Yangxin was trembling with rage. She demanded, "So, you used me as bait just to lie in wait and kill my master?"
Shang Wanli no longer felt the need to keep up appearances. Half-explaining, half-coercing, he replied, "With all due respect, Princess, it isn't just your master. From now on, every high-level martial artist of the Xia Dynasty who refuses to submit to the Xin Dynasty will be hunted down and eliminated. Princess, I don't want to say too much, but I will say this: the Xia Dynasty is rotten to the core and not worth saving. Isn't it better to submit to the Xin Dynasty?"
"You bold traitors! Do you have no shame before these loyal martyrs who fill these hills? Do you have no fear of their vengeful spirits?"
Chapter 117