I died young at the start, but I'm reincarnated with unlimited skill points!

The third year of Yongning, fifteen days after the grand winter solstice sacrifice.

The concentration of demonic energy within the Great Li territory experienced a historic collapse.

If there were a map showing the distribution of demonic energy across the entire Dali region.

So, just half a month ago, this picture was a suffocating dark gray, with only a glaring blue hole in the area fifty miles around the capital.

And now.

The entire image is covered with blue patches of varying sizes.

Instead of scattered spots, there were patches of blue, like a gray curtain riddled with countless holes.

Moreover, these blue areas are continuing to expand, spreading and connecting with each other.

Because these blue patches are not randomly distributed.

They correspond precisely to every town within the Great Li territory that is guarded by demons.

The net that Su Yu wove was never cast aimlessly from the very beginning.

Each node is aimed at a town.

In every town, there is a group of ordinary people who are prepared to risk their lives for a clear blue sky.

Once these nodes were activated simultaneously, thousands of demon strongholds within the Great Li territory were destroyed one by one within just half a month.

The way to defeat them is not by attacking cities and capturing strongholds.

Instead, a group of mortals walk up to you, sit down, close their eyes, and then burn you to death.

There is no way to counter this tactic.

Because you don't know who will detonate it.

You don't know when they'll detonate.

You have no idea how many of those seemingly ordinary mortals surrounding you have already memorized the formula.

Perhaps it's one-tenth.

Perhaps 30%.

Perhaps they remembered it all.

Moreover, this attack has a characteristic that leaves demons utterly hopeless.

Undefendable.

Did you kill them?

They detonated it before they died, and the effect was the same.

You're not going to kill them?

They chose to detonate it themselves, and the effect was the same.

You ran away?

They tracked you to your new stronghold and continued to detonate.

Where can you escape to?

The entire territory of Dali is filled with hundreds of millions of mortals, everywhere you look.

You killed all mortals?

Where do your blood offerings come from?

Where do your cultivation resources come from?

Killing is a dead end.

Not killing them is also a dead end.

Escape or certain death.

This is a dead end that would drive any ruler mad.

Moreover, this deadlock continues to worsen.

The chain reaction caused by the decline of demonic energy was far more severe than the demons had worst-case scenario in their predictions.

When the demonic energy of a town is permanently reduced due to an explosion, that town becomes a forbidden zone for demons.

Pure spiritual energy is poisonous to evil spirits; they cannot survive in areas where the concentration of demonic energy is below a certain level.

Therefore, they could only flee to areas where the demonic energy had not yet been purified.

But once they escape there, they will discover...

There are ordinary people there too.

The mortals there also memorized the incantation.

Then a new round of explosions began.

The evil spirits were driven away.

They fled from one stronghold to another, from one city to another.

Wherever they went, that place was soon besieged by mortals.

They are not retreating.

They are being hunted, hunted by their prey, hunted by the ants they have trampled underfoot for tens of thousands of years.

What made the demons even more devastated was...

The weaker they are, the bolder mortals become.

Those ordinary people who dared to detonate the bombs in the beginning were all martyrs with a death wish, and the key moments were carefully selected by the resistance army over three years.

But as news spread that towns were being purified and demons were being burned to death,

Ordinary people who were previously afraid to take action also began to stand up.

They witnessed firsthand the horrific scene of the demons being reduced to ashes by the storm of spiritual energy.

They saw with their own eyes the blue sky and clean air.

They found out.

This path is truly viable.

That's how people are.

When someone tells you that death can bring back blue skies, you hesitate.

But when you see with your own eyes the first people die, and the blue sky really appears.

Hesitation vanished.

Not everyone has become fearless of death.

Instead, they choose between "living in demonic energy like pigs and dogs, barely surviving" and "dying and giving their descendants a better future."

More and more people are beginning to realize that the latter is not so hard to accept after all.

Especially those who are old, those who are sick, and those who have lost everything.

Anyway, I won't live much longer.

Rather than slowly rotting away under the corrosive influence of demonic energy, it's better to stand before the demons and set them on fire in a spectacular display.

As a result, more and more ordinary people participated in setting off the explosion.

The evil forces are growing weaker, while mortals are growing stronger.

This is an irreversible positive cycle.

A positive cycle that crushes the foundations of evil's tens of thousands of years of rule.

A single spark can start a prairie fire.

……

On an abandoned hilltop.

Blood Crossing received battle damage statistics from various regions.

After reading it, its hands were trembling.

half a month.

In just half a month.

All the demons stationed throughout the entire Dali region, those at the Qi Refining stage, have been wiped out!

They didn't die in battle, nor were they killed by magic.

They were surrounded by mortals and then burned alive by a storm of spiritual energy.

Most of those in the early stages of Foundation Establishment perished, while the rest fled wounded.

Those in the mid-to-late stages of Foundation Establishment were forced to retreat to the last few strongholds with high concentrations of demonic energy on the border of Dali, where they banded together for warmth.

As for Xue Du himself, despite his Golden Core Perfection cultivation, his actual combat strength had almost dropped to the early Golden Core stage.

Because the demonic energy throughout the entire Dali region is continuously decreasing.

It's not just one place, it's the entire Dali.

Demonic energy is the foundation of Blood Crossing.

Its golden core needs demonic energy to nourish it, and its demonic body needs demonic energy to maintain it.

Now, the demonic energy that sustains it is gradually disappearing.

It's like the roots of a tree being cut off one by one.

The tree is still alive, but it is already withering.

Blood Crossing even discovered an even more desperate problem.

They didn't even dare to accept blood tribute anymore.

Because no one can guarantee that the captured mortals won't collectively detonate in the Blood Refining Workshop.

If it is detonated in the workshop.

The large number of demons gathered around the Blood Refining Workshop would then become easy targets.

The more people gather, the more dangerous it becomes.

In the past, the gathering of demons was a source of power; now, the gathering of demons is a death sentence.

Mortals are precisely the ones who seek out the places where evil is most prevalent, and then detonate it there.

The closer you gather, the happier mortals will be.

Xue Du sat on the abandoned hilltop, remaining silent for a long time.

It's thinking about a problem.

A question that even this ancient monster, which has lived for tens of thousands of years, cannot understand.

These mortals...

What's the point?

They knew perfectly well that detonating it meant death.

It's not that there's a certain probability of dying, it's not that there's a possibility of dying, it's that there's a 100% certainty of dying.

There is no chance of survival.

But they still went to the evil spirits without hesitation.

It's not one person, it's not a hundred people.

It is tens of millions of people.

One after another, they came in an endless stream.

Xue Du thought about it for a long time, but still couldn't figure it out.

Because it is a demon.

The concept of inheritance does not exist in the world of demons.

They only live for themselves.

Therefore, it will never understand.

Why would an ordinary old woman be willing to exchange the last few years of her life for a blue sky she would never see?

Just because her grandson can see it.

This is enough.