Faced with Heng Tian's words, Xing Kong hesitated for a moment before speaking.
"If it truly comes to that, you can all leave on your own."
"You are shouldering..."
"Don't give me that. I didn't come here to listen to this nonsense."
Heng Tian cut Xing Kong off and said bluntly, "If I didn't want to concern myself with the affairs of the Li Yang Dynasty, I wouldn't have come to the Borderlands."
"If I didn't regard you as a brother, I wouldn't have personally taken up a blade and gone onto the battlefield."
"The situation is urgent now. I'm not here to hear you wallow in self-pity. I want to hear a reasonable solution."
"If you can't come up with one, if you lack the resolve to smash the cauldrons and sink the boats, then get the hell out of that position!"
Heng Tian's voice echoed through the great tent, and Jun Lin turned his gaze toward Xing Kong as well.
"Fellow Daoist, although there is much we can do, the Li Yang Dynasty is ultimately yours."
"If you don't make a decision, there are some matters in which it would be inappropriate for us to overstep our bounds."
Faced with Jun Lin and Heng Tian's words, Xing Kong thought for a moment and said, "The Li Yang Dynasty has a total of eight hundred thousand elite troops."
"Of those, three hundred thousand are tasked with defending against enemies in other directions. Being able to mobilize five hundred thousand elite troops is already the limit of the Li Yang Dynasty."
"And command over those five hundred thousand elite troops is divided among five people."
"Princess Wu Yang commands eighty thousand troops, while I command one hundred thousand."
"The remaining three hundred and eighty thousand are controlled by the three