Published: August 10, 2026
「If this goes on, I'm afraid that before the war between humans and demons even ends, we'll already have no way out!」
「We must unite and find a way to gain greater say, only then can we protect ourselves!」
The crowd was stirred with righteous indignation, and a true lord slammed the table and stood up.
After suffering through the last war between humans and demons, only to be suppressed again this time, the cultivators' patience had already reached its limit.
Although divine transformation factions were powerful, the nascent soul old monsters were not pushovers.
If the timing was right and they were pushed too far, they could do anything.
For the sake of self-preservation, it would not be impossible for them to simply hide away at the ends of the earth and watch cultivators and mortals be slaughtered by demonic beasts.
Before their own lives and fortunes, what sect disciple, what righteousness of the Human Race—all of it was meaningless!
With a true lord's divine ability, even if the entire tian nan cultivation world fell and became demonic race territory, survival would not necessarily be impossible.
It was just that in that case, life would certainly be far from comfortable, and it would be difficult to obtain the resources needed to improve one's cultivation.
Precisely for this reason, most true lords were still willing to join the war and resist the demonic race.
In the end, it was still about interests, not empty reputation.
But now, on one hand they had to resist the demonic race, while on the other hand they had to face internal harm from within the Human Race.
Continuing to maintain the current situation had already seriously damaged their own interests. For the nascent soul old monsters themselves, the benefits of resisting the demonic race were growing lower and lower.
Once the scales tipped and the cost no longer matched the return at all, who knew what would happen?
A fourth stage being had a lifespan of over a thousand years and had one foot already stepped beyond the threshold of higher-dimensional life. It was very hard for them to find identification or resonance with ordinary mortals and low-level cultivators.
Just like normal people rarely feel pity or heartbreak over the death of an ant.
The gap between a fourth stage being and mortals or low-level cultivators was even greater than the gap between normal people and ants!
Naturally, it was also nearly impossible for them to "sacrifice themselves for a righteous cause" in order to protect the clan, spilling blood and laying down their lives for some so-called greater good.
If the worst came to pass, something unspeakable might well happen.
After me, let the floodwaters rage!!!
"The current wartime system of the tian nan cultivation world is far too favorable to the divine transformation factions, allowing the three great powers to hold absolute say.
"If we want to change the situation, we must solve the problem from the root and abandon the current 'great cultivator council system'!
"Only by establishing a more fair system can we truly improve the situation."
Amid the boiling emotions, a cultivator calmly analyzed the matter.
The so-called great cultivator council system meant that during wartime, all affairs of the tian nan cultivation world were discussed and decided by the great cultivators.
This system had originally been decent enough, but by the later stages of the first war between humans and demons, problems gradually emerged, and it devolved into a tool used by the three divine transformation factions to purge dissent.
First of all, in terms of the number of late nascent soul great cultivators, the three divine transformation factions definitely had the most.
Second, even if the divine sovereign did nothing, he could still indirectly influence many great cultivators.
If a divine sovereign personally gave the order, how could ordinary great cultivators dare refuse?
As with Liu Yu during the "armistice negotiations" in Sang State, he only needed to threaten them openly and covertly to easily secure more than half the votes.