"I am impressed, Young Sky." Sovereign Tempest's gaze mellowed. "You stood by your conviction to stray as far as accusing me of backing a rebel. You didn't have any evidence, and so you could only speak and gamble." He then shook his head. "You can't always do that, and that was why Mao Jixue is still at an advantage against us.
"The reason why First Brother and I were angry was that Mao Jixue managed to deny Nuwa of her design." Sovereign Tempest sighed. If his wife was still alive, she would have calmed him down way better than he could so himself. "If Xu Rouguang dies, the rebellion dies with him. As for what purpose it served Nuwa, we would have to wait again for another opportunity.
"The goddess and the Imperial Maos wouldn't spare a chance for us to get back to our prime power, and so contingencies are all we could do to preserve ourselves. If we don't know what was going to happen if the Abyss rises to power, we couldn't be prepared for it."
