"Hadn't Li Tianming already been taken by Empress Yuanhao? Didn't he just marry the Second Warden's daughter?"
"How could a warden's daughter compare to an empress? How many empresses are there under heaven?"
"Empress Yuanhao truly has guts. Left Prime Minister plus Imperial Physique—seriously, seriously, that temptation... If I were Li Tianming, I wouldn't be able to resist either. Really, you can't blame him."
"He colluded with the enemy and betrayed the country!"
"He wasn't one of our Primordial Chaos Clan to begin with."
"But he consumed so many of our resources!"
"That's why he was convicted and sentenced to the extermination of nine clans, wasn't he?"
"The question is, can they even kill them?"
All kinds of discussions echoed through the skies above the Primordial Chaos Capital.
Unexpectedly, what people discussed most was not their hatred or disdain for Li Tianming, but the gossip between him and Empress Yuanhao. The romantic escapades between a young man and an empress truly sounded juicy enough to make their gossiping souls burn like wildfire.
The reason they were not worried about what would happen to Li Tianming was, in truth, because his past image in the eyes of the Primordial Chaos Clan's common folk had been far too positive.
Of course, that was only among the lowest strata of the Primordial Chaos Clan.
Among the middle and upper classes, after this imperial edict, they already hated Li Tianming to the bone. Starting from the Primordial Chaos Capital, countless officials and soldiers quickly took to the streets, forbidding the people from treating this vile incident as entertainment and emphasizing the severe punishment for treason.
Only by steering public opinion in this manner did the tide finally shift against Li Tianming. All kinds of curses calling him an ungrateful white-eyed wolf gradually became more