One Mistake, Ten Thousand Years of Confinement

Dijun and the Eastern Emperor left Chaos, returned to the Heavenly Palace, and summoned their demon troops.

The sturdy young man Mu Jizi had brought back to Two Sages Island was named Chi You. He was Witchfolk, and Mu Jizi accepted him as his third disciple, fulfilling the Heavenly Mandate.

Chi You would become a renowned figure in later generations, even contending with the Co-Lord of the Human Race for the title of Human Emperor. Born with a primordial spirit, he was an exception among the Witch Race. For now, though, he was still a nobody.

Mu Jizi's earlier journey into the Primordial Wilderness had taken him to the Reincarnation Netherworld. The Demon Realm's emergence should have placed it under the Witch Race's control, but the Saints' dispute had handed Haotian and Yaochi the advantage.

The Demon Realm had arisen for the Witch Race. That was the Heavenly Mandate, and even the greatest powers could not defy it. The Witch Race was destined to control the Demon Realm. The Saints might have kept them out for now, but only because the Witch-Demon Clans still had deep-seated grievances. Once the two clans settled those grievances and a victor emerged, Haotian and Yaochi would have to give up their places in the Demon Realm.

But that was a matter for later. For now, Chi You was overjoyed to become a disciple of a Primordial Chaos Saint. After arriving on Two Sages Island and meeting the Saint Kunpeng with Mu Jizi, he shut himself in a thatched hut to cultivate. He knew little about the island's other inhabitants.

That would have been fine, except Chi You's hut happened to stand beside the home of Mu Jizi's second disciple, Lu Hao. One was of the Witch Race, the other of the demon race. They