If the Heavenly King found out about this, the beating the minister received would probably be a very painful one.
"Minister, didn't you specifically call earlier and tell those people at Hidden Dragon High Martial not to move? To keep their cool? Why are you, instead..."
The deputy minister was deeply puzzled.
You told everyone else to keep their cool, so why couldn't you keep your own?
What kind of logic was that?
Was this the legendary mouth that could lecture others but had nothing to say to itself?!
Minister Nan's thoughts were a tangled mess, and his brows were knitted so tightly they were almost tied in a knot.
"You don't know shit!"
Minister Nan reached up and scrubbed his face hard. "You Dongtian, oh, You Dongtian, you'd damn well better not lose control of this game. If you do, you'll be the death of me. If anything really happens, I'm absolutely dragging your ass down with me... That fellow, does he think being the Right Route Heavenly King makes him something special? Hasn't he just let it all go to his head? And badly, too..."
The deputy minister immediately dared not respond.
Even hearing words like these was a crime!
"Ah, what would you know about the peculiarities of this? I'll tell you this much: if this matter isn't handled properly and something slips through the cracks... You Dongtian will probably gamble away his own life..."
Minister Nan tipped his head back and sighed, then said in a miserable voice, "If it were just You Dongtian, he could die and that would be that, but he'd implicate me too... I'd lose my life as well..."
"Surely not, surely not! How could it possibly come to that!"
The deputy minister felt he had to offer some comfort. "As things