The so-called "Demon Race" was not actually a race—at least, not in the biological sense. Spirit Beast Mountain's scientific name for them was "demonized individuals." For instance, the Maned Lion Demon was correctly called, in biological terms, a "demonized individual of the Maned Lion subspecies, Panthera genus, Felidae family."
As for the term "Demon Race," it was more of a cultural identity. Archaeological evidence showed that the Demon Race had once possessed a civilization that bloomed like an epiphyllum—briefly and brilliantly. But by the age when humanity ruled the world, not even scraps of demon civilization remained. Their language was basically roaring, and at most, a couple of great demons could use spiritual awareness to transmit simple information such as images.
By the flourishing era of the Ancient Method Immortal Path tens of thousands of years ago, humanity could already be called the overlord of God Continent. Though they were far inferior to the Four Seas Dragon Clan that commanded the oceans, they had formidable cohesion and a complete system of civilization. Thus, some far-sighted great demons began learning human writing. Perver... ahem, the divine ability of transformation also emerged during that period.
Demons were not born with intelligence. Rather, when their instinctive activities happened to align with the breathing of heaven and earth, they gradually awakened their minds. This principle resembled the modern methods. The earliest modern methods had been created by Spirit Beast Mountain and Myriad Flowers Valley after drawing inspiration from demon cultivation. It was precisely because of this that demons' innate divine abilities fit the laws of heaven and earth so closely that Ancient Method Cultivators cried that they were invincible.
Relying on their innate divine abilities, the Demon Race had stubbornly faced humanity head-on across God Continent for countless years despite being a scattered heap