That day.
Taiyi watched as the Human Race continued to prosper.
He was furious.
Yet for the moment, there was nothing he could do.
The Nine Cauldrons formation had already succeeded.
With his abilities, he could not defeat the Heavenly Dao, nor could he defeat the Divine Tree Old Ancestor. What was he supposed to do?
He sat in his palace, watching the clouds.
All of a sudden.
An immortal tree suddenly trembled.
Then a leaf fell from it.
Time passed swiftly.
He watched for a full hundred years.
Over those hundred years, the tree shed leaves without end.
The immortal tree had once remained evergreen.
But it no longer did.
Now, he watched as that immortal tree gradually withered away.
As for the reason:
He saw a group of bugs crawling out from the heart of the tree.
They were a group of utterly ordinary bugs, eating and eating within the tree...
Suddenly, a new idea arose in his mind.
That was right.
This Great Tree could not be blown down by wind, burned by fire, shattered by lightning, or pierced by electricity.
Yet it was destroyed by ordinary bugs from within itself.
After seeing this, he immediately understood.
The Human Race was like that towering Great Tree.
External forces could not destroy it.
Only the bugs within could bring about its ruin.
Taiyi was suddenly enlightened.
Then he burst out laughing.
Next, he searched through an immeasurable number of demon species and finally found a kind of demon insect.
He spread these insects throughout the mortal world.
This insect was called the Jin Bei Worm.
It was said that from the moment this insect was born, it began to eat.
It ate without stopping.
It ate and ate.
Even after eating until it burst itself to death, it