At this moment, the atmosphere between the high-level figures of the human race and the demon race eased considerably.

However, the Azure Dragon still had to put up a tough front.

"This battle ends here! But do not mistake this for our Demon Tribe being unable to defeat your measly Five Regions! If the Dragon Corpse and Phoenix Corpse were not busy keeping an eye on the Shen Family and the Holy Lands, you would have been completely annihilated long ago!"

The Sword Lord also gave the Demon Tribe plenty of face, offering them a way to back down gracefully.

"Naturally, the Five Regions are but a part of the human race. If the Five Regions, the Holy Lands, and the Shen Family were to join forces, perhaps then we could stand against the Demon Tribe. To resist the enemy lurking in the shadows, we must not fight amongst ourselves. The human world is our only home; we absolutely cannot let the Dragon-Man tribe destroy it!"

Speaking of the Dragon-Man tribe, both sides shared intelligence.

The great war between the human world and the demon world thirty thousand years ago, how the Demon Tribe retreated to the Demon World only to be destroyed by the Dragon-Man tribe, and how the Dragon-Man tribe had now begun to show signs of activity within the human world, and so on.

Listening, Li Liushui finally understood. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

"So that's what you meant back then with those words! Brother Dragon, you should have made it clear from the start!"

The Azure Dragon snorted coldly.

"I would have been delighted to see you all burn yourselves! Why should I have made it clear to you! If not for the fact that we, too, cannot leave the human world now, this venerable one wouldn't care a whit about your lives or deaths!"

Li Liushui coughed a few times to cover his embarrassment.

The Azure Dragon also mentioned that over the years, they had continued to discover some Dragon-Man tribe strongholds within the Five Regions, all of them being shielded by humans.

Hearing this, the Female Emperor, the Sword Lord, and the other major powerhouses were utterly bewildered.

"Is the Dragon-Man tribe so formidable? They've managed to bribe so many people right under our noses, operating for decades, and we didn't notice a thing?"

The Azure Dragon snorted.

"Who knows what you're all busy with all day! You don't even know when thieves have entered your own house!"

You pondered for a moment, a thought occurring to you.

"Perhaps, the reason the Demon Tribe could discover traces of the Dragon-Man tribe's activities is because the Dragon-Man tribe intentionally revealed them to you."

The Sword Lord understood.

"They hoped we would fight each other and exhaust our strength, so they exposed some of their expendable strongholds to you, sowing suspicion and anger towards the Five Regions."

The demon race's thought process clearly couldn't navigate so many layers of deception. The Dragon-Man tribe used their hatred for their own kind and redirected it into resentment towards the human race.

"Before we figure out the Dragon-Man tribe's movements, this venerable one hopes you can control your own people properly and stop causing trouble in the Great Wastes! Otherwise, even if we truly end up destroying the human world, the Demon Tribe will not spare the Five Regions!"

The various major figures nodded repeatedly, expressing that from now on, they would maintain a clear boundary, and everyone would work together to protect the human world.

You also asked some questions regarding the Dragon-Man tribe.

"The Dragon-Man tribe appeared in the human world decades ago. If the human world is their next target, why haven't they acted yet?"

The Azure Dragon said.

"The world wars initiated by the Dragon-Man tribe have never known defeat to this day, precisely because they are sufficiently cautious and careful. They will not act until they have completely scoped out the foundation of a world. The higher one's cultivation realm, the more difficult it is to cross world barriers. To open a sufficiently large breach, they need to make many preparations on both sides; it is absolutely not something that can be accomplished overnight."

"Brother Azure Dragon, how do you know they have never been defeated? It seems you possess memories not your own?"

"Among my Demon Tribe, those with high bloodline purity inherit fragments of ancestral memories. In other words, this venerable one possesses some memories from previous generations of Azure Dragons."

"So that's how it is."

Look at that, now they're even calling the Azure Dragon 'brother'.

The powerhouses of the Five Regions were already rubbing their hands in anticipation. Once this matter was settled, they absolutely had to forge a connection with you!

After a round of friendly discussions between the high-level figures of both sides, the Five Regions and the Great Wastes Demon Tribe finally achieved a ceasefire.

The Azure Dragon picked up that bottle of medicinal pills you had placed on the ground.

Then, with a dragon's roar, it transformed into a thousand-meter-long dragon body and soared into the clouds above.

"Demon sons and grandsons! Return to the Great Wastes!"

The demon race absolutely obeyed the Demon Ancestor's command, retreating from Cangqiong Ridge like a receding tide.

On the human side, there was a thunderous, tsunami-like roar of cheers.

People embraced each other and wept, throwing their weapons into the air.

"We don't have to fight anymore!!"

"Hahaha! I can go home to see my wife!!"

"The war has stopped! The war has stopped! We survived, it's wonderful!"

Within the command camp of the Five Regions allied forces.

The Pavilion Master of the Divine Arms Pavilion, Zhuge Zhujin, and his beloved disciple, the Fiery-Eyed Golden Monkey, were also present.

The two of them looked at the Four-Eyed Spiritual Monkey, who was tightly bound by the Immortal-Binding Rope and unable to use his cultivation, with complex expressions.

"Let me go! You let me go! I'm telling you, the Demon Ancestor will come to save me! The Dragon Corpse and Phoenix Corpse are not something the Five Regions can stop; you're all doomed!"

You gave this guy a kick, sending him rolling around like a ball.

"Still acting tough with me! Pavilion Master Zhuge, after all, he is your disciple. You tell me, how should we deal with him?"

Zhuge Zhujin sighed.

"Like the Fiery Monkey, he was born of heaven and earth, deathless and indestructible. Now that he has walked onto the Demonic Path, there is no other method but to suppress him."

You walked around, looking at these two monkeys.

"Born of heaven and earth? Deathless and indestructible? How can such overpowered existences appear in the human world?"

Zhuge Zhujin said.

"This old man isn't sure either. Roughly over a hundred years ago, two meteorites fell from the sky into Divine Arms County. My Divine Arms Pavilion loves collecting strange stones and metals to try new forging methods, so we took these two stones back. Unexpectedly, not long after, the two stones cracked open from within, giving birth to these two monkeys."

"Heavenly objects that fell from outside?"

Did they fall from the Starry Domains?

No.

You felt these two spiritual monkeys didn't seem like beings from the human world.

It was more likely they had fallen into the human world from some other world, for reasons unknown.

The Four-Eyed Spiritual Monkey continued to be suppressed beneath the blood sea within the Demon Refining Pot.

Inside the tent, there was also an old friend.

"Immortal-Binding Rope, come home with me. Everyone in the Myriad Methods Sect misses you dearly."

The speaker was the stout and portly Sect Master of the Myriad Methods Sect, Wan Sanqian.

Despite being a Martial Saint powerhouse, his attitude was currently very humble, pleading with the Immortal-Binding Rope draped over you with his hands clasped together.

The Immortal-Binding Rope spoke with an aged, pompous tone.

"This old man is the Prime Minister of the Spirit Artifact Nation! The three lands and twelve prefectures of Xiliang rest upon my shoulders! Sect Master Wan, do not disregard the lives of an entire region's populace for the sake of personal gain!"

The way he pinned such a grand label was truly a masterstroke, deeply inheriting the Ten Thousand Souls Banner's true teachings.

Wan Sanqian sighed helplessly.

"Sect Master Wan, so many years have passed since the great Spirit Artifact rebellion. If these Spirit Artifacts were willing to return, they would have done so long ago. The Myriad Methods Sect should just forge new Spirit Artifacts."

Wan Sanqian smiled bitterly.

"If Immortal Artifacts were so easy to forge, I wouldn't have to lower my face to beg him in front of so many esteemed brothers."

The assembled Martial Saints and Martial Kings within the tent burst into hearty laughter.

At this point, you turned to Wan Sanqian and solemnly cupped your fist in salute.

"Earlier, the war was tense. Although I met you, Sect Master Wan, I never had the chance to apologize for that matter from years past. Please accept my bow!"