"I'll pass. There's more poison than water in that."
"Supreme Elder, let me remind you: I don't think Xu Tianran, the Sun Moon Empire's Crown Prince, is someone to take lightly."
"He won the position of Crown Prince despite his crippled body. Who knows what other methods and abilities he has?"
"Do you think sacrificing one girl will be enough to make him work for you?"
Banner Bro spoke coldly. After all, he was telling the truth.
Ye Xishui's thigh was still rubbing against his.
"So what? He has no choice in this."
"Xu Tianran himself contacted the Holy Spirit Cult when he was still a prince of the Sun Moon Empire. He wanted the cult to help him rise to power."
"Our leader, Zhongli Wu, agreed to his terms."
"In exchange, the Holy Spirit Cult gained plenty of the Sun Moon Empire's resources through his authority and connections."
"It was mutually beneficial from the start."
"And now, he has no choice but to send troops. I'm passing along this message to make sure he sends fewer of them. Only then will both sides suffer heavy losses."
"A drawn-out war will let the Death God Tower absorb more power from the Undead and speed up the process."
Ye Xishui continued speaking.
For the first time, Banner Bro realized that knowing the script was no reason to let his guard down around these people.
Ye Xishui was a devil.
If events had followed their previous course, the Star Luo Empire would have repelled the invading Sun Moon Empire army, then assembled its forces for a counterattack.
Many ministers in the Sun Moon Empire's capital would surely have urged the deployment of a stronger army to defend the Mingdou Mountain Range to the death.
Then the Star Luo Empire's army would never