Commander-in-Chief Zhao Cangbai said with some concern:
"Wouldn't this be a little too risky?"
He immediately added:
"The Shangqing Human Race's combat power is flourishing now. We need only proceed steadily, and in time we will be able to drive back the Nine Abysses with overwhelming force."
Bai Lu suddenly gave a cold laugh, turned to Zhao Cangbai, and said:
"Commander-in-Chief Zhao, I've heard words like yours on this Heaven-Demon Battlefield for tens of thousands of years."
He immediately asked in return:
"And what was the result?"
Zhao Cangbai was instantly at a loss for words.
Commanders-in-Chief Huo Xuan and Wei Ming fell silent as well.
Bai Lu continued, his voice carrying a measure of indignation:
"Back then, General Xiang Kui burst onto the scene just like Xu Taiping has now. He all but slaughtered his way through the entire Demon Domain, leaving them terrified at the mere whisper of his approach."
"And what was the result?"
"Those laughable Human Race armies back then not only failed to grasp this hard-won demon-slaying blade of the Human Race, but instead transferred him away from the front lines for fear that he was too sharp, giving the Nine Abysses an opening and causing his tragic death on the Heaven-Demon Battlefield."
As he spoke, he looked at them with burning eyes:
"The four of us have played out this matter at least eight hundred times, if not a thousand."
"And we all felt that if the Human Race had grasped this demon-slaying blade back then, this Heaven-Demon War might have ended tens of thousands of years ago."
"Now!"
"This blade has appeared again!"
"Yet you still dare not take hold of it!"
Hearing this, Azure Dragon Armor Commander-in-Chief Wei Ming suddenly said, his face full of shame:
"You're right to rebuke us, Brother