Wei Liu, Zhang Yuan, and the others left one after another.
After saying a few more words, Bai Chong also left the main hall. Seeing Wei Liu leave when they had barely exchanged a few words, Zhao Chen could hardly let her go just like that. He immediately called to the eunuch behind him and followed her out of the White Residence.
A moment later, only Zhao Lian, Xie Jingxin, and the maid remained in the main hall.
"Your Highness, that Bai Chong really doesn't know what's good for him. Your Highnesses traveled a thousand miles to come here, yet he wouldn't yield an inch. Clearly, he intends to be buried along with White Tree City," the maid said.
Zhao Lian said calmly:
"This is nothing new. Since White Tree City became part of our territory, when has the White Family ever treated us kindly? Being able to exchange a few words now is already quite good. In the past, they would have dared shut even Imperial Father out."
As an exceptionally rare pre-heaven spirit plant, the White Saint Tree could shelter an entire city, and it also bore White Saint Fruit that could alleviate the drawbacks of cultivation methods. Naturally, the many factions of the Crimson Firmament Roselight Realm eyed it covetously.
The Zhao Xia Imperial Family had exerted the strength of nine oxen and two tigers in their efforts to obtain the White Saint Tree. Yet no matter what terms they offered, the White Family refused to budge, determined never to let the tree fall into anyone else's hands.
They had thought that with White Tree City facing a great calamity, its current city lord, Bai Chong, might yield a little. Instead, he was just like the previous heads of the White Family, his resolve as unbending as