"Not yet!"
Before Tian Dan could finish, Xiao Ying cut him off with a firm refusal.
Xiao Ying knew exactly what Tian Dan wanted to say. He meant deploying the volunteers, also known as the volunteer suicide corps. They were a contingency for when the situation grew so dire that the Great Huan Faction could no longer hold out, allowing Xuan Ming to unleash the "blood-colored mandate" in a desperate gamble between life and death. Put plainly, it meant trading the lives of Great Huan's loyal, valiant soldiers for power and victory.
Regardless of their cultivation or strength, the soldiers who volunteered for the suicide corps were undoubtedly among the Great Huan Empire's most loyal sons. How could Xiao Ying sacrifice them lightly?!
More importantly, when Xiao Ying had agreed to establish the "suicide corps," he had intended to leave the Upper Realm's powers with the impression of a "merciless sovereign," showing them that he would defy Heaven and strike down the Dao even at the cost of sacrificing the Great Huan Empire! That ruthless resolve might well prevent the Upper Realm's powers from attacking the empire after his departure to threaten and restrain him. Of course, Xiao Ying also genuinely wanted a contingency against disaster. It served several purposes at once, and was also a matter of sacrificing the chariot to save the commander!
Xiao Ying did not know whether his decision was right. But this was a struggle against Heaven, against Earth, against men. How could war be without casualties?!
In the long run, sacrificing a small number would preserve the majority-and, more importantly, the Pangu World!
Only time and history could judge who was right and who was wrong!
Of course, unless he had absolutely no choice, Xiao Ying had no desire to deploy the suicide corps!