"Aren't we going straight to the palace of Wujiao Country?"
Xu Taiping was somewhat puzzled.
The letter the Azure Profound Sect had sent him had mentioned none of this. It had only told him to Guard the Sixth Princess on her journey to Wujiao Country to pay an audience on the Emperor of Wujiao Country.
"When he agreed to peace talks, the emperor of Wujiao Country laid down three extremely harsh conditions."
The Sixth Princess sighed, shook her head with a bitter smile, and continued, "First, the person coming to negotiate had to be chosen from among the princes and princesses, with no other ministers allowed and only three hundred guards. Second, we had to pass through several cities he designated on our way to Wujiao Country. Third, we had to defeat Fan Qi in Furious Fist Manor's Life-and-Death Arena and bring his head before we could enter the Imperial City."
"He was clearly sending Your Highness to your death."
Xu Taiping frowned.
He suddenly understood what Elder Yun Ye had meant before leaving.
"Yes. Just getting this far, more than half the palace guards assigned to protect me have already been killed or wounded. If we hadn't met you, Daoist Priest, I'm afraid we would all have died at Mantuo Manor."
The Sixth Princess looked rather forlorn as she spoke.
"If you knew that, why did you still agree?"
Xu Taiping asked in bewilderment.
"Wujiao Country has several hundred thousand troops stationed on the White Tree Kingdom's border. However harsh the conditions, we had no choice but to agree. And as long as I'm alive, the emperor of Wujiao Country cannot break his word before everyone under heaven and send his army against the White Tree Kingdom. So I can at least buy the people of the White Tree