No sooner had Star Tapir Great Venerable spoken than the five cultivators froze—not only them, but even he himself froze too.
After a long while, True Venerable Han Li shook his head and sighed. "What did I say? Those not of our race truly cannot be of one heart with us!"
"Playing dumb while knowing full well, huh?" Even True Immortal Jin Ge slowly opened his eyes. "So you knew everything all along!"
There were plenty of cases of Star Tapirs cooperating with humans, but very few of them could form a fixed partnership model with humans.
There were many different explanations for the reasons behind it, but the mainstream understanding among cultivators was this: Star Tapirs were afraid of being enslaved by cultivators!
This concern did make some sense, because among human cultivators, beast-taming was not only one of the Cultivation Arts, but also a major category of its own.
And the appearance of Star Tapirs could basically be classified as beasts—even Asura looked more like humans than they did!
Under such circumstances, was it strange that some cultivators wanted to tame Star Tapirs?
But Star Tapirs did not see it that way. They felt everyone was a civilized race, with roughly comparable levels of civilization, neither side much better than the other.
They wanted to become equal collaborators, or even be given slightly higher priority, and that was not impossible either.
After all, from birth to the Golden Core stage, Star Tapirs basically encountered no bottlenecks. When their cultivation was relatively low, their bloodline advantage was extremely obvious.
In any case, the two races had different understandings. Cooperation was no problem, but long-term cooperation was very difficult.
And if humans wanted to establish a long-term partnership with Star Tapirs, even if both parties involved agreed, the Star Tapir