Many Eternal Giants of the Mountain Sea Alliance had long been holding a bellyful of rage.
Now that Zhan Honglei was backing them, their spines instantly stiffened as well.
"The Supreme Alliance Master speaks well. Though we are not Celestial Immortals, we each have the dignity of our own sects and lineages."
"Hmph, now that our Mountain Sea Alliance also has a Celestial Immortal overseeing it, if anyone tries to stop us from boarding the island again, they will be making enemies of us!"
"With Heavenly Secrets Elder and the Sea Emperor, two Celestial Immortals, holding the fort, what the hell are we afraid of?"
For a time, the crowd's emotions ran high.
These immortal cultivation forces had joined the Mountain Sea Alliance in the first place because there were benefits to be gained.
The Mountain Sea Alliance could refine Lower-Grade Immortal Artifacts and immortal-grade spirit pills for them, strengthening their respective sects and lineages.
In truth, they had only an ordinary sense of belonging toward the Mountain Sea Alliance and did not hold it in sufficient awe.
That was because they all believed that the Mountain Sea Alliance only possessed Earth Immortal-level combat strength such as the Cangming Sea Dragon and the Gold-Devouring Insect King. It simply could not be put on the stage.
Among the seventy-three immortal cultivation forces, there were quite a few Earth Immortal Realm patriarchs.
Without a Celestial Immortal to suppress them, those Earth Immortal patriarchs naturally all stood high above the rest and did not take the Cangming Sea Dragon seriously at all.
Now, however, the situation was different.
Zhan Honglei had appeared under the identity of the "Sea Emperor," claiming to be the Supreme Alliance Master of the Mountain Sea Alliance.
Those Earth Immortal patriarchs naturally no longer dared to be contemptuous or