"How does our Human Race fare in the Thirty-Three Star Realm?" Li Xiaoya froze at the question and murmured to himself, looking somewhat hesitant. Ever since ascending to the Thirty-Three Star Realm, he had devoted himself to finding a cure for Zhang Hong's injuries. He had spent half his time on the Heavenly Demon Continent before coming to the Human Race's territory on the East Xia Continent. In truth, he had never paid much attention to such matters... Still, the Daode Daoist Patriarch surely had a reason for asking... Could he say the Human Race was doing well? It actually felt much the same as things on the Heavenly Demon Continent. During his travels, Li Xiaoya had found that the various peoples of the Human Race were not particularly harmonious either. Conflicts abounded; they even seemed worse off than the Demon Race in that respect... As he pondered this, he suddenly recalled something the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma had told him and said, "I heard that although there are thirty-three Greater Star Realms, the only territory our Human Race controls is the East Xia Continent of the Thirty-Three Star Realm! In the other Star Realms, our Human Race doesn't seem to enjoy much standing. Does that mean our Human Race has little status among the Greater Star Realms?"
What Li Xiaoya had "heard" naturally referred to the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma's account of the various Greater Star Realms years ago. The Human Race's standing truly was poor. The Devil Race and Immortal Race were the principal powers controlling the Greater Star Realms. Although the Dragon Race, Demon Race, and Insect Race shared the Thirty-Three Star Realm with the Human Race, dividing it four ways, those three races were merely branches of their counterparts in other Star Realms. In fact, among the remaining