Wayfarer

Chapter 124: All This is Nonsense

At the foot of Mt. Liangjie, Xiao Nanfeng glanced at the cultivators arrayed all around him. Crown Prince Qi was a font of pride, Crown Prince Yan cold and aloof, and the group of clan heads mocking to varying extents.

"Is everyone here? Let's get started, then," Xia

"Where's your Seal of Great Wei, lad?" Crown Prince Yan asked.

Xiao Nanfeng manifested the Seal of Great Wei. As he imbued it with his spiritual power, it began to glow with golden light. The various clan heads each imbued spiritual power into their clan seals, which resonated and began to tremble. This was immediate confirmation that Xiao Nanfeng did bear the authentic Seal of Great Wei.

Xiao Nanfeng stored the seal once again. "As successor to Emperor Wei, I have invited everyone here to discuss the merit afforded the gravekeepers over the last millennium."

"Our merit over the last millennium? Ha! And who are you to judge us so?"

"I speak of the gravekeepers' merit over the last thousand years. You're not a gravekeeper—what are you concerned about?" Xiao Nanfeng frowned.

Crown Prince Qi: ...

"I know of your tenets, that you should have made all your future heirs and descendants into gravekeepers themselves, but worry not. I have become the successor to Emperor Wei, and I don't intend to hold you strictly to those tenets. I speak solely of the first-generation gravekeepers," Xiao Nanfeng clarified.

"What does that have to do with us?" Crown Prince Qi asked coldly.

"As the descendants of the first-generation gravekeepers, you have the right to understand their actions and the merit therein."

"Oh?" The crown princes and clan heads sneered, as though wary that Xiao Nanfeng was attempting to hatch some plan or another.

"The first generation of gravekeepers was conscientious and assiduous in their duty of guarding Emperor Wei's tomb, even despite the travails of the divine domain. They remained focused on their duties, on guarding the emperor's tombs, and even grooming their descendants to take on the same responsibilities. For their loyalty and dedication, they should be rewarded," Xiao Nanfeng continued seriously.

"Hmm?" The crowd was taken aback.

Xiao Nanfeng's praise wasn't something they had been preparing to deal with.

"How will you reward us, then?" Crown Prince Yan called out.

"The first generation of gravekeepers should be rewarded, not you," Xiao Nanfeng corrected.

"So what?" the clan head asked again, furrowing his brows.

"Shouldn't you return these relics that you've lost? If someone borrows gold from you and spends it all, does that free them of the responsibility to return the gold to you?" Xiao Nanfeng asked.

The gathered clan heads: ...

"The first-generation gravekeepers' merit defrays subsequent generations' wrongdoing; merit and demerit has been tallied. We speak now of loans and repayment. Is there a problem?" Xiao Nanfeng looked at the gathered cultivators.

Everyone: ...

They all understood Xiao Nanfeng's point now—he had made such a big fuss about merit all in order to reclaim these artifacts!

"Those relics were lost not by these clan heads, but by their long-dead ancestors. Claim those relics from them!" Crown Prince Qi called out.

"Their ancestors may be dead, but their estates can be used to repay this debt in kind. For the price of these relics, I demand all that they own in the humans' domain." Xiao Nanfeng had no intention of giving in.

"You want us all to go bankrupt to repay you?" The clan heads sneered.

"I understand now. You're intending to use this preposterous notion of loans to force the gathered clan heads to help you unify the humans' domain!" Crown Prince Yan exclaimed.

"And to think we devoted so much effort planning against conspiracy and contingency!" Crown Prince Qi huffed in laughter. "All this just to hear your childish delusions?"

"Ridiculous in the extreme." The clan heads had no intention of repaying this 'loan'.

Just then, a flare shot into the air from afar, startling the gathered cultivators. More and more flares erupted all over the mountains and forests, causing the cultivators' eyes to widen.

"The Taiqing disciples I brought to threaten Nanfeng—something's happened to them!"

"That's my subordinates' flare. Did something happen to mine too?"

"Nanfeng had to be delaying intentionally. That's why he made such a big fuss about nothing!"

"Has his goal always been the Taiqing disciples that we brought with us to threaten him?!"

The cultivators understood what had happened quickly. They turned on Xiao Nanfeng together.

"I had no choice, after all. Your officers and soldiers would be far too wary otherwise. They keep the Taiqing disciples under constant surveillance, and my people would have had a hard time rescuing them. With me revealing myself here, however, they would focus on me instead. All that nonsense was worth it, wasn't it? I rescued all those hostages I came here for." Xiao Nanfeng smiled.

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