The Great Flood

"Elders, you have to think very carefully about the move you're about to make. The God-Monarch appointed me as his emissary in the Solar Palace, his direct link to the August Divinity. This show of goodwill is the Taiyang clan's only opportunity to avoid further conflict with the Hengye—a conflict that you have no hope of winning. 

But if you kill me now, said bluntly, you would be smacking the God-Monarch in the face. No matter what he thinks of me, or how low my value in his eyes is, at the end of the day, I belong to him. Are you sure that you want to offend the master of the Endless Sea?"