"What exactly do you mean...?"
Since they had decided to negotiate, relations between the two sides were temporarily friendly. Jian Shang could not work it out and could not be bothered to guess, so he looked directly at Sea Emperor Rotra and Chengshalina, Goddess of Wisdom, and asked.
Sea Emperor Rotra remained solemn and silent, but Chengshalina smiled as though the answer were only natural. "Honesty is what matters most in any relationship! We now have a fair understanding of how the Huan King conducts himself. Since we wish to ally with you, we naturally don't want any misgivings to arise between us. There is no need to conceal anything and end up harming both others and ourselves!"
"Heh... worthy indeed of the Goddess of Wisdom!"
Jian Shang chuckled in praise. He had to admit that Chengshalina's frankness had earned a good deal of his goodwill, so he asked directly, "Even if I agree to an alliance, I can only commit the forces currently at my disposal. I cannot and will not dispatch troops here from China's Divine Land. How confident are you that you can dismantle the forces of the Nether Realm?"
Chengshalina looked at the Sea Emperor, then answered after a long silence, "Provided our allied forces work as one and strike directly at the Nether Realm, we have a seventy percent chance of crippling its forces, a fifty percent chance of dismantling them, and a thirty percent chance of sealing the God of the Underworld away again. We have a hundred percent chance of holding off the Nether Realm's army!"
"Oh! Those are quite favorable odds!"
Jian Shang glanced at Chengshalina and Sea Emperor Rotra in surprise and murmured as though to himself. Before they could reply, he quickly continued in puzzlement, "According to our information and