What exactly was going on with this human race?
Why had one bizarre figure after another emerged?
That was right.
Bizarre.
In Bai Ze's eyes,
whether it was Yi Zi from before,
or this newly appeared human before him,
one could tell from their bearing alone that they were anything but ordinary.
Yet beings so different from the norm
should, by all rights, have left behind their own legends throughout heaven and earth.
And as the Leader of Ten Thousand Demons and the third-ranking figure of the demon race,
Bai Ze could not possibly have missed any of the great powers of heaven and earth.
People like Yi Zi and the person before him, who had seemingly appeared out of thin air,
were simply far too strange.
"Were you also sent by the Human Ancestor to reinforce Divine Capital Luoyang?"
After hesitating for a moment, Bai Ze asked the person before him.
"The Human Ancestor? Indeed, that is so!"
The newcomer strode forward with his head held high. In the blink of an eye, he had arrived beside Yi Zi, standing shoulder to shoulder with him against Bai Ze.
"Tsk!"
Upon hearing the reply,
Bai Ze could not help but feel a toothache for a time.
The human race was, by all accounts, not a particularly powerful force in the Primordial World.
There were no other reasons.
Only two.
First,
they had no true Saint protecting the human race.
Second,
there were far too few human Great Luo and Quasi-Saints.
Moreover, among those already scarce Great Luo and Quasi-Saints, some were inscrutable figures like Xuan Du and Sui Xiang.
Thus, even though the human race had once seized the opportunity when Di Jun, Tai Yi, and the ancestral shamans had temporarily perished in the great battle between shamans and demons, ascending to the position of protagonists of humanity,
they had no way to fully realize their potential.
Nor could they completely control their own fate.
And now,
a Human Ancestor had suddenly emerged—
although Bai Ze did not know his identity,
judging from Yi Zi before him and this later arrival,
that so-called Human Ancestor was certainly not one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
After all, regardless of the respective stances of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of Humanity and the demon race, they were truly very familiar with one another.
Everyone knew at a glance what the others were capable of.
Yi Zi was not someone they could have secretly nurtured without anyone noticing.
Not to mention this later arrival.
Bai Ze clenched his teeth and looked at the man standing beside Zhou Yuan and Yi Zi.
After pondering for a while, he realized that he had yet to ask the other's name.
"My name is Fang Yun!"
Facing Bai Ze's question, the newcomer replied as calmly as ever:
"I came here not only to reinforce the Divine Capital, but also to kill demons!"
"Fang Yun."
Bai Ze rolled the name over in his mouth.
Sure enough.
He had never heard of it.
Within Divine Capital Luoyang,
Zhou Yuan looked at the second being who had answered the summons and crossed time and space to arrive.
He let out a huge sigh of relief.
Fang Yun.
He was the Heavenly Venerable of Ten Thousand Realms, a Saint of the Heavenly Dao, the first ancestor of humanity, and Lord of the Wenqu Star from the world of the Supreme Being of the Confucian Path.
Of course, he had another, even more important identity.
Humanity's Master!
That was also why the aura he displayed at this moment
carried an unconscious air of seeking to enlighten all living beings.
Zhou Yuan sighed in relief.
It was not because Fang Yun's cultivation was particularly high.
In fact, if Fang Yun's current cultivation were converted to the standards of the Primordial World, he would only be at the middle stage of Great Luo.
But his middle-stage Great Luo was unlike others.
The Confucian Path Divine Ability was unfathomably strange and inscrutable. Compared to Yi Zi's Way of the Gentleman, it was even better suited to dealing with the methods Bai Ze was currently employing.
Thus, there was no issue in regarding Fang Yun as a peak Great Luo, or even someone who had just entered the Quasi-Saint realm.
Such power might not be enough to truly defeat Bai Ze.
But together with Yi Zi, it was enough to contend against Bai Ze.
And if the two of them could hold Bai Ze off,
Zhou Yuan would have more time to calmly wait for the other transmigrators from the Ancestral Star to answer the summons and return.
The longer time dragged on, the more great human powers would gather in Divine Capital Luoyang.
If it truly came to that,
then forget Bai Ze alone—
even if all Ten Great Demon Marshals came together, they would not be able to do anything to the Divine Capital.
On the battlefield,
Bai Ze listened to Fang Yun's words.
He nodded.
"Judging by your appearance, you must be like Yi Zi, intending to fight for the human race to the very end?"
"In that case, I will offer no further persuasion."
Bai Ze said.
As he spoke,
Bai Ze's Spirit Bestiary Scroll displayed its might once more.
One hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred divine abilities surged forth from it.
Because each possessed different attributes,
they displayed all manner of different powers.
Trapping enemies, injuring enemies, killing enemies, sealing, weakening, bewitching.
All kinds of divine abilities came flooding in at once.
Yi Zi had caught his breath earlier.
Now, seeing Bai Ze employ divine abilities again,
his mind stirred.
Using the Bridge of the Other Shore and the Eternal Monument he had summoned earlier,
the thoughts of the hundreds of millions of humans within the Divine Capital were directly linked together, transforming into a vast heavenly net whose veins crisscrossed and stretched between the Divine Capital and the battlefield.
Sever!
Yi Zi's action at this moment
was meant to sever the effects of Bai Ze's divine abilities upon the Divine Capital.
Seeing what he was doing,
Bai Ze shook his head.
"You can barely protect yourself, yet you are still thinking of worrying about outsiders."
"Yi Zi, you truly are seeking your own death!"
As he shook his head, Bai Ze spoke.
"How Fellow Daoist Yi Zi conducts himself is not for a wretch like you to judge."
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