Transformation and Advancement

After occupying the Central Plains, although the many Super Powers had withdrawn from the Central Plains, they still sought through various means to learn about the Second-Rank Dao Master behind the Human Race. They tried to approach him under the pretense of banquets, exchanges, and the like, but Song Ankang decisively refused them all, claiming to be an ascetic cultivator who intended to enter seclusion once more for arduous cultivation.

Thus, he cut off contact with the outside world, merely allowing the Song Family to serve as his representative and return to the Central Plains.

Seeing that this Second-Rank Dao Master behind the Human Race was utterly impervious to persuasion, and that his years of hiding and lying low showed he truly was an ascetic cultivator—otherwise, he would not have remained unknown for so many years—the various races gradually gave up after realizing they could not make contact with him. At the same time, they relaxed their guard considerably.

After all, everyone knew that such ascetic cultivators generally did not harbor much ambition. They would not launch eastern campaigns and western expeditions to seize resources and territory. Otherwise, with his strength, he would have long since taken the entire Central Plains instead of waiting until now.

Had the major Super Powers not acted against the Human Race, perhaps he would not even have bothered with the matter. The major Super Powers regretted this somewhat as well.

Had they known this earlier, they should not have acted against the Human Race. Instead, they had provoked such an old monster and lost the Central Plains for nothing.

Although this place was barren, it still possessed quite a few local specialties and was worth occupying a region for. But there was no need for more than that; otherwise, the various races would not