Cooperation

Heavenly Demon City, in a valley near the inner reaches of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

Massive walls had been built at both ends of the valley, sealing off the inside from the outside. Towering watchtowers stood atop the mountains on either side, while crude towns lay scattered throughout the valley.

There was a low-grade third-tier Spirit Vein here. Back then, the Demon Cultivators had spent twenty years fighting bloody battles and gradually gnawing away at the territory before driving out the several Demonic Beast Clans that originally occupied the Spirit Vein.

Relying on the Spirit Vein Nodes, the Demon Cultivators had constructed a great protective formation that enveloped both mountains and the valley.

There were no large Demonic Beast forces within a thousand li of this place, making it an excellent place to rest and recuperate.

More than half the lush forest in the valley had long since been felled, opening up Spirit Fields.

The Demon Cultivators planted spirit rice and raised a large number of ordinary people.

Do not mistake this for kindness. Ordinary people were their foundation, as well as the foundation of the entire human cultivation world.

Without an endless stream of ordinary people setting foot upon the path of cultivation, the number of cultivators simply could not be sustained.

Once the ordinary people in the valley came of age, they would be gathered for training, and the best among them would receive Meridian Opening Pills.

After successfully opening their meridians and cultivating to Mid Qi Condensation, every cultivator had to refine Monster Beast Essence Blood into their bodies. Those who endured it would embark upon the path of Demon Cultivation; those who failed would become food for the beasts they raised.

The process was bloody and cruel, but it had to be said that this