Traversing countless worlds from the primordial era

Chapter 76 Star Banner: Clan Extinction Crisis

The human race's fortune increased rapidly, and with the blessing of this fortune, Lei Ming's comprehension of the laws of time also accelerated greatly.

After Lei Ming had been in seclusion for 700 years, he refined the first restriction of the Kunlun Mirror. After that, Lei Ming continued his efforts and spent another 300 years refining two more restrictions.

After a thousand years of seclusion, Lei Ming refined three restrictions and gained initial control over the Kunlun Mirror. This would have been unimaginable without the help of good fortune.

In the primordial world, cultivators at the Celestial Immortal level could come into contact with the laws, but in reality, very few Celestial Immortals could comprehend them. Only the disciples of sages had such an opportunity. Sage disciples possessed innate spiritual treasures bestowed by their sages, and through refining these treasures, they could comprehend the laws. Because of this, the foundations of sage disciples were far deeper than those of rogue cultivators; at the same cultivation level, rogue cultivators were simply no match for sage disciples.

Although Lei Ming did not become a disciple of a sage, he still received a tremendous opportunity, one that even a sage's disciple could not match.

Throughout the entire primordial world, there are very few innate spiritual treasures containing the laws of time; the most famous is the Kunlun Mirror. Moreover, the Kunlun Mirror is unique; it is not an innate supreme treasure, yet it is equivalent to one. Innate supreme treasures contain a complete law, such as the Taiji Diagram and the Pangu Banner. The former contains the complete Yin-Yang law, and the latter the complete law of destruction. Both of these laws are complete in the primordial world.

The laws of time are different. The laws of time in the primordial world are incomplete, which is one of the reasons why the primordial world failed to reach the level of the Heavenly Dao Great World. Although the laws of time contained in the Kunlun Mirror are incomplete, they are consistent with the laws of time in the primordial world. In other words, as long as Lei Ming comprehends the laws of time in the Kunlun Mirror, he will also comprehend all the laws of time in the primordial world.

After refining the three restrictions, Lei Ming gained some understanding of the laws of time and was able to use the Kunlun Mirror to a basic level. He activated the Kunlun Mirror to accelerate time in the Five Elements Space to ten times that of the Primordial World, which was also his current limit.

The accelerated time is beneficial to the evolution of the Five Elements Space, which is equivalent to buying Lei Ming more time to cultivate.

Seeing that he could no longer refine the restrictions, Lei Ming had no choice but to put the Kunlun Mirror aside and prepare to improve his cultivation. As for the Five Elements Imperial Seal, Lei Ming did not plan to refine it for the time being; he was too short of time right now.

"I'm just a little short of reaching True Immortal status. I'll strive to break through as soon as possible."

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Donghuang Taiyi organized the elite demon race to practice the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Grand Formation in the chaotic starry sky. To prevent others from discovering it, Dijun used the Hetu Luoshu to conceal the starry sky. However, the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Grand Formation was too complex, and even after practicing for more than 1000 years, Donghuang Taiyi and his group still had not mastered it.

"Brother, our demon race is not good at formations. It is too difficult to practice the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Grand Formation. If this continues, we will not be able to control the stars and complete the formation even in a million years." Donghuang Taiyi was a little anxious. He could not wait that long.

Di Jun frowned as he watched them practice the formation.

"The Zhou Tian Star Array must rely on the power of the stars. We must control all 360 main stars and 84,000 auxiliary stars," Di Jun said.

"This is too difficult." Donghuang Taiyi shook his head. "I have already chosen the demon race, which shares the same attribute as the star, to reside in the star. However, to refine the main star, one must have the strength of a Grand Luo Golden Immortal, and to refine the auxiliary star, one must also have the strength of a Golden Immortal. Although my demon race is powerful, three hundred and sixty Grand Luo Golden Immortals and eighty-four thousand Golden Immortals... I wonder how long it will take us to gather them all!"

Di Jun was also somewhat troubled. The Zhou Tian Star Array was powerful, but the conditions for setting it up were too demanding.

"It seems that we can only settle for the next best thing." Di Jun said, "Since we can't completely control the stars, we can only rely on the star flags. This is the refining method of the star flags. You upload it immediately and collect the materials to refine it as soon as possible. With the star flags, you can borrow 50% of the power of the stars even if you don't refine the stars."

Donghuang Taiyi obtained the method for crafting the Star Banner and immediately departed. He summoned the Ten Demon Saints and passed on the crafting method. To craft the Star Banner, one must collect star sand and some spiritual materials from the primordial wilderness. Upon receiving the order, the Ten Demon Saints immediately dispatched their subordinates to collect these materials in the primordial wilderness.

Upon leaving the Heavenly Court, Ji Meng, the leader of the Ten Great Demon Saints, laughed and said, "Gentlemen, this mission of the Eastern Emperor will not be easy to complete. We may have to spend a lot of money."

"It's indeed not easy to refine so many Star Banners," Bai Ze said. "However, this matter is of great importance. The Zhou Tian Star Array is related to the outcome of the war with the Witch Clan, so everyone really needs to put in some effort."

"Hmph, the Primordial Continent is full of spiritual materials. As long as the young men search diligently, they can even gather enough for two Zhou Tian Star Arrays!" Yingzhao said.

"We have no problem with that, but I heard that you led your people away from the vicinity of Buzhou Mountain more than two thousand years ago. Where are you going to scavenge for spiritual materials?" Fei Lian mocked. There is also competition among the Ten Great Demon Saints, and the conflict between Fei Lian and Ying Zhao is the biggest.

"No need for you to worry about that. I will lead my men back to Buzhou Mountain immediately!"

Upon returning to his palace, Yingzhao immediately gathered all his demon kings. Only then did Yingzhao realize that in just 2000 years, he had lost more than a dozen demon kings.

Yingzhao was furious: "Find out immediately which witch tribe did this!" In Yingzhao's view, only the Wu tribe in the entire prehistoric world dared to hunt down the demon king so recklessly.

Many demons scattered to inquire about the Wu tribe. Unbeknownst to them, over 2000 years ago, when the goddess Nuwa created humans and attained sainthood, the Wu tribe had already left Buzhou Mountain and had not returned since. During their investigations, these demons encountered humans. Most demons were inherently cruel, readily devouring humans, enraging the powerful humans who slaughtered many of them.

Humans outnumbered demons near Buzhou Mountain, but their strength was far inferior. Among humans, only the Three Ancestors were Golden Immortals, Chisongzi cultivated the Law of Water to reach True Immortal status, and Leiming was at the peak of Heavenly Immortal realm. Most other humans only reached the Earth Immortal realm, no match for the demons. Humans' killing of demons provoked retaliation, and one human city after another vanished. Left with no other choice, the Three Ancestors retreated all humans to their ancestral land.

Even so, the demon race did not let them go, constantly sending troops to hunt down the humans. In the eyes of the demon race, the humans were merely food created by the goddess Nuwa for them, and they dared to defy the demon race—they were truly courting death!

Thus, although neither side officially announced it, the demon race and the human race were indeed embroiled in war. The war was becoming increasingly one-sided, with the human race at a significant disadvantage.

The three ancestors received bad news every day, and felt extremely helpless. The Demon Saint Yingzhao had too many demon kings under his command, and they simply couldn't spare the time to deal with them all.

"Ancestor Sui, I have discovered that the demon race has surrounded us from the ancestral land. The demons who slaughtered our humans this time include not only more than 30 demon kings, but also two demon gods," said Chisongzi, carrying a long sword. His usually carefree expression was now extremely grave. Besides the three ancestors, Chisongzi was among those bearing the greatest pressure in this war.

Youchao was extremely unwilling: "In just a few decades, ninety percent of my human race's Earth Immortal powerhouses have been lost, and the losses among ordinary people are countless. The demon race is truly too cruel!"

"We have developed too quickly over the past thousand years, which has made us somewhat arrogant. The human race has only existed for a short time, and our strength is too weak. If this continues, we will only be able to stay in our ancestral lands," Suiren sighed.

"Give us time, and our human race will be no weaker than any other race!" said Ziyi.

"Time, time is what we lack most right now," Chisongzi said.

"Should we notify Lei Ming to leave the pass?" Suirenshi asked.

"Forget it, what's the use of him coming out of seclusion? He'll probably bring up leaving the ancestral land again then," Youchao said, shaking his head.

"In that case, let's withdraw everyone back to the ancestral land. With as many as possible, we can leave. The ancestral land is protected by the divine power of the Holy Mother, and the demon race will absolutely not be able to invade," said Suirenshi.

Thick demonic clouds filled the northwestern sky of the ancestral land of the human race. Within these clouds, thousands of demon soldiers and generals appeared and disappeared, most of whom were great demons, and there were also more than a dozen demon kings.

Before the Demon King, there were two other Demon Gods: the Crimson-Eyed Demon God and the Silver Flood Dragon Demon God. Both Demon Gods were mid-stage Taiyi Golden Immortals and were also Yingzhao's capable subordinates.

"Reporting to the two demon gods, the human race within a radius of tens of millions of miles around Buzhou Mountain has been completely wiped out, except for the valley that the human race calls their ancestral land," reported one of the demon kings under the Red-Eyed Demon God. This demon king had a human body and a tiger's head, was extremely fierce, and had blood on the corner of his mouth. In the process of chasing down the human race, he alone devoured a million humans.

(End of this chapter)