not want to take any deeper risks, he would rather kill the Elder than capture him alive who could risk escaping and escaping.
After all, if he wanted the female Elder to stay alive, Yang Tian was not sure that he could do so because the Waves Dragon Group he commanded sounded ruthless in the ocean, not sure if it would be, they were a notorious pirate group with a thirst for blood.
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"Young master, you look handsome this morning, my heart thumped just by looking at you." A beautiful maid greeted Jian Chen when he had just walked out of his room.
"Young master have you breakfast, I've made a food box for you, if you want, young master can take it..." Another servant greeted similarly, offering Jian Chen a food box.
"Just kid! My cooking is delicious, your tongue has low taste!"
The two women quarreled a little, accusing each other of their own cooking.
Jian Chen smiled awkwardly just by looking at her, when he came out of his room, he was already greeted by the 2 maidens of the girl.
Ever since those servants knew of Jian Chen's high identity in the association, they were so inclined to want to get close to Jian Chen let alone hear that he was someone who was unmarried.
As of now, those servants had been waiting in front of Jian Chen's room since early morning, they were trying to show their attractiveness to the 18-year-old.
A few of them brought boxes of food to give Jian Chen, because in addition to the beautiful look, the servants also wanted to show their side of the excess with cooking.
Jian Chen smiled awkwardly when it came to addressing those servants. He was sure his face was not that handsome to the point of making women around him crazy about him but at least he had another impression as a man.
Jian Chen could only scratch his head while trying to break free from the two.
He might be able to act ruthlessly on his enemies be it women or men but in front of girls like this, Jian Chen could not be firm on them.
Lucky that morning Miou Lin came, making the servants stop bickering and instantly bow respectfully to her.
"Sorry to bother you guys but can I speak to young Master Jian?" Miou Lin chuckled slightly looking at Jian Chen before asking his two servants.
"Sure Madam, we'll also leave after this..." Without speaking any further, the two maids directly left from there.
"Young Master Jian, it looks like you were in trouble earlier?" Miou Lin held back his laughter so as not to offend Jian Chen any further.
Jian Chen did not reply but rather let out a long sigh, it seemed like tomorrow-tomorrow he would have to go out through the window to get out of his room.
The two went to the place of recreation, because this ship is a whole ship of association so there are no other visitors here. Miou Lin had already prepared dishes for their breakfast.
"Unlike Miss Lin used to take me out to eat, is there something we want to talk about?" Jian Chen sat down on the wrong chair then started his breakfast.
Miou Lin nodded, not covering up anything she had to say now.
"Young master Jian, what do you think about the warfare of these two Empires, could it be that the Dragon Empire could win and survive?" Miou Lin directly spoke to the point.
Jian Chen's chopsticks movement came to a halt instantly, not expecting the girl to be discussing about warfare.
"I'm actually not sure the Dragon Empire can win against them despite the rapid progress of the past few years..." Jian Chen halted his words for a few seconds, visibly thinking briefly "If I assume in the form of a percentage, the chances of winning the Dragon Empire against the Qilin Empire are about 30%."
"Thirty percent!?" Miou Lin was stammered, he did not expect the difference in strength between the two to be too much different.
"Yes, but still conquering the Dragon Empire is not easy for the Qilin Empire though, the reality in the war will be a lot of things that happen and sometimes can change even the impossible situation..."
Jian Chen also did not know how much strength his enemy was but for sure if he came from there, his strength might be equivalent to the 10 strongest heroes in the Qilin Empire.