They believed that the Heaven-Shielding Method was too powerful to be credible.
Therefore, they did not believe their subordinates' reports.
But what if the Dragon Clan's Great Luo Golden Immortals and Hunyuan Golden Immortals personally delivered this information to them?
The weight of words differed based on the being and their cultivation realm.
The Great Luo Demon Gods of the Demon Court might disregard the words of Golden Immortals or Taiyi Golden Immortals, but it would be difficult to ignore the words of a Hunyuan Golden Immortal, a being more powerful than an ordinary Quasi-Saint.
If Candle Dragon were to step forward and contact all the Quasi-Saints and Great Divine Powers in the Primordial World.
The Human Clan would be destined to gain immense notoriety in the Primordial World.
This would not be a good thing for the Human Clan.
Therefore, Fang Ming had no choice but to act.
Before heading to the Dragon Palace, Fang Ming left a message.
"Paper cannot ultimately contain fire."
"Even if I can resolve the issue with Candle Dragon, it will only delay the inevitable. The Demon Court will eventually discover us."
"After all, the scale of our conflict with the Dragon Clan this time is too immense."
"During this period, the Human Clan must grow to a point where they can contend with all the races of the Demon Court."
"I will entrust the affairs of the Human Clan to you for now. Do not disappoint me..."
Fang Ming then floated away.
...
Deep within the East Sea.
The Dragon Palace.
The Dragon Clan elders who had escaped back were engaged in a heated discussion within the Dragon Palace.
"The current Dragon Emperor of the Dragon Clan has fallen, and a new Dragon Emperor needs to be appointed..."
"The Dragon Clan lost fourteen Great Luo Golden Immortals in this battle, leaving only eleven Great Luo Golden Immortals..."
"The Sea Clan legions suffered countless casualties. One-third of pure-blooded dragons perished, and half of the mixed-blood dragons were lost..."
"Tragic! Truly tragic!"
A Great Luo Golden Immortal of the Dragon Clan, clutching his wounds, let out a mournful cry.
The Dragon Clan had suffered immensely in this war against the Human Clan!
The commoners and mid-tier combatants, a vast number of Profound Immortals and Golden Immortals, were directly slaughtered by the Human Clan, with a death rate of up to fifty percent.
Out of over a thousand Taiyi Golden Immortals, only a little over three hundred returned, according to statistics.
The Dragon Clan elders, who numbered over twenty, were now only eleven, a reduction of nearly half!
What did this signify?
At the end of the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity, the Dragon Clan's strength was roughly similar to this.
With only about ten Great Luo Golden Immortals.
It took the Dragon Clan over forty-five thousand Yuanhui (epochs) during the Witch-Demon era, nearly five billion years, almost a full calamity, for them to cultivate to twenty-five Great Luo Golden Immortals.
Twenty-five Great Luo Golden Immortals, especially those at the peak of Great Luo, dragons qualified to break through to Hunyuan Golden Immortal, were the foundation of the Dragon Clan.
They were the fruits of the Dragon Clan's labor over the past five billion years!
However, after the battle with the Human Clan, the fruits of five billion years of effort by the Dragon Clan were directly wiped out!
A full five billion years!
How long had it taken the Dragon Clan to cultivate so many Great Luo Golden Immortals?
Now, it was all lost in a single battle.
They had regressed to the racial strength the Dragon Clan possessed after the end of the Three Clan War!
Nearly five billion years of effort, the painstaking work of countless dragons, was rendered useless. Anyone would lament such a loss.
Even the Dragon Clan elders were no exception.
What made it even more unbearable for them was.
They knew that only the Dragon Clan had suffered heavy losses in this battle, while the Human Clan had sustained no significant damage!
Not a single one of the Human Clan's five Outer Dao Great Luo Golden Immortals had perished!
The Human Clan army was too numerous. Even with the Great Luo Golden Immortals of the Dragon Clan personally intervening to slaughter them, they could not reduce the population by even one in a thousand.
What losses did the Human Clan suffer?
None.
If one were to insist on finding any losses.
It was akin to the sting of a mosquito!
While for the Dragon Clan, it was like losing half their lifeblood!
The two were incomparable, and this made the Dragon Clan elders feel extremely unbalanced psychologically!
"How could that Human Emperor Fang Ming possess combat power comparable to an established Quasi-Saint?"
"This is severely unreasonable!"
"Why! Why did such an unparalleled prodigy appear!"
"In a mere two thousand years, to be comparable to an established Quasi-Saint! Ahhh! I have cultivated for six billion years and am only at the mid-stage of Great Luo!"
A Great Luo Golden Immortal of the Dragon Clan seemed to have gone mad, muttering to himself.
He seemed unable to accept the reality of the time discrepancy!
"The Dragon Clan has suffered a great defeat this time..."
Another Dragon Clan elder, having faced reality, said helplessly.
"We had intended to seize the Human Clan's medicinal garden, so that our Dragon Clan could rise again and contend for supremacy of heaven and earth with the Witch and Demon races."
"I had thought that the war with the Human Clan was the hope for the Dragon Clan's resurgence."
"But I never imagined that it was precisely this battle that directly extinguished the Dragon Clan's hope and brought despair to the Dragon Clan..."
"Our Dragon Clan will likely have no opportunity to contend for supremacy of heaven and earth in this calamity."
"Perhaps, even in the next calamity, we will not have the strength to contend for supremacy of heaven and earth..."
Thinking of the extinguished hope for the Dragon Clan's resurgence, this Great Luo Golden Immortal of the Dragon Clan felt an inexplicable heartache.
This battle should not have been fought!
Had they known the Human Clan was so powerful, he would never have agreed to fight this war.
Unfortunately, there are no regrets in this world.
Thus, the Dragon Emperor made the wrong choice and perished.
He, who had the potential to ascend to Hunyuan Golden Immortal, directly fell on the battlefield.
And the remaining Dragon Clan Great Luo elders were few in number, left only to regret here.
"Human Clan... Human Clan..."
"On the Primordial Continent, besides the Witch and Demon races, how did such a powerful race rise..."
A Great Luo Golden Immortal of the Dragon Clan sighed.
"Enough! Enough! Our Dragon Clan no longer has the capital to compete with them."
"Let this matter end here."
"Our Dragon Clan should adopt a conservative, retreating strategy..."
"In my opinion, we don't need to appoint a new Dragon Emperor. Perhaps, we old fossils should retreat behind the scenes."
"Then, select the Four Dragon Kings – the East Sea Dragon King, West Sea Dragon King, South Sea Dragon King, and North Sea Dragon King – and divide the Dragon Emperor's power among them."