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"I understand,"

Old Jin Number Nine gritted his teeth as he took the order, then commanded the troops to withdraw.

Several ultra-heavy bombs fell, turning the Fox King Laboratory into ruins, barely salvaging some valuable data.

The cremation of the fallen soldiers commenced, incinerating the bodies of the ferocious beasts along with them.

Before departing,

Old Jin Number Nine turned to look southward, the battle-hardened veterans with fists at their chests and tears in their eyes.

"Above Golden God!"

...

The year 207 of the Alliance.

The human alliance cleared the fields and burnt all the corpses, both new and old, within their borders.

The army retreated to the line of defenses near Xianjing Coastal, erecting fortifications, developing targeted weapons, and waiting in tight formation for the invasion of the Corpse Demons.

That same winter,

news of the calamity at Qiong Continent spread; three emperors died, the Dragon Emperor fled.

Leaderless, the demons fell into chaos and defeat.

...

The Ten Thousand Great Mountains.

Greenwave Pond.

A beam of escaping light fell and transformed into a translucent phantom, which was none other than Ao Qin’s escaped soul.

"The Dragon Clan Secret Vault, if anything remains, it didn’t survive the end of the magical era, failing to find any Spiritual Objects."

"Father Emperor exhausted the Dragon Clan’s foundation to enact the Secret Technique and sealed himself; his fate is now unknown!"

Ao Qin’s breath was weak, having hidden in desperation for half a year. The Demon King’s soul could hardly endure much longer, yet to seize any wild beast and take over its body would damage his divine beast lineage.

To regain his Azure Dragon form in the future would require ten to a hundred times more effort, an unworthy sacrifice.

"Greenwave Pond is the land of the Dragon Clan’s legacy, I hope Father Emperor has left some secret vaults to help me congeal my dragon body."

Ao Qin plunged into the water and, following the locations he remembered, activated the Dragon Clan Secret Technique.

Boom, boom, boom!

The silt at the bottom of the pond dispersed to reveal a slowly opening stone gate, leading to an underground passage.

The escaping light traveled along the passage into the depths, where the treasure vault lay empty, with not even a trace of Spiritual Objects left, seemingly moved by the Dragon Emperor to perform the Blood Sacrifice and seal himself.

Dragons naturally loved collecting Spiritual Objects, and each generation’s Dragon Emperor would have a secret vault. Before their demise, they would inform their kin of its location to use as resources for their rebirth and rise.

However, after opening several secret vaults, Ao Qin still came up empty-handed.

The calamity of the end of the magical era was not something even a sealed Demon Emperor could survive.

Ao Qin floated amidst the ruins of the Dragon Palace, gazing upon the broken walls and couldn’t help feeling a sense of sorrow.

"Should I really seek to possess a common beast?"

"In doing so, the chances of reviving the Dragon Clan and taking revenge on the Golden Corpse would be extremely slim!"

The new demon race, extraordinary in lineage, would return to their origins and awaken the bloodline of ancient mythic beasts upon ingesting elixirs. However, the distorted genes modified by the elixir, clashing with the ancient ways of the demon race, left Ao Qin daring not to possess a new demon.

At that moment,

a black fish swam by, a full twelve feet in length, its fierce aura scaring away the other fish and shrimp.

Ao Qin had no interest in ordinary fish and was considering leaving Greenwave Pond when he suddenly noticed the black fish’s scales, arranged in a mysterious pattern, the textures seemingly forming Daoist scriptures.

"Scales that show scriptures, like a white turtle shell presenting the Eight Trigrams, is a naturally born Dao body!"

"Only a cultivator of high attainments reciting scriptures daily, bathing and comprehending the ultimate principles of the Dao, could possibly form such a thing."

"In this world, apart from that Golden Corpse Demon Lord, there is no other who could be considered a high being... However, the bloodline inheritance of the demon race is mysterious; perhaps an ancestor was fortunate enough to hear high beings preaching and mystically passed down this fate to their descendants."

Ao Qin speculated briefly and had no intention of delving deeply into the cause. Instead, his soul probed into the black fish’s body.

"No protections from other souls, such a naturally born Dao vessel, is just perfect for this king to seize!"

With that thought, the Demon Soul directly burrowed in, effortlessly devouring the fish’s weak mortal soul and enacted the Soul Seizing Secret Art.

The Azure Dragon’s Cultivation Technique operated, inhaling and exhaling the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth, seizing the vitality of all living wood spirits.

Months later,

the black fish’s aura had reached that of a great demon, growing four dragon claws on its belly and a lone cyan horn atop its head.

The fish tail swayed as the upper body transformed into a human form, bearing seven-tenths resemblance to Ao Qin, albeit with dark skin on the face.

"This Dao Fish truly is gifted; in just three to five years, I will be back to my prime!"

"The Golden Corpse, no matter the cost, this king shall shred you into ten thousand pieces and banish you from the cycle of reincarnation forever!"

...

Eastern Sea.

Sword lights, one purple and one green, crisscrossed each other, traveling swiftly into the depths. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

The ones controlling the swords were a boy and a girl dressed in bluish-purple Taoist robes, who were none other than Clear Wind and Bright Moon, returning to Han Chao from the Qiong Continent and now using the sensory response in their bodies to rendezvous with Zhou Yi.

As they exuded pure demon aura, they didn’t encounter any sea demons obstructing their path.

Two months later.

Clear Wind’s pupils shone like amethyst as he activated his innate Pupil Skill, and in the distance, he saw a huge ship floating on the sea’s surface.

"The Fire Seed Ship, the Immortal Master is right ahead!"

Bright Moon was about to speak when she sensed a familiar mana fluctuation. She opened her mind without resistance and in a flash, she appeared inside the Kunlun Cave Heaven.

Zhou Yi did not wait for the children to greet him and directly asked.

"You’ve been continuously triggering the spiritual soul restriction, and hurried here to the Eastern Sea in such a rush, is there news about the Major Calamity?"

"Reporting to the Immortal Master, my senior sister and I saw..."

Clear Wind recounted everything they had witnessed and took out a spell-captured recording. Since they hadn’t run into the Bone Dragon and exposed their tracks, the covertly recorded content was even more complete than Han Chao’s, involving the succeeding rampage of Corpse Demons throughout the Qiong Continent.

"This is a secret technique of the Heavenly Corpse Sect!"

Zhou Yi recognized the origin of the Corpse Demons at a glance; the ancient right and demon paths were extremely familiar with each other, and both the Elixir Cauldron Sect and the Qi Sect had relevant records.

"In that case, it seems that the one causing the Major Calamity is none other than the Golden Corpse Demon Lord!"

"But Immortal Master," Bright Moon wondered, "with an Ancient Heavenly Monarch’s strength, can he really initiate a Major Calamity all by himself?"

"Others might not, but the Heavenly Corpse Sect is different."

Zhou Yi declared, "The ancient righteous path scriptures record that the Sect-Defending Supreme Treasure of the Heavenly Corpse Sect, the Immortal Corpse Pearl, is rumored to have been refined from an Immortal Corpse Inner Pill. Whoever possesses this treasure partially wields the authority of a Corpse Immortal and can control all Corpse Demons without the need for a Blood Covenant!"

Corpse refinement techniques were not uncommon in demonic paths, and Corpse Demons of the Heavenly Corpse Sect were far stronger than ordinary corpse refinements but still subject to the laws of corpse cultivation.

The biggest flaw was that the refiner needed to constantly feed the Corpse Demon with their own vital blood and spiritual soul to prevent the refined corpse from going mad and devouring their master.

A cultivator’s vital blood and spiritual soul were not unlimited, and even the Nascent Soul ancestors of the Heavenly Corpse Sect faced a limit in controlling several of their rank’s Corpse Demons.

However, the Immortal Corpse Pearl broke through this limit; simply by emitting the aura of a Corpse Immortal, one could control a multitude of corpses.

In ancient times, there were countless powerful beings from righteous and demonic paths; even with the Immortal Corpse Pearl, the Golden Corpse Demon Lord did not dare to refine corpses indefinitely, lest he provoke collective wrath and suffer the combined assault from both paths.

Now, not only was there no restriction, but it was also the perfect moment to leverage the battlefield of the Demon Race, quickly refining myriads of Corpse Demons in a short period.

"Let’s not even mention the strength of the Golden Corpse Demon Lord; almost invincible in the world, just those myriads of Corpse Demons alone could sweep across the Nine Continents!"

Zhou Yi continued, "Now, even though the human and demon clans have become aware, they’re unable to extinguish the vast army of Corpse Demons. Instead, the corpses produced by their fighting only serve to strengthen and increase the number of Corpse Demons."

"So you’re saying that the Major Calamity is unstoppable?" Clear Wind realized.

"There’s no sure victory nor absolute defeat in this world."

Zhou Yi explained, "The Golden Corpse Demon Lord controls the endless Corpse Demon army with the Immortal Corpse Pearl. Whether he allies to besiege the Demon Monarch, steals the Supreme Treasure, or seals away the Monarch, any of these could resolve the Major Calamity!"

"It’s just that with the Demon Monarch’s intellect, it’s extremely difficult to achieve!"

Zhou Yi sighed with resignation. The self-sealing of the three Heavenly Monarchs of the demonic path had already predicted the rise of a Major Calamity after their reincarnation.

Yet, throughout the thousand years that had passed since the days of late dharma, they had never found the self-sealed objects of the Demon Monarchs—it must be said that it was the workings of fate!

...

Dragon Emperor Mountain.

Now renamed the Heavenly Corpse Sect.

Billowing demonic clouds surged up to the sky, connecting heaven and earth, with a vast tide of Yin Sha filling the air, engulfing all directions.

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"But Immortal Master," Bright Moon wondered again, "could an Ancient Heavenly Monarch, indeed, initiate a Major Calamity by himself?"

"Others might not, but the Heavenly Corpse Sect is different."

Zhou Yi elaborated, "The ancient righteous path scriptures record that the Sect-Defending Supreme Treasure of the Heavenly Corpse Sect, the Immortal Corpse Pearl, is rumored to have been refined from an Immortal Corpse Inner Pill. Holding this treasure grants one a portion of a Corpse Immortal’s might and the ability to control all Corpse Demons without needing a Blood Covenant!"

The art of corpse refinement was not rare in the demonic paths, with the Heavenly Corpse Sect’s Corpse Demons being much stronger than standard corpse refinements, albeit still constrained by corpse cultivation techniques.

One of the major drawbacks was that the refiner had to regularly nourish the Corpse Demon with their own vital blood and spiritual soul to avoid the refined corpse from becoming crazed and consuming their master.

A cultivator’s vital blood and spiritual soul were finite; even for the Nascent Soul ancestors of the Heavenly Corpse Sect, controlling a few Corpse Demons of equal rank was already the limit.

The Immortal Corpse Pearl, however, broke that limitation, requiring only the release of the Corpse Immortal’s aura to command legions of the dead.

Back in ancient times, with countless titans from both righteous and demonic paths, even with the Immortal Corpse Pearl, the Golden Corpse Demon Lord dared not refine corpses to an unlimited extent for fear of inciting the collective anger and getting besieged by both paths.