"Just now, we used the Eye of Truth to inspect the activity around us!" Arushilu let out a heavy sigh and shook his head helplessly. "It was a horrifying sight! I never imagined you commanded such an immense military force! Though we are confident we could deal a devastating blow to your army, the price would be the collapse of this entire small world!"
Gritting his teeth, Arushilu looked at Lin Qi helplessly. "If the spatial structure of this small world were as solid as that of a true universe, we might even be able to wipe out all your forces, at most paying the price of half our people being killed! But if war breaks out within our territory, then we are finished."
Lin Qi stood before Arushilu with his arms folded over his chest, looking down at him from above. "The continuation of the Celestial Sprite Clan is important too, isn't it? You don't want to smash jade and stone together, only to truly end up with your entire race exterminated, do you?"
The expressions of the Celestial Sprite elders shifted in an instant. They leaned together and muttered among themselves for a few moments before shaking their heads in unison. Arushilu said calmly, "That's right. We do not wish to die, nor can we allow countless clansmen to die meaningless deaths alongside us. We have struggled on through so many cosmic calamities. We struggled through even such a dreadful disaster of racial extinction. Naturally, we hope our race can continue forever."
"I am not a cruel person!" Lin Qi said, looking at Arushilu with great sincerity. "I merely want your knowledge and wisdom."
"The humans of old—those beings ten thousand times, a million times, a hundred million times stronger than you—they too merely wanted our knowledge and