Gu Jinlai ultimately decided to keep Jiang Chongshan.
Despite being a hot potato, his years of diligently staying behind closed doors in Star State and devotedly cultivating showed that he was a very conscientious person.
This conscientiousness was not only manifested in cultivation but also in his behavior.
He had no contact with local powers and voluntarily acted as a law-abiding prince to avoid arousing the suspicions of the current Emperor Qian, sparing the country the waste of precious public resources on him.
This was especially true given Daqian's increasingly weak control over local affairs.
Similarly, it was the realization of this growing weakness that compelled him, as a member of the Imperial Family, to step forward.
He did not aspire to replace Emperor Qian to quell chaos and reunite the country, but only to contribute his own strength to the task of hunting devils, living up to the name of the Jiang Family's offspring.
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