"What's this? General Yao Guang, are you planning to imitate that Foxian now and come before me with Feixiao's line of reasoning—[She, Fu Xuan, is a female general, and I'm also a female general. Why can't I enter a political marriage?]"
But after Yao Guang's next three sentences, Fu Xuan completely calmed down.
"Junior sister, you aren't the Luofu Xianzhou's general yet."
"If you held the Emperor's Proof, were willing to build a new Xianzhou for Chen Li, and relocated to Xianzhou Cangcheng, then you would no longer be the Luofu's general. Would a political marriage with Chen Li still be your turn?"
"Junior sister, you're confused. Your senior sister is doing this for your own good! Hurry up and say thank you!"
Every word struck at the heart, sharp as a needle.
Fu Xuan had to admit then that Yao Guang had a point.
Yao Guang could operate on two fronts because she was already the Jade Palace Xianzhou's general. It did not matter whether she resigned or not.
But Fu Xuan had not even become the Luofu Xianzhou's general yet.
Now that they had the Moe Ying Body Artifact to purge mara-struck afflictions, Jing Yuan could easily keep working for another three thousand years.
By then, the Xianzhou that the Xianzhou Alliance chose to cede to Chen Li might be the Jade Palace—or even Xianzhou Yaoqing—instead of the Luofu.
Taking a step back, in terms of historical legitimacy, the Luofu Xianzhou had always been tacitly regarded as the foremost of the Xianzhou Alliance's six great flagship vessels.
This was not because the Luofu's military strength surpassed that of the Alliance, but because this ancient giant vessel had personally received the Ambrosial Arbor bestowed by Yaoshi, bearing symbolic significance inseparable from the entirety of Xianzhou civilization.
Seeing Fu Xuan's