"Please calm your anger, Senior. Our clan absolutely has no intention of threatening you, but we truly have no other choice. Please show us some understanding!"
Inside the Supreme Yang Peak Cave Mansion, Xiao Hong maintained her bowing posture, her body trembling slightly under the pressure of Luo Hong's icy aura.
Seeing her like this, Luo Hong could only snort coldly and withdraw his aura.
After all, if what she said was true, the Black Phoenix Tribe indeed had no other choice.
But—
"The construction of the Heaven and Earth Yin Yang Furnace absolutely cannot be delayed, much less stopped! I cannot return those thousand Black Flame Guards to you."
Luo Hong had a terrible headache at the moment, for the completion of the Heaven and Earth Yin Yang Furnace concerned the subsequent refinement of Zhiyang Fortress. If Zhiyang Fortress could not be completed within a hundred years, they would miss a crucial opportunity.
Therefore, Luo Hong absolutely could not allow Xiao Hong to take the thousand Black Flame Guards back to the Black Phoenix Clan.
Yet those thousand Black Flame Guards were merely working for him, not selling their lives to him. If they learned the truth, every last one of them would certainly leave.
The reason was that the one in trouble within the Black Phoenix Clan this time was none other than their Demon King—Xiao Guan!
"What kind of bullshit Demon King gets herself trapped just exploring a Secret Realm? I'm honestly impressed!"
Luo Hong could not help but grumble inwardly.
Back then, the wooden box Luo Hong had given Xiao Guan had contained a cluster of Five-Colored Divine Light, enough to allow her to open that Secret Realm sealed by the Five Elements Restriction.
That was why Xiao Guan had been willing to send a thousand