To survive until Chen Mu and the others came to rescue them, some humans even sacrificed themselves, injecting exotic beast genes into their bodies and becoming "males." Those with strong adaptability quickly developed all kinds of combat methods. Because of their genes, Qin Yi and the others saw many creatures that were neither human nor beast. Their great strength earned them the respect of ordinary humans, and they used their lives to defend their loved ones' right to survive.
So much time had passed that when Qin Yi and the others appeared within Earth's Nine Provinces Barrier, many people no longer remembered who they were. Only some humans who had survived since the apocalypse were overwhelmed with excitement. They knew that true hope had finally arrived—
Lady Houtu looked upon the ravaged mountains and rivers, her heart aching. With her boundless magic, she wiped out every source of the aberrations, then used Divine Power to nourish the mountains, rivers, and earth. She also taught Qin Yi, Qin Rong, Chen Mu, Ying Zheng, Fusu, and the others the Spirit-Gathering Formation, using the veins of the Nine Provinces Barrier to inscribe it deep underground and slowly gather the spiritual energy of old.
One could imagine that, after thousands of years, Earth would once again be filled with spiritual energy as it had been in ancient times.
Because of the Nine Provinces Barrier, every surviving life-form was immensely grateful to the people of China for their help to the entire planet. From then on, people with black hair and black eyes were respected by all living species. The members of the Qin family who had remained on Earth had not died; they had merely all retreated into the Peach Blossom Source Mirror within the crevice of the artificial mountain. Upon learning that Qin