The Empress's beautiful eyes moved slightly as she smiled, "During the calamity, the only ones you can slightly trust are cultivators of the same race. But even they might stab you in the back for immeasurable merit at the brink of victory. Of course, that usually happens only at the moment of triumph."

Alaric Ye pondered, glancing at Feng Hongyi, then at the Ten Thousand Dragons Emperor and Empress, and sighed inwardly. Now he finally understood completely.

Why couldn't the human race unite quickly against Buddhism, or even in the face of the Great Calamity of the Spirit Realm that could lead to their annihilation? Even now, the three Eternal Immortal Dynasties had only established a preliminary trust relationship because of his presence as a link.

The root cause was the terrifying rules for obtaining merit.