Meeting him head-on would only mean their sects' destruction, their Dao lineages' extinction, and ten thousand years of foundations wiped away overnight.
After every conceivable struggle, Heavenly Origin's hundreds of sects and thousands of schools finally recognized one brutal truth: Yuan Huang was unreasonably strong, strong beyond their very dimension, so strong that resistance was utterly impossible!
From then on, the myriad races resigned themselves to their fate, discovering that as long as they paid their "protection fees" on time, the Immortal Emperor could hardly be bothered with them.
Everyone behaved themselves and developed their own domains. After so many peaceful years, their sects flourished and everyone lived perfectly well. Who the fuck had nothing better to do than provoke that god of slaughter?!
Surviving so long under that madman's rule without having their clans exterminated was a kind of great wisdom in itself. Young people these days had no idea how hard things had been for them back then.
So in everyone's eyes, these troublemakers controlled by Heavenly Demons were no righteous heroes. They were death-seeking fools, the seeds of clan annihilation!
Naturally, they were tied up and thrown into dungeons at once, lest they go around spouting nonsense and get their entire clans obliterated by one slap from that madman.
"Useless trash!"
Bang! A recording stone shattered beneath a palm.
Blood Nie stared fixedly at the light screen, demonic qi shaking wildly around him in his fury, his composure utterly shattered.
"Cowards! Not a shred of backbone!"
"Heavenly Origin's foremost Dao lineages, with foundations and legacies spanning ten thousand ages, and a single Yuan Huang has frightened you into this state!"
He roared furiously, cursing Heavenly Origin's mighty figures for their spineless servility, their greed for life and fear of death.
Below him, the Heavenly Demons kept their