The instant the Soul Search ended, every secret in Losas's mind was exposed without reservation, laid bare within Shiheng's boundless sea of consciousness.
Every vicious scheme, every layer of genocidal conspiracy, stood out with horrifying clarity.
The ten prefectures of the Life God Realm had long secretly forged an unbreakable alliance, casting a vast net of encirclement and annihilation solely to ambush and kill Shiheng. Their siege of the Azure Dragon Clan was merely bait.
Over the past few centuries, the Human Race, dormant for endless ages, had quietly revived. Geniuses emerged one after another, its reserves gradually awakened, and signs of a resurgence began to appear.
This resurgence, especially Shiheng's sudden appearance before the world with Peak Asura strength more than a decade earlier, had completely shattered the balance of interests that the countless races across the ten surrounding prefectures had maintained for hundreds of millions of years, shaking the foundations of the Jade Tree Practitioners', Divine Beasts', and Different Races' dominance.
Moreover, the Demon Race Asura Clan Chief had constantly fanned the flames behind the scenes, inciting hostility among the races and spreading claims of the threat Shiheng posed. Given Shiheng's strength, any prefecture lord without a physical-defense Sovereign Artifact could only perish against him.
The countless races' slaughter of the Human Race grew ever more frenzied, ever more ruthless.
They spared no hidden force and laid every concealed deathtrap, all to extinguish the Human Race's hope completely and sever its sole chance of reversing its fortunes.
For precisely this reason, in recent years, the Human Race had suffered slaughter and suppression more brutal than in the preceding million years. Its territories were lost, its people displaced, its powerhouses martyred, and its tribes destroyed. Even its largest surviving tribe, the one with the deepest reserves, had been besieged