They had thought the Gao Household and Du Gu Household intended to join forces, break free from Peak Martial Arts Hall's restraints, and establish a "free" East Forest.
They had never expected them to be making a pact with a tiger, colluding with something even more terrifying and evil than Peak Martial Arts Hall! They were going to sacrifice the entirety of East Forest!
But resist? Did they dare? Gao Fuhai was at the Sixth Tier, Peak Stage! Du Gu Ce was at the Sixth Tier, Seventh Layer! There was also that unfathomable Demon Charm, suspected to be Seventh Tier... as well as the elite martial artists outside who were loyal to the Gao Household, the Du Gu Household, and that mysterious Beast God Cult! Resistance meant certain death!
Surrender? Become the Mutated Beasts' "hunting hounds"? How would that make them any different from beasts? How could they face their ancestors after death?
Demon Charm's words were like the coldest venom, injected into the hearts of everyone present. The cruel truth behind "raising," "blood food," "altars," and "hunting hounds" utterly shattered the last traces of luck and fantasy in their hearts.
What kind of joke was this?!
For the past three hundred years, humanity had prided itself on being the spirit of all things, the inheritors of civilization's flame, yet they were merely "livestock" raised by Mutated Beasts?
Those forebears and compatriots who had sacrificed themselves to defend their homes and fight the Beast Tide—their blood and tears, their courage and tragedy—had merely been a carefully orchestrated performance by "ranchers" to preserve the vitality of their "pasture"?
An indescribable sense of absurdity, fury, humiliation, and despair swept through the entire conference hall like a tsunami. The clan heads and military representatives who normally lived in luxury and looked down on