While Xuanyuan governed the Youxiong Tribe with diligence and Guangchengzi taught him with care, in the south of the Primordial Wilderness, amid mountains choked with miasma and vast jungles, a force capable of shaking heaven and earth—and making humanity's Luck tremble—was growing wildly. Its leader was named Chi You.
Chi You did not possess purely human blood.
The most savage and warlike direct bloodline of the ancient Witch Clan flowed through his body! During the Witch-Demon Calamity, Buzhou Mountain collapsed, and the Witch Clan and demon race both suffered grievous losses, their main forces almost entirely wiped out. The surviving remnants either hid away in the bitter cold lands of the Northern Continent,
or scattered along the edges of the Primordial Wilderness, licking their wounds and gathering strength.
This southern frontier, with its towering mountains, dense forests, and venomous insects everywhere, became an ideal refuge for many surviving Witch Clan tribes.
Chi You was the descendant of one such powerful Witch Clan branch that had intermarried with humans. He had been born for battle and conquest.
He had eighty-one brothers—though some accounts said seventy-two—not all of them blood relatives. Most were formidable warriors bearing Witch Clan bloodlines who had gathered around him in admiration of his martial prowess. Each had a bronze head and iron brow, a body like refined iron, sideburns like swords and halberds. Some even grew sharp horns and could swallow sand and eat stone, their roars like thunder.
They did not cultivate their primordial spirits or comprehend the Heavenly Dao. They only tempered their bodies and awakened the Law Fragments inherited from the Ancestral Witches within their bloodlines. Their strength was unmatched, comparable to immortals and gods.
Chi You's ambition burned like a wildfire spreading through the southern frontier, fierce and impossible to contain. He was