"The stake is the continued existence of the entire Gao Lineage!"
"If we win, we follow Monitor Zuo and soar through the clouds! If we lose, then we lose! Throughout the ages, which lineage that rose to dazzling prominence never made a gamble like this?"
"We can see the winners in history; but how many lost?"
Gao Qiao'er was brimming with spirit. "We of this generation ought to stake our fate on this gamble!"
Just then.
From the side, Li Chenglong said, seemingly casually, in a meaningful tone, "Isn't it a little too early for the Gao Lineage to make this decision and claim this position?"
Gao Qiao'er's heart tightened, and she almost wanted to strangle him.
Yet a radiant smile appeared on her face. "Vice Monitor Li, if we wait until Monitor Zuo rides the meeting of wind and cloud and towers over the world before deciding, I'm afraid our Gao Lineage might not find a place even a hundred thousand miles back in the queue."
Li Chenglong smiled faintly. "Even now, there aren't necessarily many places."
Gao Qiao'er returned his faint smile and said leisurely, "Even if it's only a place on the periphery, our Gao Lineage is seizing the initiative now. As for what the future holds, let Heaven decide!"
Li Chenglong's slight smile left Gao Qiao'er seething for a good while.
What had been a perfectly good pledge of allegiance could have counted as the first pledge Zuo Xiaoduo had received from an outside lineage in Fenghai, something of extraordinary significance; yet a single remark from Li Chenglong had planted the concept of "precedence in position" in Zuo Xiaoduo's mind!
Though they were still the first, they were no longer the first to establish a defining impression in Zuo Xiaoduo's mind.
*This Li Chenglong's vigilance toward