Some tribes had not even left behind ashes—only a scorched, ruined homeland, its earth overturned and its great river breached.
He was a renowned great demon of the Demon Race, the offspring of Flying Sickle, one of the Ten Great Demon Sages!
He possessed the strength of a Golden Immortal at Great Perfection!
The Flying Sickle Clan, one of the Ten Great Demon Sages, had clashed with the Dayi Witch Tribe. The two sides had fought, and injuries were inevitable.
After being wounded, Flying Sickle had taken the opportunity to come to the Human Race's lands and recuperate.
At that moment, he looked out over the vast, boundless Human Tribe.
He sneered.
"So weak! Far too weak! You're not even enough to fill the gaps in my teeth!"
"A hundred human tribes aren't enough to satisfy my hunger. These tribes are all too small! I need to find some larger ones to replenish myself!"
"Those fools from the Wu Clan may be dim-witted, but their bodies are terrifyingly tough. They actually made us suffer quite a loss!"
"My father is still facing off against Da Yi. I need to recover as quickly as possible and go help him!"
As he spoke, Flying Sickle's Offspring swallowed the blood essence of yet another human tribe—over a thousand people.
"Ha ha ha! Humans were born to be food in the Primordial World. What exquisite blood essence!"
"There are too many humans. They don't deserve to possess land in the Primordial Wilderness!"
"Better to offer up your blood essence and help my race dominate the Primordial World and wipe out the Wu Clan!"
Flying Sickle's Offspring hovered above a primitive human tribe. With a beat of his wings, he reduced the entire tribe to ashes.
"I never expected a weak human tribe to produce an Earth Immortal. But in my eyes..."
"An Earth Immortal... is still an ant!"
"An ant?"
Two figures came flying swiftly from the distance!
One streaked across the sky like a trail of flames, scorching the horizon.
The other arrived amid the fragrance of pills, and the earth beneath his feet quickly sprang back to life.
"Ant! Demon! You've slaughtered nearly a hundred thousand of my people! With us here today, how can we let you run rampant?"
Suiren Shi's hair whipped in the wind, and the animal hide he wore radiated a primeval aura, making him a fearsome sight.
In his eyes, a white flame and a blue flame were rising!
It was a fearsome sight!
"Heh... humans!"
Flying Sickle's Offspring wasn't nervous just because humans had dared to come after him. As ever, he watched Suiren Shi and Shennong Shi with mocking disdain.
As a member of the Demon Race, one of the races destined to be protagonists of the Primordial World, he looked at the weak Human Race as nothing more than food.
"Mystic Immortal realm? Apart from Xuandu, who was taken in as a disciple by the Grand Pure Sage, there are actually humans who can reach this realm? That's rather strange."
"But no matter how strange you are, you'll still end up as nourishment for me!"
Flying Sickle's Offspring was brimming with confidence. He didn't take the two Mystic Immortals seriously at all.
He wouldn't even care if they were two Wu Clan members who had just entered the Golden Immortal realm, let alone two humans!
The Demon Race possessed great mana and mighty divine powers!
They could swallow the heavens and pluck the stars!
"Thirty centuries east of the river, thirty centuries west! Don't look down on the Human Race just because we're poor!"
Suiren Shi roared, flames bursting from both his hands.
"Suiren Shi, you've comprehended the Sage's Wrath Fire Lotus? And you've even mastered two kinds of exotic flames!" Shennong Shi exclaimed, his eyes alight with joy.
If they were those two exotic flames, then the strongest strike of the Sage's Wrath Fire Lotus might let them fight a Golden Immortal!
"Yeah! I haven't mastered it well yet, though. He's the son of one of the Ten Great Demon Sages. His strength can't be underestimated. We'll have to give it everything we've got!"
Though Suiren Shi had the courage to stand against Flying Sickle's Offspring, he didn't dare underestimate his opponent.
The terrible impression the Demon Race had left in the minds of the Human Race was far too deep to erase!
"Hm? That white flame has the aura of the Primordial Origin Fire? I once saw a similar aura in the Nirvana Flame of the Vermilion Bird, whose cultivation was on a par with my father's. That flame was powerful enough to burn Spiritual Treasures!"
"Take this Imperial Pill!" Shennong Shi said, tossing an Imperial Pill to Suiren Shi with a flip of his hand.
"You've comprehended the Supreme Pill Dao?" Suiren Shi asked, astonished.
"I've made a little progress..."
"What the hell are the Sage's Wrath Fire Lotus and the Supreme Pill Dao?" Seeing the two of them actually dare to ignore him, Flying Sickle's Offspring flew into a rage.
He immediately moved to kill them both on the spot!
"If I devour you two, I'll recover my strength and return to the battle!"
High above, a demon with a wingspan of three thousand li prepared to strike the heavens above and shake the earth below.
Above the Human Race.
A similarly destructive aura surged.
A bewitching fire lotus bloomed, filled with the power to burn everything and reduce all things to nothingness.
Across the Primordial Wilderness, the humans who had finished reading Exotic Fire Fighting World felt something stir within them and looked toward the battlefield.
They all sensed a fire lotus taking shape!
"Th-that's the Sage's Wrath Fire Lotus! That powerful spell from the book!"
"Which enemy is our human powerhouse fighting? Is it the Demon Race?"
"He actually used the book's most powerful spell! What kind of foe did he encounter? That destructive fire lotus requires at least two kinds of exotic flames to form!"
"Who will win? Who will lose?"
"Heh! Pathetic! The gap in strength between you and a Golden Immortal is a chasm no powerful spell can bridge!" Flying Sickle's Offspring said. He felt threatened when he saw the fire lotus slowly rise, yet he remained haughty.
Across the Primordial Continent, the gap between a Golden Immortal and a Mystic Immortal was a chasm. Unless one of the few Innate Treasures of the Primordial World was involved, no spell could bridge it!
"Sage's Wrath Fire Lotus—kill!"
Suiren Shi unleashed the most powerful strike of his life!
The fire lotus carried the force to incinerate three thousand worlds as it slammed straight into Flying Sickle's Offspring!
"Pfft!"
Blood spilled from Flying Sickle's Offspring's mouth. He wiped it away and said coldly, "That's strange. The flames are no weaker than the Origin Fire. But you're still too weak!"
"You've angered me! Death is the only way you'll find release!"
"Pfft!"
A Golden Immortal's strike! Suiren Shi coughed up blood!
The gap between a Mystic Immortal and a Golden Immortal was unimaginably vast!
Even multiplying their strength a thousand or ten thousand times would be useless!
Humanity's Plea, Pen Breaks and Slays Demons!
"Has Suiren Shi really been wounded? Even the powerful Sage's Wrath Fire Lotus couldn't hurt a Golden Immortal?"
"Can our strongest human really not harm a member of the Demon Race at all?"
At that moment, the humans who had formed a connection to Exotic Fire Fighting World through its exotic flames all sensed the Sage's Wrath Fire Lotus fail to kill Flying Sickle's Offspring. They were horrified.
"Our Human Race is still too weak. We don't have time! If Suiren Shi had time, once he reached the Golden Immortal realm, he could surely slay that great demon!"
"But who can save them? Our strongest warriors are about to die! How tragic!"
"Our two mightiest human ancestors were the first to comprehend the Supreme cultivation technique in Exotic Fire Fighting World and embark on the path of Transcendence and Attainment of Dao. Now they've been wounded and are about to die?"
"I wish I could charge up there and fight! But my talent is too poor. I can't even comprehend the essence of the book! Damn it!"
"No! We still have the Human Emperor!"
"As long as the Human Emperor is here, there's still hope!"
Some saw that the great demon of the Demon Race was about to kill the two ancestors, Suiren Shi and Shennong Shi, and were filled with terror.
Then they turned toward Shouyang Mountain and fell to their knees.
They kowtowed devoutly and cried, "Human Emperor! The Human Race faces a great calamity! A great demon has plunged the world into chaos, slain our warriors, seized our blood essence, and destroyed the foundations of our people! We beg the Human Emperor to appear!"
Atop Shouyang Mountain...
Jiang Chen was focused on typing out an update. Halfway through a sentence, his hands suddenly stopped.
He sensed that someone was calling out to him.
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