After a few minutes, the result came out as follows.


    Shang Zexi: Southern Phoenix is rejecting the resolution


    Shang Wei: Northern Phoenix is abstaining from the resolution


    Shen Niu: Western Moon is abstaining from the resolution


    Ouyang Zen: Eastern Sun is in favor of the resolution


    Feng Chun: Western Yan is abstaining from the resolution.


    *Bang*


    Mark mmed the te with the hammer, just like how the auction house master does at the final bid, and announced, "Three Abstains, one in favor, and one rejection. ording to Article 3 of the Genesis Cab''s constitution, the cab will revise the terms and conditions of the resolution and send it to the states for approval.


    Now, let''s move on to the next agenda. The Red Lotus Brotherhood."


    Everyone''s facial expression immediately changed upon hearing that name.


    It was a newly formed rebel group, shortly after the partition of the empire. Their aim is to wipe out wealthy individuals and nobles who enjoy the fruits of thebor done bymon citizens. They also held the Shang Dynasty ountable for the Shang Jun imperial massacre incident.


    More than a rebel group, it is like a sleeper cell. No one even knows who orders them in the first ce and how many people are working for this organization. Any civilian or random adventure could suddenlyunch a terrorist attack in public areas and grand events.


    If there was one thing that wasmon, it was their way of conducting the attack.


    Mark ced a red pill on the table and spoke, "I believe all of you already know what this is."


    Shang Wei nodded seriously, "The Exploding Pill."


    Mark then took out a hand-sized ss bottle and ced it on the table, surprising the rest as it had dozens of pills inside. "A couple of days ago, we identally caught a suspicious merchant at Lunaris, trying to sell this to a servant of our pce."


    "Eh?" Shen Niu looked surprised by this news as he wasn''t aware of it.


    Mark continued, "The servant was a rtive of a soldier who lost his life in the massacre incident.


    While we couldn''t extract the information of the mastermind behind the organization, what we know so far is that they were targeting the rtives of the victims who lost their lives in that incident, poor people who were frustrated about the intion, victims or who were rted to the victims who were, in one or another, harassed by nobles, military and civilian authorities, etc…"


    "What is the source of this jar full of exploding pills?" asked Ouyang Zen. If a batch of pills is so many in number, where each pill represents one possible terrorist attack, it is natural for this 13-year-old to be worried.


    Mark answered, "The prisoner said that this was given to him by a wandering merchant in a clown mask and hood. He was given 500 gold coins to deliver to Servant Yu, who unfortunatelymitted suicide without revealing anything."


    "Meaning, they have a high fund source. We need to look for someone with a legitimate business that has the potential to acquire high profits and has a high customer base but for some reason, their profits are only marginal. Businesses where their profits could easily be concealed from the official ount books," Shang Weimented in a firm tone as if he was confident in his hypothesis.


    "Hmm, we can certainly start from there," Mark agreed with Shang Wei''s thoughts as even Shen Ling opinioned the same when he consulted with her.


    After discussing a few other affairs, they concluded the conference and Mark had a series of private meetings with them, who mostly enquired about the status of the weapons manufacturing on his private ind and asked whether he could provide the first batch of their orders as it has already been 6 months since he took advance from them.


    Unfortunately, Mark could only disappoint them by citing ack of raw materials for certain parts of firearms. In reality, he isn''t interested in releasing them into the market until the numbers reach the (1 million) benchmark. Since he could no longer create weapons out of nothing, Mark had to carefully n to establish a sessful long-term business.


    Once he was done with the meetings, he left the pce in his LNovelBin without his father-inw and traveled nonstop for six hours to reach Lunaris City, before reaching arge mansion in an affluent neighborhood, guarded by robots.


    Upon his arrival, the robots made the way for him to enter the Genesis Mansion, greeted by more robots.


    From the cook to the gardener, every servant appeared to be a robot here.


    He gave nods to each of them, climbing the staircase to the first floor and eventually reaching a bedroom where a 26-week pregnant Song Yue was seen sleeping peacefully. The Golden Demon Kitten, Anan Spencer, was in his cat form, lying beside her and sleeping too. And so was the Manticore, which was lying on the floor. There are a few Rank-8 robots standing in the corners of the room like bodyguards.


    His arrival alerted both of them, but neither of them came to him to show their affection, like before. They looked at him and then slept once again as if he didn''t matter. As for the robots, they bowed to him and stood straight once again.


    Mark couldn''t help but let out a wry smile when he saw that and let out a sigh, "Well, it was my decision to cut off my contract with them and force their wills to bind it to Song Yue instead. At the very least, they don''t hate me. I should be satisfied with it."


    He dragged a chair nearby and sat beside the bed while the manticore, Baltrow, moved aside in silence.


    "Ark, check the status of baby," He spoke in his head, taking a nce at her belly.


    *Ding! Scanning in progress


    A few secondster;


    Fetus (unnamed)


    Status: Healthy, Body is fully developed, hibernation.


    Gender: Male


    Age: 6 months, 18 days.


    Estimated time of Birth: Unknown


    Cultivation: 1-circle (High)


    Attribute: Chaos


    Bloodline: Primeval (locked)


    Description: The unnamed fetus is the child of Master and his first wife, Lady Song Yue. Due to the remnants of chaos energy left behind by the Orb of chaos after its extraction, the fetus was forced to cultivate automatically before even the birth. However, due to enormous power, the fetus was forced to go into hibernation. Its birth might happen after the end of its hibernation.


    "Oh, he already reached the advanced stage? Two days ago, it was only at intermediate stage, good," Mark developed a big smile on his face, feeling proud of the child who has yet to be born. At the same time, there was also this anxiety about when his birth will take ce.


    Of course, in case of emergency, there was always Sylvandria on her side, the unborn child''s godmother, appointed by Song Yue.


    But for the moment Sylvandria isn''t in the home as she went to Mt. Lan for her breakthrough.


    Roughly, Three weeks ago, following Lan n''s ancient technique, under Zheng''s instructions, she created an avatar by splitting her soul into two, using the elemental seed of light, which was brought by Deity Yujiang on Mark''s request.


    Her ether energy has been halved but resulted in two copies of Sylvandria with mid-9-circle-realm cultivation, one has a light element and the other inherited her divine energy.


    Together, they ventured into Bloodhill forest and the oceans on a daily basis in order to increase their cultivation by absorbing the cores of the spirit beasts.


    Two days ago, they managed to reach the peak stage and went to Mt. Lan for the merge.