Zu An was too stunned to speak.

His eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. 

What’s going on? They just pledged their loyalty to you barely a moment ago, but you’ve killed them right after! What about my army of terracotta soldiers? I haven’t managed to show them off yet!

As if sensing Zu An’s doubts, Mi Li glanced at Chu Chuyan and Qiao Xueying and remarked, “I only spared them on your account. If not, they would have suffered the same fate as those terracotta soldiers.”

“Why did you kill them? They already pledged their loyalty to you!” exclaimed Zu An.

“Loyalty?” sneered Mi Li. “That’s just a pretty word that people spout for the sake of it. If you don’t want to be betrayed by your subordinates, you need to offer them something that they can’t resist. It’s a pity I can’t ensure that in my current state, and I can’t bring them along with me either. Since that’s the case, I might as well just kill them and be done with them, lest they reveal my secrets in the future.”

Zu An was horrified. “You killed all of them over that? They can’t even speak! How could they reveal your secrets?”

“They witnessed everything that happened here. So...