A Thousand Miles Off-Topic (Extra Chapter for Ally Ah Shen's Little Padded Jacket! Requesting Monthly Votes)

How was Fu Dongxu supposed to give an account?

Kill himself to atone for his crime?

Obviously impossible!

To Fu Dongxu himself, even punishing himself with three cups of wine was out of the question.

He was a dignified Current Era True Lord, the one who commanded the Mirror World Terrace, an indisputable figure of real power in Jing Kingdom. Why should he give any account for the death of an Inner Palace cultivator?

But Qi State... was simply too unyielding.

What made Jiang Shu so arrogant? What made the people of Qi State swell with such conceit?!

Even when Yang Kingdom stood at the height of its glory, it had never gained a firm foothold in the Central Regions. Where was the Yang Kingdom of old now?

Yet the Jing Kingdom of old was still the Jing Kingdom of today!

Since ancient times, none who challenged Jing Kingdom had ever succeeded.

Could Qi State really be the exception?

But Wen Yanyu, Shi Mingcheng... the Qi State they represented was simply too unyielding.

Ji Zhaonan fought Chunyu Gui, Shi Mingcheng fought Pei Xinghe, and now, before Zhongshan Yanwen of Jing State, Wen Yanyu would not hesitate to use a war between states as leverage to demand that Jing Kingdom give an account.

And could he, Fu Dongxu, bear the responsibility for a war between Jing Kingdom and Qi State?

At this moment, Jing Kingdom had no reason to yield. Nor would Jing Kingdom do anything to him, Fu Dongxu, merely because Qi State threatened war. But the war that might erupt as a result, the losses it might bring... whether he wanted it or not, he would bear the primary responsibility.

That would be an enormous loss of standing.

Jing Kingdom did not fear a battle, but it had no