There wasn't a problem with the loyalty of the bluebloods and wargodeans at all, nor was it that the sun emperor thought they were beneath him. Instead, it was a simple process of elimination. If someone had to be sacrificed for his victory, why not sacrifice outsiders first? To serve someone, one had to first prepare to be betrayed.

Tianming believed that the Warlord and Deluge Emperor would never expect that the sun emperor had plotted against them before they’d even managed to contribute. The celestial orderians had never needed them that much, apart from their lives and homes. Even the bluebloods, a distant branch of the celestial orderians, were considered nothing more than a sacrifice for the greater goal. The logic was clear to see. The sun emperor had never cared much about losses as long as his goal of wiping out the Myriad Solar Sects would be achieved, even those of the celestial orderians who had perished fighting the third- and...