As long as no Seventh Order Heaven Opening Realm emerged, the strength of the current nineteen Emperor Venerables was more than enough to protect the Human race's present territory.
But that Seventh Order Heaven Opening Realm ancestor of the Abyss Clan was a sword hanging over the Human race's head. No one knew when it would truly come crashing down.
Led by the Abyss Clan and the Ice Clan, the other Alien Races had begun casting covetous eyes upon Human territory. From time to time, probing attacks broke out along the borders of Human cities.
The Human race had multiplied and thrived in this region for so many years and grown to its current stature naturally because this region contained abundant resources.
There were even some rare resources that the Human Emperor Venerables had specially transplanted from other regions into Human territory.
These resources brought tremendous benefits even to those in the Sixth Order Dao Integration Realm, so many Alien Races naturally coveted them greedily.
The surrounding Alien Races eyed the Human race like tigers watching their prey, while the attitudes of the Human race's other allied races remained rather ambiguous.
To say that they intended to betray the alliance would be going too far.
But to say that they wholeheartedly supported the Human race in resisting the other Alien Races, they showed no such sincerity either.
The crux of the matter still lay with that Seventh Order Heaven Opening Realm ancestor of the Abyss Clan. Unable to determine its condition, the other allied races simply did not dare support the Human race with all their strength.
Within the Void Return Realm, relations among the myriad races were this ruthlessly realistic.
What eternal friendship was there? Interests were the most fundamental logic.
The various races formed alliances because they had