Without a doubt, Western Patrol Envoy Xi Qiangu had failed to complete Grand Celestial Master Wu Yu's military order within the three-day deadline.
There was no helping it. Those rumored hundred thousand Devil Race troops were all currently sitting inside Ye Zhen's Mirage Dragon Pearl Space. Who could possibly find them?
Who could have imagined it?
Of course, old and cunning as Western Patrol Envoy Xi Qiangu was, it was not as though he had failed to consider other methods.
He had considered many methods, but none of them were suitable.
Xi Qiangu had even considered the method Ye Zhen had used before—substituting one thing for another.
But the problem was that this incident did not involve the thousand Devil Race troops he had deployed when framing Ye Zhen previously. It involved a hundred thousand Devil Race troops.
If it had only been the heads of one or two thousand Devil Race warriors, then with Xi Qiangu's standing and Human Meridian, he could have bought them from the Devil Race by spending a few more spirit stones.
But this was a hundred thousand Devil Race troops. A hundred thousand!
Not a single Devil Race lord or army commander would cut off the heads of a hundred thousand warriors and hand them over to him.
Even if there were someone willing, the price would not be one Xi Qiangu could afford.
However, Xi Qiangu had his own advantages.
If someone like Ye Zhen failed to fulfill a military order, a single punishment under military law could wipe out Ye Zhen and all his trusted followers in one sweep.
Western Patrol Envoy Xi Qiangu had deep foundations. A mere punishment under military law could not reach him.
Even so, Xi Qiangu still had to give Grand Celestial Master Wu Yu and the