Cheng Zhihai's expression revealed a touch of sorrow as he spoke.
"The representatives of those powers are mostly Sky-Men, simply not something our Bureau of the Lamp, or rather, the current Great Zhou Dynasty, can cope with."
"Your grandfather could ease the current predicament, yet he has no way to extricate himself and return."
"Thus, there simply is no solution."
"The somewhat good news for now is that these factions, out of respect for your grandfather, haven't done anything to Duke Zhen's Mansion..."
As Cheng Zhihai said this, Cheng Guang keenly sensed something, his eyebrows slightly raised, before he asked aloud:
"Does that mean, in other words, that those factions have done something to the Great Zhou Imperial Family?"
Cheng Zhihai nodded faintly.
"The entire Great Zhou Imperial Palace is now under the joint control of the Sky-Men from those factions."
"All of the Great Zhou Imperial Family are trapped within the Imperial Palace."