Many Emperor Lords simply flew into a rage and flipped the table. What Ye Xiwen had done was utterly against the rules—he had acted directly.
According to the tacit understanding among these Celestial Venerables, they generally would not casually attack ordinary armies, because a Celestial Venerable's combat power was simply too terrifying.
When both sides had Celestial Venerables, they usually restrained themselves. Like nuclear weapons, as long as both sides possessed them, peace could be maintained.
That was also why the Outer Domain and the Creation God Dynasty had broadly maintained peace over these years.
Given the terrifying scale of both sides, so long as no Celestial Venerable-level expert acted, even Peak Emperor Lords like the Battle Emperor and Night Emperor could not truly have any fatal impact on the overall situation.
No matter how powerful an Emperor Lord was, they could still be buried beneath sheer numbers. Celestial Venerables were different. It was fundamentally impossible for Emperor Lords to overwhelm a Celestial Venerable with numbers, unless they were Celestial Venerable-level experts of the same tier.
That was precisely why neither side would act lightly.
Although Celestial Venerables existed within this Outer Domain Allied Army, the number of times they had acted was quite limited, because everyone was maintaining the most fundamental balance.
They could not act as they pleased. Once they did, certain Celestial Venerables of the Eastern Region who maintained a tacit understanding with them would not stand idly by either. Though those Celestial Venerables had an agreement with them not to act against one another, they would never watch helplessly as the Outer Domain army truly took control of the Creation God Dynasty. That ran contrary to their fundamental interests. Their current tacit understanding was merely for self-preservation, and because they wanted to borrow the Outer Domain's