Cultivators offered guesses, only to be immediately refuted.
The Glazed Bloodline Tribe, with merely two early-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortals, required the deployment of twenty Grand Unity Golden Immortals from the Dragon clan to suppress them?
Wasn't that like using a cannon to swat a fly?
It was certainly not a case of dealing with that race.
"Then it must be the Thunderclap Star Imperial Tiger Clan? This clan is a branch of the Tiger clan, but they have not joined the Demon Court and are independent of it, not referring to themselves as demons."
"Within the clan, there are also Venerables in the late stage of Grand Unity."
Another cultivator proposed a different guess.
However, it was still rejected.
The reason given was that this branch of the Tiger clan, although having a late-stage Grand Unity cultivator as its guardian, only had this single Grand Unity.
The Dragon clan would not need to use so many troops to attack this clan; a decapitation strike would suffice, wouldn't it?
After much discussion, the cultivators seemed to be stuck.
Because no matter how they thought about it, they couldn't fathom any force near the East Sea that could contend with the Dragon clan.
Near the East Sea, besides the Dragon clan, there were only two or three other races with Grand Unity Golden Immortals presiding over them. Although these races were also called great races or strong races, their strength was utterly insufficient to contend with the Dragon clan.
For the Dragon clan to deal with them, hundreds of billions of demon soldiers would not be needed.
What kind of race could be so valued by the Dragon clan as to warrant initiating a full-scale war? The cultivators could not think of any.
They simply couldn't find a fixed target!
Until a voice emerged.
A cultivator suddenly said:
"Do you think there's a possibility that the Dragon clan is initiating a full-scale war, with the object of annihilation being—the Human race?"
"The Human race, created by Saint Nuwa?"
Upon this statement, the surrounding cultivators fell silent.
The scene instantly became quiet.
Then, in the next moment, the vast majority of cultivators burst into laughter.
Only a small portion of cultivators showed expressions of fear, confusion, and realization.
Those who laughed sarcastically, without restraint, said:
"What? The Human race?"
"How could it be the Human race?"
"Do you know how weak the Human race is?"
"It is said that when a Human infant is born, they possess no extraordinary power whatsoever."
"They can only start cultivating from realms such as Refining Essence into Qi, Refining Qi into Spirit, Refining Spirit into Void, and Refining Void into Dao."
"Even achieving immortality, becoming the weakest Earth Immortal, is a difficult endeavor."
"Whereas we, the myriad races of the Primordial Era, are born with the cultivation of an early-stage Earth Immortal. Our starting point already surpasses the cultivation that most humans can never reach in their lifetime."
"We, the myriad races of the Primordial Era, have no clansmen who are still in the cultivation realms!"
"Such a weak race, a race at the extreme of weakness, deserves the Dragon clan to initiate a full-scale war?"
The rogue cultivators near the East Sea were, in essence, also part of the myriad races of the Demon Court.
However, these rogue cultivators were either those who didn't fare well within their clans and were expelled, or those who didn't wish to grow within their clans, believing they could achieve greater benefits by venturing out on their own.
Or perhaps they had committed serious crimes within their clans and were forced to flee.
Or maybe they yearned for so-called freedom and didn't want to be constrained by their clans.
In short, for various reasons, they had severed ties with their original clans and no longer operated in the Primordial Era as members of a race, but instead went solo, calling themselves rogue cultivators.
Regardless of their current status.
They were once members of the myriad races of the Demon Court, and naturally, they knew what the Human race was.
The Human race had a very high profile among the myriad races, far more so than independent races like the Glazed Bloodline Tribe or the Thunderclap Star Imperial Tiger Clan.
Their fame was ten, even a hundred times greater.
Although their fame was solely due to reasons such as being food, easy to capture, weak, and delicious, the rogue cultivators were indeed extremely familiar with the Human race because of this.
Whether it was when they belonged to the Demon Court before, or when they separated from their clans now.
After separating from their clans, no powerful beings forbade them from continuing to prey on the Human race.
They could not change their habit of consuming the Human race.
Since they couldn't even change this habit, they were naturally not unfamiliar with the Human race.
For the vast majority of rogue cultivators,
what was the Human race but prey to be hunted?
They liked this kind of food, the myriad races of the Demon Court liked it, and the Dragon clan naturally liked it as well.
If the Dragon clan hunted the Human race, it wouldn't be strange at all, because all races in the Primordial Era did the same.
The myriad races of the Demon Court devoured humans, rogue cultivators fed on humans, and even during normal times, flood dragons, earth dragons, shrimp soldiers, and crab generals also consumed humans.
It was very normal for some mixed-blood dragons and sea creatures with dragon bloodlines to conduct hunting operations within the Human race, and such incidents had occurred frequently in the past.
However, hunting operations against the Human race were normal, but localized wars against them were not so normal.
Initiating a full-scale war, with over twenty Grand Unity Golden Immortals present, was even more abnormal!
The rogue cultivators understood a simple truth: hunting operations could never be equated with full-scale warfare.
There was a very clear distinction between the two.
It was normal for the hunted prey to injure a few scattered hunters, but for the hunters' empire to launch a full-scale war against the prey?
This was utterly absurd, because it meant that the prey's domain was being treated as an entity equal to the empire!
In the minds of the rogue cultivators, the Human race was merely prey in a pasture.
If the Dragon clan were to wage war on their prey, regardless of whether the Human race won or lost, it would profoundly shock the rogue cultivators' worldview!
Because it would mean that the Human race possessed the strength to resist at least the Dragon clan's invasion!
Such strength would at least represent the presence of ten or more Grand Unity Golden Immortals, which would be more than enough to crush the rogue cultivators to death.
How could the rogue cultivators accept the outcome where a race like prey could crush them to death?
"Impossible! The Human race could never possess such strength!"
"I personally witnessed ten thousand years ago that the highest-cultivated among the three ancestors of the Human race was merely a Taiyi Golden Immortal, and that too in the early stage."
"How is it possible to have at least ten Grand Unity Golden Immortals presiding over them?"
"This matter is absolutely impossible!"
A rogue cultivator quickly refuted.
He had personally gone to the Human ancestral land to hunt ten thousand years ago, and he considered this outcome impossible.
A mere ten thousand years, less than a tenth of a Yuan Hui.
How could the Human race undergo such a significant change?
Even in their wildest dreams, they wouldn't imagine something so illogical!
"The Dragon clan, with over twenty Grand Unity Golden Immortals and hundreds of billions of sea clan soldiers, going against a Human race at the extreme of weakness?"
"This is completely illogical!"
"The Dragon clan's target is definitely not the Human race..."
The rogue cultivator's words grew softer and softer.
As they were discussing, the Dragon clan's army had already approached the Human ancestral land.