In the blink of an eye, ten thousand years had passed in the Evil God Universe. Although that was merely a little over three months in the Present World Universe, ten thousand solid years had truly elapsed in the Evil God Universe.
Over those ten thousand years, Xia Ping had traveled through nearly every great world in the Evil God Universe, tirelessly spreading Furnace Seeds and transforming countless humans into Furnace Wizards.
These first-generation Furnace Wizards swiftly spread the glory of the Lord of the Furnace as well, taking in vast numbers of disciples. Those disciples took disciples of their own, accepting all comers without any threshold whatsoever.
After several hundred generations, nearly all humans throughout the world had become Furnace Wizards. Hell Golden Crow bloodlines flowed within them, and they had become retainers of the Hell Golden Crow.
It spread at a rate like a plague, far beyond the Evil Gods' imagination.
Of course, not every human had become a Furnace Wizard; a small number had not. Yet compared with the entire human race, they were only a tiny minority, too few to matter.
As the number of Furnace Wizards surged, many retainers of the Evil Gods felt threatened. They attempted to awaken their gods, but Xia Ping stopped most of them.
He struck in an instant, slaughtering those retainers of the Evil Gods and giving them no chance to awaken their deities.
Naturally, some still succeeded, awakening several dozen lower gods.
Unfortunately, Xia Ping had long known of those lower gods' emergence. Having laid an ambush in advance, he struck ruthlessly the moment they awakened, instantly killing every one of those lower gods and eliminating the threat at its root.
As a result, he gained fifty or sixty lower god divine sparks and devoured an enormous amount of