Luohu Happily Gains a Fine Son

After the Heavenly Emperor, under Shennong's leadership, the human race flourished even more magnificently.

At last, Shennong's merits reached completion. After swearing before the Heavenly Dao at the human race's ancestral land to guard the human race's fortune, he entered Huoyun Cave together with the Heavenly Emperor.

With the empowerment of merit, Yunxiao successfully stepped into the Quasi-Saint realm as well.

Next came the era of the Human Emperor. The Chan Sect also sent Guangchengzi to serve as the Human Emperor's master.

Unlike Fuxi and Shennong's positions as co-lords, the former two were essentially alike. Everything they did was for the human race to live better and develop more quickly.

However, Xuanyuan's path as Human Emperor was to unify the human race, gathering the fortune of the entire human race completely together.

This also meant that if Emperor Xuanyuan wished to bring his merits to completion, he had to wage war. Naturally, the disciples of the Chan Sect could not stay out of it.

Xuanyuan's opponent was no simple foe either. He had to face Chi You, a great witch who had survived the Witch-Demon Calamity.

Unwilling to accept defeat, Chi You did not go to the underworld. Instead, he gathered many Witch-Humans and established the Li Tribe, intending to contend for supremacy once more.

In truth, intermarriage between the Witch Race and the human race had existed as early as the era of the Witch-Demon Calamity. Their descendants were known as Witch-Humans.

After the Witch-Demon Calamity ended, the Witch Race completely withdrew from the Primordial World, while the human race rose rapidly. The mixed-blood descendants of the Witch Race and humanity also assimilated into the human race.

This situation was, in truth, inseparable from Houtu's assistance behind the scenes. Whether Chi You succeeded or failed in fighting for the position of Human Emperor, the Witch Race could use the human race's fortune to continue more effectively.

Likewise, Chi You was an obstacle Xuanyuan had to overcome. Without a powerful opponent, how could the Heavenly Emperor's merits possibly reach completion? As both sides developed, Human Emperor Xuanyuan and Chi You soon reached the point of meeting blade against blade.

The Jiuli Tribe could be said to have strong troops and sturdy horses. The Witch-Humans had inherited the Witch Race's formidable bodies, and Chi You had many surviving members of the Witch Race aiding him. Xuanyuan's side, on the other hand, was rather miserable, with only Guangchengzi assisting him.

Though Chi You seemed to hold every advantage and believed he could easily defeat Xuanyuan and seize the position of Human Emperor, the Heavenly Dao had long decreed that Chi You would inevitably lose.

Houtu had already become a Saint, so she naturally understood that the human race could not possibly allow a Witch-Human to hold the position of Human Emperor. Everything unfolding now was merely a trial for the Human Emperor. Was that not how the Witch-Demon Calamity was destined to end?

It was only a pity for Chi You. Several more of the Witch Race's few remaining great witches would perish, for even the Rain Master and Wind Earl had privately joined Chi You's forces.

Unless Houtu personally intervened and took the two of them back, they would surely perish in this great battle.

Time passed quickly, and Xuanyuan and Chi You began their first battle.

Relying on the Witch-Humans' powerful bodies, Chi You slaughtered Xuanyuan's forces until they fell apart, winning nine battles out of nine.

Seeing this, Guangchengzi could only invite his fellow disciples to join the battle. Little did they know that they had inadvertently committed a killing tribulation, which was why the later Investiture of the Gods War came to be.

With the support of numerous Chan Sect disciples, Xuanyuan could finally contend with Chi You.

The two sides agreed to wage battle at Zhuolu. As everyone expected, Xuanyuan successfully defeated Chi You. From then on, the human race was ruled by the Human Emperor, and Xuanyuan's merits were completely fulfilled.

After unifying the human race, Emperor Xuanyuan began a grand ceremony to worship Heaven at the human race's ancestral land. As merit flowed into him, Emperor Xuanyuan's cultivation surged greatly, granting him the cultivation of a Sub-Saint.

Guangchengzi, master of Emperor Xuanyuan, also used the merit to become a cultivator at the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.

Several hundred years later, Emperor Xuanyuan also went to Huoyun Cave. Thus, the Three Sovereigns of the human race took their places, and the human race completely became the protagonists of Heaven and Earth.

With the matter of the human race's Three Sovereigns concluded, the human race entered the era of the Five Emperors.

Because the masters of the Five Emperors had already been decided at Zixiao Palace, the first two were served by disciples of the Chan Sect, the latter two by disciples of the Interception Sect, and the last by a disciple of Xuan Yi.

Since Yunxiao had previously snatched away the position of master to the Earthly Emperor, Duobao had always harbored resentment. He even held grievances against Tongtian. Though he now had the position of master to one of the Five Emperors, it still could not erase his hatred.

Seeing that Yunxiao, whose cultivation had once been lower than his, had now reached the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, while he had only reached the same level through arduous cultivation, Duobao's dissatisfaction with Tongtian Jiaozhu deepened further.

The Chan Sect sent Naji Xianweng and Yun Zhongzi to serve as masters to the Five Emperors.

The final master of the Five Emperors belonged to Xuan Yi. After considering it for a while, he sent Kong Xuan, allowing him to cultivate his relationship with Yunxiao further.

After the Five Emperors' merits reached completion, Kong Xuan used the merit to break through to the Three Corpse Quasi-Saint realm, placing his cultivation on par with Six-Eared Macaque's.

The disciples of the other sects also received merit, each breaking through two minor realms.

Thus, all of the human race's Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors took their places. With the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors suppressing the human race's fortune, the human race began to prosper greatly, and its fortune became unshakable.

One difference was that the Three Sovereigns possessed immense merit and were naturally indestructible through myriad tribulations, yet they were confined within Huoyun Cave. The Five Emperors, however, were free, but because their contributions to the human race were not as great as those of the Three Sovereigns, their lifespans were only slightly longer than ordinary people's. Once their lives ended, they still had to enter reincarnation.

Therefore, under the Heavenly Dao's arrangements, all emperors of the human race were mortals. Moreover, the Human Emperor could not possess cultivation, as this was more beneficial to the human race's development.

While the human race developed smoothly, Mo Yi on the other side was not having an easy time.

The moment Mo Yi returned to the Demon Realm, Luohu harshly reprimanded him.

"Hmph! I paid such a huge price to send you to the Primordial World, yet you dared defy my orders and return on your own. Are you tired of living?"

Luohu sat upon the throne of the Demon Realm, his eyes glinting coldly as he looked at Mo Yi kneeling on the ground.

Mo Yi trembled all over beneath Luohu's icy gaze and hurriedly reported to him.

"Master, this subordinate discovered an important situation in the Primordial World. That is why I left the Primordial World without permission to report it to you, Demon Lord!"

"Oh! An important situation!"

"Tell me. If it cannot satisfy me, there will be no need for you to continue existing!"

Luohu's voice held a trace of surprise before immediately turning cold again.

"Demon Lord, look at this!"

Under the immense pressure, Mo Yi took out the blood essence Xuan Yi had given him and respectfully presented it to Luohu.

"Good! Very good!"

"Mo Yi, you actually dared to conceal my blood essence. What, are you planning to rebel?"

"No! That's not right!"

"Although this blood essence contains my bloodline, it is not entirely the same as my blood essence."

To his surprise, when Luohu came into contact with the blood essence, he was first enraged, then felt somewhat puzzled, and asked Mo Yi.

"What exactly is going on?"

Seeing Luohu's reaction, Mo Yi also breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly reported to him.

"Demon Lord, the blood essence you left behind in the Primordial World during your battle with Hongjun has already nurtured a living being!"

"Moreover, he has a Dao Companion, and his Dao Companion is now pregnant!"