Pan Ning ordered his men to investigate the young man's circumstances, both on a whim and with an eye to the future.
They were at a crucial stage in signing the peace treaty. Any advantage gained in negotiations could outweigh the fighting of thousands upon thousands of troops. Even Grandmasters and Great Powers were more than willing to reap such benefits at no cost.
As for Li Chen and Shen Longcheng, their thinking was even simpler. Waiting around here was boring anyway, and their subordinates handled all the negotiations over the details, leaving them with nothing to worry about. They might as well enjoy a good show for free.
Li Chen privately counted himself lucky that he had never run into such a melodramatic mess. Otherwise, he would have been the one everyone laughed at.
Then again, the Golden Roc Great Sage probably would not have been so careless as to turn an attempt at winning someone over into an offense.
Once someone's status warranted it, he would give them the attention they deserved. With that attention, many oversights could be avoided.
The Immortal Alliance and the Tu Household, however, had been a little negligent because the person directly involved was not the Primordial Spirit Great Power himself.
But they were equally unwilling to offend the other side. Even if Yu Hong truly had a lover to whom she had sworn vows as enduring as the seas and mountains, they would most likely still suffer the fate of mandarin ducks beaten apart by a cudgel.
Tu Qinghui needed to do nothing but follow the prevailing tide. Even a Grandmaster expert like Pan Ning could do nothing to him, because they too were unwilling to lose the greater prize over a minor matter and disrupt the peace talks.
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