Daily life of a cultivation judge-Chapter 1093 - I don’t want it
1093: I don’t want it
1093: I don’t want it
“Makes sense why he’d join Bai Chen’s Escort Agency…” Yang Qing murmured to himself.
“It’s not too big to make him question his abilities to join or worry about the politics that come with larger organizations, and it’s not too small or weak to make him doubt its longevity.
The escort agency strikes the perfect balance between the two.
Not to mention, if he wants to keep track of his family, being part of an escort agency is one of the better options.
It lets him gather information without having to join an information broker network or a powerful organization with extensive connections.
But with his abilities and strength, securing a role in those kinds of groups that grants him as much freedom as he has with the Bluefin Spine-Tailed Swift Escort Agency would be a tall order…”
“I bet the agency’s location within our territory must have been another factor in his decision,” he added.
Yang Qing moved on to the latter sections of Duan Ting’s report.
There wasn’t much left to cover, as the remaining details mainly focused on his life within the escort agency.
It was straightforward, lacking any significant drama.
As Yang Qing had expected, Duan Ting was described as a stellar employee.
The report even suggested that, had his current strength been higher, Bai Chen might have chosen him as his successor.
He already managed most of the agency’s administrative duties and was a great people person.
It didn’t hurt that he was a striking figure with a noble bearing, a trait no doubt shaped by his years as a royal tutor. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
With such a background and conduct, Yang Qing quickly crossed him off the list of suspects.
As for any potential threats he might pose to the escort agency, there were few enmities attached to his name.
The most notable ones might be the former king of the Spirit Emerald Pod Kingdom, his successor—the fourth prince—or other nobles who held grudges against the Duan family.
There could also be those who sought to curry favor with the new king or his heir.
From that list, the one that might have warranted a second look was the former king, who had been a middle-stage Palace Realm expert, at the seventh stage, to be exact.
With such strength, if he had held a deep-seated grudge against the Duan family and decided to pursue it even after excommunicating them from his court, it wouldn’t have been impossible for him to track them down.
Given the vastness of the continent and the resources available to someone of his cultivation, locating the Duan family members after they left the kingdom, while difficult, would have been within his means.
However, from what Yang Qing could gather, the king’s grudge didn’t appear to be that deeply rooted.
Other than using the Duan family as an example to instill fear in others, there seemed to be no lingering hatred.
After all, the Duan family had been loyal to his lineage for thousands of years, a loyalty that surely earned them some credit in the “grace department.”
That said, even if the king had harbored resentment, he was no longer a valid suspect in Bai Chen’s and Jiang Hao’s disappearance for one simple reason—he was dead.
The former king had passed away 330 years ago, making it impossible for him to be involved.
As for his chosen successor, the fourth prince, while the king might have wanted him to inherit the throne, it didn’t mean the prince shared the same ambition.
Just months after the Duan family’s exile, the fourth prince followed in their footsteps and fled the kingdom.
He later reemerged as a student at the prestigious Jade Leaf Academy.
Once his position at the academy was secure, he returned to the Spirit Emerald Pod Kingdom to publicly renounce his father’s endorsement as the next heir.
Instead, he recommended that the crown prince, his elder brother, assume the throne.
With that declaration, he left the kingdom once more.
The fact that he managed to gain admission to the Jade Leaf Academy—a haven for the continent’s finest talents—made it evident to all within the kingdom that their king’s decision to name him as heir wasn’t due to senility.
Rather, the king had seen potential that others had overlooked.
It became clear, albeit too late, that the rest of the court had been too short-sighted to understand his vision.
It became clear, albeit too late, that the rest of the court had been too short-sighted to understand the king’s vision.
Not that it mattered, since despite the king recognizing the fourth prince’s talent early and valuing it enough to name him as his successor, the prince rejected the throne all the same.
When asked why he didn’t want the seat of king and chose instead to run away, the fourth prince’s response was simple:
“The seat is too troublesome.
I don’t want it, and I don’t want to spend the rest of my life surrounded by bean farms.”
With an answer like that, it was hard for anyone to offer a rebuttal.
Someone who treated the throne like a hot potato they couldn’t wait to pass off was unlikely to harbor a grudge against the Duan family for opposing his nomination.
In fact, given how things played out and his lack of enthusiasm for the role, Yang Qing suspected the fourth prince might have secretly been cheering the Duan family on when they spoke against his succession.
Yang Qing felt confident in that assumption—after all, he and the fourth prince were cut from the same cloth when it came to their mutual distaste for troublesome matters and their shared tendency to run away from them at the first opportunity.
That said, unlike the fourth prince, Yang Qing wouldn’t have minded being surrounded by endless farms, rolling hills, and the abundance of beans and other produce the Spirit Emerald Pod Kingdom was famous for.
If he were being perfectly honest, it sounded like a paradise to him.
Realizing his thoughts were drifting, Yang Qing hurriedly brought them back to the present.
He set Duan Ting’s jade slip aside and reached for Jiang Hao’s.
