Chapter 11605 — Withdraw from the Night Palace

The Son of Heaven of Zhou spoke in a grave voice: "Wei Zhao, you are a subject, yet instead of doing the duty of a loyal minister, you vent your private spite here and throw the grand order of my Inner Royal Court into chaos. Do you know your crime?"

"Ha?"

Wei Zhao's expression turned strange. So this was the reason you leapt out?

The other factions, too, came to the same realization one after another.

Plainly he had leapt out to make his presence felt. With the grand outcome already settled, the Son of Heaven of Zhou had suddenly pulled this stunt—and truth be told, it left all Six Kings feeling as though they had collectively swallowed a fly, not large but hardly small.

The crux was that at this moment they truly could not afford to set themselves against the Son of Heaven of Zhou.

Puppet sovereign or not, the outward stability and unity of the Inner Royal Court was something they still had to uphold.

They were, after all, the greatest beneficiaries of the existing order. (End of this chapter)