Old Friends Reunited in the Land of Yellow Sand

Return to the ancestral land.

The Radiant Golden Ox fell silent. The ancestral land—the place that haunted every ox demon's dreams.

Every race across the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds had an ancestral land.

Just as almost all of the Demon Race came from Dahuang World, nearly half the world's fire-aligned beings had emerged from Zhuming World.

Ox demons, naturally, had an ancestral land of their own.

Whether Azure-backed Mountain-shaking Bulls, Suixing Radiant Gold Bulls, Burden-bearing Black-horned Bulls, or any other kind, their bloodlines differed. Yet one truth was written into the blood of them all: every ox demon now scattered across the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds had first emerged from Jurong World.

Ordinarily, that mark in their blood lay dormant. But when ox demons reached the Golden Core Realm and awakened their innate Divine Abilities, fragments of their bloodline memories awakened too.

From Golden Core Realm to Nascent Soul Realm, then to Spirit Transformation Realm—the pinnacle of the Middle and Lower Six Realms, where they stood among the foremost beneath the Immortal Deities—another memory would awaken alongside their bloodline memories: if an ox demon wished to break through to Void Refinement, the best place to do it was their ancestral land.

In the ancestral land of Jurong World, ox demons had a higher chance of reaching Void Refinement. Their innate Divine Abilities and core essence would also grow substantially stronger, giving them a higher starting point once they entered that realm.

Such imprints in the blood were hardly unique to the Demon Race. Across the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds, demons, spirits, Nature Spirits, and humans alike carried things hidden deep in memory or bloodline.

Snakes and flood dragons were born fearing the Dragon Clan and yearning to become dragons. The world's fire-aligned birds naturally revered the Vermilion