"That Human Martial Venerable, with a great enemy standing before the Creation God Dynasty, actually killed my child and an Ancient Era Celestial Venerable I had captured, provoking a confrontation between the Eastern Heavenly Lord and me. This is an unforgivable crime. He may even be an Ancient Era spy. I request that the Creation God Dynasty punish him and grind his bones to ashes!"
The Moon City City Lord stared icily at Ye Xiwen, delivering those words almost one by one.
Ye Xiwen suddenly saw the light. In an instant, he understood the many matters that had previously seemed impossible to make sense of.
He had originally been somewhat puzzled. Why had the Moon City City Lord, who had always run wild and acted arrogantly, made no real move after Ye Xiwen killed the Yin-Yang Harmonious Emperor, merely stirring up so-called public opinion?
The Moon City City Lord should have understood perfectly well that such public opinion could do nothing to Ye Xiwen.
Then what had the Moon City City Lord's true goal been?
So everything before this had merely been a feint, an empty flourish of the spear. This was the true killing move. He truly intended to put Ye Xiwen to death, leaving even the Eastern Heavenly Lord with no room to intervene.
After Ye Xiwen slew the Yin-Yang Harmonious Emperor, he had brought the human army to station in Sun City. If the Moon City City Lord acted then, he would likely provoke the Eastern Heavenly Lord into acting as well. With the Eastern Heavenly Lord's interference, he would gain no advantage.
But now it was different. As long as Ye Xiwen's crime was established at this Celestial Venerable Assembly, it would become the will of the entire Creation God Dynasty. Even the Eastern Heavenly Lord