What a case of a leaking roof hit by rain through the night.
Jiang Wu had suffered heavy losses, several more subordinates had died, and even Han Fei, the strategist by his side, had fallen with them.
Now the rear of their own home had erupted into utter chaos.
What had been going on lately? Why had trouble after trouble come knocking one after another?
Xiao Juming forcefully suppressed the anger in his heart and cupped his hands. "Imperial Venerable, please uphold justice for us.
"The Eternal Mulberry is the sacred tree of our Medical Path. It concerns the entire path to longevity and cannot be lost under any circumstances.
"Yet while the Imperial Venerable was away and I was in seclusion, those Buddhist Path people cast aside all martial honor, secretly stole the sacred tree, and destroyed our foundation.
"If such treacherous villains are not eliminated today, they will surely become a future calamity. Who knows what day they might stab us in the back?"
Xiao Juming knew very well that a battle between the Buddhist Path and their Medical Path was inevitable. It was only because a foreign enemy stood before them that they had temporarily twisted themselves into a single rope.
Once that bunch from the Heavenly Profound Continent had been driven off, it would be time for the two sides to settle accounts with each other.
He just had not expected the Buddhist Path to overturn the chessboard so quickly and dig up their precious tree.
Now, he could use this pretext to have the Imperial Venerable lead his people in wiping out all those bald donkeys from the Buddhist Path.
Jiang Wu nodded slightly, his gaze turning toward the black-robed monk leading the Buddhist Path's side.
"Amitabha. Imperial Venerable, do not listen to this man's