They had originally thought that Ye Chen was bound to lose, and that negotiating with the Three Realms was simply a sign of his cowardice, a petty trick played in a desperate attempt to scare the Three Realms into retreating.
Never had they expected that every word he spoke was true; he simply had no desire for wholesale slaughter, rather than being afraid.
Ye Chen sneered. "Show mercy? If your Beast Realm had breached the Taiqing Realm, would you have shown mercy?"
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