Doing This Thing That Leads To One's Own Destruction?

"Reporting to Your Majesty, regarding the forceful breach of the outer-heaven defenses, this general has a few suspicions."

"This man dared to scorn the dignity of our Human Race, acting with utter abandon, openly slaughtering our soldiers and fiercely breaking through the heavily guarded outer-heaven defenses—this general believes there is an eighty or ninety percent chance that he is none other than the former Heavenly Emperor, Haotian!"

Wang Jian slowly stepped out from among the court officials. After a brief pause, his words fell like a thunderbolt!

Every civil and military official in the hall was shaken!

At first, it seemed utterly inconceivable. Yet upon further thought, every detail appeared perfectly reasonable.

For a moment, the grand hall was silent as a grave.

The ministers held their breaths, each lost in thought.

Meng Tian immediately stepped forward as well. Cupping his hands toward the throne, he declared in a ringing voice:

"Your Majesty, this general wholeheartedly agrees. Now that our Human Race commands the Heavenly Court, we have received the validation of Heaven and Earth and are indeed its rightful rulers.

"In the previous battle, the Heavenly Court changed hands. Our race's edge is at its peak, and our prestige has spread throughout the Primordial Wilderness. Though the Various Clans now stand side by side, no Tribe with even the slightest weight would dare provoke the Human Race head-on—much less so brazenly slaughter our elite troops and force their way through the outer-heaven passes!

"This matter is no trivial one. It cannot possibly be explained as a rash act.

"None of the clans are fools. How could they, in a moment of hot-blooded impulse, commit an act that would bring about their own destruction?

"This general refuses to believe they would truly gamble their entire clan's survival merely to provoke