With the aid of the cultivation method Xuanyuan promoted, more members of the Human Race embarked on the path of cultivation.
Xuanyuan selected some of those who had achieved success in cultivation and organized them into an army.
Guangchengzi had thought Xuanyuan would lead this army straight into war against Chiyou.
Instead, Xuanyuan first turned his forces against the other races that had once devoured humans, encroached on their territory, and slaughtered their people.
The first to be exterminated was the Iron-Scaled Python Tribe. Tens of thousands of years earlier, this race had been among the most rampant practitioners of the Demon Core Method, devouring countless human tribes.
Later, when the rules governing heavenly tribulations were established, more than half of the Iron-Scaled Python Tribe's elites were reduced to ashes beneath heavenly lightning. The survivors fled into the deep mountains of southeastern Southern Jambu Continent, where they clung to life.
In just three days, Xuanyuan's army slaughtered the Iron-Scaled Python Tribe's millions of members, including its peak Taiyi ancestor, leaving none alive.
For his second target, Xuanyuan went after the Heavenly Wolf Tribe!
It was not merely because the Heavenly Wolf Ancestor had once personally tried to kill Xuanyuan, only for Guangchengzi to destroy his body with a single sword strike, leaving his primordial spirit to flee.
In Southern Jambu Continent as it was now, there was no telling how many years he would need to regain his peak strength through gradual recovery.
So the Heavenly Wolf Ancestor had chosen the simplest, most direct, and most brutal approach: devouring others.
The most effective means was to cultivate the Demon Core Method. Half the Heavenly Wolf Tribe, along with dozens of weaker clans, had become fuel for the Heavenly Wolf Ancestor's recovery.
To preserve his intelligence, the Heavenly Wolf Ancestor also