Chu Liezhao asked with a curious smile, "What price did they pay to make the Yuan Zhen Dynasty stop pursuing the matter?"
Li Miaotan's dreamlike, misty eyes blinked. After pondering for a moment, she smiled. "Could it be that they signed a peace treaty?"
Chu Liezhao raised a sword-like brow. "A ceasefire?... If they cease fighting Yuan Zhen, Jade Scenery will be in trouble."
He knew the Phoenix Dynasty's national policy. The entire system driving the Phoenix Dynasty's power was war.
They nourished war with war, tempered themselves in battle, and raised their cultivation.
Thus, the Phoenix Dynasty could not go a single day without war.
If they ceased fighting the Yuanzhen Emperor, they would have to go to war with the Jade Scenery Dynasty.
Li Miaotan lightly furrowed her delicate brows, then gently shook her head. "Even if they go to war with Jade Scenery, it has nothing to do with you, Husband."
Ever since Chu Liezhao had arrived in Phoenix Imperial City, his status had soared by leaps and bounds.
By now, Chu Liezhao's identity as a Jade Scenery hostage had grown vague enough that it no longer needed mentioning.
Moreover, he was the Imperial Son-in-Law of the Phoenix Dynasty and had rendered great service to the Phoenix Dynasty.
Under such circumstances, no one would be so blind as to bring up his identity as a hostage and use his safety to threaten the Jade Scenery Dynasty.
Chu Liezhao sighed. "Man is not wood or stone; how can he be without feeling? I'm still caught between a rock and a hard place... Let's go to the Outer Realm Battlefield."
"Nothing could be better." Li Miaotan smiled.
That way, they would remove themselves from the dispute between the two dynasties, rise above it, and remain detached.
Li Miaotan first