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After meeting with the Prince of the South at the teahouse, the Third Prince, Li Yu, returned to his own camp, his heart still tangled with indecision.

Unless they dealt with the Second Army Group, his army and the Prince of the South's would struggle to march north.

It was not that he cherished the bond between master and disciple. It was simply that if he really killed Yun Xu, Yun Shang would hate him for the rest of her life.

Such romantic attachments should never have troubled an army's commander in the first place.

Li Chen had left the Imperial Capital to launch a full-scale assault on the Sasanian Dynasty. An opportunity like this would come only once.

On his way here, Li Yu had also received word that Li Chen had already headed to the Sasanian Dynasty's Royal Capital and would not be returning anytime soon. The Imperial Capital's military strength had to be lacking now.

The only force standing in the way of the Third Prince and the Prince of the South was the Second Army Group.

Li Yu felt that the matter of Yun Shang could actually be worked around.

He could have the Prince of the South kill Yun Xu. That way, he could most likely shake off the blame, and once he became emperor, Yun Shang would probably accept him.

With that question settled in his mind, other problems remained.

The prerequisite for all of this was that he had to claim the Imperial Throne.

How to improve his chances of securing it was the question Li Yu pondered.

If he could not take the Imperial Throne, none of this meant anything. He had no desire to toil for the Prince of the South.

Li Yu's powerful backer was the Heaven-Crying Sword Tomb, renowned