In truth, this destination was the Demon Race's only path.
Both Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Di Jun knew full well that if they did not follow the established path Lin Tian had given them, but instead chose the course of the Witch-Demon Calamity recorded in the histories of other planes, they would ultimately perish within this world, their race becoming a thing of myth and legend.
Even after the Witch-Demon Calamity, when the Demon Race no longer had the fortune to shoulder the role of the world's protagonists, its last surviving branch would eventually be destroyed in the Investiture of the Gods tribulation and leave the stage of history. From then on, the Primordial World would offer them no foothold.
Yet now, if they followed the route Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Di Jun had laid out,
they would take advantage of the minor tribulation of assuming human form, transform while undergoing it, and integrate into Human Race society. By aligning their conduct and practices with those of the Human Race, they would finally blend into it without a trace.
This approach truly left the other great demons-the demon beasts who had already reached Chaos Great Encompassing Golden Immortal or above-feeling utterly stifled.
Yet over these three million years, Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Di Jun's maddeningly cowardly, tail-between-the-legs approach had made the path clear for their newly risen Great Luo demons to truly rise between heaven and earth by attaching themselves to the Human Race, the protagonists of the world.
Gradually, through the Demon Race's unique position and path within the Human Race, some rising demon elites had, over these three million years, slowly replaced the older elites who clung to all manner of rotten, antiquated ideas.
The newly risen Great Luo demons gained a measure of influence within the Demon