Every time the great King Hua Ye set out in a blaze of glory, he ended up battered and disgraced, sometimes even fleeing with his head in his hands. Why, then, would the forces of lesser civilizations choose to follow such a so-called Highest God who had lost all dignity?
Could it be loyalty, making them willing to stand by his side unto death?
That was impossible even to consider. The simple explanation for their actions was that although they had not followed Hua Ye for long, the ambitious factions had received extremely generous returns during that time.
Hua Ye would "generously" hand out things he did not care for as rewards to the lesser forces that followed him. He ate the meat while they drank the soup. Compared with Holy Kesha's strict governance of the universe, it was incomparably better.
Once they had tasted some benefits, asking those ambitious people to spit them back out was no different from cutting flesh from their own bodies. No one wanted to lose what they possessed now, so gritting their teeth and following Hua Ye became their only choice.
Hua Ye himself was much the same. Since emerging into the world, he had received dual support in resources and technology, making his title of Ancient Evil God well deserved and granting him one of the strongest powers in the Known Universe. At that point, asking him to tuck his tail and hide away in some remote corner of the universe was simply impossible.
He had long grown tired of playing petty emperor on a primitive planet. He wanted to reclaim the Tiangong Order, return to the summit of the universe, make everyone bow beneath his four-cornered underpants, and claim all the queens of Merlot Heavenly City as his personal possessions. Therefore, when