Top-Tier Innate Demon Gods

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Innate Demon Gods could each be said to possess vast divine abilities. Basically, all of them had their own innate divine abilities. Unlike ordinary divine abilities, innate divine abilities were essentially unique; others could not use them. Such innate divine abilities were precisely the hallmark of Innate Demon Gods.

Everything in the world was usually divided into ranks, high and low. Innate Demon Gods were likewise divided into ranks.

The highest rank was naturally called top-tier Innate Demon Gods. There were only ninety top-tier Innate Demon Gods. Famous ones included Dao Ancestor Hongjun, Devil Ancestor Luohou, the Three Pure Ones, the Two Sages of the West, Nuwa, the Dragon Clan's Ancestral Dragon, the Phoenix Clan's Phoenix Ancestor and Phoenix Ancestor, the Qilin Clan's Qilin Ancestor, and so on. Of course, Yuan Tian, the protagonist, had transformed from a Creation-grade Innate Spirit Root, so he undoubtedly belonged among this highest tier as well.

The next rank down was called first-rate Innate Demon Gods, numbering three hundred and sixty in total. Famous first-rate Innate Demon Gods included the Qilin Clan's various Qilin Kings, the Dragon Clan's Four Sea Dragon Kings, the Phoenix Clan's elders, and the clan chiefs of the Hundred Tribes of the Primordial Wilderness. There were also the Witch Clan's Twelve Ancestral Shamans, whose names shook the world during the Witch-Demon Era; the Demon Race's emperors Dijun, Taiyi, and Fuxi; Demon Master Kunpeng; the ancestor of Earth Immortals Zhen Yuanzi; Hongyun; Styx; and a whole series of other experts.

The rank below that was called second-rate Innate Demon Gods, numbering one thousand three hundred and fifty in total. During the Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation, most elders of the various Hundred Tribes of the Primordial Wilderness fell into this category. Besides them, there were the Demon Race's Ten Demon Sages, some of the Witch Clan's top Great Witches, and so on. They would not be listed one by one any further.

The final rank was third-rate Innate Demon Gods, numbering seven thousand two hundred in total. Although their numbers were the greatest among all Innate Demon Gods, one should not look down on these Demon Gods ranked as third-rate. Their talents were merely a little inferior to those of the preceding three ranks, but compared with the aptitudes of other living beings in the Primordial Wilderness, they were better by far more than a little. After all, they were beings of whom only one might emerge among a billion living creatures. Their talents could be called terrifying.

It could be said that, aside from a small number of second-rate Demon Gods and third-rate Innate Demon Gods who had not yet been born or undergone Transformation during the Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation, top-tier and first-rate Innate Demon Gods had basically all emerged during that tribulation. Therefore, never underestimate the Dragon-Han Primordial Tribulation. Do not think that the Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation was nothing special merely because there were no Sages. On the contrary, it was an era where "monsters" ran rampant, and its danger far surpassed that of the Witch-Demon Era. During the Witch-Demon Era, the Witch Clan and Demon Race were incomparably powerful. Even after the Three Pure Ones and the other three became Sages, they had to avoid their edge, able only to scheme slowly and seek their goals bit by bit. In the current Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation, the strength of the three great overlords of the Primordial Wilderness—the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin Tribes—was not the slightest bit weaker than that of the Witch-Demon Tribes during the Witch-Demon Era. Beyond those three tribes, there were also the formidable Hundred Clans, before whom even the three tribes had to yield three parts. In this era, let alone when there were no Sages, even if there were Sages, they would have to stay obediently within their own "territory" and not act too arrogantly. Otherwise, the Hundred Tribes of the Primordial Wilderness might join forces and wipe them out at any moment. A Sage's immortality was only relative, and boundless mana was also only relative. Sages merely borrowed the power of the Heavenly Dao. Once they provoked the Hundred Tribes of the Primordial Wilderness into uniting, even the Heavenly Dao would have to retreat three paces, much less the Sages beneath it. Without the support of the Heavenly Dao's power, an event of slaughtering a Sage might truly occur. It should be noted that during the Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation, the Heavenly Dao seemed to have hidden away while the Great Dao temporarily took charge. Becoming a Sage in this period was truly far too difficult. In the entire Primordial Wilderness, only Dao Ancestor Hongjun and Devil Ancestor Luohou had even a sliver of a chance.

Innate Demon Gods of the same rank merely had aptitudes and talents that lay roughly on the same level. It did not mean their future achievements would be identical, because every person's opportunities, fortune, and personal effort differed, resulting in different achievements in the end.

Take Dao Ancestor Hongjun and Devil Ancestor Luohou, who both belonged among the top-tier Innate Demon Gods. By a stroke of fate, Dao Ancestor Hongjun obtained part of the Creation Jade Disc and consequently attained the Dao and became a Sage. Devil Ancestor Luohou, on the other hand, was rather tragic, ending in death and the dispersal of his Dao. This was the difference in opportunities. Then there were the top-tier Innate Demon Gods—the Three Pure Ones, the Two Sages of the West, and Nuwa. Though none of them had made a name for themselves during the Dragon-Han Primordial Tribulation, they all eventually attained the Dao and became Sages. Look instead at the other top-tier Innate Demon Gods. Although these Demon Gods had awed the Primordial Wilderness for an entire Calamity Cycle, in the end, some died, some were suppressed, and some disappeared. Do not speak of the Heavenly Dao's schemes; that was merely the talk of those who blamed Heaven and others. Could it be that they themselves bore no responsibility?

Top-tier Innate Demon Gods all had a chance to become Sages, and only they possessed that qualification. Unfortunately, the Dragon-Han Primordial Tribulation left fewer than one in ten top-tier Innate Demon Gods alive. As a result, at most nine people in the Primordial Wilderness possessed the qualifications to contend for the throne of Sagehood. All of this could not help but make one sigh that each person's opportunities and fortune were indeed different. Yet what ought to be fought for still had to be fought for.

Yuan Tian had not never encountered Innate Demon Gods before. He had seen two: the Zenith Heaven Loose Immortal expert from the White Tiger Clan earlier, and the expert from the Explosive Bear Clan. With Yuan Tian's eyes, he could tell that they both belonged among the second-rate Innate Demon Gods. They were likely elders or similarly ranked experts within their respective clans.

Although their strength was not particularly great compared with Yuan Tian's, that was only in comparison to Yuan Tian. Compared with the living beings among the Hundred Tribes of the Primordial Wilderness and the Primordial Rogue Cultivators, they could be considered experts and indeed qualified to enter the ranks of experts. Yet the strength they had attained did not come solely from their own efforts, but also from the help of their clansmen. Even so, by now, one possessed the strength of a Zenith Heaven Loose Immortal, while the other was comparatively weaker, possessing only the strength of a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.

Yet the Innate Demon God Po Hun before Yuan Tian's eyes was clearly a Rogue Cultivator, but his current strength had already reached the realm of Zenith Heaven True Immortal. His combat power was even comparable to that of a Daluo Golden Immortal. This left Yuan Tian no choice but to question his talent. Moreover, if this fellow had not declared from the beginning that he was an Innate Demon God, Yuan Tian truly would not have known of his identity as one. After all, Yuan Tian possessed the Illusory-Extinguishing Star Eye. When their strengths were equal, Yuan Tian had no problem discerning the origins and identity of someone beneath him. Yet now, Yuan Tian could not tell. Taking all this together, Yuan Tian was basically certain that Po Hun was among the most supreme of Innate Demon Gods—a top-tier Innate Demon God. In the Primordial Wilderness, this was absolutely an existence at the very pinnacle. It did not matter whether he had undergone Transformation early or late, because once top-tier Innate Demon Gods underwent Transformation, they possessed at least the strength of a Zenith Heaven Loose Immortal. Those with especially deep foundations could directly reach the strength of a Zenith Heaven True Immortal after Transformation, like Yuan Tian. Now that such a figure had developed hostility toward him, Yuan Tian had no choice but to be cautious.

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