From the looks of it, the proportion of high-level Transcendents wasn't very high—but they certainly had ways to protect themselves.
As if remembering something, Wall Announcements glanced at Chu Bamboo. "Ah Zhu, aren't you and Governor Lu's daughter..."
"That won't work!" Li Kang cut Wall Announcements off. "The principle of Extraordinary separation! In theory, not even Governor Su has the authority to directly issue orders to the Captain's Office."
"To mobilize the Captain's Office, he would have to call the Celestial Capital and get their approval and authorization!"
"This whole thing is far more complicated than you imagine! It's a situation where one wrong move could unravel everything."
"...But you said before!" Wall Announcements was starting to lose it.
"That's why he said 'in theory'!" Ning Linglong scoffed at her subordinate's naivete.
