Gai: This Was the Right Move

Time returned to the present.

Mary Geoise.

After paying Lord Im a visit, the Five Elders returned to their office.

There was still a mountain of matters to deal with.

The disappearance of Marineford and the decimation of the Marines were both pressing problems.

The Marines had to continue to exist.

They also had to recover as quickly as possible, or the consequences would be unimaginable.

The World Government's authority had already taken a severe blow. One wrong move could send it into an irreversible decline and leave it on the brink of disaster. The best solution was to rebuild the Marines as quickly as possible, then target and completely destroy another faction. Only then might the World Government's current predicament ease.

Otherwise, if things continued this way, the World Government would certainly lose its credibility.

It hardly took any imagination to realize that chaos had probably already erupted in the territories ruled by the World Government.

In this Cultivation Era, everyone had a few tricks up their sleeves, and ambition was flourishing as a result.

The onset of the Cultivation Era had already weakened the World Government's rule. Now its strongest arm had been cut off, making an already bad situation even worse.

Damn Gai.

If not for that man, the World Government wouldn't have ended up in such a miserable position.

Damn it!

The more they thought about it, the angrier they got. They were about ready to spit blood.

Along with their rage and bitter hatred, they were also apprehensive.

There was no denying it: Gai's latest move had truly frightened the Five Elders—or rather, every faction in the world.

He'd wiped out a massive island just like that, and taken out the Marines, a superpower, in one fell swoop. Was there any need to be so