Gu Ding and the others could only feel helpless in the face of the dragon whale's declaration of war.
From humanity's perspective, what Mr. Mo and the others had done back then was not exactly wrong. But to the native demonic beasts of this world, it had indeed been a devastating calamity. Their hatred of humans was perfectly understandable.
The helpless part was that Gu Ding's group had become scapegoats for humanity's Great Cleansing Event. These native demonic beasts intended to direct the flames of their hatred at Gu Ding and the others.
"Is the scale of this demonic beast uprising large?" Gu Ding turned to Sea Emperor.
"Nearly all demonic beasts in the secret realm with Combat Strength at the Heavenly God level or above have mobilized. They account for 7.6% of all living beings in the Main God's Relic Garden." Sea Emperor reported the data he had compiled.
"And how many is that?" Gu Ding pressed.
"More than 2.6 billion..." Sea Emperor helplessly gave the number.
"So, according to the dragon whale, if it is truly a fight to the death, does that mean we have to slaughter all 2.6 billion demonic beasts?! That would be a massacre..."
Gu Ding frowned deeply. That number was nearly one-quarter of Deep Sea Star's population. Killing so many demonic beasts would be nothing short of a massacre.
"We shouldn't cause a slaughter on such a scale. It will affect our future cultivation." Bigge voiced his opinion as well.
"I don't think we should do it either." Even Liliath frowned. "There are two reasons. First, we have no need to kill demonic beasts below the Tenth Sequence Heavenly God level. Demonic beasts below that level won't improve our Combat Strength at all, and killing them would only waste our energy. Second, this