Each cauldron was powerful enough to suppress a stretch of the starry sky and refine an entire river of stars!
"Wait! That's—!" Xuandu spotted the five cauldrons, each a hundred zhang tall, and froze in astonishment.
That imposing aura, those restrictions!
They had clearly reached the ranks of Spiritual Treasures!
"Holy crap! Houtian Spiritual Treasure-grade cauldrons! Five of them! When did the Human Race get so rich?"
Everyone knew that nearly all the innate and acquired treasures in the Primordial Wilderness already had owners!
Any Spiritual Treasure, whether innate or acquired, was enough to make Great Luos fight over it.
Even the Wu Clan had only a handful of treasures. They relied on their bodies, honed to perfection, to fight.
And the Human Race—a tribe that other races in the Primordial Wilderness treated as food—had just pulled out five Houtian Spiritual Treasure-grade treasures!
How could Xuandu not be shocked?
Was this some kind of joke?
"Suiren! You can start roasting with your strange flames!"
Whoosh!
Before Xuandu could recover from the sight of the five cauldrons, each one comparable to a Houtian Spiritual Treasure—
Several strange flames, powerful enough to destroy the world and reduce the universe to ashes, leapt from Suiren Shi's fingertips.
World-Purifying Demonic Lotus Fire!
Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Flame!
Azure Lotus Heavenly Heart Fire!
Flames flickered in both of Xuandu's eyes.
What the hell!
"These flames can actually rival the fire in the furnace my Master uses to refine pills! Flames as powerful as Samadhi True Fire—are these divine treasures of heaven and earth that the Human Race can control?"
Xuandu was green with envy!
Grand Pure Sage had only passed down a wisp of Samadhi True Fire to him for pill refining.
Yet Suiren Shi had summoned three strange flames, each no weaker than Samadhi True Fire, to... to make soup?
"You Chao! Take the tribesmen and bleed those demons! We're already sworn enemies, so drain them dry, then roast the meat!"
"Heh heh, this is my favorite thing to do!"
"..." Xuandu's heart pounded.
If Di Jun found out about this, just how terrifying would the consequences be?
The cauldrons were set in place, and the strange flames licked at them.
The blood essence of the demon beasts was poured into the cauldrons.
The crimson blood essence boiled under the flames.
"Come on! Toss those little brats into the pot!"
"No! Grandpa Suiren! Please spare us! Control the flames! Don't roast us to a crisp!" The children panicked and clung to their fathers' thick ankles, hanging on like koalas.
"You little brats! This is for your own good! Break through the Hundred Thousand Extreme Realm already! The stronger your bodies, the greater your potential for growth! Don't you want to comprehend the profound truths in the book?"
"Uncle Xuanyuan, I think I can still struggle a little longer! Give me time! I'll awaken the Chaos Supreme Body! I don't need my body tempered!"
"Grandpa Suiren, I'm sure I can comprehend the Burning Art, devour strange flames, and Attain Dao! There won't be enough blood essence to go around, so I'll let my younger siblings have mine!"
"Don't do this! You're throwing even the children in! I'm going to complain to the Human Emperor!"
As the children chattered, their fathers each grabbed a little one by the scruff.
"Enough nonsense! Do you still want the Human Race to rise? So many uncles died at the hands of the demons. You survived because those uncles paid for it with their blood!"
"Get in there! If you don't break through the Hundred Thousand Extreme Realm, don't you dare crawl out! Otherwise, you're no son of mine!"
"Look at how the Invincible Heavenly Emperor in the book tempered himself! He was born for the Dao and came to face tribulation. Show some backbone!"
Thud~~~
Thud~~~~
Like dumplings dropped into a pot, one human child after another was thrown into the cauldrons of boiling demon blood.
"Hiss!" Xuandu felt a little relieved. At least he had studied the Sage's teachings under Grand Pure Sage.
This was way too absurd!
After investigating this far, Xuandu had more or less figured out the Human Race's current situation.
A Human Emperor had appeared to lead the Human Race.
And that Human Emperor had even created several cultivation methods for them.
Although Xuanyuan Shi and the others claimed these methods could let them transcend and Attain Dao to become Saints, Xuandu naturally didn't believe them. That was pure fantasy.
As for the death of the Demon God...
Xuandu glanced at the enormous corpses of demon beasts piled up outside the tribe like the Heavenly Gate...
How could anyone deny it?
Even if the Demon God hadn't been killed by a Human Race powerhouse, the Human Race had already struck first against the demons. There was no turning back now.
Did it even matter whether the Human Race had killed the Demon God?
"My Master is still waiting for a report. I'd better go!"
Xuandu didn't know how to face the Human Race as it was now, so he chose to leave without a sound.
With the strength of a Perfected Grand Unity Golden Immortal, he slipped away without anyone noticing.
Demon Emperor's Order, Swear to Kill Jiang Chen [Please Give Flowers and Rewards]
Beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens, inside Eight Sceneries Palace.
Di Jun was drinking tea to calm his resentment. Facing Grand Pure, one of the Sages, he didn't feel like saying a word.
A Sage could reach across the Primordial World with a single thought.
Besides, Grand Pure Sage was skilled in divination. Did he really need Xuandu to investigate whether the Demon God had been killed by the Human Race?
Di Jun had seen through it. Grand Pure's real reason for sending Xuandu down to the lower world was clearly something else.
The matter of avenging the Demon God had been delayed yet again.
Whoosh!
A streak of golden light descended outside Eight Sceneries Palace. Xuandu then walked in, his scalp prickling.
He approached Di Jun and his Master.
He had spent two whole days in the lower world. After seeing what was happening in the Human Race's tribes, he couldn't come up with a single good explanation for the two great figures.
His expression was dazed.
For the chief disciple of Human Teachings, a Perfected Grand Unity Golden Immortal, such a state of mind was extremely unusual.
Seeing Xuandu's unnatural expression, Di Jun began to exude an increasingly powerful aura.
Laozi saw this and asked Xuandu, "My disciple, did you find anything on your trip to the lower world?"
"Is there really someone among the Human Race capable of killing a Demon God?"
Xuandu immediately bowed respectfully to Laozi.
"I did learn a few things."
"Tell us in detail!"
Laozi didn't ask about Human Teachings first. Instead, he addressed Di Jun's question.
He knew Di Jun was on the verge of losing control. If this dragged on, it might trigger a Tribulation ahead of time.
That was something Hongjun would never allow.
Everything in the Primordial World had been ordained by the Heavenly Dao. Sages might be indestructible, but they still couldn't interfere at will.
Otherwise, he could have sent down one of his incarnations, and everything would have been clear.
Xuandu then glanced at Di Jun, his silence betraying his fear.
Even as the chief disciple of Human Teachings and a student of Grand Pure Sage, he didn't know how to tell Di Jun what he had witnessed.
"Speak!"
Di Jun snapped impatiently. He had already lost patience.
If not for Grand Pure Sage's sake, he would have slapped Xuandu, a mere member of the Human Race, to death long ago!
"Demon Emperor, I've confirmed that among the Human Race in the Primordial Wilderness, there is indeed someone capable of killing a Demon God."
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