Yi Zun smiled faintly. "What Secret Sage says is indeed reasonable. Faced with the Great Calamity of Heartlessness, it is a fact that the Third Heaven does not wish to be attacked from both front and rear. I will not argue otherwise. However, are you sages of Outer Heaven truly free of worries in your current situation? For three thousand years, only with all eighty-one sages united could you contend against the Third Heaven. Now only thirty-six sages remain, your strength diminished by more than half. If the Third Heaven were to launch an all-out war against Outer Heaven today, could you thirty-six sages withstand it? Our sages are willing to hold peace talks with you on the premise that your Sacred Power has been halved, rather than launch the ultimate Sacred War against Outer Heaven. How is that not benevolence?"
Those words directly confronted the situation.
In the past, Outer Heaven had eighty-one sages, and only then could they stand evenly against the sages of the Third Heaven.
Today, only thirty-six sages remained, while the Third Heaven's sages had lost merely two.
In overall strength, the Third Heaven had clearly surpassed the sages of Outer Heaven!
If the two sides could not reach an agreement for peaceful coexistence today, the Third Heaven would be forced by circumstance to launch the ultimate Sacred War. When that time came, disaster would descend upon the sages of Outer Heaven.
This was laying his cards on the table!
Using war to exert pressure!
Yi Zun was a grandmaster of the Yi Way. He could see through the current situation and seize his opponent's sore spot. With a single sentence, he shattered Secret Sage's argument of "False Benevolence."
Phoenix Sage fixed Yi Zun with her phoenix eyes, smiling without smiling. "Enough testing each other.