"Marshal Ye, you're overthinking it. Our Demon Race isn't as omnipotent as you imagine. Only Yizhi Temple has a few people planted among your ranks—how would we dare place pawns under your command!"
If Ye Zhen believed a single word from that old fox Tu Zheng, ghosts would laugh.
Ye Zhen had already decided that once this matter was over, he would thoroughly investigate the families of the senior generals in the King of North Sea's Mansion and the Zhenhai Army.
Especially those of unknown or questionable origins around high-ranking generals and officials.
Otherwise, the King of North Sea's Mansion and the Zhenhai Army would follow in the footsteps of the army once led by Heir of Prince Xun Ji Cheng.
With a vast amount of highly accurate intelligence supporting him, what came next became much easier.
The first thing Ye Zhen did was go with the flow and buy time.
Hadn't Ji Cheng and Ji Jia spread all sorts of rumors, claiming that Yizhi Temple was in close negotiations with them and was about to surrender to them completely?
Then Ye Zhen would play along with that rumor and intensify his resistance against Prince Ning Ji Yuan's army.
Prince Ning Ji Yuan's army was led by Situ Gang, a famed general under Prince Ning. However, the Creation Realm Divine General beside Prince Ning Ji Yuan came from Qingli Peak, one of Heaven Temple's Three Great Holy Lands.
The internal factional conflict within Heaven Temple was now laid bare before Ye Zhen.
Heaven Temple's Sun Moon Heaven Lineage supported Prince Li Ji Yuan; the Lightning Prison Mountain lineage supported Prince Xun Ji Mao; and the Qingli Peak lineage supported Prince Ning Ji Yuan.
Ye Zhen very much wanted to know who stood behind Prince He Ji He.
Because the Creation