Jiang Mengxiong had come suddenly, while Yuan Xianting had come in time.
Frost Wind Valley had been blasted to pieces, even its innate barrier shattered. This was a fundamental change involving the laws of heaven and earth in the demon realm, and naturally it drew the attention of the Demon Race's powerful figures—in the time when they had been imprisoned in Heavenly Prison, when the Demon Race had endured alone, borne suffering alone, and sought their own chance of survival in the Chaos Sea, these so-called "innate realm passes" were precisely what the Demon Race's powerful figures had paid enormous prices to level through their own efforts.
Road after road had been opened, darkness after darkness lit up. Only then had there come to be this place now known as the "demon realm."
The demon song Heavenly Weeping sang—
More than a hundred life pearls opened heaven and earth, boundless chaos divided into clear and turbid. In Eternal Night, a Dharma Altar was built; at the end of the road, the wilderness was escaped... Thereafter, thorns, frost, and snow were all pierced through, and ten thousand miles of wilderness became fertile soil.
The history of the Demon Race's struggle after its defeat and withdrawal from The Present World was condensed into these few lines of song.
It was only in this era, when the Human Race had begun invading the demon realm on a grand scale, that places like Frost Wind Valley came to be called "innate realm passes." Before, they had merely been this world's stubborn maladies, tumors between heaven and earth. Now, they had become barriers.
Of course, they were barriers to the Demon Race, and also to the Human Race.
Against the backdrop of a bloody war that had lasted hundreds of thousands of years, both sides