Chapter 1688: The Great War Twenty Thousand Years Ago! Who Set the Rules?

"How strong is the enemy?"

"An elder stationed at a branch of the Shenlongshang Alliance!"

"Then why send four God-Rank Beast Tamers?"

No wonder Su Yang asked that.

To deal with one God-Rank Beast Tamer, the Eight Treasures House actually had to deploy four God-Rank Beast Tamers.

Among them was a God-Rank Mid-Grade Dragon Elder.

That was absurd!

"Just to be safe!" the Dragon Elder said. "The Blue Demon Kingdom holds a lot of influence within the Shenlongshang Alliance. When we strike at their branch, the Blue Demon Kingdom's powerhouses are very likely to move as well."

"How many God-Rank Beast Tamers can the Blue Demon Kingdom have?"

On this point, Su Yang was mildly curious.

He had killed one Blue Demon before.

The exact name, Su Yang had forgotten; he only knew Yun Shuying called him Blue Skin Ghost.

"Those remaining in the Blue Demon Kingdom may number three, including one God-Rank Mid-Grade Beast Tamer!"

"That strong?"

"Of course they're strong!" the Dragon Elder replied knowingly. "If the Blue Demon Kingdom weren't strong, the Blue Demon clan wouldn't hold such great power within the Shenlongshang Alliance!"

Su Yang thought of the Three-Eyed One from Phoenix Ridge.

Back then, that Three-Eyed One had seemed quite afraid of Blue Skin Ghost.

"Our main target this time isn't the Blue Demon Kingdom. Strictly speaking, the Blue Demon Kingdom is the Blue Demon Kingdom, and the Shenlongshang Alliance is the Shenlongshang Alliance—two different organizations!" the Dragon Elder patiently explained to Su Yang. "Our conflict with the Shenlongshang Alliance won't easily spill over into other countries. Blue Demon clansmen who have joined the Shenlongshang Alliance are considered people of the Shenlongshang Alliance; those who haven't joined are still Blue Demon Kingdom citizens."

"This operation is only to retaliate against the Shenlongshang Alliance. By rights, the Blue Demon Kingdom can't intervene. Once they do step in, our Eight Treasures House will have grounds to retaliate against the Blue Demon Kingdom!"

"But rules are dead, people are alive, and living people don't always follow rules!" the Dragon Elder said. "I'm going with you just to be safe."

"Who set the rules?"

Su Yang was still a little curious.

He had wanted to ask this question long ago.

When he had first entered the Beast Tamer Great World, he had annihilated the Fire Phoenix Legion of the Green Luan Kingdom.

Qin Longyun had told him then: the rules of the Beast Tamer Great World stated that God-Rank Beast Tamers could not, without reason, attack ordinary Beast Tamers or ordinary civilians.

This rule was practically an unspoken convention of the Beast Tamer Great World.

The Eight Treasures House had similar rules as well.

"Strictly speaking, the rules were set by several large empires on the front lines against the fierce beasts, and they've been passed down for nearly twenty thousand years now! Beast Tamers have tacitly abided by them to avoid massive casualties!"

"Twenty thousand years?"

The Dragon Elder looked at Su Yang: "You didn't know about this?"

Su Yang brushed it off casually: "On my side, we fight fierce beasts every day—I'm not interested in history!"

The Dragon Elder laughed: "In the military, right?"

"How did you know?"

Su Yang was surprised.

The Dragon Elder: "Your bearing is a bit fiercer, your killing intent is very heavy—different from ordinary God-Rank Beast Tamers on our side!"

God-Rank Beast Tamers were almost all forged through killing.

God-Rank Beast Tamers of common birth, the vast majority carried heavy killing intent!

But they definitely hadn't killed as many as Su Yang had!

"Dragon Elder's eye for people is truly sharp!"

The Dragon Elder smiled and continued: "Twenty thousand years ago, a shocking internal war broke out in the Beast Tamer Great World. Beast Tamers of many races all fought."

"In that earth-shaking battle, every race Suffered heavy losses—there was no winner!"

"You're a God-Rank Beast Tamer, you should be clear on what kind of disaster unfolds when King, Emperor, Sovereign, and God-Rank Beast Tamers all see red!"

On this point, Su Yang was of course clear.

The cities of the Beast Tamer Great World actually weren't much different from those of the Huaxia Federation.

An ordinary city in the Huaxia Federation had a population of around forty to fifty thousand.

On the Beast Tamer Great World side, ordinary cities had roughly the same population.

Without a powerhouse protecting it, an ordinary King-Rank Beast Tamer could easily wipe out a city in a short time.

That was of course extremely terrifying!

"That great war dragged countless races in. Many God-Rank Beast Tamers fell on the spot. Races with larger numbers could still cope, after all, their population base was large!"

"Some smaller races were completely exterminated!"

"By the end of the war, even those red-eyed Beast Tamers had calmed down!"

"But by then, too much blood-feud had accumulated—the war couldn't just be stopped at will!"

"Later, on the fierce beast side, those fierce beasts possessing Beast Emperor talent led their troops to challenge the Beast Tamer forces. Several major Divine Beast clans also attacked us along with them… several great empires were trampled flat in a short time, billions of people, not a single one escaped."

"Only then did the Beast Tamers of the major races have to abandon their hatred and turn their spears on those fierce beasts!"

"To prevent further feuds and friction, the empires of the major races carved out buffer zones. Our Eight Treasures House, and the Shenlong Alliance, are both within the buffer zone!"

"That buffer zone is quite large!"

The Dragon Elder laughed: "If the buffer zone weren't large, how could it buffer? You're not unaware of what God-Rank Beast Tamers can do!"

"Don't look at how lively our fighting is. Compared to those great empires on the fierce beast front lines, our forces really don't amount to much."

Su Yang smiled and said: "These things, I've rarely heard about!"

"It's all from ten thousand years ago, many people have already forgotten!" the Dragon Elder said. "Many countries now have histories of no more than a thousand years. Even within those great empires, unless one's status reaches a certain level, one may not know this sealed-away history!"

"How does Elder Long know so much about this?"

"I found it in ancient texts from the Wu Yun Kingdom. The Wu Yun royal family, the Yun clan, is a rare lineage that has endured for over ten thousand years!"

"Mm!"

"Then are you willing to join this operation?"

"Is there a benefit?"

"We at Baozhai want the divine-grade pet beast egg!" said Elder Long. "As for the other ferocious beast eggs stored at the Shenlongshang Alliance branch in the capital of Lanmo Kingdom, we can give you half."

"Don't think you're getting the short end—Zhou Qian's share will be far less than yours. Besides you, the ferocious beast eggs must also give a portion to Baozhai, apart from Zhou Qian!"

"Then it's settled—we join!"

Su Yang immediately decided.