"You see? These savages really don't know what's good for them!" Feng Tiankuang said expressionlessly inside the Demon Extermination Department's main hall.
Feng Tiankuang had expected this outcome from their visit to the Murong Family today.
Before they set out, he had reminded Lu Yang to prepare himself.
Murong Xingyue's behavior just now had certainly proven Feng Tiankuang's earlier point.
Lu Yang gave a helpless smile. "The Four Great Families are far too arrogant. We mean them no harm, so why shut us out so completely?"
"His Majesty is magnanimous and unwilling to let the human race turn against itself. In recent years, the dynasty has focused almost entirely on Demon Province and Tianjue Prefecture. These people are just small-minded, judging a noble heart by their own petty standards. They're always worried that someone will set their sights on their little patch of land."
Lu Yang nodded.
Though Savage Province was vast, it was ultimately a bitterly cold land. Its resources and population were nowhere near those of Qing Province, let alone prosperous Central Province.
The Four Great Families held sway here, so naturally they worried that the Great Jun Dynasty, their former master, would try to reclaim its lost territory.
From the Four Great Families' perspective, the Murong Family's reaction was understandable.
But from the vantage of the Great Jun emperor, things were quite different.
The Great Jun emperor looked to the whole world of nine provinces. Right now, the most pressing matter across all nine provinces was the growing number of fiends emerging from the Demon Abyss.
Compared to the crisis facing the entire human race, the question of who controlled a mere Savage Province was, at least for now, far less important.
When the nest is overturned, what egg can remain unbroken?
Feng Tiankuang looked at Lu