Before the Assembly of Kings began, everyone had believed that, as long as the Shi Human Race did not go back on its word, the Jiuying Clan was all but certain to become the next ruler of the Sea Kingdom.
No one had expected the assembly to end this way.
In fact, this could no longer even be called an ending.
Song Yan had left Zhao's corpse intact.
After the Ninth King, Lang, gathered his child's remains, he left directly, taking the Jiuying Clan's Demon Cultivators with him.
He said nothing, uttered no threats, and did not spare Song Yan another glance.
This demon king, who had been so high-spirited on his throne atop the dais only moments earlier, now presented a retreating figure steeped in indescribable desolation.
Seeing this, Ling Jia and the remaining kings jointly announced that the Assembly of Kings was suspended.
And so, a grand occasion upon which the Sea Kingdom had pinned such high hopes came to a hasty close.
The one who had ultimately fought his way out of the encirclement in the Sea Vein Sinkhole was a Human Race cultivator.
Had the Jiuying Clan not clamored for a fight, this man would never even have taken the field.
Strictly speaking, he had fought for Princess Lingsi and represented the Diren Tribe.
Then, according to the rules of the Assembly of Kings, the Diren Tribe should succeed as ruler of the Sea Kingdom.
But the Shi Human Race had made it perfectly clear that it no longer wanted to be the ruling clan.
After all, from beginning to end, they had not entered even a single bout in the entire Assembly of Kings.
Who, then, was to become the Lord of the Sea Kingdom?
Surely it could not be that Human Race cultivator.
However