"Second Brother, what are you doing?"
It was not only Li Xuanyue and her party who were stunned; the Third Elder, the Fourth Elder, and their followers were equally shocked. They had clearly agreed earlier that if the path of offering a formal apology failed, they would resort to poisoning. None of them had expected the Second Elder to act so prematurely, without consulting a single one of them. It was as if he considered them all fools.
"Humph! Even at this stage, do you still not see it?" The Second Elder glanced sideways at the Third Elder and the Fourth Elder, sneering, "The Phoenix Emperor has no intention of letting us live any longer."
Chapter 186