Within Chaoge City, Taishang narrowed his eyes slightly, a cold glint surfacing in their depths. His voice was icy. "Do you think I am discussing this with you?"
"Today, you will not harm so much as a single hair on Ji Chang's head!"
"If you refuse to release him, then I shall take him away myself!"
The fury in Di Xin's chest erupted with a boom.
What Grand Pure Saint!
Just because he was the leader of a teaching, he could stand above the laws of a nation?
What gave him that right?
"You want to take him away?" Di Xin shouted sharply. "Step over my corpse first!"
Taishang's pupils contracted abruptly. Rage surged within him, and he almost suspected he had misheard.
Di Xin actually dared to defy him like this?
He actually dared to be so insolent!
The entire court of civil and military officials was shaken.
The Son of Heaven actually dared to tear away all pretense before the crowd, leaving not the slightest room for compromise?
"Di Xin! Is that how you speak to a Saint?!"
Taishang let out a thunderous shout, then released a thread of pressure, sharp and chilling as a blade, bearing straight down upon Di Xin.
"Saint, there is no need for further interference!"
"Ji Chang's matter is purely an internal affair of my Shang Dynasty."
"Moreover, Ren Teachings is not the sovereign of the Human Race. It is merely one branch of the Human Race!"
"What happens within the rule of my Shang Dynasty need not trouble the Saint!"
Di Xin's tone was steady, neither servile nor overbearing.
He did not mean to slap the Saint's face. But in this matter, the boundary was clear; he would not yield even half a step.
Besides, why should I bow and scrape before