"Yes! Yes! This old man obeys." Chang Yao hurriedly scrambled to his feet.
His every reaction left the three alien kings utterly stunned.
They could not understand why Chang Yao, a dignified Void Return cultivator, would bow and scrape before an investigator from the Human Race.
Before they could figure it out, Chang Yao turned toward them with a dark expression, all trace of his earlier obsequiousness gone.
"You must do your utmost to cooperate with the Investigator, or I definitely will not spare you!"
Though he wished he could slice these three wretches into a thousand pieces, he did not dare delay the mission at this moment.
He even suspected that someone within the council was trying to set him up!
Many years ago, the non-Human Race Void Return cultivators of the Fu Ling Star System had formed the Fu Ling Interstellar Council. Void Return cultivators like them served as council members, discussing and resolving all manner of internal matters concerning the Fu Ling Star System's non-human races.
After all, aside from a few restrictions imposed by the Starry Sky Management Law, the Human Race generally did not interfere in the internal affairs of alien races in the stars.
Thus, there was plenty of room for maneuver in between.
For instance, preventing other races within the star system from being beguiled and ultimately planting a Bio-Weapon Hub, thereby drawing a Human Race purge.
Mediating internal conflicts and contradictions among alien races—the sort of matters even the Human Race could not be bothered to handle.
Consolidating resources, using to a certain extent the starry-sky routes opened up by the Human Race to conduct exchanges and trade with races from other star systems, and so on...
All of these fell within the Fu Ling Interstellar Council's sphere of control.
Precisely because