Chapter 99: Listen to the Empress

The middle-aged man was called Tianhai Chenwu. At the age of twenty, when his father Tianhai Youguo died suddenly, he became the head of the Tianhai clan. Under his leadership, the Tianhai clan prospered, so much so that there were even times when people forgot that he was the Divine Empress's nephew.

It must be said that for him to be able to accomplish this in the context of the Divine Empress's reign was truly a feat worthy of extraordinary praise.

"These elders are all very powerful; not even I will lightly provoke them…Shengxue acted too childishly. As a friend of mine, not only did you not stop him, you let him do as he pleased. Did you want him to see just how much blood would flow in the end?"

Xu Shiji sat down in the chair placed in front of him. With an indifferent expression, he looked beyond the walls of the courtyard and replied, "With people dead, His Eminence the Archbishop must pay some price."