Primordial Era: Starting with the repair of Penglai Immortal Island

"Chi You and Xuanyuan."

Bai Ze finally spoke, his tone carrying a complex emotion—not anger, but more of a helpless resignation to admitting his miscalculation: "Our plan, in fact, helped them."

Kunpeng turned to look at Bai Ze, a cold glint flashing in his gray pupils: "What do you mean?"

Bai Ze pointed to two moving beams of light on the map of the territory.

Those two beams of light were brighter than all the other beams of light around them, one in the southeast and the other in the southwest.

They do not stay in a fixed position, but are constantly moving, and wherever they go, the spiritual light of the alien races is extinguished.

"These two," Bai Ze pointed to the two beams of light, "were favored by the Heavenly Dao and blessed with good fortune after they killed the alien race that cultivated the Demon Core Technique, and they have grown even faster."

"Impossible!" Jiuying roared.

A cold light flashed in Kunpeng's eyes as it carefully considered the information Bai Ze had provided.

Bai Ze withdrew his hand, placed it behind his back, and began to explain in detail.

"We demons are already burdened with the karmic burdens of heaven and earth. Those demons who cultivate the Demon Core Technique devour countless living beings to cultivate, and they themselves are also tainted with karmic burdens. When Chi You and Xuanyuan kill them, they will receive the rewards of heaven and the favor of fortune, and their cultivation will advance by leaps and bounds!"

Kunpeng's lips twitched.

Jiuying stared wide-eyed at Bai Ze, his eyes wide with disbelief.

"Moreover, in this primordial world, apart from the Great Luo Immortals, no one can threaten Chi You and Xuanyuan. And as for the Great Luo Golden Immortals, having learned from the past, no one dares to make a move."

Silence fell again in the stone hall.

Kunpeng suddenly spoke up: "What about those alien races who cultivate the Demon Core Technique? What is their cultivation level?"

Bai Ze glanced at him: "The highest level is Taiyi Realm."

Kunpeng's expression froze for a moment.

"Taiyi Realm." Bai Ze repeated the realm in a calm tone, "Chi You and Xuanyuan are both now at the Taiyi Realm. Among those at the same realm, those who rely on demon core techniques to reach the Taiyi Realm are powerless against them."

Shang Yang gave a wry smile: "The cultivation level improved by the Demon Core Technique is not based on a solid foundation. Those alien races have devoured too many different creatures, and their spiritual energy is mixed and chaotic. Although their realm is high, their combat strength is far inferior to that of cultivators of the same realm. Not to mention Chi You and Xuanyuan."

"So there's nothing we can do? We've been plotting for tens of thousands of years, and instead of wiping out humanity, we've helped them clear out the surrounding races and made room for them?"

Bai Ze didn't reply, which he hadn't expected.

The Demon Core Technique had a fatal flaw from the very beginning: beings who practiced the Demon Core Technique regarded each other as nourishment.

So while heading towards the human race, they were also frantically devouring each other.

Those alien races consumed too much power in their mutual devouring, so the actual pressure on the human race was far less than expected.

What Bai Ze didn't expect was the reaction of Chi You and Xuanyuan.

These two did not choose to stay within the human territory and wait for the alien race to attack.

They took the initiative and charged out.

Xuanyuan led the cultivators of the Youxiong tribe out of the human territory from the southeast, sweeping across the land.

Under Guang Chengzi's tutelage, his cultivation level rapidly increased, and with the protection of the human race's fortune, his cultivation speed was terrifying.

The human cultivators behind him, blessed by the fortune of the human race, also made rapid progress in their cultivation.

One after another, elite human cultivator armies, led by Xuanyuan, conquered the sacred mountains and treasure lands outside the human territory that had been occupied by other races.

With the help of the underworld and the witch clan, Chi You's physical body was tempered to be even stronger than that of the pure-blooded witch clan. He killed beings who cultivated the demon core technique, which earned him the favor of the Heavenly Dao.

Two people, two paths, two different power systems, but the result is the same.

Those foreign tribes became the whetstones for them to hone their skills.

Every battle, every killing, pushes them to climb to a higher realm.

The cultivation levels of those alien races, which increased wildly under the blessing of the Demon Core Technique, ultimately became nourishment for the growth of Xuanyuan and Chiyou.

Tens of thousands of years is but a fleeting moment on the scale of the primordial world.

But for the human race, these tens of thousands of years have been earth-shattering.

Human tribes, initially shrinking back, have gradually begun to thrive again around the sacred mountains and lands that were once occupied by other races.

The human cultivators on the mountain sheltered the mortals below, while the mortals below supported the cultivators on the mountain.

This interdependent structure has allowed the human race to grow stronger over tens of thousands of years.

The territory of the human race has not shrunk; on the contrary, it is larger than before the spread of the Demon Core Technique.

Beyond the human realm, Chi You and Xuanyuan continued to expand their territory.

Xuanyuan conquered a mountain range stretching for millions of miles in the southeast. Within the mountain range were three large spiritual veins, with an astonishing abundance of spiritual energy.

He left this mountain range to the Youxiong tribe, where they built a city and set up a defensive array.

Chi You conquered a fertile plain in the southwest, where two great rivers converged, irrigating land spanning millions of miles.

He bestowed this plain upon the Wu tribe warriors of the Jiuli tribe, who built stone cities on the plain, allowing more of the Wu people to emerge from the Hundred Thousand Mountains and thrive in the primordial wilderness.

The two fought in different directions, each leading different forces, yet they did the same thing... to make humanity stronger, expand the territory, and reduce the number of enemies.

Bai Ze stood in the stone hall of Wan Yao Mountain, looking at the areas on the map occupied by humans, and remained silent for a long time.

Kunpeng stood beside him, equally silent.

Shang Yang and Jiu Ying remained silent.

The four great demons stood in a row, looking at the map of their territory that depicted their defeat, and none of them spoke.

Finally, Jiuying broke the silence.

"This demon core technique, in the end, actually benefited the human race." His voice was hoarse, carrying an indescribable bitterness.

No one answered him.

Because what he said is true.

The Demon Core Technique plunged hundreds of races surrounding the human race into frenzied infighting, leaving vast territories undeveloped. Xuanyuan and Chiyou used these whetstones to elevate their cultivation to the peak of the Taiyi realm.

Humanity forged elite cultivator units amidst the flames of war, and its overall strength not only did not weaken but became several times stronger than it was tens of thousands of years ago.

This result was completely different from what Bai Ze had originally envisioned.

Meanwhile, the human race was developing rapidly.

Within the chaos, at the edge of the enormous chaotic vortex surrounding the primordial world, a small vortex floats.

Inside the vortex lies the Xuanhuang Realm.

The world is small; compared to the primordial chaos, it is but a fraction of its vastness.

But it floated steadily in the chaos, completely enveloped by a layer of pale golden world membrane.

The chaotic energy struck the amniotic sac, producing a dull rumble, but it could not penetrate the thick membrane.

On the contrary, it was the world's membrane that, amidst the flowing golden light, devoured a portion of the chaotic energy.

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