"What a silver tongue! Why should I not suspect that you are using this opportunity to divide my forces, so you can coordinate with others inside and out to attack my Imperial Capital?"
The more Mo Yi thought about it, the more likely it seemed.
Moreover, something had weighed on his mind for quite some time, filling him with unease whenever he thought of it.
That was whether his elder imperial brother, Mo Ze, was alive or dead.
Back in the Eastern Radiance Ruins on Sunset Glow Slope, he had clearly ordered his men to kill Mo Ze and even set the mountain ablaze. Yet afterward, someone had reported seeing Mo Ze elsewhere.
Naturally, Mo Yi did not believe such an inconceivable claim.
But the reports from outside were supported by evidence, leaving him unable to keep suspicion from taking root.
To put his mind at ease, he had later sent a trusted general to investigate Sunset Glow Slope, only to learn that the entrance to the cave they had burned stood wide open, and all the corpses inside had vanished without a trace.
Since then, the thought that Mo Ze was not dead, that he still walked among the living, had lodged in Mo Yi's heart and refused to fade.
Although no one had seen Mo Ze again after that, Mo Yi believed his elder imperial brother was hiding, waiting to strike him a fatal blow.
Now Yang Qing and the others had arrived intent on persuading him to send troops to Urn City, bringing that possibility to mind again.
His gaze toward Yang Qing and the others grew much colder.
Yang Qing and his companions knew nothing of these twists and turns. They merely noticed that Mo Yi's attitude toward them had changed markedly.
This was certainly not