Now that Xuanyuan ruled the realm, the human race was developing smoothly.
However, what troubled Xuanyuan was that two Ancestral Witches had arrived from the Witch-Human Race. Chi You in particular had been drilling troops and sharpening weapons; anyone unaware of the situation might have thought he was preparing to attack the human race.
One day, Chi You went out in search of mineral veins and accidentally stumbled into an innate secret realm.
"What a fine Cave Heaven and Blessed Land. The Witch-Human Race now has the resources it needs to develop."
Chi You had delayed carrying out Houtu's orders because he wanted to seize this opportunity brought by the rise of Humanity Dao and properly develop the Witch-Human Race. This would all become the Witch Clan's strength in the future.
Xuanming turned a blind eye and tacitly approved.
The Witch Clan no longer had so much racial fortune to squander. The karmic consequences of Buzhou Mountain's destruction would not be so easily erased, and Gonggong's sins were truly heinous.
Now, Witch Clan members whose physical bodies had not reached the Golden Immortal realm of immortality were dying one after another, while the Newborn could not keep up. The Witch Clan's overall strength continued to decline.
In Chi You's eyes, the Witch-Human Race was the Witch Clan's hope. Yet he did not stop its members from coming and going freely. Those who wished to join the human race could do so, and those who wished to join the Witch Clan were welcome as well.
In Xuanming's view, every race had a limit to its population. Even if it numbered in the hundreds of billions of trillions, once it exceeded a certain boundary, a great calamity would inevitably descend.
Or, put another way, extremes reversed themselves. Prosperity at its peak would