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Xiao Wusheng's words instantly changed the expressions of everyone present. Ji Xuanyuan barked, "Xiao Wusheng, who do you think you are? How dare you interfere in the succession to the throne of Great Zhou!"
Xiao Wusheng shook his head. "It's not that I want to interfere. It's that these princes of Great Zhou asked me to. If you don't believe me, ask them yourself."
Of the more than thirty Great Zhou princes present, over half stepped forward and said, "We implore Father Emperor to abdicate!"
Su Xin couldn't help shaking his head. These princes who had stepped forward were truly foolish—far more so than Prince of Tai Ji Yancheng and the others had been back then.
In fact, aside from Ji Haodian, the rest of Great Zhou didn't mind the princes associating with people from the Martial Arts World.
Great Zhou itself was a martial force within the Martial Arts World, albeit the most powerful one. Some Great Zhou martial artists even had ties to local martial forces. Such things were simply unavoidable.
There was only one condition for princes to ally with those martial forces: they couldn't harm Great Zhou's interests.
Take Ji Yancheng and the Qingcheng Sword Sect's alliance in the past. The two sides had simply helped each other. Ji Yancheng wanted to borrow the Qingcheng Sword Sect's power to fight for the throne, while the Qingcheng Sword Sect wanted to use the Imperial Court's influence to claim the top spot among the Five Sword Sects.
The two sides could be said to have been equals. If anything, Ji Yancheng had held the initiative and kept the Qingcheng Sword Sect in check.
That way, the Qingcheng Sword Sect couldn't harm Great Zhou's interests,