Huang Hongyao's gaze was complicated.
She naturally understood how those elders felt.
As the ruler of the Good Fortune Celestial Domain, the Mystic Phoenix God Race had lost far, far too much after being reduced to a sinful race.
Prestige, authority, dignity, glory...
And they had endured in silence for far too long.
Just anyone dared treat them as meat on the chopping block, itching to take whatever they wanted.
Even those subordinate factions from the past dared ride roughshod over them, brazenly demanding benefits.
And they... could only endure.
One only had to look at the experts from the various Dao lineages who had come to attend the Good Fortune Dao Conference to see just how wretched the Mystic Phoenix God Race's circumstances were!
Not to mention that Taihao Qingpu, Zhuanyu Qi, and the others had arrived together earlier, coercing the Mystic Phoenix God Race into signing a contract concealing sinister intentions.
They had even wanted to seize Huang Hongyao before everyone's eyes!
Had Su Yi not stepped forward today, Huang Hongyao did not dare imagine just how terrible things would become afterward.
But now, things were different.
Taihao Qingpu and the others were dead, wiped out by Su Yi in one fell swoop!
Just as Clan Leader Phoenix Cheng Yu had said, setting aside the consequences, who could not feel exhilarated at this very moment?
Some covered their faces with their sleeves and wept bitter tears. They appeared utterly undone, yet everyone shared that same turbulent emotion!
But what came after that exhilaration?
As they calmed down, everyone's hearts became incomparably heavy once more.
The trouble was enormous!
So enormous that one wrong move could bring the Mystic Phoenix God Race to the brink of extinction!
"We endured for ten thousand ages and only barely managed to let