When Holy Phoenix heard Zachary's offer, she felt a glimmer of hope. Of course, she knew that he wouldn't go to great lengths in the Devil Kingdom just to help the Phoenix Pavilion—there had to be something he was after. "Okay, what's the catch?" She narrowed his eyes at him.

"I want to command the battle in the Phoenix Pavilion." Zachary laid out his terms.

"Is this some kind of a joke? I don't care which sect you came from. We can't possibly hand our sect's fate to an outsider," Harlow rebuffed.

The other elders from the Phoenix Pavilion murmured and shook their heads. They felt that Zachary's proposal was both greedy and reckless. Their situation as of the moment was critical, and they couldn't just blindly trust anyone at this point. It was too risky.

"I'm afraid I can't agree. You are not a member of the Phoenix Pavilion. If I hand over the thousands of lives from our sect to you, I would be the one liable if anything happened to them!" Holy Phoenix despondently shook her head.

"Are you willing to let the Phoenix Pavilion that has stood for a thousand years to be destroyed just like that?" Zachary challenged.

"I have a responsibility to uphold in our sect! I will never hand ove

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on to this person whose origin is unknown to us?"

"Although we really don't know where he comes from, he gives me a feeling that he could be trusted. He looks very confident that he can help us solve the crisis. Up to now, we have no way to retreat, and we are left with no other choice but to rely on him," Holy Phoenix sighed helplessly.

Meanwhile, after Zachary and Polly left the hall, they swiftly went straight to the Phoenix Pool Pass.

"Your plan has succeeded. Even Holy Phoenix would never come to think that you're the one who secretly caused the opening in the Phoenix Pool Pass." Polly smirked, seemingly amused with Zachary's methods.

When the troops led by Zachary and Polly arrived, they found that the Moon Shadow still hadn't broken through the first defense line of the Phoenix Pavilion—it was a stalemate. Therefore, in order to create some pressure for the Phoenix Pavilion, Zachary had secretly helped the Moon Shadow to create a gap in the Phoenix Pool Pass. This successfully provoked their sect into trusting him. This also gave him a bargaining chip to negotiate with Holy Phoenix.

Zachary tricked Holy Phoenix right from the start, so she could hand over the command to him!