Ye Zhen and Commander Liu Bufeng of the Pingxi Legion were both intelligent men. Without needing to say it aloud, they understood each other's meaning.
Who was the Grand Governor of the Human-Demon Battlefield?
Prince Li Ji Yuan!
And now, based on a few scattered clues, they dared to suspect—even accuse—Prince Li of colluding with the Heaven Temple, and his heir Ji Jiong of intending to flee?
That was no different from courting death!
Even though Ye Zhen and Commander Liu Bufeng of the Pingxi Legion both possessed the right to submit secret memorials directly and could report all these signs straight to Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long.
But the Grand Governor of the Human-Demon Battlefield was Prince Li Ji Yuan.
The Human-Demon Battlefield army itself numbered in the tens of millions. Since the Millennial War began, several million reinforcements had also been transferred into the Human-Demon Battlefield.
Such a vast army was entirely under the command of the Grand Governor of the Human-Demon Battlefield.
Even if Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long truly believed the secret memorials from Ye Zhen and Commander Liu Bufeng of the Pingxi Legion, so long as even the slightest rumor of this matter leaked out, Prince Li Ji Yuan would not need to do anything. Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long would have to deal with Ye Zhen and Liu Bufeng to appease Prince Li Ji Yuan.
At best, they would be stripped of rank and thrown into prison. At worst, their entire clans would be exterminated and their homes confiscated.
This was no longer a matter of war. It was politics.
Politics that killed without batting an eye.
Even taking ten thousand steps back, if figures from the Ancestral God Hall in the imperial court, along with military men such as King Wei, stood on Ye Zhen and