97 Boundless arrogance (2/2)

You either need to be stronger than your enemy, or rich enough to afford the losses which would they would incur from going against the stronger one.

Still, this wouldn't change Bai Long's plans by much.

”It seems like you've made a decision. What will it be? Submit, or perish?”

Not saying anything and only observing Bai Long with narrowed eyes, Zhu Zemin couldn't understand where the boy got his confidence from.

Not even flinching in face of an attack which would've killed him ten times over? Not even he would dare try that.

And he was a bonafide Qi Child Realm Cultivator!

”Is the Bai Kingdom set on going to war with us?”

”Yes.”

”Is there no choice?”

”Of course there is. Submit.”

Using all the patience he obtained over the years, Zhu Zemin didn't think much of the way Bai Long spoke and said, ”Fine. In that case, why don't we send out the best fighter from each of our side, and decide the victory based on who wins?”

Shaking his head decisively, Bai Long directly rejected the suggestion.

Not to mention how he would obviously use since Zhu Zemin would most likely personally fight. There was another reason due to which Bai Long wouldn't accept the proposition, even if he had someone stronger than Zhu Zemin under him.

”Oh please, fat King. Don't make me laugh.”

Shrugging his shoulder with an exaggerated head shaking, Bai Long continued with a disdainful look.

”We both know such stupid fights are meaningless. If my fighter wins, you won't accept the result. And if your fighter wins, I won't accept the result.”

”So why bother with such crap?”

Not saying anything the King once again felt that the current Bai Kingdom was too mysterious to him.

It wasn't just because of seeing Bai Long, and the way he wasn't even worried about dying.

There was also that one incident which in retrospect was a trap capable of destroying three fourth of his army.

Due to Bai Long having the Bai Kingdom's spies spread the news of civil war taking place inside their Kingdom, and the possibility of a decisive battle which would leave it very weakened, all the Kingdoms were quite eagerly waiting for that day to come.

And, since the Zhu Kingdom was the closest one to the Bai Kingdom.

As soon as the news of Bai Wang dying reached Zhu Zemin, he made almost all of his army launch attack on the Bai Kingdom.

Luckily, before the army went too far, his spies inside the Bai Kingdom hastily came back and made them stop by saying the Bai Kingdom was in full strength.

Therefore, other than making his army retreat, Zhu Zemin was sure that everything that happened was a trap laid by someone inside the Bai Kingdom to collectively weaken all the Kingdoms that launch an attack against them.

If it wasn't for the spies who managed to share the information with each of their respective Kingdoms, who knows how different the power structure inside the Xiao Dao Kingdom would've been right now.

From that day onwards, Zhu Zemin continued to maintain a state of alertness towards the Bai Kingdom and even made more spies infiltrate them in hopes of staying one step ahead of whoever it was that made that plan.