Tai Yu had no need to add too many expressions to the face projected into the Dreamscape. A smile was enough. "Is Great Monarch Mu Kuo trying to make us answer multiple-choice questions too?"
Mu Kuo shook his head. "It is not a matter of whether he wants to. In my view, Great Lord Luande simply no longer has the energy or ability to tackle those later essay questions. Rather than that, he might as well hand in his paper hastily, retire as soon as possible, and return to the Boundary Curtain region—the sooner, the better.
"After all, given the current situation, if he comes over quickly and supports each other with you, Great Monarch Tai Yu, perhaps he can still reap some benefits... The rumors coming out of Guang Shu—I mean those related to the Initial Awakening Society—cannot all be baseless lies, can they?"
As he spoke, Mu Kuo's smile grew ever brighter. "For a time, I thought that was exactly what you had planned."
Put simply, he wanted Luande to capitalize on the current buzz around Misty Jungle and come back for a share of the spoils.
In the past, if Luande had truly done so, Mu Kuo would have gained a competitor for nothing. It would have been the equivalent of stealing his place, enough to tear off all pretenses.
But now that there was hope of reestablishing the Phantom Nightmare Divine Kingdom, the Great Monarchs who had openly set foot in the Illusory Nightmare Domain would naturally hold the advantage, and their thinking had changed.
Tai Yu smiled and nodded. "That is not a bad line of thought."
But there was something he kept to himself: What if reestablishing the Phantom Nightmare Divine Kingdom turned out to be nothing but a fantasy?
According to Great Monarch