"If you and I can bury the hatchet with a smile, we can also wipe the slate clean over what Great Qi did to my Qingqiu disciples."
"Is that so? How kind of you."
The Lion Camel Divine Appearance opened its eyes. Its voice rang like a great bronze bell as it said, "Then tell me, how exactly do we bury the hatchet with a smile?"
Seeing the Great Qi Dynasty's side soften, another tall, thin Qingqiu Patriarch smiled and said, "The Great Qi Dynasty will remain the Great Qi Dynasty, and the Divine Temple will remain the Divine Temple. The Nine Provinces and Four Seas will remain the Nine Provinces and Four Seas."
"But at the very top of that temple, you will once again sculpt a valiant divine likeness of our Qingqiu Patriarch."
"From then on, you will guard the Nine Provinces and Four Seas, while Qingqiu will oversee the Imperial Court's affairs. We will each attend to our own duties and serve the Dao Alliance wholeheartedly! How does that sound?"
"Those beasts really are clever. No wonder they've grown so powerful in just a few short centuries!"
After hearing all this, Tang Songyuan couldn't help thinking that the beasts really were clever.
Though he figured the Great Qi Dynasty would probably refuse these demands, he remembered his master's warning on the way here, along with what that fox had said.
The details weren't exactly the same, but the gist was nearly identical. They had even independently arrived at the same core idea: dividing Great Qi between them.
"Those beasts are truly the most perceptive when it comes to the human heart. Even their words sound sweeter than my master's."
Even he couldn't help voicing his admiration.
But then he thought, *With the stubborn tempers of the people