I think finding out that that's the plan might be lethal for her, one way or another. I don't know if she'd die trying to take down Shenhua, kill herself for becoming what she's intended to destroy, or just suffer a critical Way fracture, but I doubt it'd be pretty. It would depend on whether she's capable (either sure to normal human bias or cultivation) of realizing she's quickly becoming the problem, I think.
Hope that whoever has to deal with it is up to the task? Fixing the Sect isn't the route we took, we just have to ride the shockwaves of it. Not that there is much we could do to control a bunch of Prism and Violet cultivators anyway.
If it happens any time soon, the only real option is to find an acceptable target to aim them at. So hope he dies peacefully, or is killed by a target we don't like either. At this point, the best option is probably the Sun, if your goal is to reduce unnecessary suffering. The Ith have clear internal schisms, but I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of angry imperials decided that the best way to respond to a city surrendering was with genocide. Similar issues with the cloud people, but even worse in some ways because I doubt they would limit their vengeance to only the forming coalition. Having them attack uninvolved tribes or tribes that have ties to the polar nation would be very bad for us. On the other hand, I think that war is both most necessary/inevitable against the Sun, and it's also the place where they're likely to do the least damage to civilians or non-combatants since they might still see them as imperial adjacent.
to be clear, Xia Ren is The Crucible (of something, I either don't remember or we don't know yet). The sword that Xia Ren wields is The Sword Which Rends History. Or perhaps the Sword is a part of her Way and one of her lesser names. There's a reason that all of her metaphors in the most recent scene were molten metal / fire / furnace/ screaming related.
It's just that I'm increasingly having a slight fear that the Duchess, seeing her daughter's success in the summit project, may order Cai Renxiang to "lead" a small part of the campaign in the name of revenge for Yuan He and Elder Zhou and give her this bunch of Prism and Violet cultivators under her command. Of course, the likelihood of this is extremely low, but the more I think about it, the more it seems to me to be in the spirit of Cai Shenhua, giving his heiress real tests that at first glance seem impossible. (if this happens we will get another mini-game on managing a military campaign along with a dating simulator with old weapons of mass destruction
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Xia Ren got top billing among the Heavenly Kings.
There's not a chance in hell we'll be given command of Sovereign, or even Indigo cultivators. If you're worried about us participating in the campaign at all though you're too late for that. I'm pretty sure we're locked in for this border conflict once the summit is over and we've laid the foundations for our fief, we'll just be working directly with Cai forces rather than as part of the Argent Peak Sect.It's just that I'm increasingly having a slight fear that the Duchess, seeing her daughter's success in the summit project, may order Cai Renxiang to "lead" a small part of the campaign in the name of revenge for Yuan He and Elder Zhou and give her this bunch of Prism and Violet cultivators under her command. Of course, the likelihood of this is extremely low, but the more I think about it, the more it seems to me to be in the spirit of Cai Shenhua, giving his heiress real tests that at first glance seem impossible. (if this happens we will get another mini-game on managing a military campaign along with a dating simulator with old weapons of mass destruction
Exile her to a polity we don't like and watch the place burn down
Meng Diu's brother is the clan head, isn't he? I'd love to hear her tell him what's going on.
And Meizhen was already boiling since the guy attacked her retainer.
"Hey Ren, I ended up fighting a sovereign again."
