Demon King City and the Ruler of the Primordial World

Chapter 22: Demon King City and the Ruler of the Primordial World

The Era of Giant Beasts!

Beneath the surging tide of god-devil aura, the entire Primordial World would be shrouded. Aside from the Descendants of Pangu and the Innate Deities, only those who had cultivated a primordial spirit could withstand it. There was no way to avoid it or escape it. For the countless demons of the Primordial World, this was a deadly calamity with no solution!

Cultivating a Golden Core required the world's spiritual energy, the essence of the sun and moon, and the radiance of the stars. But now, the sun, moon, and stars were all sealed away by the corpses of the gods and devils. This time, part of the seal on the Primordial World had been lifted, allowing the god-devil aura to descend. Afterward, the weakened seal would allow the sun, moon, and stars to appear faintly in the world—but only after the tide of god-devil aura had passed. By then, the calamity would already be over, and it would all be too late!

Though this calamity would not scour the Primordial World in blood like a great tribulation, it would rob all its living beings of their chance to pursue the Great Dao. Once transformed into Giant Beasts, they would never be able to cultivate the Dao again. Their power would be confined to the level of a Heavenly Immortal, with no chance of advancement for all eternity.

Giant Beasts were formed from the living beings of the Primordial World through the god-devil aura. The Chaos Gods-Devils and the Primordial World were violently incompatible, and so the Primordial World rejected the Giant Beasts. Once the Heavenly Dao emerged, everything connected to the Chaos Gods-Devils would be purged in blood. From the memories of his previous life, He Yu knew the Heavenly Dao was certain to emerge. The Innate Deities would also fall into civil war: Hongjun would defend the Primordial World, while Luo Hou would annihilate it. Both sides would display their powers, bringing the Calamity of Dao and Demons to pass.

From this, it was clear that the Giant Beasts were doomed to be destroyed!

"There's always a sliver of hope in everything. The Descendants of Pangu and the Innate Deities aren't coming out right now, so my cultivation can be called unrivaled in the Primordial World. The Calamity of Giant Beasts is still half a year away. In other words, for the next six months, I'm the ruler of the Primordial World. This vast world may be incomplete, and thus have no Innate Spiritual Treasures, but it still holds countless benefits. If I take control of the entire Primordial World, there may yet be a way to resist the god-devil aura!" He Yu pondered. In the past, the thought of ruling the Primordial World would have filled him with joy, but now that he understood the situation, he felt only a pressing urgency.

"The most urgent task is to rule the Primordial World and improve my cultivation. If all twenty-five of my Demon Cores reach the perfected stage of the (Pseudo-Golden Core late stage), perhaps I'll be able to withstand the god-devil aura!" Once he had made up his mind, He Yu immediately began making arrangements. Time was short; he couldn't afford to waste even a moment.

"Ten Demon Marshals, heed my command! Take your little demons and build a royal city here for me. It will govern the myriad demons of the Primordial World and unite the entire realm!" He Yu declared with boundless authority. The Primordial World was currently teeming with life, all of it demons. As for the Hundred Herbs Spirit Race, the Wu Race, the Barbarian Race, and the other races of the Primordial World, they would only appear near the end of the Era of Ferocious Beasts. That was still a long way off!

The god-devil aura would transform into Giant Beasts. Then, after a Yuanhui, the corpses of the gods and devils would break apart across the Primordial World. Some would spontaneously form Ferocious Beast Kings, while many more would merge with the Giant Beasts to form ferocious beasts. At that point, the Era of Ferocious Beasts would begin. Ferocious beasts had no reason, were savage and violent, and lived to kill. They would fight to the death even against their own kind. Only the Ferocious Beast Kings could control them.

The Ferocious Beast Kings could be considered incarnations of the direct bloodline of the Chaos Gods-Devils. They were brutal and cunning, and possessed immense strength.

"Yes, we will obey the king's command. But, um... what exactly is a royal city? How are we supposed to build one?" Wolf Two was now effectively the foremost of the Ten Demon Marshals. His cultivation wasn't great, but his intelligence was unrivaled. With He Yu's support, the other nine Demon Marshals were unhappy but could do nothing about it.

Hearing Wolf Two's question, He Yu cursed himself for his stupidity. There was no civilization in the Primordial World yet! They didn't even have a thatched hut, so how could they build a giant city?

After giving them some instructions, He Yu set ten thousand little demons to work under the Ten Demon Marshals. A massive construction project began. He Yu needed to build a royal city that could rule the entire Primordial World. The Mount Buzhou Range lay at the very center of the realm, overlooking all directions, making it the perfect location in his eyes. The royal city would be built there.

The ten thousand little demons set to work with great enthusiasm, following He Yu's instructions. They gathered materials, hauled them, laid foundations, cut and fitted stones, measured and marked out the land... The work was exceedingly complicated. Though all the demons possessed demonic energy and powerful bodies, progress was still slow, mainly because the royal city He Yu wanted to build was simply too grand.

How could a royal city that ruled the entire Primordial World be small?

He Yu wanted a city that stretched a million li in every direction, with walls ten zhang thick and hundreds of zhang high. It would have nine gates: one main gate and four side gates on either side. Inside would be all kinds of trading districts, along with numerous courtyards and buildings. The palace would stand right in the center of the city. It was even simpler than the cities of the feudal era; after all, it was just a façade. In half a year, it might not even exist anymore, so there was no need to make it perfect!

Building the royal city was a huge undertaking for ten thousand little demons. He Yu immediately ordered Wolf Two to stay behind and supervise construction, while the other nine Demon Marshals went in all directions to gather more little demons. As for the Demon Kings, He Yu went out to recruit them himself. Under his perception, the Demon Kings who didn't know how to conceal their demonic presence had nowhere to hide. In no time, he subdued all the Demon Kings within a radius of tens of millions of li around the Mount Buzhou Range.

He Yu sought to rule the Primordial World to obtain its resources and use them to survive the Calamity of Giant Beasts. For now, when he subdued these Demon Kings, he merely seized a wisp of their consciousness origin and appointed them as feudal lords, each ruling a vast territory. Some clever and capable little demons were also appointed as feudal lords.

While the royal city was being built, He Yu continued appointing feudal lords to govern every direction, expanding his domain and increasing the number of his subordinates. A month later, once the royal city was finally complete, He Yu stopped his expansion. By then, he had eight thousand feudal lords under his command!

Once construction of the royal city was complete, He Yu personally named it Demon King City!

A month of the six available had already been wasted. With only five months left, the Calamity of Giant Beasts loomed ever closer. He Yu focused all his attention on cultivation. At the very least, he needed to raise all his Demon Cores to their peak. That was the first step. Next, he needed to create a powerful defensive Dao art. The third step was to make full use of every resource in the Primordial World, and to see if he could refine a treasure like the Demon Summoning Banner.

Forewarned is forearmed!

Whether or not he could survive the Calamity of Giant Beasts, he needed to plan for the future. If he used his current position of power to order all the demons to divide off a wisp of their consciousness origin and place it in the Demon Summoning Banner, then half a year later, even if they all transformed into Giant Beasts and he couldn't suppress them, as long as he held the banner, wouldn't he be able to command countless Giant Beasts?

Even if something was overlooked, the tide of events would be hard to change!

So the Demon Summoning Banner had to be studied and refined!

In fact, directly merging the consciousness origin into himself and suppressing it was the perfect method. But after gradually controlling twenty-five different demons' wisps of consciousness origin, He Yu had discovered that he'd reached his limit. This discovery immediately set him thinking. Twenty-five wisps of consciousness origin corresponded exactly to the twenty-five Demon Cores in his body. That couldn't possibly be a coincidence. By this logic, the number he could control was the same as the number of his Demon Cores. Demons all cultivated a single Demon Core. Even in his memories of his previous life, he'd never heard of anyone cultivating two Golden Cores at once. What a remarkable thing!

In the myths of the Primordial World from his previous life, Demon Emperor Dijun and Donghuang Taiyi had refined the Demon Summoning Banner, gathered the primordial spirit origins of the myriad demons of the Primordial World, and merged them into the banner to control the demon race. From this, it was clear that even beings at the level of the two Demon Emperors couldn't control them directly. He Yu suspected that they could probably control only one themselves!

With the Green Spirit Fruit Tree and the Demon Cores in his body, improving his cultivation wouldn't be a problem. Add the superior spiritual treasures offered by his feudal lords, and bringing all twenty-five Demon Cores to perfection wouldn't be too difficult either. What he needed to do now was study the Demon Summoning Banner and create a defensive Dao art. Though he had the memories of his previous life, He Yu still ordered his subordinates to collect countless cultivation methods from demons, claiming he wanted to help improve them. He didn't even spare the little demons. After all, one person's wisdom had its limits, while two could see further. The demons' cultivation methods were crude, but there were still things worth learning from.

Day after day passed. He Yu cultivated to improve his power, studied the Demon Summoning Banner, and created a defensive Dao art. Meanwhile, his forces grew by leaps and bounds. The other Demon Kings either fled far away or chose to submit. Even the Evil Dragon Demon King, after seeing the royal city, was willing to pledge sincere allegiance.

The Primordial World!

Starting from the Mount Buzhou Range, He Yu's territory spread in every direction, covering hundreds of millions upon hundreds of millions of li. The Primordial World was simply too vast, as if it had no end. Though He Yu's forces expanded at incredible speed, he could never see the horizon in any direction. He couldn't even see the four great seas.

"The Primordial World is truly enormous. Even at full speed, flying on my demonic cloud would take me more than ten days to cross the territory I control! Never mind. There isn't much time left, so I'll stop expanding my forces for now. I'd better focus on what matters. Otherwise, even if I took control of the entire Primordial World, it would all be nothing but clouds after the Calamity of Giant Beasts!" He Yu felt confident that he had the power to rule the entire Primordial World, but he had one thing in short supply: time.

Time flew by!

In the blink of an eye, a month had passed since Demon King City was completed. He Yu's expansion of his control over the Primordial World had also come to a halt. His territory had stretched too far; a round trip took ten days to half a month, which was basically the limit!

After a month of cultivation, despite spending time expanding his forces, studying the Demon Summoning Banner, and creating a defensive Dao art, He Yu had still raised his main Demon Core to the peak of the Golden Core mid stage. All twenty-four Inner Mansions' Demon Cores had also reached the peak of the Golden Core early stage!

At the same time, he had entered the bottleneck stage. Twenty-five bottlenecks—whether he tried to break through them one by one or all at once, it would be incredibly difficult. And that was only the first step. The twenty-four Inner Mansions' Demon Cores would still have to face the bottleneck at the peak of the Golden Core mid stage, which would be more than ten times harder than his current predicament!

"Sigh! The Eight Meridians Mystic Pole is certainly remarkable, but cultivating it is unbelievably brutal. It's already this difficult now. How much effort will I need to put in later to reach the primordial spirit, Hexu, Loose Immortal, or even the Earth Immortal and Heavenly Immortal stages? Terrifying!" Just thinking about it made He Yu shudder. Other people cultivated one core, while he was cultivating twenty-five at once. It was equivalent to having the cultivation of twenty-five beings at the same level, but the cultivation process was agonizing!

Looking at the twelve Green Spirit Fruits hanging on the Green Spirit Fruit Tree before him, He Yu was brimming with confidence. At least he could get past this bottleneck. He'd worry about the ones after that later!

He plucked a Green Spirit Fruit and held it in his hand. It felt smooth and slick as fat, its verdant glow swirling softly beneath the surface, as though he were holding a massive green gemstone.

Looking at the fruit in his hand, He Yu couldn't help feeling curious. He wondered how effective this acquired spiritual fruit would be.

Please don't disappoint me!