Yan Luoshu's defeat was not the end. Over the next half month, several more people came in succession to debate the Dao with Zhang Yu. Yet perhaps because Yan Luoshu's worldly body had been destroyed, none of them were particularly courteous.
Zhang Yu paid no heed to their attitudes. So long as they came to debate the Dao, he accepted them all. But during such debates, if the other party observed courtesy, he too would leave them some face. If they acted aggressively, he naturally returned the favor.
He was within Origin Xia territory, and he was Celestial Xia's official envoy. He absolutely could not show weakness. Only by being sufficiently forceful could he gain a foothold here and uphold Celestial Xia's reputation.
And the facts proved that the more he acted this way, the more respect he received.
Yet after he destroyed the worldly bodies of two people in succession, no one came to stop him. This seemed to send a signal outward, and many people subsequently sent over letters requesting a debate on the Dao.
He understood that this was within the Origin Upper Hall. Those upper hall deliberative councilors could not possibly be unaware of this matter, so they must have deliberately indulged it. Their purpose was likely to pressure him through these people. After all, the sooner he agreed to the conditions in the treaty, the sooner he could free himself from these debates.
But those who had long hidden behind the battle lines, doing nothing but driving cultivators of the outer worlds into combat, likely found it difficult to understand that, as a cultivator seeking the Dao, he neither feared nor rejected such debates and battles. On the contrary, he welcomed them very much. Thus, he was quite willing for this to continue—if only those