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Chapter 716 Ultimately headquarters is still best
Immediately after he got to interact with Mo Guang, drinking from his cup of wisdom, and though their interaction wasn't a lot, he had grown to respect and admire the veteran administrator.
Then after, out of a sense of guilt, or responsibility, or the ghosts of the Ice Emerald Sect somehow still haunting him, he was all over the place investigating what exactly happened to Hao Da. He wasn't sure if it was out of vengeance, or was an excuse to not keep his mind idle, or a fear-driven agenda that maybe if he found out what happened, such a situation would be able to be prevented, but he threw himself into finding out what happened, finding a long thread that only bore more questions.
The longer he pulled at the thread, the more the primary culprits of the case, the Blue Soul Flame Crow Syndicate felt less and less like the primary masterminds of the whole event. The deeper he dug, the more it felt like some massive hand from the past had been pulling strings, as to what end, Yang Qing had no clue, all he knew was they had something to do with the Deer Mountain Kingdom, and they didn't seem to be the only culprits.
The whole thing was a quagmire of unanswered questions that left Yang Qing's stomach churning as he wondered if he kept digging, what would he end up finding. Would he even get a chance to, or was it already too late, and it was only a matter of time before the whole thing exploded with them being none the wiser?
Yang Qing didn't bother to dig too deeply into it after the discovery and revelation that it wasn't something harmful to her. Each person was entitled to their own secrets and trump cards and it wasn't his place to invade upon them, but he would still have to submit Haishi to the same rigorous training as Bolin even with her sturdier foundations and the reason for that was her slothful nature which was evident with her low cultivation base.
Haishi given the choice would just eat and sleep, while Yang Qing wasn't too much different in that regard, at least he was arduous when it came to cultivation and matters relating to it. Not once had he ever slacked off on it, but Haishi was different.
From the observations he made from interacting with her and the reports from Luo Meili and those from the Beast Hall,Yang Qing surmised her present accumulations were as a result of the mysterious force within her and not her efforts. If she had even made a quarter effort, her cultivation base would not have been at the fourth stage of the core formation realm, which was where it was when Feng Xin met her, by Yang Qing's guess, she would have already been at the peak of the core formation realmand possibly even at the palace realm considering how many years she spent languishing in the core formation realm despite her clear advantages.
Both he and the beast hall had already decided they would put her through the wringer. She would likely be thrown into the purple forest soon enough, but the mirage dragonfly in question had no idea as she gingerly used her communication bead stone to excitedly share something with Bolin.
Even though they had long gone past the borders of the Deer Mountain Range and it was already out of sight even within the sight range of a palace realm expert, Yang Qing couldn't help but turn back one last time as he engrained the experiences he had heard in his heart both the pleasant and the unpleasant ones.
"Ultimately, headquarters is still the best.."