Dingtao City was a major city in Yingshui Prefecture.
The city was fairly prosperous, with streams of people and bustling traffic. The common folk went about their lives as usual, with no sign that Demon Martial Cultivators were causing trouble.
However, that was only on the surface.
The martial lineages and major gangs of Dingtao City had all submitted beneath the ferocious might of the Demon Martial Cultivators, scattering their men far and wide as though searching for something.
Nor was Dingtao City the only place like this.
Guiyuan Sect governed seven prefectures. Whenever the Demon Martial Cultivators of the Heavenly Demon Sect occupied a city, they would subdue the local powers and have them search for something.
Moreover, the Demon Martial Cultivators of the Heavenly Demon Sect would force the higher-ups of those powers to refine demon beast essence blood and cultivate the Heavenly Demon Sect's Demon Transformation Technique, replacing their own bloodlines with those of demon beasts and turning them into members of the Heavenly Demon Sect, forcibly expanding the sect's ranks.
Whether these people were truly loyal to the Heavenly Demon Sect or not, once they refined demon beast essence blood and replaced their bloodlines with demon beast bloodlines, their identities had already changed. They were no longer pure humans, but Half-Demons.
Half-Demons, half-human and half-demon.
Their bodies would undergo mutations. Some grew beast horns, some became covered in scales, some grew sharp claws on their hands, some had their pupils turn vertical, and some could even transform into demon beast forms.
These changes could be seen at a glance.
Once those martial artists became Half-Demons, no matter how unwilling they were to join the Heavenly Demon Sect, they had no other choice.
They were destined to be rejected by all the major human powers.
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