Fu Xuan's defenses were precisely shattered by Noldrei's words.
On a fundamental level of balancing principles and interests, she had no way to refute him.
Three steps forward, two steps back was, without a doubt, the historical reality of the Xianzhou.
"I didn't come here to talk about this with you. Hurry up and think of another way for me!"
Hearing Fu Xuan say this, Noldrei was surprised. This woman could actually act like a brat?
"You're making things difficult for me. You're not willing to listen to what I say, so what kind of solution are you asking me for? However, there is indeed another way. It just depends on how much control your General has over the Xianzhou."
'You actually have another solution?!'
Fu Xuan's pupils contracted, completely caught off guard by Noldrei's answer.
"There are generally two directions for handling conflicts. One is to deal with the impact of the conflict and create new organizational tools to match that impact. The other is to deal with the object that caused the conflict, which in this case, is the formulas you've seen."
"Since you're not satisfied with the way of handling the formulas, then let's deal with the third party. Target the ones who produced the object of conflict, that is, act against the people behind the formulas."
In Noldrei's view, Dan Shu's overall experiments were basically complete. The elixirs had excellent effects, and the suppression of the loss of sanity from the Mara-Struck state was also quite successful.
"You can go find Dan Shu now and make things clear. Find a way to have the person in charge of the Changle region take you to see her as soon as possible. Then, tell her the results of your divination, and you can also explain to her how you plan to handle the Alchemy Commission in the future."
Fu Xuan never thought she would one day face such an important choice.
Noldrei looked at Fu Xuan's seemingly twitching fingers and asked, "You're not thinking of performing a divination at a time like this, are you? You already know Dan Shu is heading down a dead end. So what are you going to do next?"
Fu Xuan hadn't considered such a question. Personally, she was inclined to abandon this group of people.
"You can't just accept fate when it comes to your enemies, and then defy heaven for your own people, can you? In that case, I suggest you give up. If you want to 'defy,' then 'defiance' is the only path you can take."
Fu Xuan looked at Noldrei hesitantly and asked in a low voice, "Are you suggesting I save her?"
"You can give it a try. If you want to save her, then you must make all the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus your people, Lady Diviner."
Noldrei's words made Fu Xuan nervous.
She neither wanted the people of the Alchemy Commission to cause even worse trouble, nor did she want them to be purged just like that.
If she could, she would even want to carry out a targeted elimination of those Disciples of Sanctus Medicus.
But the Disciples had already been factually split under Noldrei's manipulation, with some less deeply involved members trying to return to the Xianzhou.
This made it difficult to use the method of baiting out the Disciples to completely eradicate the remnants of the Sanctus Medicus believers within the Luofu.
Fu Xuan didn't know Dan Shu's thoughts. She had never tried to understand this group of people from their perspective before.
But now, Noldrei dared to propose such a suggestion to her face.
Fu Xuan asked with a complicated expression, "Aren't you worried I'll report you to the Cloud Knights? You dare to tell me such things? Don't you know how deep the hatred between the Xianzhou, the Sanctus Medicus, and the remnants of Abundance runs?"
Noldrei looked at her in surprise. "You're already a ruler, and you still care about whether the common folk have any hatred? In that case, all the nobles of your Xianzhou's past should be completely wiped out! Compared to so-called external enemies, people often hate the harm inflicted by their own kind more. Your Xianzhou nobles haven't all died out without descendants, so what's there to hate about the remnants of Abundance?"
Fu Xuan was choked up, unable to respond. She turned her head away, no longer wanting to discuss the internal conflicts of the Xianzhou.
She hesitated for a long time before saying, "I'm just... a little undecided. If my actions once again cause the results of my divination to come true... what should I do then?"
'Once again? Meaning something similar has happened before?'
Noldrei had long suspected Fu Xuan's past, but he hadn't expected it to be true.
He pondered for a moment. "In that case, I'll lend you a person."
Lend a person?
Fu Xuan had no idea who he could possibly lend her.
Noldrei immediately dialed the number of that mischievous woman, Elysia.
As expected, Elysia's teasing and irresponsible voice came from the other end.
"Your Majesty, what can Ely do for you this time? Let me be clear first, I won't do anything unladylike."
Noldrei, long accustomed to Elysia's teasing, said with a blank face, "It's nothing. Just wait in the courtyard. I have something I need you to help Fu Xuan with."
Elysia was shocked. "If you do this, your wives at home will get angry."
Noldrei didn't answer her question. "Just help her out a bit. You know Fu Xuan isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. Wait for me to bring her back!"
With that, he hung up.
When he looked up, he found Fu Xuan staring at him in utter shock, as if she were seeing him for the first time.
"You... you... you're already spoken for? You're married?"
For Fu Xuan, the most shocking thing wasn't that Noldrei was married, but that it was wives, plural.
What did that mean? So there wasn't just one at home?
Seeing her dumbfounded expression, Noldrei asked, confused, "Why are you so surprised? From what I've seen, don't you Xianzhou people have a similar marital system? Isn't it normal for me to have the same kind of marital relationship as you?"
Fu Xuan was shocked that Noldrei was already married, and even more shocked that there were women who would actually like such a guy.
Wouldn't that woman just get berated at home every day?
An image of Noldrei being loving and considerate to his wife suddenly appeared in Fu Xuan's mind.
Her head felt as if it had been struck by a heavy hammer. She couldn't imagine Noldrei being capable of such a thing.
'He actually has a considerate side towards women?!'
"What are you thinking about? Let's go! Don't you have to deal with the Alchemy Commission?"
Noldrei looked at Fu Xuan, who seemed to have lost her soul, as if his being married was some major event.
"Ah, oh..."
Fu Xuan couldn't process this new reality for a moment.
This guy not only had a marriage, but possibly more than one or two wives?
Fu Xuan subconsciously took a few steps away from him. The thought of Noldrei openly keeping a harem on his home planet, and even taking his women out to play and travel...
Noldrei's image in Fu Xuan's mind underwent a stunning 180-degree transformation.
The bastard talked so much fancy theory, but when it came to himself, he just opened up a harem and lived a lavish and chaotic imperial life.
'Hmph, I've despised people like this my whole life!'
The Master Diviner suddenly regained her confidence. At least when it came to romantic relationships, she was a person of pure love.
The approbation of high morality once again descended upon the high ground of the Master Diviner's heart.