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"Actually, we can stagger our schedules," Yan Yu said thoughtfully, "Our daily cultivation doesn't take up all our time. It's not impossible to allocate part of it to deal with external affairs."
"But that way, wouldn't it only deepen the upper echelons' reliance on us?" Chen Lingyun said with a smile, "I suppose there's also an intention to see if any other cultivators can temporarily take over our responsibilities."
From past experiences, partial substitution was achievable, a complete replacement, however, was utterly impossible.
But some things, without experimenting and witnessing the results for themselves, I suppose some people will just never give up hope.
"Fine," Yan Yu nodded, "You can go now."
Chen Lingyun was unbothered, just pecked his face lightly, then gracefully left.
