Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 979 - 46: The human heart is always the most complex

The Four Seas Commerce Guild is a chamber of commerce alliance composed of overseas Chinese from North and South America, as well as Chinese descendants from Southeast Asia.

The guild wields powerful influence, possessing its independent fleet and armed vessels, treating the entire Pacific Ocean as their own inland sea, dominating all international trade in Pacific Rim countries.

From battleships and artillery to pig bristles and tung oil, there is no business they shy away from or dare not undertake. The annual revenue and profit, without even thinking, is astronomically high.

With such a grand piece of ’fat meat’ plainly placed before everyone, if one were to attribute the guild’s prosperity to the wisdom of Chinese people or the commercial ethics of the Western world, it would be nothing short of naive... no, incredibly foolish.

It endured a lot of hard struggle and bloodshed back in those days.

However, because of the disappearance of its leader, Lin Canglan, this part of history is shrouded in mystery and has likely been twisted into some unknown form. Even Li Mumu, born and raised in Cypher City, couldn’t articulate it clearly, only knowing that the Four Seas Commerce Guild was divided into several factions internally.

Cypher is an abbreviation for San Francisco, also known as San Francisco. Decades ago, the Federal Railway Company employed a large number of Chinese laborers to construct railways from this point, and after completion, a large Chinese population remained there.

Tianmen people never liked going out from a young age, let alone venturing abroad to places without even traditional pancakes to establish careers, thus their presence overseas is negligible.

People like Li Mumu’s grandfather were quite rare. It’s said that when they first arrived, not only couldn’t they understand the foreign language, but even the Chinese dialect spoken by fellow villagers was incomprehensible.

Their accent was distinctly from the South.

Therefore, even if the Four Seas Commerce Guild wanted to return to their roots, their first choice wouldn’t be Tianmen, as Tianmen City isn’t much closer to their old home than Cypher City is.

Forced relationships never end sweetly; it’s conceivable that trouble would arise sooner or later.

But this isn’t something Wang Yunxiao needs to consider right now.

If the sky falls, the taller ones will hold it up. Veronica, as the Archbishop of the Qianjin Church, takes the lead. Perhaps considering the cultural and religious shock from the return of Four Seas Commerce Guild, the former Archbishop, Theresa, prioritized combat power as the foremost consideration for her successor.

Adequate combat power ensures you can calmly sit and listen to her preach.

"Your uncle... no, your brother Mu Yushu approached me a few days ago to help solve some family matters, and I wanted to hear your opinion."

"Family matters? Refers to the Iron Blood Society issues, right?"

"You know?"

"I don’t, I don’t hang out with them, I’ve been practicing on this side of the church."

Veronica showed little concern for the domestic matters of King Mu’s Mansion since prior to this, the Mu family never regarded her as one of their own.

"But when I returned home for the new year, I overheard them discussing it. What kind of shenanigans have they stirred up again?"

Wang Yunxiao briefly explained the issue about God’s Blood to her.

As a participant in the last campaign against the Blood Cup Sect, Veronica immediately understood the situation.

"The principle of this thing isn’t complicated; the hard part is the technology. If the Blood Cup Sect could figure it out, why would they have spread those experimental notes then?"

"But didn’t they create a Lilith who seems quite normal?"

"What they want isn’t a normal Lilith."

A poor family buys a house, buys a car, and feels satisfied with their life. Saying such things to a rich man is nothing but an insult to him.

The Blood Cup Sect aims to create a god, not an ordinary school-attending, book-reading Lilith fighting with bald monks.

What is a god?

To put it simply, a god is a wish machine.

Don’t say foreigners resist this notion; if foreigners all believed in Jesus’ turn-the-other-cheek theory, there wouldn’t be so many new sects.

"Such a suspicious medicine, the old man certainly won’t take it, and he doesn’t need to."

Veronica shook her head. "I heard a baseless, yet widely believed, saying at home—the old man, having fought on battlefields with myriad scars, would have died long ago if it were anyone else. He is still alive perhaps because Mu Yanling transfused her blood to extend his life before her ascension."

"Mu Yanling’s blood?"

"True dragon blood. The so-called God’s Blood produced by foreigners is merely named so; they haven’t seen the real God. Our Dragon Maiden existed before her ascension, inheriting a history of several thousand years. According to Western esoteric standards, its mystique is several levels higher than God’s Blood."

"So what you’re implying is..."

"Maybe they want to acquire this technology and refine the old man?"

Veronica half-jokingly said.

Well... as absurd as it sounds, the world never lacks absurd things and people.

Seeing Wang Yunxiao genuinely contemplating its possibility, Veronica quickly gestured. "I’m joking, they’re not that insane. But from knowing them, they probably want to replicate another Mu Yanling."

"Why do you say that?"

"Do you know the difference between Mu Yanling and Xu Ziwei?"

"How could I know, do you think I’m some big shot?" 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

"Same here, Mu Yanling ascended before I was born, but as my dad told me, Mu Yanling belonged to the conservative faction loyal to the old Imperial Court."

Veronica leaned in close to Wang Yunxiao and whispered, "I’m telling you this privately, don’t go blabbing to others. Domestically, some folks don’t like the President’s current policies, feeling she’s too radical."

People become less sensitive with age, find food bland, struggle with vigor, and start leaning conservative.

The young’s desire and pursuit of the unknown strike them as radical.

You find ice-cold cola refreshing and exhilarating, your grandfather finds it prickly sugary water.

The President’s current reform policies, in Wang Yunxiao’s eyes as a transmigrator, are necessary.

But for those used to the previous slow-paced life, these policies seem like a drunken madman racing down the road, stomping the accelerator to the floor.

It’s too fast; they can’t adjust.

With a new government established and the nation stable and thriving, can’t they take it easy so those of us who fought alongside can relax for a few years?

Of course, this is just Veronica’s individual conjecture.

It might be the opposite, some might think the President has become lax, lacking the previous zeal.

The human heart is complex; you can’t please everyone.