Wasn't This Plainly Telling Li Chen He Intended to Rebel? (Please Subscribe and Vote with Monthly Tickets)

Li Xian had gone to painstaking lengths for his grand rebellion.

He had to cheer his teammates on and keep them from surrendering, while also serving as the brains of the operation and planning their next move.

The next stage of Li Xian's scheme involved playing with fire, with a fair chance of burning himself alive.

As a specialist in political intrigue, he had sniffed out the crisis brewing in the Southern Kingdoms.

South of the Southern Kingdoms lay another superpower: the Eternal Day Empire.

The reason this amounted to playing with fire and risking self-immolation was that the Eternal Day Empire was no ordinary force.

Last time, for instance, Li Xian and his third brother, Li Yu, had merely colluded with the Northern Court and the Sasanian Dynasty. Those two powers had limited capabilities, so even if everything went disastrously wrong, the Heavenly Strategy Dynasty would lose only some territory at most.

In other words, even if the Heavenly Strategy Dynasty descended into utter chaos, the Northern Court and the Sasanian Dynasty could not swallow such an enormous power whole.

The Eternal Day Empire was different. If the Heavenly Strategy Dynasty collapsed, the Eternal Day Empire could absolutely conquer it in one fell swoop.

Of course, the reverse was also true. The Heavenly Strategy Dynasty was surely the only power capable of swallowing the Eternal Day Empire.

Recently, even with Li Chen away from the Imperial Capital, the various departments of the Imperial Court had begun laying their plans in the Southern Kingdoms. Dedicated departments handled these matters.

Even Chancellor Zhao Wenyuan and Grand General Guo Poyun were involved.

Li Chen merely gave them the broad guidelines, and they had to work diligently to accomplish the objectives.

It came back to the same point: Li Chen felt the Heavenly