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Chapter 482
Chapter 482
?Chapter 482: 219: Giving Away a City, Isn’t Chen Baimao Afraid of Potential?
(Extra Chapter for Monthly Pass)_2 Chapter 482: 219: Giving Away a City, Isn’t Chen Baimao Afraid of Potential?
(Extra Chapter for Monthly Pass)_2 Only a few disciples who had previously followed blindly, in their moment of hesitation, decided to cast their votes for other candidates.
In the turmoil initiated by the cultivator Chen Baimao, it seemed as if the adverse effect on Chen Dengming, originally planned meticulously by Hua Zhenyu, had been significantly reduced.
When Hua Zhenyu learned about this situation, he was naturally quite annoyed and secretly noted down the name Chen Baimao, also known as Yu Baozhong.
“Brother Hua, what should we do now?
Shall we continue?”
A divine sense of a person echoed from within the Jade Talisman for Message Transmission.
...
Hua Zhenyu drew a deep breath, his facial expression regained its usual calmness as he spoke.
“Enough, continuing the plan would cause too much risk.
Let’s withdraw.
After all, plans cannot catch up with changes.
Well-designed situations always face unexpected events.
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Every individual can be a variable.
How can one possibly be handle all variables?
Though the effect has not reached its best, it has at least broken the blind following effect of these ordinary disciples.
From now on, even if Chen Dengming’s vote continues to increase, it will not snowball, leading far ahead…”
With that said, Hua Zhenyu put away the Jade Talisman for Message Transmission.
Overall, he could consider this event as a success.
As long as he can break Chen Dengming’s siphon effect, the difference in their votes won’t be too substantial.
And the forthcoming votes of more executives will gradually close the gap between them.
Presumably, affected by these events, the two elders, Guan Chao and Gongshu Zai, who initially had good relationships with Chen Dengming, would also abandon their voting rights to avoid suspicion.
In this way, the probability of him leading with the highest vote in this session is very high.
“Minus Chen Baimao’s ability.
He’s nowhere near me in all other aspects: connections, experience, potential…
especially potential, this will test the Spiritual Root as well as longevity…”
“He has contradictory Spiritual Roots.
Even if he has high-level Spiritual Roots, he cannot compare to my high-level Single Spiritual Root.
As for Longevity Potential, it doesn’t need to be mentioned a lot since his nickname is Baimao (meaning white hair) already…
The key is…
how can I contend with Chen Dengming in terms of ability, or…
at least not lose too badly, and show that I’m stronger than others?”
This is the only question that troubles Hua Zhenyu.
In other aspects, he can use tricks and strategies.
But for solid strength, it is real, without any fanfare, and is inescapable.
“It seems I need to go back to the Fantastical True Cave for further research…”
…
A few days later.
The results from the Inspection Hall’s inquiry were released, confirming that Chen Dengming indeed gifted Golden Cores to insiders and hosted a banquet for many disciples.
But most of the events happened several years ago, only one banquet occurred recently, and it could not directly link to the Longevity Seed competition as bribery.
There just exists an indirect connection.
Therefore, it was concluded that Chen Dengming did not mean to bribe.
Still, for maintaining election fairness, some elders and disciples’ voting rights would be canceled.
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“Junior brother, the way they’ve handled this, claiming it’s for fairness?
Isn’t it way too unfair?
Since they’ve proven you didn’t bribe, they shouldn’t be restricting others’ voting rights.
They said you’re innocent yet punishing you, what is this?”
In the cave, He Yingyu appeared angry and walked back and forth in irritation.
Contrarily, Chen Dengming was quite calm, he smiled and sprinkled Spirit Rice to feed the few Spiritual Fish in the pond, watching them scramble for food, he said in a composed voice.
“Senior sister, the Inspection Hall didn’t say this is a punishment, they only said it’s for maintaining fairness, you mustn’t think we are being penalized.”
He Yingyu replied angrily, “Junior brother, you’re still not agitated at this moment.”
Chen Dengming smiled lightly, “If I were agitated at this moment, it would be considered a fall.
From the beginning, we anticipated this as a minor scheme, and with the facts in front of us, they have been calculating us one step ahead in this aspect.
Instead of running around and reacting passively, it would be better to concede this point, consolidate our achievements in other aspects, and use overt strategies to combat their covert ones.”
He Yingyu questioned, “Overt strategies?”
Chen Dengming calmly replied, “Overt strategies, or strength, is something they dare not directly confront.
They can only start from other aspects.
Therefore, when the Inspection Hall came to investigate, I openly admitted that there was nothing which I couldn’t tell people.
At this point, the best strategy to absolve oneself is to quickly resolve the matter, have the Inspection Hall announce it, not let public opinion continue to ferment, and not drag oneself into a struggle.
The Inspection Hall didn’t disappoint me, it seems Elder Wen did not show partiality.
The news announced now seems unfavorable to us, but it is just to appease the emotions of some disciples, a usual tactic of fair punishment.”
He Yingyu was reluctant, “However, in this way, junior brother, you would lose two elders’ votes, and one elder’s vote equals three thousand votes of an average Qi Cultivator.”
Chen Dengming laughed heartily, sprinkling the rest of fish food into the pond and said in an indifferent manner, “Senior sister, since we’ve decided to concede one point, why should we be stuck at this temporary setback?
Even if we lose in the voting, it won’t result in complete failure, at the end various aspects of performance will be evaluated in combination.
This vote is about comparing connections, comparing personability.
Though we have decent connections, we’ve just arrived for a few years, how can we compete with those who have been cultivating connections for decades?”
“Junior brother, when it comes to experience, you can’t dominate either.
You may only rank third, riding on the momentum of two consecutive Golden Core kills.”
“Then let’s try to turn the tide in the last two aspects: strength and potential.”