The First Battle After Ten Thousand Years, Part 1

Ye Wen quickly returned to Yulan City. Seeing that the people in the city had begun to evacuate overnight, Ye Wen felt relieved. Old Qiao San had brought the news back.

Three days passed quickly. Besides Yulan City, on the way to Xingyuan City, many other cities had been almost completely evacuated.

The Human Race was clearly at a disadvantage this time, mainly because they had been sealed for ten thousand years, leaving ordinary people without the support of these sects.

They had no inherited cultivation methods or guidance from renowned masters, resulting in a particularly small number of low-level Martial Artists in the Human Race.

Therefore, many people from the major sects had come this time, relying on the experts of the sects to protect the Xingyuan Demon Suppressing Tower.

Recently, many major sects had released news, announcing that they would open their gates a month later and formally accept disciples from the general public.

Furthermore, many sect masters, who were cultivators of Seventh Rank or above, were honored as Grandmasters!

Some of them would also choose to establish new branches in famous mountains and great rivers, expanding their sects!

When the news spread, the entire populace was abuzz.

In the past, the strength of a City Lord was only Third Rank, not even Fourth Rank. This showed how much the Human Race had declined without the support of sects. It was difficult to even see experts of Fifth or Sixth Rank.

However, within the sects, an outer disciple was already at Fourth Rank, and only by reaching Fifth Rank could one be called an inner disciple.

Upon reaching the peak of Sixth Rank, one became a core elite disciple. Although the names varied among the sects, the structure was largely the same.

The prosperous era of cultivation from ten thousand years ago was about to reappear! Ten thousand years ago, the Human Race had severely suppressed the Demon Race. Unlike now, where any Demon Beast could annihilate a human city!

This time, the most frequently heard news Ye Wen encountered was from the Three Great Dao Sects and the Five Great Sects, each of whom had announced notices for recruiting disciples.

Whether you had a foundation in cultivation or not, anyone under 25 years old had a chance to participate in the selection.

As for whether you could be selected in the end, it would depend on individual aptitude and potential. However, this so-called aptitude and potential would be assessed by the respective sects when recruiting disciples!

The Three Great Dao Sects focused primarily on Dao cultivation, while the Five Great Sects focused on Martial Dao cultivation. Ye Wen currently had no idea about the differences in their cultivation practices. However, he knew that in the end, they would all converge, shatter the void, and ascend.

They would ascend to the world where the Hongmeng Ancestors had fought, and that world would surely be one of great integration, similar to the Myriad Realms.

Ye Wen even suspected that the numerous cultivation systems on the Ancestral Star might have all originated from that world.

For example, Mages. Ten thousand years ago, there was no such cultivation system as Mage. Each Mage, when meditating, had their own Lord God to believe in.

These Lord Gods were merely individuals who had cultivated elemental power to a profound level, not some so-called deities.

Ye Wen speculated that perhaps these Mage cultivators were supported by the sworn enemies of the Hongmeng Human Race.

Otherwise, why would a cultivation planet where the Hongmeng Human Race practiced the Martial Dao suddenly feature a cultivation system like Mages!

But all of this was speculation for now, unconfirmed. Only when Ye Wen's strength grew could he uncover the truth.

Ye Wen had been near Xingyuan Demon Suppressing City for three days. That evening, he returned to Yulan City, met with the City Lord and others, and then left.

But now, he had a lovely young girl beside him – Tingting.

When Tingting learned that he was going to Xingyuan Demon Suppressing City, she insisted on following him. Strangely, her father actually agreed.

This showed how doted upon the girl was by her father. With just a little pout, both men were captivated.

Everyone behind them looked at Ye Wen and Tingting with ambiguous gazes, as if their eyes were nakedly asking, "When did you two get together? When is the wedding?"

This made both of them speechless. Tingting was purely curious, wanting to witness the legendary great demons and the human powerhouses who hadn't appeared in ten thousand years.

As for Ye Wen, he simply wanted to follow this girl, using her innocent heart to suppress his own Devilish Nature.

Ye Wen then said to Tingting:

"Based on the Demon Race's own estimations of time, they should be arriving soon. I should send you out first to a safe place!"

"I don't want to! We're so far from the city now, we can barely see anything. You still want me to go back? Then I won't see anything. I might as well not have come."

Tingting was full of reluctance, very dissatisfied with the place Ye Wen had chosen for her.

"You girl, why don't you listen? Do you think this is like watching a play? That's a battlefield ahead, a battlefield of demons where you could lose your life in an instant. I really shouldn't have brought you here."

"Hmph, why are you such a coward? You haven't even dared to enter a city these past few days. Don't we have five or six major powers from the Human Race here this time?"