When two races clashed, what ultimately mattered was the fighting strength of both sides. Qin Yuan and three other of the Ten Heavenly Generals led the Demon Race. All four were at the Zenith Heaven Peak, and every one of them was formidable in battle. Those four alone were more than the Human Race could easily withstand, to say nothing of the countless battle-hardened demon cultivators, rich in combat experience.
The Human Race had been around for barely over a hundred thousand years and had little experience in battle. What little they had came from hunting beasts to survive—a far cry from fighting the Demon Race.
At first, the Human Race relied on their burning courage, formidable willpower, and unity to hold their own against the demons. But that momentum could not last long. Before long, they were on the back foot, and the battle became a one-sided slaughter.
Seeing their people butchered, their flesh even carried off, Suirenshi and the other two Ancestors were beside themselves with rage. They roared and charged into the fray.
The three were connected by their auras, almost as one. Though all were only at the early stage of the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm, their combined strength was scarcely inferior to that of the Heavenly Generals at the Zenith Heaven Peak.
Among the Three Ancestors, Suirenshi and Youchaoshi practiced the Golden Core Dao Method of Taiqing Laozi, the Human Religion Sect Master. Ziyishi, however, was different. Queen Mother of the West—now Saint Tai Zhen—had once imparted the Supreme Yin Immortal Method to the Human Race. It had exacting cultivation requirements, and not every human could practice it. Ziyishi, however, was ideally suited to it, so she had taken up the method.
Together, the three held off Jiu Ying and Gui Che, two Heavenly