When he learned that the Nian Beast was wreaking havoc and slaughtering people throughout Baiyue Prefecture, Ji Hu immediately contacted the prefecture's human experts.
Yet the humans at the Heaven Peering Realm seemed to have agreed among themselves: they were either nowhere to be found or refused to see anyone. Ji Hu had his suspicions, but he still refused to believe that terrifying, all-too-real possibility.
As the Prefectural Commissioner of Humankind's Baiyue Prefecture, Ji Hu was a true regional governor and a high-ranking official of the Humankind Heavenly Dynasty.
Yet in this incident, even someone of his standing among Humankind felt resentment toward his own race and the Human Emperor he served for the first time.
As the ruler of all Humankind, Qin Shuo naturally sensed Ji Hu's wavering loyalty to the Heavenly Dynasty, but he now had only two choices before him.
First, maintain the status quo and let everything follow its original course. The humans of the Southern Continent would suffer devastating casualties, but the Demon Race's fortune would be cut down. Through the events of New Year's Eve, the fortune originally belonging to the Demon Race would be transferred to Humankind, reversing the fortunes of the two races and bringing an explosive rise in human prodigies.
But the drawback was equally clear. The humans of the Southern Continent would become estranged from the Heavenly Dynasty. Much like the Demon Race back then, the Southern Continent would largely slip out of the dynasty's control. The Heavenly Dynasty would return to its situation during the Former Monster Emperor's reign, hemmed in by the Demon Race and unable to move beyond the Eastern Continent.
Second, intervene. This would defy the Heavenly Dao, plunging everything into uncertainty.
The advantage was that the Southern Continent would remain in the Heavenly Dynasty's hands,