Zhong Ziqing could not help being startled when he heard Xu Qingtong say that the Demon Realm had powerful cultivators at the Void Refinement stage.
"Yes. Cang Yan, the lord of Hagen City, has already reached the rank of Demon Emperor! Besides him, the lords of the nine major cities have all reached Devil Master cultivation. Even excluding Senior Lu Gui'nian of Hanshui City, there are still eight beings at the Spirit Transformation level!"
"What is the situation with the Human Race in the Demon Realm?" Zhong Ziqing asked.
"The Human Race in the Demon Realm consists of human cultivators abducted there by the Devil Race ten thousand years ago. The earliest members of the Human Race in the Demon Realm were all masters of artifact refining, pill refining, or formations in the Human Realm. They were abducted to refine pills and artifacts for the Devil Race!"
Xu Qingtong continued, "Later, the Human Race slowly adapted to the Demon Realm's environment, gradually multiplied and flourished, and occupied a city, establishing a force of their own."
Zhong Ziqing asked in some puzzlement, "Would the people of the Demon Realm simply let the Human Race grow stronger?"
"The Demon Realm reveres strength and actually places little importance on race!" Xu Qingtong said. "Three thousand years ago, a Demon Emperor even emerged from the Human Race and nearly became a Demon Venerable!"
Zhong Ziqing looked at Xu Qingtong in astonishment and said incredulously, "A Demon Venerable? That is equivalent to the Body Integration Realm! How could the Demon Realm have recovered its vitality so quickly?"
"You need not worry, Senior. Demon Emperor Lian Shaocheng failed in his attempt to reach Demon Venerable and perished, his cultivation extinguished. Even if he had succeeded, it would have benefited the Human Realm without harming it!" Xu