Oni Yunjie turned to the chairman's platform and asked, "Mr. Speaker, if Yuguang Kaori can replenish the supplies immediately, then she shouldn't be held responsible. Does the Council of Elders agree with this resolution?"
The speaker didn't give Jin Jingzhang a chance to interrupt. He nodded at once. "Of course."
A smile finally appeared on Oni Yunjie's face.
That smile made Oni Rakshasa realize she must have found a way to deal with the situation.
He was about to stir things up when a Ghost Clan officer suddenly hurried in and whispered something in his ear.
Oni Rakshasa's expression changed drastically as he listened. "Impossible!" he cried.
The other monsters looked over in surprise, wondering what bad news Oni Rakshasa had heard to make him lose his composure like that.
But soon, many well-informed monsters understood what had happened.
It turned out that while the King Selection Assembly was underway, several truckloads of limbs had already been driven out of the Iron-Cast Palace and paraded through the Inner and Outer Cities.
By now, all the monsters in the Iron-Cast Palace knew the supplies had been replenished, and this time they were fresh—not canned and packed with preservatives.
Rumors were also spreading through the city that Oni Rakshasa had deliberately sent people to destroy the supplies to undermine the Ghost Princess, disregarding the interests of every monster in the city.
But in the end, the Ghost Princess had still managed to turn things around, secretly persuading Yuguang Kaori to find new supplies.
At that moment, monsters throughout the Inner City were singing the Ghost Princess's praises, while Oni Rakshasa's popularity had plummeted into the negatives.
The elders were astonished, while the monsters below erupted in an uproar.
They hadn't expected Oni Yunjie to come prepared, having seen through Oni Rakshasa's scheme