From the broader perspective.
The Hunyuan Military Manor needed honor, reputation, and status.
Li Tianming needed backing, foundations, and resources.
He could provide the Hunyuan Military Manor with what it needed, while the Hunyuan Military Manor could provide him with what he needed.
Thus, the two sides hit it off at once.
Yet the prerequisite for hitting it off was naturally for the two sides to forge a solid connection, and the foundation of that connection was loyalty.
As an outsider, Li Tianming was born with a huge flaw in this regard. Thus, he needed to express it twice as much, prove it twice as much.
And at this victory banquet, his declaration naturally earned unanimous, satisfied applause.
"Well said!"
At any rate, Fengting Shengwu was thoroughly pleased, applauding enthusiastically.
Even Fengting Haolong beside him wore a smile and applauded slowly, gazing at Li Tianming with fervent eyes.
"Indeed, well said."
No one had expected that at this moment, even the Junior Minister of the Military Manor would applaud for this, and he even added, "Some are outsiders, yet are willing to shed their heads and spill their blood for the Hunyuan Military Manor. Some are born in the Hunyuan Military Manor, yet serve others."
Upon hearing those words, the younger generation might have thought he was merely exaggerating Li Tianming's praises, but to the elders, they were rather thought-provoking.
Because no one knew who the Junior Minister of the Military Manor was alluding to.
If he was hinting at people like Sifang Beichen, they did not seem worthy of being specially brought up by the Junior Minister for comparison.
If he was not talking about Sifang Beichen, could he mean Yue Li'ai?
But she was the Junior Minister's daughter—and his favored daughter at that. Back then, he himself had