"Actually, no matter what you chose, it would have been wrong."
Yu Tianheng understood.
"You should be grateful that a new policy had been introduced. Otherwise, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would have been wiped out today," Li Pu replied calmly.
They really did have reason to be grateful. Given the choices between candy and a knife, it didn't matter whether they chose one, chose neither, took everything, or picked something else. Their only fate would have been an execution too gruesome to describe.
Even without collective punishment, there were brutal penalties like quartering, death by a thousand cuts, and being torn apart by five horses. They were more than fitting for the evil nobles and powerful families who preyed on the common people.
Repay evil with evil and poison with poison. To deal with these scoundrels, only the cruelest punishments would do!
The transition from feudalism to a new era was simply too great a leap. For now, some brutal punishments would remain, and only later could they gradually be softened and changed.
As the representatives left behind by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin said they would obey and promote the Heaven Dou Empire's new policies from then on, and swear allegiance to the empire.
Li Pu let them keep their student status. If they still wanted to study, they could continue attending school.
And Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin, who naturally wanted to restore the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's former glory, wouldn't refuse. The Continental Advanced Spirit Master Elite Tournament was only a few years away. They had to earn a good ranking—or even win the Spirit Master Tournament—before they could slowly reclaim what they had lost.
Just then, two Black Armor soldiers brought someone over. Yu Tianheng and Yu