The Gu Hu Tribe was actually very powerful. Besides three Peak Dao Integration Realm experts, it had over two hundred Dao Integration Realm cultivators at various stages.
Overall, the Gu Hu Tribe was stronger than Aurora City.
If Chen Fei was excluded, the Gu Hu Tribe could forcibly crush Aurora City. However, in doing so, the Gu Hu Tribe itself would suffer grievous losses.
After all, the Gu Hu Tribe was not strong enough to completely overwhelm Aurora City. Moreover, for them, doing so would yield the poorest returns.
What the Gu Hu Tribe sought was Aurora City's faith, so having the Black Demons attack Aurora City was the optimal choice.
As for whether the people in Aurora City lived or died, what did that have to do with the Gu Hu Tribe? They only cared about the outcome; the process was unimportant.
Back in the original Devouring Yuan Space, they did not lure Black Demons into attacking other tribes not because their hearts had suddenly softened or because they thought it too cruel.
Rather, everyone possessed Faith Power. Evil creatures like Black Demons, which only attacked according to instinct, could easily be lured away with Faith Power.
However, once Black Demons reached the seventh order, they seemed to undergo other changes, their Spiritual Wisdom greatly increasing.
It felt as though they had been reborn within the shells of the Black Demons.
The earliest Black Demons had been transformed from the Devouring Yuan Clan. Of course, even the descendants of the Devouring Yuan Clan could not say whether those seventh-order Black Demons still had any connection to their original selves.
The Gu Hu Tribe's arrogance toward Aurora City was founded on the fact that Aurora City had yet to master a proper method of faith, while the threat of the