Jiang Ding spent several months reinforcing the Spirit Sealing Formation Array near the Gui Shan Iron Family, adding a Detection Array as well to ensure he could learn at any moment what happened within.
Then he flew toward the Royal Court Blessed Land Secret Realm.
Over the past few years, having traversed every spirit vein, Jiang Ding had successfully located the Royal Court Blessed Land Secret Realm—the most important contingency Shuoyang Heavenly Monarch had arranged for his descendants to last through the ages.
During the flight, Jiang Ding spent some time observing the situation in the Northern Plains.
Three years had passed since the Northern Plains' unification, and tremendous changes had taken place everywhere.
First, the maneating monsters had basically been wiped out. The vast numbers of monsters brought by the Western Desert Demon Race invasion, regardless of species or strength, had all been hunted down and exterminated so long as they ate humans. Their blood, bones, and demon cores became raw materials for Human Race Cultivators to refine pills, forge artifacts, and draw talismans.
Every part had its use; nothing was wasted.
This was why many members of the Demon Race were indignant.
Human techniques for using demon blood, bones, cores, and hides had not appeared from thin air. They had developed over countless generations. Throughout history, Human Race Cultivators who hunted the Demon Race for artifact refinement had never been lacking, and the relevant artifact-refining and pill-refining techniques had improved bit by bit.
Many Demon Race Cultivators believed there was nothing wrong with their eating humans. It was as natural as heaven and earth.
That was why they died.
They did not know the will of the times, nor did they understand the greater righteousness between realms.
In a sense, the Western Desert Demon Race's invasion and eventual