Aurora gently persuaded him, "The essence of the Imperial Heaven Plan is not to slaughter every native in every star system. As long as effective rule can be established, why not try looking at it from another direction?"
The principle sounded simple enough, but actually achieving it was difficult. Li Tianming understood that as well.
Thus, he analyzed, "A star system with a single clan like this will certainly fight to the death against outside interference. Without absolute, overwhelming suppression, they will never submit."
"Moreover, their star system has long been coveted by various star systems and by successive executors of the Imperial Heaven Plan, and countless wars have broken out because of it."
"All of this has accumulated into profoundly deep hatred within their hearts. It is even more impossible for them to truly accept outsiders, much less submit to their rule."
Thus, Li Tianming would most likely face only two paths in the end.
The first was failure in conquest—or, rather, the expiration of the five-hundred-year locked attack right granted by the declaration of war, leaving the next Heavenly Emperor Sect member to attack.
The second was to fight the Divine Treasury Clan to the death, slaughtering every Divine Treasury Clan member within the Little Divine Treasury Star System in a war of extermination!
"If I were to impose rule through force, I might very well exterminate them. That is not what I want to see. The Destiny Universe Imperial Dynasty is absolutely not a brutal regime of conquest—it is an Imperial Dynasty that can embrace every race and grant everyone better conditions for survival..." Li Tianming said.
Only then did Li Tianming finally understand why everyone else considered conquering the Little Divine Treasury Star System so difficult!
The crux was that even if one used force to