Inside Qiankun Hall, Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long roared furiously. Aside from pressing his forehead to the ground to show his guilt, Grand Celestial Master Wu Yu had no other choice.
In truth, Grand Celestial Master Wu Yu felt somewhat wronged.
According to the Great Zhou Military Code, a commander-in-chief commanding over a million troops could be assigned two Void Hunter Kings and twenty Heavenly Patrol Generals for protection.
That was exactly what he had done. Moreover, those he had transferred were all elite warriors from the Heavenly Patrol Division, with accompanying priests from the Ancestral God Hall for protection, experts from the army itself, and retainers from both men's estates. Under normal circumstances, even a small army could not have harmed them, let alone wipe them all out, body and soul, without a single survivor escaping.
Yet it had happened anyway.
More importantly, whether King Wei Liu Wubing had gone to the highest peak of Great Zhang Mountain or Duke Wei Pan Shurong had gone to reinforce Great Zhang Mountain, both had been decisions made on the spur of the moment.
Yet those supposedly Devil Race assassins had grasped those spur-of-the-moment decisions with terrifying precision.
Under normal circumstances, that should have been utterly impossible!
The Grand Celestial Master Wu Yu, an old hand at intelligence, had already thought of several exceedingly horrifying possibilities!
But what worried him most was his own fate.
The deaths of King Wei Liu Wubing and Duke Wei Pan Shurong carried enormous consequences. Whether for the military or the realm, the Great Zhou court needed to provide an explanation.
"Tell Us, where did the two surviving Void Hunter Kings go?!" Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long suddenly roared at Grand Celestial Master Wu Yu.
Cold sweat immediately streamed down Grand Celestial Master Wu Yu's forehead.
His greatest problem