Dispatching Troops to the Divine Wood Forest

"That's right!" Right General Ma Mengqi slapped the table and rose.

"Our Heavenly Saint Dynasty is the strongest power of the Human Race. Now that such a monster has suddenly appeared in the Divine Wood Forest, we must respond!"

"Respond? How?" Former General Huang Hansheng said in a deep voice. His hair had already turned grizzled, but his voice was still sonorous.

"The World Tree can suppress the combined strength of five great Heaven Ascension Realm experts. No matter how many of us go, we'll just be delivering ourselves to death!"

"That doesn't mean we can do nothing!" Rear General Wei Wenchang said, unconvinced. "Since when has our Human Race ever been afraid?"

The military officials spoke over one another, arguing without end.

The civil officials, by contrast, were relatively calm.

Chancellor Li Xuanji raised a hand, signaling for everyone to quiet down, then slowly spoke. "Your Majesty, this old minister believes that the World Tree's actions are not directed at our Human Race."

"It displayed its strength more as deterrence than as a declaration of war. Otherwise, after defeating the Five Great Ancestors, it could have taken advantage of the momentum to annex the other races."

"But it did not. It merely subdued the Elf Race, and it did so under the name of 'allegiance,' not 'conquest.'"

Grand Tutor Zhuge Mingliang nodded and said, "What the Chancellor says is entirely correct. Although the Divine Wood Forest has sealed off the news, some scattered reports have still leaked out."

"The reports claim that the World Tree is about to step into the Heaven Ascension Realm. At that time, its main body may disappear, and the Divine Wood Forest will lose its greatest support."

"That is why it subdued the five great Elf races, making them allies of the Wood Elves