Walking upon the land of the Human Realm, Hundred Battle had a group of people following behind him.
Yet he could no longer recapture the feeling he had once possessed.
He could sense that the present-day Human Realm was rejecting him.
Among the thirty-six prefecture lords present, he could feel every kind of emotion—resentment, indifference, unwillingness, curses.
These people were too weak.
Such emotional fluctuations could not be concealed from Hundred Battle.
Perhaps they were wondering why he had returned.
Six thousand years ago, had he not been sealed away?
Had he not already died in battle?
Now that the Human Realm had a new Human Lord, why had he come back?
It was not only Hundred Battle who sensed it. The few people at his side sensed it as well. They were not weak, so naturally they could feel those emotions. They could even faintly hear people in the distance discussing it.
Some were saying, why had this newly returned Human Lord come back after all these years?
Had he not died back then?
Nanxi Hou, the strongest beneath Hundred Battle, heard it.
Nanxi Hou's expression was somewhat complicated. He suddenly said, "Your Majesty, they are merely ignorant people. Please do not take them to heart! They know nothing. If we could have won back then, why would things have come to this?"
"Precisely because victory was impossible, and because we were unwilling to bury the entire human race with us, we made this choice!"
Nanxi Hou's expression was complicated as he looked toward Xia Huyu and the others beside him. After hesitating, he still spoke up to defend Hundred Battle. "If we could have defeated the myriad races and the Hell King Lineage back then, we would never have chosen this! Perhaps... you have guessed something. But if