The Dongling Zither sent Divine Gun's blood and qi surging wildly, battering his heart and lungs, twisting his intestines and wringing his spleen. The agony was unbearable.
He rushed out of the stone prison and looked up at Yu's Cauldron suspended above him. This object had suppressed him for over four thousand years. Over that time, he had gradually discerned some of its mysteries and could barely employ a portion of its functions. He hurriedly spat a mouthful of Elixir Qi onto it, then drove the treasure with all his strength to counter the zither's music.
Yu's Cauldron shone beneath the water and began to give off music of its own.
Ever since the Primordial Wilderness first opened, humanity had struggled against all manner of Demon Beast. Every human king throughout the ages had made subduing demons a foremost duty, frequently forging Demon-Slaying Swords and slaughtering vast numbers of monsters to carve out room where humans could survive.
From Empress Wa and Fuxi onward, through the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, only in the time of Yu the Great had humanity finally gained the absolute upper hand. Demonkind had been reduced to the weaker side. The great demons, often hundreds of thousands of years old and capable of destroying heaven and earth, had all been slain. The few scattered lesser demons that remained could no longer inflict any great harm on humanity. Faced with human pursuit, they even had to hide here and there, struggling cautiously to stay alive.
Yu the Great had forged Yu's Cauldron to slay Demon Beasts. Within it, the cauldron could produce Chaosful Music, which could both draw nearby Demon Beasts to it and injure their Gods Souls. Divine Gun had fathomed this aspect of its workings. The three Azure Flood Dragons had been lured here