"Everyone, forgive Xie for speaking bluntly. On the surface, the greatest difficulty facing the Duke of North Sea Prefecture's Mansion is the Duke of North Sea Prefecture's disappearance, along with the impending invasion of the Devil Race's army of three million and the Water Clan's army of ten million. One misstep, and the entire North Sea will be trampled flat and destroyed overnight.
But in truth, this is not North Sea's greatest crisis!"
"Everyone, North Sea's greatest crisis actually comes from within Great Zhou.
Forgive Xie for speaking disrespectfully, but because of the Duke of North Sea Prefecture's hard-line ways, the relationship between the Duke of North Sea Prefecture's Mansion and Luoyi has become extremely poor.
I can state this with certainty: for this reason, Luoyi will not—and cannot—send reinforcements!
In truth, the Devil Race's army of three million and the Water Clan's army of ten million are not frightening. What is frightening is that North Sea has no reinforcements beyond its borders and can only defend an isolated city to the death!
And if you defend an isolated city to the death, then everyone in the Duke of North Sea Prefecture's Mansion will ultimately have only one ending—death!"
As soon as those words fell, every civil and military official of North Sea in the Council Hall changed expression. Yet Xie Yu, Prince Li Ji Yuan's envoy, continued speaking in an endless torrent.
"Now, however, His Highness Prince Li Ji Yuan has set aside past grievances and extended an olive branch to all of you in the Duke of North Sea Prefecture's Mansion.
Before I came, Prince Li promised—and is willing to provide written guarantees—that so long as the territory under the Duke of North Sea Prefecture's Mansion submits to his command, all civil and military officials will be