"Duke of Huai!" Wen Jingxiu stood beneath the night sky, and the humility on his face gradually receded. "I respect you as an elder—respect your status, respect your contributions in guarding the Heaven Gate for the Human Race. But everything must be reasoned out. What sort of man is Pavilion Member Jiang? The whole world knows. He roams from realm to realm, leaving tracks across the ends of the earth, a divine dragon whose head is seen but whose tail is not. In recent years especially, he has circled through the Demon Realm, the Border Wasteland, and Yu Abyss—every one of them an unfathomable place. You come knocking at Yue Kingdom's door demanding a person. Where is Yue Kingdom supposed to find him for you?!"
Facing the cold gaze of Duke of Huai of Great Chu, Yue Kingdom's emperor stood straight-backed, yielding not an inch.
One could not help but wonder just what gave him such confidence.
Zuo Xiao raised a hand and slapped him across the face—
Smack!
The Flat Heaven Crown flew high into the air. Wen Jingxiu had not even managed to assume a posture of resistance before he was sent flipping and spinning through the air. The sovereign of a whole nation had been slapped into a spinning top!
"I've given you far too much face all these years!"
Zuo Xiao shook out his hand, as though disgusted by how hard that face was. "Think again about how you should answer me."
Wen Jingxiu's spinning body finally came to a halt with difficulty. Covering the face that rage and resentment had flushed red, he stared with shock and fury. He had never imagined that one as esteemed and venerable as Duke of Huai would commit such an uncouth act!
He had walked out of the Nation-Protecting