The instant Li Sui embraced Li Huowang, his body turned incorporeal and passed through the Mysterious Female Daoist Robe, arriving before Huangfu Tiangang.
For a moment, everyone in the room tensed up. Yet this time, Li Huowang did not make a move. He merely stood less than three inches away, watching him.
Though Huangfu Tiangang was blind, he could clearly sense Li Huowang's killing intent. His beard trembled slightly as he said neither servilely nor arrogantly, "Li Huowang, think this through. Which matters more: the White Lotus Sect, or the people of Great Qi and Great Liang?"
"Great Qi merely had some people starve to death, and you couldn't stand it. But if we start fighting, win or lose, at least half of Great Liang will die. Can you stand that?"
The killing intent around Li Huowang vanished at once. Looking at Huangfu Tiangang before him, he said word by word, "Use that brain of yours and think carefully. Do they want the White Lotus Sect? They want the Unborn Mother dead!"
"And don't forget, they stole the Unborn Mother's Heavenly Dao before! Have you forgotten what it was like when death disappeared? Do you want to experience that all over again?"
"If they truly steal the Unborn Mother's Heavenly Dao, it won't just be death that disappears. Compassion will vanish too!"
At the thought of what a world without death or compassion would be like, Gao Zhijian beside them felt a chill seize his heart.
"If compared with half the population dying, it would still be worth it for the Death Heavenly Dao and the Heavenly Dao of Compassion to disappear for a while." The Imperial Preceptor still refused to give up.
"How many White Lotus Sect believers are there now? Send all of them over? How would that