The Thousand Feathers Alliance was in turmoil. The fate of its three Mountain Sea Realm cultivators remained unknown, Thousand Feathers City had long since become a field of ruins, and very few people had truly escaped.
With Thousand Feathers City's defenses and three Mountain Sea Realm cultivators guarding it, the city should never have fallen, no matter what.
Yet the five demon kings were simply too powerful, and one of them possessed an innate ability perfectly suited to breaching cities. Once a gap opened in Thousand Feathers City's defenses, everything collapsed like a bursting dam.
Throughout the Haifeng Domain, every sect and faction began packing their possessions and preparing to relocate.
The Haifeng Domain lay off to one side of the Thousand Feathers Alliance, still a considerable distance from the waters occupied by the sea demons.
But now that the Mountain Sea Realm cultivators had vanished without a trace, that distance offered no sense of safety. In the future, all the waters of the Thousand Feathers Alliance would belong solely to the sea demons, with nothing left for humanity.
Chen Fei hovered in midair, gazing into the distance with a grave expression.
The demon kings had come too quickly. Chen Fei had thought the Thousand Feathers Alliance could hold out for at least another decade or more, perhaps even establish a balance of power with the sea demons.
That would have given Chen Fei enough time to break through to the Mountain Sea Realm.
Then, after cultivating a few Mountain Sea Realm techniques, his combat strength could rise rapidly. He might not have been able to resolve the demon king threat alone, but he could have worked with Min Yanlu and the others to break the deadlock.
But life had no room for what-ifs, and events would not unfold according