1899: A fight with the Monarch (1/2)
Mo Feiyun was the Brotherhood’s big shot in charge, and he was not ashamed. His words were as sharp as a spearpoint, and pointed straight at the core–
Right now, the circumstances were obvious. Obtaining the shelter of the Monarch’s Hall was naturally a good matter, but the Brotherhood was at an absolute disadvantage. They were nearly made into a sacrificial fish on the altar, letting the Monarch’s Hall make demands and seize power. If the Monarch’s Hall wasn’t going to intervene in the world’s power struggle, then even if they invested a large cost, if it didn’t involve human life, inevitably there could be some negotiations.
But Ye Xiao had clearly said that his intent was for the whole world. So long as the Monarch’s Hall’s side entered the fight, the Brotherhood would certainly be reduced to the Monarch’s Hall’s advance troops, no different than cannon fodder. The final circumstances would be like this, and then what was the difference with the situation they were in before? Mo Feiyun exposing this point, actually facing this problem head on, is also the Brotherhood’s side’s crucial point for not relying on help from the Monarch’s Hall. It was necessary to clearly explain this!
Ye Xiao quietly sipped his tea, not in a hurry to respond.
“The Brotherhood’s current plan is to maintain the lives of our family. Monarch’s Hall showing us a good place to stay and withdraw inside would maintain lives, but the Monarch’s Hall actually wants to go out in the end and head for the battlefield.”
Mo Feiyun’s voice was heavy. “Since this is the case, for the lives my side is concerned with to continue to exist, we still must have a confrontation. The six big powers possess the five great Sky Kings and Big Mister Ye’s top-notch strength. Does the Monarch’s Hall seriously have this kind of strength?!”
“So?” Ye Xiao’s eyes drooped low as he quietly asked.
“So I require some proof, or I should say a guarantee. Monarch Ye has to guarantee our brothers’ security, or say… decrease our side’s losses. If not… both sides are death, so surrendering to the Monarch’s Hall absolutely has even less significance!”
Mo Feiyun threw his side’s bottom line out all at once. This seemed impossibly stupid, but was actually the most wise way of handling this. The Monarch’s Hall was already the Brotherhood’s final strand of hope. So long as the situation for the Brotherhood troops wasn’t as bad as them being reduced to cannon fodder, and they were capable of placing a portion of their members in the tree fortress to survive for a long time, they would still fundamentally continue to exist. So long as they had the leeway to pass their knowledge down from one generation to the next, keeping the spark alive, then everything else wasn’t a problem!
Conversely, if Ye Xiao couldn’t even meet this one point of most minimum guarantee, that just shows that from head to tail he didn’t have any sincerity!
Ye Xiao slowly nodded. “What kind of proof does Chief Mo want? What sort of way do you want to handle this?”
Mo Feiyun unhurriedly raised his head, and his eyes had a sharp and mysterious light shine in them. Word by word, he said, “I wish to have a fight with Monarch Ye!”
Ye Xiao said, “En?”
Mo Feiyun said, “Just with this battle as the note, it will decide the Brotherhood’s final affiliation!”
“If I lose, the Brotherhood will seek shelter with the Monarch’s Hall!”
Mo Feiyun said, “If I’m victorious, I will dissolve the Brotherhood, and let the many brothers of the Brotherhood belong thoroughly to the Jianghu, and the Brotherhood will from this day be no more, every person securing their own fate… As for Monarch Ye and how many helping hands he can obtain in the end, I will wait to see Senior Monarch’s means.”
Mo Feiyun’s words were as sharp as the point of a spear, and directly pushed the Brotherhood up to the edge of the last cliff. Nevertheless, they also had no alternative, no road to follow forward or back. If the Brotherhood tipped to defeat and was absorbed into the Monarch’s Hall, it naturally wouldn’t exist anymore. If victory, then the Brotherhood would disband from then on, and still wouldn’t exist anymore!
However, Mo Feiyun dealt with this affair clearly and firmly. If you, Ye Xiao, are incapable of beating me, I would rather disband the Brotherhood and scatter them to the east and west, each person seeking their own destiny, and not bear in mind an incapable senior!
Ye Xiao sprung up and said, “Since it’s like this, then I will have a battle with Brother Mo. If you lose, Feiyun, I will regard the Brotherhood’s brothers as my hands and feet!”
Feiyun!
A certain someone unexpectedly started addressing him by his given name and not his surname. That was clearly the address of a monarch to his subject.
Mo Feiyun’s face sank like water. “If Monarch Ye desires to address me this way, do you have the qualifications?! Please!”
“Please!”
The two people were already determined, and together they arrived in the rear courtyard.
The Brotherhood’s remaining eight big shots naturally all followed them, each and every one of them showing their worry on their face.