"I'm You Dongtian. Put His Majesty on the phone. Something's come up!!"
"..."
He made over a hundred calls like that in one uninterrupted stretch.
Only after a good long while did You Dongtian stop making calls, but after thinking it over, he dialed one more number. "Tie Jiang, you'll still have to come back. With the ruins opening, there might be some unusual forging materials inside, or things we can't figure out how to forge. You're the real expert on that..."
After finishing his calls, he sat in his chair, crossed his long legs, and sighed.
"This job as the Right Route Heavenly King... I'm like a fucking nanny! Exhausting!"
Suddenly remembering someone else he hadn't contacted, he immediately dialed. "Listen, you'll have to show up this time. Remember to bring your wife... Ruins! You're not going? Why? Can't be bothered to move? Fuck! Let me make this perfectly clear... your junior brother is over there right now. If you don't go, well, I've already told Uncle Zuo that you and your wife are responsible for protecting him. If anything actually happens, it won't be my fucking problem!"
"Anyway, the people coming from the Dao Alliance and the Witch Alliance this time are all heavy hitters. I don't think I can protect him completely. If he ends up dead or crippled, you figure it out..."
"What? You'll go? You think you can just go because you say so? You think you can go whenever you want? I won't allow it! Beg me! Fuck, I knew you'd cave, you little coward!"
A woman's voice took over on the other end, and You Dongtian hung up immediately without another word.
The other party called back. He hung up again.
They called again. He hung up again!
The world was finally quiet.