As a result of the players' diligence, once they had defeated an Emperor-level monster several times and successfully killed several Emperor-level BOSSes, the NPCs finally regained enough confidence in those players at that time and subsequently arranged for the players to set their sights on Zhou Tian once again.
The feelings of the NPCs towards Zhou Tian were quite complex.
If you talk about hate, the NPCs definitely hated Zhou Tian to death. After all, the NPCs had lost so many troops at the hands of Zhou Tian. Just consider their numerous plans that ended in failure because of Zhou Tian. Based on what Zhou Tian had done at that time, if it were possible, the NPCs would have wanted to kill Zhou Tian eight hundred years ago.