In the Heavenly Demon Realm, beneath the Black Mountain Earth Well, Ziyang frowned slightly, his gaze occasionally flicking toward the enormous earth well overhead.
Sunlight streamed down from above the earth well. The people of the Immortal Realm liked to portray demons as violent, bloodthirsty, and lawless, like beasts living on ancient wastelands who would brawl whenever they disagreed, with the victors freely chewing on the corpses of the defeated...
In truth, it was entirely different. The fundamental difference between immortals and demons lay not in their cultivation techniques, but in their hearts. A kind heart made one an immortal; an evil heart made one a demon. Ziyang was human—one of the humans from the Red Sky Continent, a lower realm of the Immortal Realm. Before the war between immortals and demons, he had caught the eye of Zitian, a demon who had infiltrated the Red Sky Continent. Zitian showed Ziyang through the immortals' hypocrisy and affectation. To immortals, humans were like livestock they raised. So, without hesitation, he had followed Zitian to the Demon Realm.
Many years had passed, and he had now become the ruler of a demon sect (Level 18). Yet just when he thought the Heavenly Demon Realm's forces were about to reach their peak, they were dealt a crushing blow by the Zerg.
The Heavenly Demon Realm had three great earth wells. Beneath them lay the Ten Thousand Demon Abyss, nearly as vast as the surface world. The Ten Thousand Demon Abyss lay a full thousand meters below the surface, separated by a layer of Purple Radiance Stone ore. That ore layer was like a pillar supporting the surface; its incomparably hard veins made the earth wells the only entrance through which surface-dwelling creatures could enter the Ten Thousand Demon Abyss. By now, all demons