Demon Race Grotto-Heaven Mystic Realm.
This was a world utterly different from the outside.
The land stretched boundlessly, with rolling mountains, crisscrossing rivers, and dense forests.
There was no sun in the sky, yet a dark red glow permeated everything, as though the entire world had been soaked in diluted blood.
The air was mixed with dense demon qi and Heaven-and-Earth Spiritual Qi. Any ordinary member of the Human Race who stepped into this place would be corroded by demon qi within moments, their meridians flowing in reverse before they exploded and died. Yet the masters of this land had never been the Human Race.
Over fifteen hundred years ago, the Demon Race had been defeated in its decisive battle against the Great Qin Celestial Dynasty. Twelve Apex Demon Venerables had been suppressed by the Twelve Golden Figures Heavenly Starlight Demon-Suppressing Formation, while the surviving Demon Race retreated into the Grotto-Heaven Mystic Realms and cut themselves off from the world.
More than a thousand years passed.
The humiliation of that defeat, the hatred of suppression, and the pain of losing their homeland had been branded into the Demon Race's bloodline generation after generation, never fading.
And today, the blood of the Demon Race was boiling.
Because the Dragon Transformation Ranking—the Demon Race's supreme ranking for prodigies—had reappeared after fifteen hundred years.
When one of the Twelve Golden Figures of the Heavenly Starlight Demon-Suppressing Formation had been destroyed by a Heavenly Human Realm Great Demon from the Heavenly Demon Sect, it was not only the three Human Race rankings sealed by the Great Qin Celestial Dynasty that had broken free. The corresponding Demon Race rankings had likewise cast off their restraints and returned to the world.
It was as though this were the will of Heaven itself—the struggle between the Human