Qing Chenxuan's gaze flashed like lightning, locking straight onto the grim-faced Qing Tingxue. "Qing Tingxue, is it? Since you represent the Qing Household, lead your forces as the vanguard and march on Blackstone City immediately! Anyone who disobeys will be treated as a traitor and killed without mercy!"
Those words exploded like thunder, striking viciously over the heads of Qing Tingxue, Nangong Wang Jin, Qian Baoshan, and the others!
According to their plan, they had originally come to pluck the ripe peaches, steal the credit, and reap the fisherman's gains while others fought. They had even prepared to seize the opportunity to trip Qing Chen up again!
How had they suddenly become cannon fodder for Qing Chen to forcibly draft?
More than fifty thousand cultivators! They had spent vast quantities of spirit stones and medicinal pills to gather this force, intending to use this battle to turn their fortunes around and seize power! But...
Wouldn't all their long-laid calculations have gone entirely to waste?
Qing Tingxue frowned at his words, an icy aura unconsciously spilling from her as she retorted coldly, "There is no need to slap the label of treason on people at every turn, Azure Abyss Marquis!
"I hold a principal fifth-rank honorary rank in the Great Jin Imperial Court. I am no commoner! Besides, we voluntarily organized cultivators to recover lost territory and resist foreign aggression. Why should we answer your summons?"
"Voluntarily organized?"
A mocking smile curled Qing Chen's lips, his laughter brimming with disdain. "Over fifty thousand cultivators and three True Lords privately assembled an army without a single deployment order from the Great Jin Imperial Court, Heavenly Abyss Pass, Lingnan Circuit, the Qiongzhou Prefectural Office, or any other authority, then marched in force on Blackstone County Seat-and you tell me this is voluntarily resisting