Primordial Era: Starting with the repair of Penglai Immortal Island

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From the day Shennong entered the Fire Cloud Cave, the human race lost that towering pillar.

The moment the aura of the near-saint disappeared from the primordial land, countless greedy eyes lit up simultaneously.

However, the lingering influence of Shennong at that time deterred those who were eager to act from making rash moves.

But a long period of time can change a lot of things.

Of the five Great Luo Immortals of the human race, three entered the Fire Cloud Cave with Shennong, leaving only two behind.

One is stationed at Shouyang Mountain, the ancestral homeland, while the other is stationed in Dongsheng Shenzhou.

The human tribes in the extremely cold land of Beiju Luzhou have a cultivation level of no more than Taiyi Realm, which is still a long way from Daluo Realm.

Humans have lived and thrived in the far north for tens of thousands of years. They carved caves under the ice to store prey, built animal skin tents in the wind and snow, fished in the North Sea, and expanded their population to millions by relying on the five grains.

The existence of these millions of people is like a piece of fat meat hanging in the hearts of many demons in Beiju Luzhou—visible and tangible, but untouchable.

There is only one reason: the human emperor Shennong.

When Shennong was alive, those demons dared not show the slightest murderous intent towards the human race.

When Shennong first appeared in Beiju Luzhou, his awe-inspiring presence was like a celestial blade, chilling all demon saints to the bone and strictly forbidding all demon races from provoking the human race.

But now that knife is gone.

As time went by, the demon race's fear of Shennong gradually diminished.

What completely dispelled this fear was a nine-headed demon beast.

Nine heads, each shaped like an infant, but with a mouthful of sharp fangs, and from each of the nine throats came a mournful cry that could penetrate the soul, causing the beings that heard it to bewildered and shake their spirits.

This demonic beast has quite a background; it is a descendant of the demon saint Jiuying, inheriting Jiuying's bloodline, but its aptitude is extremely poor, far inferior to other descendants of Jiuying.

However, as a descendant of the demon saint Jiuying, it possessed extremely poor aptitude, which led it down a path of no return far too early.

In order to catch up with the cultivation speed of other demon saint descendants, he cultivated the demon core technique from a young age, relying on devouring his own kind to quickly improve his realm.

As a descendant of a demon saint, ordinary demons dare not disobey its will. Whoever it wants to devour, those demons whose cultivation is inferior to its do not even dare to flee.

Its cultivation level at the peak of the Golden Immortal realm came too quickly, so quickly that its intelligence couldn't keep up with the growth of its cultivation.

The demonic aura permeated its soul, and the wails of countless demons overwhelmed its already weak will.

Gradually, it degenerated into a ferocious beast that only knew how to kill.

The nine heads no longer possessed the wisdom and scheming of their former selves; only a primal instinct remained: to eat. To devour all living things!

The demon race's usual method of dealing with demon beasts that cultivate demon core techniques but cannot maintain their intelligence is... purge.

Once any demon loses its intelligence and becomes nothing more than a creature that knows only killing, it will be wiped out by the law enforcers within the demon race to prevent it from causing further harm to the demon race.

However, this demonic beast's identity was too special; the bloodline of the Demon Saint Nine Infants shrouded it in an invisible barrier.

When the demon clan Taiyi, who were in charge of the cleanup, arrived, the nine-headed demon beast had already lost its intelligence and was indiscriminately slaughtering its prey.

According to the rules, they should have killed him on the spot.

However, the leader of the Taiyi Demon King recognized the nine-headed demon beast's identity as a descendant of the Demon Saint Jiuying!

"...They are descendants of Lord Jiuying."

The demons looked at each other in bewilderment, and the magical artifacts in their hands lost their luster.

Who dares to kill the descendants of the Demon Saint? Although the Demon Saint Jiuying has not appeared in the world with the demon race for tens of thousands of years, if he were to awaken one day and find that his bloodline had been severed, and be held accountable, none of the demons would be able to escape punishment.

But we can't let it continue its slaughter; if we ignore it, chaos will break out within the demon race itself.

After careful consideration, the Taiyi Demon Kings decided to drive them away.

Surround it without killing it, force it out of the densely populated area of ​​demons, drive it to a place without demons, and then make a decision after the Demon Saint Jiuying emerges from seclusion.

They drove it away for over a year. Heading north from the center of Beiju Luzhou, crossing canyons and frozen rivers, they finally forced it to the edge of the far north plain.

That was an area that all demons tacitly agreed to be "human territory," and taking another step forward would be crossing the boundary.

Several Taiyi Demon Kings stopped at the border line, watching the nine-headed demon beast stagger across the invisible dividing line, its nine hollow eyes reflecting the smoke and fire of the human tribes in the distance.

They stood still.

They didn't chase after them, but simply exchanged a glance and smiled.

One of the Taiyi Realm demons laughed and said, "If this prince can regain his intelligence, Lord Jiuying will surely reward us after he emerges from seclusion!"

When the nine-headed monster stormed into the human tribe, the first to react were the warriors patrolling the perimeter.

Unfortunately, those warriors were only at the Refining Spirit Returning to Emptiness stage of cultivation. They couldn't even dodge the aftershocks of the poisonous mist spewed by the nine-headed demon beast, and turned into a pool of blood.

Nine heads opened their mouths at the same time, and a sharp, infant-like cry rang out, each syllable carrying a bewitching magic.

Upon hearing the cries, some of the tribe members immediately covered their ears and knelt down, while others stared blankly as if they had lost their souls.

Nine enormous mouths opened, and countless humans were swept into them.

Only those with slightly higher cultivation levels could barely remain conscious, beat the war drums, and send messages to the human race.

"Monster! A monster is attacking...!"

The sounds that followed were swallowed by the Nine-Headed Serpent before they could travel out.

After several tribes of humans were devoured by the descendants of the Nine-Headed Serpent, the human Taiyi, who was stationed there, finally arrived late.

He saw the monstrous beast... its nine heads were raised high in the wind and snow, and in the blink of an eye, thousands of people from the entire tribe were swallowed by the beast.

The sounds of a baby crying mixed with chewing echoed across the snow-covered plain.

The human Taiyi roared angrily.

"That beast deserves to die!"

He unleashed his full power as a Taiyi Realm cultivator, summoning a magical treasure to slash at the descendant of the Nine-Headed Serpent.

With his Taiyi Realm cultivation, he could kill the Golden Immortal Realm Nine-Headed Serpent descendant with a single sword strike.

But before the sword light could touch the descendants of the Nine-Headed Serpent, it was blocked by several figures.

Those Taiyi Demon Kings had crossed the boundary line at some point.

They were scattered around the human Taiyi, standing there expressionless, blocking every path the human Taiyi could take.

No one made a move, no one attacked; they simply "happened" to stand there, blocking the figure rushing towards the monster.

"Get out of the way." The voice of the human Taiyi, filled with killing intent, rang out.

No demon responded.

"Get out of the way!" he roared, trying to rush forward, but was blocked by one of the demon kings raising his hand.

Taiyi against Taiyi, the opponent's numbers were four times his own, and their cultivation levels were all higher than his.

Behind him, the sounds of crying, screaming, and bones being chewed mingled together in the camp, carried by the wind and filling his ears.

He turned around and saw one of the nine-headed monster's heads open a cellar and snatch a child from it. The child was still alive, struggling with his limbs, and screaming shrilly and desperately.

Several heads of the Nine-Headed Serpent's descendants were being chewed at the same time. Amidst the blood and flesh, pairs of still-open eyes peeked out from between the fangs, staring straight in the direction of the human race's Taiyi. The light within them was gradually fading out.

Taiyi, a human, trembled all over.

He knew that with the four demon kings in front of him, he would be helpless against the Nine-Headed Serpent Beast.

He abruptly turned around and stopped trying to kill the Nine-Headed Serpent's descendant. Instead, he released all his magical power, igniting the very source of the Great Dao without hesitation.

"You..." His voice was no longer hoarse, but calm, a calmness that sent chills down the spines of the demons, "...will all be buried with you."