Ye Wen quickly returned to Yulan City. Seeing the people there begin evacuating through the night, he felt reassured. Qiao Lao San had brought back the news.
Three days passed quickly. Apart from Yulan City, the people in many of the other cities along the way to Xingyuan City had mostly finished evacuating.
The Human Race was clearly at a disadvantage this time because they had been sealed away for ten thousand years, and ordinary people no longer had the support of the sects.
They had no cultivation techniques or inheritance, nor any renowned masters to guide them. As a result, there were very few low-rank Martial Artists among the Human Race.
That was why so many people from Great Sects had come this time. They had no choice but to rely on the experts from their sects to defend the Star Origin Demon Suppressing Tower.
Recently, many Great Sects had announced that in one month, they would open their gates wide and officially begin accepting disciples from the general public.
Moreover, many Grandmasters from the sects—that is, cultivators above the Seventh Rank—were honored with the title of Grandmaster!
Some of them would also choose to establish new sects in famous mountains and along great rivers, spreading the branches of their respective sects far and wide!
When the news got out, the entire populace erupted with excitement.
In the past, even a City Lord had only been at the Third Rank, not even reaching the Fourth. It showed just how far the Human Race had fallen without the support of sects. Experts of the Fifth and Sixth Grades were hard to find.
But within the sects, even an Outer Sect Disciple was at the Fourth Rank; only upon reaching the Fifth Rank could one be called an Inner Sect Disciple.
And once they reached the peak of the Sixth Grade, they became core elite disciples. Though each sect used different titles, the system was more or less the same.
The grand cultivation scene of ten thousand years ago was about to return! Back then, the Human Race had crushed the Demon Race. How different things were now, when a mere clan of Demonic Beasts could wipe out an entire human city!
The names Ye Wen heard most often this time were the Three Great Dao Sects and the Five Great Sects, all of which had announced that they were recruiting disciples.
Whether or not you had a foundation in cultivation, anyone under twenty-five would have a chance to take part in the selection.
Whether they were ultimately chosen would depend on their aptitude and potential. But those qualities could only be assessed by each sect when it recruited disciples!
The Three Great Dao Sects focused on cultivating the Dao, while the Five Great Sects focused on Martial Cultivation. Ye Wen had no idea how their respective cultivation methods differed, but he knew that all paths ultimately led to the same destination: shattering the void and ascending.
They would ascend to the world where the Hongmeng ancestors had once fought. That world was surely one where all the myriad realms had merged together.
Ye Wen even suspected that the countless cultivation systems on the Ancestral Star might have all originated in that world.
For example, the cultivation system of mages had not existed ten thousand years ago. Whenever they meditated, each mage worshipped their own chief deity.
Those chief deities were simply people who cultivated the power of the elements and had reached profound realms. They were not divine beings of any sort.
Ye Wen guessed that perhaps these mage cultivators had been supported by the mortal enemies of the Hongmeng Human Race.
Otherwise, why would a cultivation planet where the Hongmeng Human Race had practiced the Martial Dao suddenly have a system like mage cultivation?
But everything was only speculation for now, and nothing could be proven. Only after Ye Wen grew stronger could he uncover the truth.
Ye Wen had been near Xingyuan Demon Suppressing City for three days now. On the night he arrived, he returned to Yulan City and met with the City Lord and the others before leaving.
But now, a lovely young girl was beside him: Tingting.
When Tingting found out he was going to Xingyuan Demon Suppressing City, she insisted on coming along. Strangely enough, her father actually agreed.
It showed just how much her father doted on her. With just a little coaxing, she had both men wrapped around her little finger.
Everyone behind them kept looking at Ye Wen and Tingting with knowing smiles. Their eyes seemed to ask outright, When did you two get together? When are you getting married?
It left them both speechless. Tingting was simply curious and wanted to see the legendary great demon, as well as the Human Race's mighty experts, who had not appeared in ten thousand years.
Ye Wen, on the other hand, simply wanted to stay by the girl's side and use her innocent nature to suppress his own demonic nature.
Ye Wen said to Tingting,
"Going by the timeline the Demon Race gave us, they should be arriving soon. I'd better get you out of here and find somewhere safe for you!"
"I don't want to. We're already so far from the city that we can barely see anything. If you make me go even farther back, I won't be able to see a thing. I might as well not have come at all."
Tingting looked thoroughly unhappy with the spot Ye Wen had picked for her.
"You little girl, why won't you listen? Do you think we're here to watch a show? The battlefield up ahead is a Demonic Beast battleground where you could lose your life in an instant. I really shouldn't have brought you along."
"Hmph, why are you so timid? You haven't even dared to enter the city these past few days. Didn't five or six major forces from our Human Race come this time? Aren't they—"
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