Early the next morning, the Teleportation Hall in Aurora City was already bustling with voices. All the Dao Integration Realm cultivators from the Human Race's other four cities had arrived.
Chen Fei stood at the rear of the Teleportation Hall, looking at the eighteen Human Emperor Venerables ahead and the Dao Integration Realm cultivators around them.
This was the Human Race's foremost strength. The Human Race had been able to exist independently in the Void Return Realm, rather than becoming some other race's vassal, entirely because of its own power.
But now, with the Wumeng Tribe's arrival, that independent status might be shattered.
Of course, there was another possibility: the Wumeng Tribe might look down on the dozen or so races of the Black Stone Domain and not even grant them the qualifications to become vassals.
After all, a vassal race was still considered part of the collective and would receive some small measure of care in ordinary times.
But the Wumeng Tribe had retreated into the Black Stone Domain. The race hostile to the Wumeng Tribe might very well pursue them into the Black Stone Domain.
The dozen or so races in the Black Stone Domain were more likely to become nothing more than the Wumeng Tribe's hired blades.
Chen Fei's gaze shifted and paused briefly on one person before moving away.
Yu Wuheng, a Human Race prodigy upon whom everyone had placed great hopes, was regarded as the Human Race's twentieth Emperor Venerable. Yet at this moment, the baleful aura around him was extremely heavy.
Many things could not be accomplished merely because one hoped for them.
Yu Wuheng had used three portions of Plane Origin, yet he had ultimately failed to break through to the Emperor Venerable Realm and remained at the Dao Integration Realm Late Stage.