"Thank you, Sovereign, for avenging our fallen sisters!" Such cries echoed through the entire hall. Even the others from the Nine Heavens and Nine Departments began shouting along, clearly both admiring and pitying the Juntian Department for the sacrifices they had endured while defending Lingjiu Palace to the death these past months.
Seeing how stirred up they were, Song Qingshu sighed inwardly. Over the past few months, the Juntian Department alone had relied on the terrain to hold Lingjiu Palace against all odds. Who knew how many bloody battles they had fought, how many comrades they had lost? Yet in the original story, Xu Zhu had simply let those rebels go. Not only that, he had even removed their Life and Death Talismans. It was laughably foolish.
Though those island and cave masters had wept tears of gratitude at the time, each swearing they would brave fire and water for Lingjiu Palace and Xu Zhu thereafter, once the means restraining them was gone, would those seasoned old hands truly risk their lives for Xu Zhu if circumstances changed someday?
As for the people of Lingjiu Palace, after waiting all that time, they would only receive such an outcome. They would surely be utterly disheartened. Yet Xu Zhu was the Sovereign, so no matter how dissatisfied they were, they could only bury it in their hearts.
As for everyone in the original story being wholeheartedly convinced by him, that was merely Xu Zhu being handed the protagonist's halo. How could the people of Lingjiu Palace possibly have had no thoughts of their own?
"Please show mercy, Sovereign!" Seemingly sensing the killing intent gathering in the air, the island and cave masters frantically kowtowed. They had watched a group whose martial arts were comparable to their own rush outside, only to be