Each of Chen Yi's achievements looked simple, and the descriptions were brief.
But if they had truly been simple, the people present would not have needed to rack their brains over them.
"Just as expected—where there's a name, there's a shadow."
"That rumor that had spread so wildly through the void earlier even made Fire Madman move to silence people."
"Now it seemed he had done it to lower everyone else's guard."
The other councillors nodded in agreement.
The Second Councillor said with a bitter smile, "Why don't you all think about what kind of merit exchange list we should open to him?"
"If the items aren't valuable enough, I'd bet he'll turn around and leave immediately."
Though he was smiling bitterly, it was also a relieved smile.
It was only spending money, after all.
As long as someone could achieve that much, what did money matter? He would pay!
The First Councillor chuckled for a while, stroking his long white beard as he somehow produced a strange scale.
At either end of the scale were a white Yang fish and a black Yin fish.
The scale, which had originally leaned toward the Yang fish, shifted ever so slightly back toward balance.
"It seemed that Great Sun God over there truly did something that allowed the integrity of a nation's territory to affect the Yin-Yang balance to a certain extent."
The Second Councillor continued, "This move was hidden enough, and ruthless enough."
"If Fire Madman hadn't reclaimed the lost territory, by the time we noticed, we probably would have lost another state."
"By then... the snowball would have already begun rolling."
The current tilt in the Yin-Yang balance might have seemed slight.
But it was like an avalanche.
The hardest part was not creating an avalanche, but getting that first