After a long while, Li Tianming smiled.
"Since that is the case, I'll have to trouble the three deputy generals to safeguard it on my behalf."
Everyone was somewhat stunned, especially Wei Qingyu, who could not understand what medicine Li Tianming was selling from his gourd.
Questioning them face-to-face yet still refusing to return the Dao Formation core was already an exceedingly defiant act.
That was why Wei Qingyu found it even more baffling. Why did Li Tianming not fall out with them? How could he still smile?
But in truth, Li Tianming had been communicating with Silver Dust through their inner voices all this time.
"Silver Dust, did you record it all?" Li Tianming asked.
"Guaranteed," Silver Dust replied.
"They said all of this themselves. Taking responsibility for their own words and actions is the most basic thing," Aurora said meaningfully.
On the surface, Li Tianming's compromise appeared to be unbearably humiliating.
But in reality, no one else knew of Li Tianming's secret communication with Silver Dust, Aurora, and the others.
Through the image sphere, he had recorded everything.
Wei Qingyu restrained some of his smile and respectfully cupped his fists toward Li Tianming. "Doing our part to strengthen the Heavenly Emperor Great Wall's defensive line is what we ought to do. It is naturally best that War God Li understands."
After he had spoken those earlier words, everyone already knew what his attitude and intentions were.
Yet no one present laid it bare. Each of them played dumb in their own way.
Li Tianming gave him a slight nod, then looked at the people before him with an indifferent gaze. "With several deputy generals laboring over these matters, I can rest assured. However, the No. 8 Heavenly Sector has not altered its defense plan for at least a