Inside the grand hall.
Cold killing intent gleamed in the eyes of the twenty-six pinnacle human powerhouses.
Half of them had already been among humanity's leaders three hundred thousand years ago. They had lived through the era when the Human Race was weak, surrounded by powerful enemies, and at risk of annihilation at any moment.
They knew full well who had brought the Human Race its present strength and prosperity.
So they would never allow any enemy to destroy the Human Race as it was now!
Even if they fought until their last drop of blood was shed, until reincarnation ceased to exist, until their bloodlines were severed, they would never yield an inch!
The remaining half had risen from countless human elites over the past three hundred thousand years. Their talents stood at the very summit, and they were the wave riders of their age.
Every one of them had once stood as the strongest of the Human Race's younger generation, revered and admired by countless fellow humans!
They represented humanity in the new era!
They were humanity's strongest elites in the new era!
But whether they were the supreme powerhouses of the old era or those of the new—
They were all willing to shed their last drop of blood for the Human Race!
Without that resolve, no human could have stood here, no matter how terrifying their talent.
The Human Race had its own exceedingly rigorous selection system.
"What do you intend to do?"
Li Yue looked at the twenty-six Half-step Transcenders of the Human Race before him and asked.
The Human Race of this Cloudbound World had once produced a Dao-merging cultivator of the third Transcendence Realm.
The Spirit Clan's Transcenders back then might well have been slaughtered to the last by that Dao-merging cultivator.
Thus,