During the Mò Race's deliberations, quite a few short-sighted voices made themselves heard.
They complained that the three Great Venerables had provoked the Insect Race for no reason, causing the rules of war to be rewritten.
As for whether Latan and the other two Great Venerables regretted it, that was unimportant. What mattered was that they no longer had a way out.
Under such circumstances, they could only insist that since this was a life-or-death war between races, there should be no rules at all!
The Insect Race had never previously dispatched three God Lords at once, but that did not mean it would never happen again.
The Mò Race could waste plenty of time when it came to bickering, but Great Venerable Latan could no longer endure it.
It declared that if the race could not respond quickly, it would immediately relocate and cut off contact with the Cultivators.
Up to this point, only the three of them had dealt with the outside Cultivators.
No matter how much the Mò Race dragged its feet, it knew that if it did not bring in the Cultivators' combat strength, the destruction of its race was only a matter of time.
Latan was bluffing, but Lajan and Lalu would never expose it.
This strand of Primordial Purple Qi had also been secured by Latan. Originally, it had been communal property of the Mò Race, with several tribes holding partial usage rights.
Ownership of this treasure had always been fiercely disputed within the Mò Race. One thing was certain: no single tribe could swallow it all alone.
Ancient lore claimed that if a Star Tapir reached the peak of the Out-of-Body Realm, it could use this item to glimpse a higher realm.
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