While Ying Zheng surveyed the Great Wilderness from Xianyang Palace and prepared for his Succession Ceremony, and Styx and the Ancestral Witches waited in the Blood God Realm for the appointed day, news of the Human Emperor's enthronement had spread to the Myriad Races.
Since the Immortal-Demon Tribulation, the Great Wilderness had seen almost no conflicts with heavy casualties.
In particular, after Ming unified the Primordial Continent and contended for the title of Human Emperor, the succession of Human Emperors had been orderly.
Even when Great Shang overthrew Xia, it had caused little upheaval.
After countless ages of peaceful growth, no one knew how many powerful races lay hidden in the Great Wilderness.
Countless noble clans had risen within the Human Race as well. Ancient clans such as the Feng Clan and those of Suiren Shi and Ziyi Shi had ancestors who had made immense contributions to the Human Race's development.
Yet after countless ages, that former glory had become a pretext for pursuing their own interests.
That was the main reason Yin Hong had decided to abdicate. He believed the Great Wilderness needed a bold, decisive ruler who would not shrink from hardship.
Only such a ruler could change the growing rigidity of class divisions on the Primordial Continent.
Those who benefited from the existing order had no wish to break it.
If Yin Hong had not offered up the title of Human Emperor for these great powers to contest, he might have been forced to choose a puppet Human Emperor and let the class divide harden.
Yet to everyone's surprise, the heirs of the great clans of the Great Wilderness and the prodigies of its Aristocratic Families had all entered the Human Emperor Contest.
In the end, they had aimed high but lacked the ability to match. With