A deliberative official in the hall vetoed the proposal. "There is no need to inquire into such trivial details. If we need Chief Envoy Zhang to provide intelligence even to wipe out a mere newborn realm, then Origin Xia will be looked down upon far too much."
The deliberative officials all found this reasonable. This was no great matter; whether they understood the inner circumstances of that realm was fundamentally unimportant. If not for the established procedures for attacking an enemy, which by convention required sending people to probe first, they would have felt even that step could be omitted.
Daoist Wan said, "No matter what, this realm must be eradicated as soon as possible, lest the Lower Hall use this matter to make trouble again. And this time, there can be no more failures."
The officials had no objections either. So long as they were not attacking Celestial Xia's homeland and the general direction remained unchanged, the specific arrangements for everything else did not matter.
Thus, the matter was swiftly decided.
After the Upper Hall issued its decree, it assembled another force. This time, its strength was even greater than before. It was commanded by an outer-realm cultivator who had attained a superior Dao Fruit, accompanied by four Void-Entrusting cultivators and more than twenty True Persons. Against Ravine Realm's former strength, this was enough to pacify it ten times over.
Moreover, there were others behind them tasked with providing support. This was in consideration of the possibility that Celestial Xia's main war faction might enter the fray. If one wave could not flatten the enemy, then follow-up forces would continue pressing forward, surging in wave after wave like the tide until this world was destroyed.
Put plainly, Origin Xia still had deep reserves and could endure losses. Even if