"Why do I feel like I've heard the same thing from the Lord of Sky City..." Lan Ran seemed to recall something, and looking at me, she couldn't help feeling that I was speaking too much in Sky City's favor.
I smiled faintly. "I was born in Sky City's territory and grew up accepting their ideals, so naturally I share their worldview and outlook on life. In our eyes, war is the last resort for solving problems. If we can seek coexistence and development through mutual effort, that is naturally the best approach. Resistance must have a purpose, but throwing an egg against a rock isn't the only way to achieve it. Lan Ran, if you trust me, can you leave this matter to me?"
"How am I supposed to leave it to you...? Even I don't know what to do anymore. If this continues, I'm afraid I won't even be able to leave the sect..." Lan Ran hesitated as well. This was already a dead end for her. Handing it over to me was really just a desperate attempt to try anything.
"Give me full authority over the leadership of Tianxuan Dihuang. Let me stand against Shang Jun and your master, competing to see who can truly seize the initiative." I spoke while thinking that if I took the rebel traitors under my wing, reformed them, and replaced their old blood with new, I would have succeeded halfway.
"But how could Master and Shang Jun possibly acknowledge that..." Lan Ran shook her head, and I immediately said, "If you're unwilling even to try a new approach, then we really can only sit here and await death. I imagine Zhou Chen and Ren Zihe will soon leave the sect first and try to contact the Tianxuan Dihuang members in Sky