"You make it sound so easy, Qingqiu Kingdom Lord. The people of the Qingqiu Kingdom are living beings, but the citizens of Chang'an and the disciples of Heavenly Mechanism City aren't? Who will compensate them for their lives?" Lu Huaming demanded coldly.
"As the Qingqiu Kingdom Lord, I must atone with my death," she said calmly. Her expression did not change in the slightest, as though she were discussing someone else's life and death.
Everyone froze at her answer.
"Kingdom Lord, some things cannot be resolved simply by dying. Besides, the fate of the entire Qingqiu Fox Clan is at stake. Why hasn't Grand Elder You Su Strategist appeared?" Shen Luo asked, his expression tightening with a trace of reluctance.
His voice was quite loud, and, amplified by the power of his divine soul, it carried throughout Qingqiu City.
The members of the Fox Clan who had been inwardly cursing the Qingqiu Kingdom Lord from the rear now found the same question rising in their hearts. Why was You Su Strategist, their grand elder, still refusing to appear?
"The Kingdom Lord is already prepared to atone with her death. Perhaps there really was some unspoken difficulty that kept her from appearing sooner?" someone said hesitantly.
"The Grand Elder kept denying that our Qingqiu Fox Clan had taken part in the Chang'an Fox Uprising. She said the other races coveted our treasures and were deliberately using this as a pretext to attack, rallying us to defend our homes and kingdom. The Kingdom Lord, meanwhile, kept trying to settle the conflict through dialogue... Now that we're all out here risking our lives, where is the Grand Elder?" an elder asked.
"Exactly! We ask the Grand Elder to come out and take charge!" another elder shouted upon hearing this.
Several nearby elders exchanged