The great monster hidden in the shadows was named Bai Fei. He wore a dark blue Taoist robe and had his hair tied in a scholar's topknot, looking every bit the refined gentleman.
His surname made it clear that he came from the Bai Ze Clan.
Ten thousand years ago, the First Generation Monster Emperor had died on the belly of a demoness. The Bai Ze Clan had hung up its seal, vanished into seclusion, and withdrawn from the Eight Kings' chat group, unwilling to submit to those who came after.
They were arrogant and mysterious. They had not been seen for ten thousand years, so everyone assumed the clan had already perished.
In truth, after stepping down, the Bai Ze Clan had gone straight to the Outskirts of the Great Wilderness, taken shelter in the Phoenix Clan's precious territory, and withdrawn from worldly struggles, keeping an extremely low profile for a full ten thousand years.
They helped the Phoenix Clan guard the Heaven and Earth Gate. Because they could calculate everything without error, they earned the Phoenix Clan's respect.
During this period, the Myriad Monster Kingdom's national strength declined year by year, while the Human Great Nation thrived. The Bai Ze Clan sent clan members at the Mahayana Stage to travel deep into the Human Great Nation, where they cheated and swindled, seized by trickery and force, and studied the human methods of divination.
Learning made them happy.
The Bai Ze Clan did not look down on the human race just because the First Generation Monster Emperor had crushed them until they could barely hold their heads up. Humans had enormous potential and were especially prolific. The fact that monsters took forms no different from humans showed that humans were favored by Heaven and Earth, and moving closer to