"Or perhaps it isn't just the Karmic Fire Thunder Prison?!"
Before the echoes faded, more than half the Immortal-God Alliance's neutral forces outside the battle shuddered and slowly began moving, bearing down on the Great Huan Faction.
Those words gave the matter a distinctly different meaning, and their implication was obvious.
Why had the Barbarian Venerable Alliance appeared neither sooner nor later, but precisely when the Mountain-Moving Demon Emperor broke through to the true spirit realm and so many Demon Race great adepts defected to the Great Huan Faction?!
No one would believe they had simply happened to arrive then, even if beaten to death.
Clearly, they had come for Great Huan's ability to purify bloodlines in "defiance of heaven," seeing it as an unparalleled opportunity for the Witch Clan to rise. Thus, the Barbarian Venerable Alliance had resolutely staked everything, even deploying its three standard-bearers and pillars: the Spell-Breaking Witch Emperor, the Life-Bearing Witch Emperor, and the Heavenly Word Witch Emperor.
There was no free lunch under heaven!
Without sufficient benefits, would anyone readily give so much for people with whom they had no special ties?!
Of course, the true intent behind the Barbarian Venerable Alliance's sudden arrival in force was not difficult to guess. Xiao Ying, the Blue Sky Empress, and the others understood it even better. But tacit understanding and laying everything bare were two entirely different things!
The expressions of the Barbarian Venerable Alliance members and the other Witch Clan members changed drastically. They looked toward Xiao Ying in anxious unease, terrified that they would lose the rice without stealing the chicken-or, rather, that their cleverness would backfire.
The Spell-Breaking Witch Emperor did not refute it. Instead, he spoke as though stating a simple fact: "The sovereign of Great Huan is already our Witch Clan's youngest,