Upon hearing the news, the first reaction that came to Wen Yu's mind was that this must have been the work of a divine beast. However, it just didn't make sense.
The way divine beasts had always gathered their followers was by forcing regular mutant beasts into submission with their innate authority. This was in stark contrast to Tang Haofei's description of the Sea Clan establishing a slave society. The difference between the two was as vast as heaven and earth!
Regardless of how powerful a divine beast could be, it was essentially a wild creature. However, establishing a nation was different. It signified the formation of morality and law, even if only in embryonic form!
All creatures, including humans, possess a certain degree of wildness... But morality and law—or rules, to be more precise—were the crucial benchmark differentiating wild beasts from intelligent beings, especially when the intelligence of mutant beasts had drastically increased.
