Demon Lord Tuntian and Demon Lord Chihai were not the backbone of this battle. Their defeat might not have an overturning effect on the current battlefield situation, but for Kongsang Lifeng, it was absolutely fatal.
What left him most helpless was that everyone in this battle had a retreat path—everyone except him.
Just as Song Changsheng was on the must-kill list of the Demon Race's Six Kingdoms, he likewise sat high at the very top of Myriad Manifestations Palace's kill list.
Because over these past several hundred years, the large-scale battles that had attempted to overturn the Dagan Cultivation World had all been launched by him. The slaughter-sins he had created would be useless to flee from even if he escaped to the ends of the earth and the corners of the sea.
The most terrifying point was that if he truly was of the Demon Race, the reckoning from within the Merfolk Royal Family would probably arrive even earlier than Myriad Manifestations Palace.
The Feudal Lord system was the foundation by which the Merfolk Race controlled the four seas. They enjoyed the privileges of being Feudal Lords, so naturally they also had to fulfill the duties and responsibilities of Feudal Lords.
Checking the Human Race's expansion toward the sea was only one part. The primary duty was to monitor and control the Sea Race within their fiefs, spread the might of the Merfolk Race, and maintain hegemonic rule.
He could be defeated. He could die in battle. He could do nothing. Only abandoning his land and fleeing was something he could not do.
If every Feudal Lord could casually abandon their territory, then as time went on, it was bound to shake the Sea Race's foundation of rule over the four seas.
The ruling power of the Merfolk Race,