The Ashuras' anger quickly escalated into a small-scale riot, and for a time, it showed signs of growing worse.
It could not be helped. This race was simply too hot-tempered, especially now, when they stood at the center of both internal and external crises.
However, the Ashuras who arrived were also decisive and ruthless. One Silver Horn led a squad and brutally suppressed the unrest.
Soon after, the quasi-king of this space appeared. After briefly communicating with the Silver Horns, it also dispatched its personal guards to suppress the riot.
The quasi-king's guards were far gentler in their methods. When dealing with the people of their own space, they employed both persuasion and force.
It could not be helped. If they slaughtered all their subjects, would they not become utterly alone?
After their initial surprise, the cultivators quickly calmed down. They had heard plenty of stories about people joining those they could not defeat.
The only thing they found somewhat curious was this: could a race like the Ashuras also yield?
Throughout Heavenly Zither's hundreds of thousands of years of foreign wars, such a thing had simply never been heard of.
Yi Jue could not help asking, "Are they plotting something?"
"What could Ashuras possibly know about plotting?" Hanhai stated bluntly. Because he had advanced too quickly, he had never dealt with Ashuras himself, but that did not stop him from offering an opinion. "At most, they can set up some crude traps."
"Still, you cannot underestimate intelligent races," Qing Yao spoke up to correct him. "They have already begun mastering the arts of the Five Elements."
"Then there must have been traitors among the cultivators, right?" Xuanyuan Buqi could not help saying.
He simply did not believe that the Ashuras could have figured out such a system by themselves.