My Arms Can Turn into Blades

Chapter 617: Chapter 69: Enemy

When the incident on the rooftop of the Celestial Strategy Mansion Headquarters spread.

All the Celestial Strategists of the Mansion remained in the drafty meeting room.

Since Chen Lusi made her move, the long-silent Celestial Strategists finally spoke.

The direct consequence of speaking was the emergence of dissenting voices.

Finally.

Since the meeting began.

The first point of contention appeared.

Regarding whether to indict the Holy Coffin Knight of the Roman Catholic Church, the opinions among the Celestial Strategists were divided.

Sima Zhi was the first to speak: "...Since we have already captured their people, captured their Holy Coffin Knight, and even killed a Level 1 Officer of the Inquisition, bringing back a large batch of prisoners from the Mujin New Church and Ise Jingu, why take more risks? Why declare war in a sense, to slap the Roman Catholic Church in the face, what advantage is there in that?"

"Exactly! The Celestial Strategy Mansion is already in a special situation, Xia Yue..."

Xu Zi looked at the silent Chen Lusi and organized his words: "Xia Yue has perished, Kunlun cannot function, in such a situation, while the Celestial Strategy Mansion must pacify internally, it also has to handle various legendary activations without Kunlun’s warnings, and must guard against various opportunists and emergencies.

Is it really appropriate to provoke the Roman Catholic Church now?"

"How does it seem like it’s the fault of the Celestial Strategy Mansion?"

Hearing the others,

another Celestial Strategist with a full beard roared: "Wasn’t it the Roman Catholic Church that made the first move this time? Weren’t they the ones who first invaded our borders? Capturing them, what of it? It’s just passive defense, what we need to do now is make them remember the consequences of such actions!

I feel Xia Yue wasn’t wrong, we should indict them, give the entire Roman Catholic Church a heavy blow, and then cut a slice into their sacred golden body.

Reciprocal vengeance is the most effective means! Since Xia Yue said it should be done this way, there must be a reason, and we should proceed with the indictment!"

"Indeed."

He Fu, who had just opposed Ji Xin in continuing to restrict Advanced Empowerers, stood on Ji Xin’s side this time: "I think that since this matter has already spread through the black market, and Xia Yue just sacrificed... in such a condition, we must continue no matter what.

Otherwise, the impact might be worse... After all, what we should avoid most at a time like this is showing any sign of weakness. Since it’s decided to continue restricting those Advanced Empowerers, we should not step back even a little.

We must maintain a strong stance from beginning to end, or it could easily backfire."

"It’s just a rumor from the black market, not an official release from the Celestial Strategy Mansion, how could it be taken seriously?"

"Right, and currently, who would pay attention to such a thing?"

"It will be brought up again someday, if I’m not wrong, the Holy Coffin Knight currently held in the headquarters’ basement is the first in modern times to be captured alive... how could it be forgotten so quickly?

By then, Xia Yue’s influence will also start to fade, and if perceived as weak, it will be more troublesome."

"We’ve even captured a Holy Coffin Knight, yet still weak?"

"At that time, Xia Yue was still with us..."

"I didn’t think that much, I just feel since it was the Roman Catholic Church that made the first move, we must make them remember the pain, make them realize the consequences!"

"Brute!"

"..."

Most Celestial Strategists voiced their opinions.

The exceptions were few.

Apart from those who seemed to be staring at the ceiling in thought... but actually didn’t understand and were daydreaming like Tang Language.

The others who didn’t speak, either remained discreet and reluctant to say more or observed coldly, or perhaps lacked sufficient information and were uncertain.

Clearly, Chen Lusi, who hadn’t spoken throughout, belonged to the latter category.

In the end.

Due to the absence of a decisive figure.

After a round of discussions.

No one managed to persuade anyone.

All Celestial Strategists tacitly stopped and looked again at Ji Xin.

Ji Xin met everyone’s gaze, glanced at Chen Lusi, and thought for a while: "...Many oppose, many agree, so let’s shelve this matter for the time being and discuss it after the situation stabilizes."

Finally.

For whatever unknown reason, Ji Xin did not force a decision nor continue to discuss persuading others, but chose to temporarily shelve the matter.

This situation was rather rare.

Was this because she had her concerns? Or did she feel that the opposition was too strong at the moment?

The crowd didn’t know for the time being.

And they didn’t have much time to ponder, because after confirming all matters one more time, the meeting adjourned.

Ji Xin only kept Chen Lusi behind.

And indeed, this meeting had many... unforeseen events.

Many Celestial Strategists needed to take it slow and also needed to reconfirm the status of the third squad’s successor strategist, Chen Lusi, so they didn’t continue dwelling on the Roman Catholic Church’s matter, didn’t stay in the meeting room, but chose to leave directly.

The people flowed out in a steady stream.

Even Hu Shengping was carried out.

Soon.

Only Chen Lusi, Ji Xin, and Shanli remained in the meeting room.

"... Ji Xin, I need all the Celestial Strategists’ intelligence, the more detailed, the better. Among the Celestial Strategists just now, most of them I’ve never met, and I don’t even know their names."

After watching everyone leave, Chen Lusi stood up, walked towards Ji Xin, and initiated the conversation: "Alternatively, you can narrate an introduction to me. Also, I need all the Old Era High-level Empowerers’ information, especially those with ambitions of ’longevity,’ related to Self, and those desiring Si Jiayan to exert their Authority Ability on themselves among that group of Advanced Empowerers."