Li Anran thought for a moment and asked, "Dahai, Mingyue, what do you two think?"
Li Dahai knew what Li Anran was weighing. The rules of the Zhudi Mountain Sect strictly forbade unnecessary interference in secular affairs. They only drew their swords when a major disaster struck or when they happened upon a severe injustice, and they rarely engaged in assassinations.
Li Dahai glanced up at the sky and said, "Brother Anran, extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. We cannot use peacetime rules to solve wartime problems. The last time this Guo Zaitian slaughtered a city, it resulted in over fifty thousand deaths. This is no longer a personal grievance; it is a defiance of the Heavenly Dao, and we must act on behalf of heaven. Now he has announced his intention to slaughter another city, and the force he has brought with him numbers a full one hundred thousand. If he is allowed to capture two or three more cities and carry out massacres in each, the casualties will exceed one hundred thousand lives. Even if we do it solely to save those one hundred thousand people, whatever actions we take, I believe, are entirely worthwhile and what we ought to do." His words resonated with a righteous and imposing aura.
Chapter 160