King Xi said, "So long as success can be assured, never mind two days—even two years or twenty, I can wait. But I must say this: even as King Xi, if this drags on too long, these people may not all obey my decree."
The loyalty of Upper Layer forces had never been so reliable. Even direct descendants could not be trusted completely.
Most of the Creation cultivators here, being born of the Hao Clan, could perhaps be trusted. But the recruited cultivators were another matter.
If these people learned that they intended to plot against the Upper Layer forces on the other side, they might not commit outright rebellion, but they would absolutely be capable of passing certain information over to the other side.
Shi Yanxin said calmly, "It does not matter. The moment they received the jade talismans, they became unable to send out any information."
There truly were people among these Upper Layer forces who secretly intended to transmit messages. He could sense that some had already done so.
This was not because they had betrayed King Xi, but simply because they did not wish to fight the Upper Layer forces on the other side to the death. Likewise, if the other side had information, they would also inform them.
This was their mutual agreement. Upper Layer forces would always be Upper Layer forces; they were not to become the tools of certain people below. And when confrontation truly could not be avoided, at most it would be a slaughter between Creation cultivators, while the cultivators merely needed to put on a show. Both sides would need them eventually, after all. So long as they did not rebel, everything could be discussed.
But once the jade talismans were in hand, it was as though they had entered