"You're back? What's this?"
"Imperial Father." Xu Yanli stepped forward and dropped to one knee. "Your son has something to report."
The emperor raised an eyebrow. "Speak."
Xu Yanli recounted the events at Angel Village from beginning to end, selectively describing how he had found the village, entered it, and met the descendants of the Angels.
At last, he lifted his head and looked at the emperor on the throne. "Imperial Father, the Angel Clan is willing to submit to the Sun Moon Empire. Your son respectfully asks that you allow them to move to Ming Capital and grant them the title of the empire's guardian clan."
The Imperial Study fell silent. The emperor leaned back in his chair and lightly tapped the armrest with his fingers, once, then again.
"Four Titled Douluo and one Super Douluo. They're not weak."
"Yes," Xu Yanli replied. "It's precisely because they're strong that we should bring them over to our side. Imperial Father, you know better than I do what the Evil Soul Masters are like. They're in the shadows while we're out in the open, and they're impossible to guard against. But with the Angel Legion, things would be different. The Angel Martial Soul naturally counters Evil Soul Masters. With them here, the Evil Soul Masters wouldn't dare act so brazenly."
The emperor was silent for a long time before letting out a soft sigh. "Evil Soul Masters... Those vermin have been getting more and more lawless over the years."
Xu Yanli felt a little speechless. Wasn't it the incompetence and indulgence of everyone in the Sun Moon Empire that had let the Evil Soul Masters run rampant?
And now he was blaming them for being lawless.
The emperor looked at Xu Yanli. "How do you plan to accommodate them?"
"There's an