The plant in the basin was most peculiar. It looked like a pillar, yet its entire body was crystalline. Looking closely with focused attention, it did not seem solid, and yet it brimmed with vitality.
"What is this...?"
As they watched four or five burly men carry over the potted plant, everyone could not help but wonder.
Seeing this, the vanguard officer chuckled, cupped his fists, and smiled at the crowd. "Heroes of the martial world, as the saying goes, nothing need be hidden from others. I trust you all heard what my Li Clan brother said just now. Our stronghold conducts its affairs openly and aboveboard; we do not indulge in fraud or deception. As for the momentous matter of accepting imperial amnesty, we certainly will not treat it lightly and invite ridicule from our fellows of the martial world. You may all personally oversee how this matter proceeds!"
"Let us oversee it with our own eyes?"
"But where are we supposed to watch it? Are we going into the main hall too?"
"Can that main hall even fit all of us?"
Amid the discussions, everyone looked around and took in those beside them. By a rough count, there were at least two or three hundred people. It was not that the stronghold's main hall could not accommodate so many people—after all, the Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends Host itself numbered over a hundred, and they normally held meetings in that hall.
But no matter how large the main hall was, if so many people flooded in at once, it would inevitably seem cramped. Besides, the imperial court was now negotiating with the Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends Host. No matter how indignant these martial folk might be, they knew that going over merely to watch would be too