"Hehehe..."
Shen Cheng cried out in agony, his eyes filled with extre hatred, fixating on the rat demon as if he wished to bite it to death.
At death’s door, Shen Cheng faintly heard a voice filled with pleasant surprise.
"Amitayus Celestial Honor! At last, this Taoist has seen a living person, and also a rather unorthodox demon race!"
The speaker was none other than Zhou Yi, whose escaping light had passed by the ruins of Yu City. His Divine Sense swept across and detected the aura of humans and demons, prompting him to descend imdiately to investigate.
The rat demon’s expression turned grave; it could not sense the strength of the Taoist and demanded loudly.
"Where did this scoundrel co from?"
"This poor Taoist is a Qi-refinent practitioner from Kunlun Mountain, Xuan Yi!"
Zhou Yi waved his hand, and a divine light fell upon Shen Cheng, refining his Qi-Blood once more and obliterating all the parasitic eggs.
"Kunlun?"
The rat demon cried out in shock, its ears erect like a rabbit’s, and it flapped its wings to flee outside.
The fierce beasts standing by its sides, fearless, followed the rat demon’s command and attacked Zhou Yi, spewing poison and breathing fire, each as powerful as the Foundation Establishnt Stage.
"Heard the na of Kunlun and still wish to flee?"
Zhou Yi snorted coldly, and the Light Dividing Sword flew out from his sleeve, transforming into dozens of sword lights that swept across.
In an instant, the fierce beasts, previously howling fiercely, fell silent, their heads tumbling to the ground, still bearing the expressions they had in life.
"rcy, Immortal Master!"
Seeing the sword lights approaching, the rat demon panicked and fell from the sky, hugging its head and begging for rcy.
Zhou Yi captured it within his hand and directly applied the Soul Search technique, forcibly extracting its mories.
A mont later.
The rat demon’s eyes were dull, its mind muddled, and its demon soul damaged—it had beco an idiot.
"Fierce beasts actually ca from the human laboratories!"
Zhou Yi stood in shock for a long while, learning from the rat demon’s mories that the Six-Eared Demon King had escaped the laboratory and spread the formula of Elixir Number Zero all around.
Lacking the experintal environnt of humans, the crudely made Elixir Number Zero by the Six-Eared Demon King had an even lower success rate in rging.
After wild beasts ingested it, fewer than one in ten survived, and the occurrence of intelligence was one in ten thousand.
However, beasts differ from humans in their vast numbers and lack of intelligence; for example, a pair of rats can multiply into thousands within a year, and there are even more terrifying numbers of insects.
The majority of fierce beasts spurred on by Elixir Number Zero lacked intelligence and knew only to destroy and kill, being the one in ten thousand intelligent demon servants.
In the subsequent hundreds of years, demons, with their endless numbers and fearless fierce beasts, attacked cities and conquered lands.
"All of Nine Continents have fallen. Now, the only human settlents left are the cities close to Xianjing, spanning over four thousand li, and even that territory is continuously shrinking..."
Zhou Yi sighed helplessly. One could say that humanity had destroyed itself.
If they had not researched Elixir Number Zero and instead developed martial arts and Immortal techniques according to the ancient thods, orthodox demons’ speed of cultivation could not match that of humans.
Humans also had the advantage of a headstart. The Tai Xuan Jing Zhou Yi had passed down was a top-level Qi-refinent technique, giving demons absolutely no chance to rise.
But human efforts can’t fight fate!
Demons inherit abilities through their bloodlines, which align even more closely with Elixir Number Zero.
The current demons have abandoned the ancient thods, relying entirely on the elixirs to stimulate their bloodlines. In Zhou Yi’s view, this was entirely like cultivating demonic techniques, advancing at a miraculously fast pace. Even a re rat demon had over a dozen Foundation Establishnt Stage fierce beasts as servants.
The Rat King had awakened its intelligence less than ten years ago!
With such an expansion rate, even humans with Heavenly Spiritual Roots couldn’t compete—of course, the price paid was in millions of wild animal corpses.
"But with only Elixir Number Zero, demons couldn’t easily conquer Cloud Continent. Those mindless Qi Refinent Realm fierce beasts could only turn to mud under heavy artillery fire!"
"Following Elixir Number Zero, there ca the developnt of Elixir Number One, and the Elixir Number Two that the Rat King obsesses over..."
Zhou Yi found in the rat demon’s mory that it had continuously attacked Liang City to obtain the formula for Elixir Number Two, similar to how in the old days honors could be exchanged for Immortal cultivation techniques.
"The fierce beasts stimulated by Elixir Number Zero have the strength corresponding to the Qi Refinent Realm and without intelligence, magic artifacts, etc., are certainly no match for Qi Refinent cultivators."
"After taking Elixir Number One, fierce beasts’ power may be compared to the Foundation Establishnt Stage."
"If a Foundation Establishnt Stage fierce beast takes Elixir Number Two and survives, could it be comparable to the Golden Core..."
Zhou Yi’s eyebrows furrowed slightly; considering the current environnt of heaven and earth, it was theoretically difficult to trigger a heavenly tribulation for Core Formation. However, the elixirs strengthened the physical body and brought forth reckless mutations without regard for the consequences.
It was not impossible they could stimulate the birth of a mindless Golden Core demon body!
"If I had erged from seclusion a few hundred years earlier, I could have spent so years and wiped out all the demons. Now, with demons rampant across Nine Continents and the unknown Elixir Number Three, we must think of a long-term plan..."
Zhou Yi couldn’t help but feel guilty at heart, after all, he was the source of the technology that led to the downfall of the Nine Continents.
If he hadn’t pushed for technological developnt, history would have progressed normally, and society would still be feudal, without any research on the No. 0 Elixir.
"Sigh..."
Zhou Yi looked up at the sky, his gaze complex. Even if he didn’t think developing technology was wrong, he would never again interfere with the course of history.
"Since things have co to this, I must ensure the survival of humanity."
"Based on the mories of the rat demon, humanity developed a martial arts system centered around the No. 0 Elixir. As the new martial arts system took shape, with everyone practicing martial arts, the advancent of the demon race slowed down!"
"Even without my intervention, humanity might not be dood. In desperate tis, there will always be a few prodigies!"
"So may cultivate and form their Golden Core, or successfully take the No. 3 Elixir, achieving combat power comparable to true immortals, which is enough to protect the continuity of the human race..."
While Zhou Yi was deep in thought, Shen Cheng, who was beside him, woke up.
When he opened his eyes and saw the blue-robed elder with white hair and a complexion as rosy as a baby’s, one term imdiately ca to mind: the bearing of an immortal.
Shen Cheng looked around, the ground littered with the corpses of fierce beasts, the valuable blood of second-order beasts spilling carelessly.
"Daoist master, was it you who saved ?"
"My na is Tang Xuan, a Loose Cultivator of the Eastern Sea."
Zhou Yi casually gave a na and asked, "I have long practiced overseas and am unaware of the plight of the Nine Continents’ humanity. Could you enlighten ?"
"You shouldn’t have co."
Shen Cheng sighed, "Only Xianjing remains in the Nine Continents, gathering all of humanity led by the Great Zhou’s inner cabinet to form the Alliance of the Nine Continents’ Humanity in hopes of preserving our lineage."
Zhou Yi already knew this information; the rat demon had never been to the human territories but had captured many humans for interrogation.
Zhou Yi asked, "Do you know about the Martial Arts University?"
"Of course, the Martial Arts University is humanity’s last hope!"
Shen Cheng explained, "The founder, Principal Xiao, is the strongest human. It’s said he has the power to take the No. 3 Elixir, but the success rate is too low, so the alliance doesn’t dare to risk it."
Zhou Yi nodded slightly. Advancing through elixirs is faster than the path of immortality, but with a much higher mortality rate.
"I will head to Xianjing now, and I can take you to a human city on the way."
"If you have matters to attend to, you can go on ahead."
Shen Cheng glanced at the beast corpses and said, "The fierce beast blood is a vital ingredient for elixirs. I wish to collect so to take back, if you would allow it."
"Of course."
Zhou Yi perford a hand seal and used a demonic secret technique. In the blink of an eye, all the corpses turned into dry bones.
The blood in the air coalesced into several large orbs that shrank under the pressure of mana, finally turning into a string of blood-red beads that fell into Shen Cheng’s hands.
Shen Cheng was astounded. Such a secret technique was almost comparable to an Immortal Technique, and he bowed deeply.
"Thank you, Daoist master."
Zhou Yi waved his hand and stored the rat demon in a storage bag, its bloodline of an ancient flying rat beast potentially useful for research.
Clouds ford under his feet, lifting the two and continuing eastward.
"Where is your ho?"
"Liang City."
Shen Cheng flew high in the sky, the stars seemingly within reach, and found the experience both mysterious and novel.
Zhou Yi asked, "Is Liang City about to fall?"
"Yes."
Shen Cheng’s expression was resolute, "Now that I’ve beco a martial artist, I no longer need to evacuate ahead of ti. If Liang City falls, I’d rather die killing a few more fierce beasts!"
"Don’t worry, it won’t co to that."
Zhou Yi knew from the rat demon that the five demons attacking Liang City were not too powerful and could be easily wiped out.
"How many people are practicing the ancient thods nowadays?"
"Very few."
Shen Cheng said helplessly, "Compared to elixirs, the ancient thods progress too slowly. Only a very few with exceptional talent practice the ancient cultivation thods."
"I’ve heard that these geniuses protect the alliance in secret, only responsible for cultivating."
"In the event that humanity is completely extinguished, they will travel to the Four Seas to preserve humanity’s last spark."
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