212: How lonely it is to be invincible

“You black loach, are you threatening this Mansion Lord?”

Qin Donghuang’s eyes narrowed slightly.

Although the Exterminate Human Cultivator Sea Demon Alliance was strong—even stronger than the Central Continent Immortal Mansion and the six continental-level cultivation giants combined—this didn’t mean Qin Donghuang feared Black Heaven.

The Exterminate Human Cultivator Sea Demon Alliance represented the combined power of Sea Demon Clan experts from all sea regions. This power, compared to that of the Human Race experts across the entire Sky Ruins Continent, was probably less than one-tenth.

Qin Donghuang simply didn’t want to start a war.

If war truly broke out, Black Heaven would definitely be seeking death!

“Qin Donghuang, this Alliance Leader doesn’t want to speak with you. This Alliance Leader demands to speak with your Human Race Overlord!”

Black Heaven was also somewhat annoyed.

Having dealt with each other for thousands of years, Qin Donghuang knew the Exterminate Human Cultivator Sea Demon Alliance and even Black Heaven himself inside and out, clearly having him cornered.

With such a person, let alone negotiations, even everyday conversation left him very passive.

In fact, Qin Donghuang didn’t want war, and seeing their Sea Demon Clan’s overall strength decline significantly every millennium, Black Heaven similarly didn’t want war.

But without war, they couldn’t reclaim the Tribulation Dao Secret Realm, couldn’t swallow their pride, and couldn’t resolve the knot in their hearts.

And if they fought, they couldn’t win, and their own strength would be repeatedly pummeled and weakened.

It could be said that the current Exterminate Human Cultivator Sea Demon Alliance was in a dilemma, caught between advancing and retreating, and Black Heaven had no choice but to consider the future of all Sea Demon Clan members.

He claimed to have assembled a fifty-billion-strong Sea Demon army.

But what was the actual situation?

There were only thirty billion Sea Demon Clan members.

Didn’t the vast sea regions contain fifty billion Sea Demon Clan members?

Clearly, they did.

Let alone fifty billion, there were even fifty trillion Sea Demon Clan members.

However, the Mahayana Realm and Tribulation Transcendence Realm experts, who formed the backbone, had not been replenished in time after falling in the millennial wars. The total number of great Sea Demon Clan members across all sea regions had been depleted to less than one billion.

The other twenty billion in the army were actually smaller Sea Demon Clan members in the Spirit Division Realm and even Out-of-Body Realm.

Over-militarization was exactly this.

How could they fight?

If they continued to fight, all the sea regions of the entire Sky Ruins Continent might not even have a million great Sea Demon Clan members left.

The Human Race, on the other hand, had as many as one billion Tribulation Realm Experts. It would be an easy task for each of them to kill a weakened great Sea Demon Clan member. If war broke out, his thirty-billion-strong Sea Demon army would definitely be devoured by the Human Race experts like cutting melons and vegetables. Even Black Heaven himself did not doubt this.

The reason he appeared so aggressive and ready for war was merely to gain a bit of leverage and seize the initiative for the upcoming negotiations.

Facing Black Heaven’s request, Qin Donghuang remained silent for a moment before finally nodding in agreement.

Black Heaven was the absolute Overlord of all sea regions in the entire Sky Ruins Continent; calling him the Sea Demon Overlord was not an exaggeration. Given Black Heaven’s status, he was qualified to request an audience with Long Aotian.

Moreover, Long Aotian was both the Human Race Overlord and the Continent Lord. Although Long Aotian had never acknowledged these titles, and even expressed his rejection of them, this did not mean that Qin Donghuang and others truly took Long Aotian’s refusal seriously.

When one’s strength truly reached that level, even if Long Aotian said no, it would still be yes.

Therefore, Qin Donghuang could not, and dared not, represent Long Aotian in refusing to meet Black Heaven!

Under Qin Donghuang’s personal report, Long Aotian was also quite bewildered by the sudden meeting with Black Heaven. However, he was now, after all, the Supreme Palace Master of Dragon Heaven Palace, revered by the Sect Heads of one hundred thousand giant cultivation forces. This indirectly acknowledged his identity as the Human Race Overlord and the Continent Lord. As the absolute controller of discourse across the entire continent, he thought it over and decided to meet Black Heaven.

Black Heaven knew that his meeting with Long Aotian would determine the future destiny of their Exterminate Human Cultivator Sea Demon Alliance and even all the Sea Demon Clan members in all sea regions of the entire continent. Therefore, he was incredibly nervous and solemn about the meeting with Long Aotian.

However, when he saw that the Human Race Overlord, as described by Qin Donghuang, was a young man who might not even be an adult, he was immediately dumbfounded.

Was this Qin Donghuang fellow really not playing a trick on him?

Long Aotian was currently only fifteen and a half years old. In the cultivation world, female Cultivators reached adulthood at fifteen and male Cultivators at sixteen. Adult Cultivators generally stood at one point eight meters or slightly taller, while Long Aotian’s current height was only one point seven meters. Coupled with his very young and even somewhat tender appearance, Black Heaven could basically conclude that Long Aotian was not some Old Monster, but truly a young man.

“Are you the one looking for this Palace Master?”

Seeing Black Heaven’s undisguised astonishment, Long Aotian’s brow furrowed slightly, and then a terrifying Aura emanated from him.

However, unexpectedly, the Aura on Long Aotian’s body contained the supreme Dragon Soul Power from Ao Zhan, the Clan Chief of the Grand Void Dragon Clan. Even though Long Aotian had only assimilated a small portion of Ao Zhan’s Dragon Soul Power, with his current cultivation Realm having broken through to the Ninth Revolution Peak of the Mahayana Realm, this small portion of Dragon Soul Power had reached a level that made the Souls of Lower Realm experts tremble.

Especially since his physical body had now achieved Immortal Ascension, and even reached the astonishing Eighth Immortal Treasure Body Realm, he already carried the Immortal Aura unique to Immortal Realm experts. When all of this was suddenly released, it was truly terrifying.

With two consecutive “thuds,” Black Heaven, who had been standing steadily in the air, lost his footing, as if all his strength had suddenly left him, and plunged directly into the sea.

Similarly, Qin Donghuang, who was closely following Long Aotian, was also caught off guard by Long Aotian’s sudden terrifying Aura, causing his mind to become unstable and his Soul to tremble, falling straight into the sea.

“…”

Long Aotian, the person involved, looked innocent and utterly bewildered.

What was wrong with these two guys?