Li Yan sat down and went straight to the point. There was no need to keep beating around the bush over something like this. On the other side, Shangguan Tianque saw Li Yan speak the instant he sat down, and immediately afterward, he heard the result he had wanted.
"Junior Brother Li really does have a way!"
Great joy instantly appeared on his face, but he did not interrupt, listening as Li Yan continued.
"...As for resolving this matter, one could say that with our current strength, there is simply no way to resolve it perfectly. No matter what we do, we will be robbing Peter to pay Paul. Basically, there are only two choices: either submit to Chunyang Hall, or offend Chunyang Hall.
"If we submit to Chunyang Hall, then to put it unpleasantly, we will merely gain a few years of peace for the time being. As long as Chunyang Hall feels threatened again in the future, or sees that Pojun Sect has some fine treasure, they will still use similar methods to suppress us.
"If we offend Chunyang Hall, we can directly report this matter to the Moji Dao Sect. That might also resolve it. However, we will still have to survive here in the future. We will still need to live by Chunyang Hall's breath in all things. How miserable our days will be after that is easy enough to imagine.
"Moreover, the result after reporting it might well be nothing but wasted effort. Chunyang Hall's connections within the Moji Dao Sect are unknown times stronger than ours. In the end, we might instead end up pleasing neither side inside or out, and still have to obediently send the person over.
"Since that is the situation, and we are also thinking of continuing to grow stronger