Questioning!

Xiao Fu's tone was extremely grave.

That was right. He had taken part every time the Blood Emperor assigned a mission, but those had been imperial edicts—he had no room to refuse.

Xiao Fu knew his own place well. His mother was merely a member of the Demon Race, and an unfavored one in the imperial harem at that.

So he had paid no heed to the uproarious rumors over the years of the three imperial princes fighting for power and profit. He had simply led his army in guarding the border, preventing the neighboring Wild Beast Domain from invading.

Whenever he saw Xiao Xiaofeng and Xiao Juexin secretly crossing swords, he had almost never involved himself. He merely carried out the Blood Emperor's assignments in silence. He had not even tried to win anyone over—whether the National Preceptor's Residence or the great clans, this prince of the frontier had never approached any of them.

The Giant Spirit King and the Yellow Springs King supported him solely because the three of them were close friends. He knew full well that his bloodline destined him to have no claim to the throne.

But this time, both Xiao Juexin and Xiao Xiaofeng had gone too far. Hua Chenfei's earlier actions in particular—he could have quietly let them pass, turning a blind eye, since Esoteric Sect infiltrators did indeed exist.

But just because a sect had one infiltrator, did the entire sect deserve to be exterminated?

Did Hua Chenfei and Xiao Juexin dare guarantee that not a single person in the sects they had wiped out had been innocent?

The forces he had painstakingly built up had been crushed until they could barely breathe. Everyone was in danger, everyone feared for themselves.

As the pillar holding those people together, if he did not