Ants. Conferring.

Still, no one spoke.

"Why aren't you all speaking? I've already said my piece. I should be the one who feels the most mortified now, should I not?"

"I thought that I had the world. I rule Yutang – I may even dominate the whole of Tianxuan. The world's lands belong to the emperor, the world's people are the emperor's people. My words are law, my commands are rules. No one dares to disobey me. However, after having all these, I still have to accept such humiliation despite my court of civil and martial ministers being present!"

"Aren't you all usually conspiring and ganging up, alienating the nonconformists, deceiving the superior and cheating the inferior, accepting bribes and bartering ranks, trampling lives and abusing your powers? Aren't you all pretty good at brewing issues? What happened to all of that now? Keeping mum when someone is shaming the whole empire?"