"The Eldest Miss actually captured Yan Zhou, and she's bringing him back to hand him over to the Heavenly Dao Alliance for a public execution under the law?"
At Cloud Summit Peak in Central Province, Wu Longjie and the others stationed there exchanged looks when they learned of this.
The Righteous and Demonic Paths were now gathered at Cloud Summit Peak, with countless titans, powerhouses, and renowned experts from every faction. Some of them might well be Yan Zhou's friends or old acquaintances. Even if Yan Zhou was aloof and unsociable, he was still a member of the Demon Alliance. Far too many people could find one reason or another to save him.
"They would have been better off killing him on the spot and ending it once and for all."
Wu Longjie felt quite a headache coming on. He worried that bringing Yan Zhou back alive would lead to unforeseen complications.
"Elder Wu, the higher-ups want us to send people to take custody of him as soon as possible, so the Unorthodox Path has no opening to exploit."
"Understood." Wu Longjie waved a hand. With his confidants present, he had nothing to hide, and complained in some distress, "I'd actually rather someone jumped out and tried to abduct him. Then we could seize the chance to kill him and save ourselves a heap of trouble."
Still, he understood Fang Yue's intentions. If those two villains could be captured alive and brought back for public execution under the law, it would undoubtedly serve as a powerful deterrent to the world's Unorthodox Path cultivators, while also bringing solace to the souls of the many murdered civilians of Yingshan Kingdom.
Killing them on the spot and proclaiming the matter to the world would likewise uphold justice, but it would hardly create the