"What, what do you mean?"
Xu Tianran instinctively took a step back. This was completely different from what he had expected.
"Exactly what it sounds like. The Sun Moon Empire no longer needs an ambitious schemer as its ruler. Or rather, there will be no Sun Moon Empire in the future."
"This does not mean we will build a new empire atop the ruins of the Sun Moon Empire. It means putting an end to the very concept of empire."
"Are you joking?"
The corner of Xu Tianran's eye twitched. He seemed utterly unable to accept Zhao Yang's words.
"Are you trying to send the entire world back to a primitive age of eating raw flesh and drinking blood? No empires, no nations?"
"I only wanted to expand our territory and restore the glory of the Sun Moon ancestors. The sacrifices of the Sun Moon people were all worthwhile. But what about you?"
Trembling, Xu Tianran pointed at Zhao Yang. "You would let the people die amid chaos, uncontrolled like beasts?"
"Fuck your 'sacrifices were worthwhile'!"
Zhao Yang kicked Xu Tianran's Prosthetic Body, sending him staggering back more than a dozen steps before he barely managed to stop.
"How can you be shameless enough to say something like that? Let the people suffer while you bear the infamy?"
Zhao Yang practically squeezed those words through clenched teeth.
"If you were the cannon fodder sacrificed at the border, the unlucky bastard whose entire family was slaughtered by Evil Soul Masters, or the poor fool living peacefully until his father was suddenly forced into rebellion by the emperor..."
"Would you still be able to say that?"
"How dare you drag the entire Sun Moon Empire down to hell with you?"
"Did you think that even if you lost, you would still have