Lan had said that Xianyu spoiled his subordinates far too much.
Besides Lan, the Chief Strategist had said much the same thing, warning that they would cause trouble sooner or later.
Xianyu disagreed with both the Aeon and the human.
How was that spoiling them? All he did was give each of them a few Stellar Destroyers and a few Vacation Planets. How could that possibly count as spoiling them?
Even if he was spoiling them, so what? These were subordinates who had worked diligently under him for over a thousand years. Didn't they deserve to be spoiled?
So when he learned that they had conquered the entire Xianzhou on their own initiative, forcing him to go from Yaoqing General to Xianzhou Marshal, Xianyu hadn't said much.
When he learned that they had exterminated the nobles and their entire extended families, then used the Colossus to blow up planets, he still hadn't said much.
The nobles deserved to die for preying on the people. As for pretending to obey him, only to turn around and blow up planets... if circumstances allowed it, why shouldn't they?
Looking back, Xianyu had rarely gotten angry over a decision his subordinates made-until today, when he learned from Lan that they had made the same choices he had. His brain instantly crashed.
The emotional side of Xianyu drove him to stop thinking and ask Lan for confirmation, but his rational side had already recalled the choices he had made.
Erase his achievements. Rush toward death.
Xianyu didn't regret either choice, but when it came to his subordinates... he couldn't accept either one.
Just as he had envisioned before, his subordinates should have lived free of illness and calamity, died peacefully of old age, and been buried in the Forest of Utmost Loyalty, where future generations