Beneath Heaven's Rift, danger lurked on every side.
Many seemingly mundane, utterly ordinary things harbored strangeness and terror. Even some members of the Demon Race existed in a half-mad, half-uncontrolled state, making them extremely frightening.
As things stood, once-scarce resources had become commonplace. In fact, so long as you dared absorb the madness factors in the air, as human thoughts gradually gathered, you could comprehend some bizarre method or Forked Path Demon Art and continue advancing.
Great Yao were no longer rare, and even Yao Kings occasionally appeared.
But this situation had its good and bad sides. Such evolution was entirely passive: either advance amid madness or die amid madness. Since arriving on Yin Islet, Su Changsheng had observed for a long time and discovered that the demons here all had severe mental problems. Losing control and going mad was only one aspect; they also displayed inexplicable behavior from time to time.
Nor was this limited to the Demon Race. Other surrounding life forms, including rocks, the ocean, trees, flowers, and grasses, were passively absorbing those madness factors, producing all manner of inconceivable, indescribably bizarre and terrifying substances.
If the Source Substance born within them could be paired with the correct Mythic Bestiary, corresponding Forked Path Demon Arts, and so forth, they could advance step by step, as though following an inheritance.
This form of evolution was far faster than the Demon Race's own cultivation. Although madness could easily accumulate and cause them to lose control, the demons had no alternative but to evolve rather than die helplessly at the hands of terrifying anomalies.
Either keep evolving or die at once!
The choice needed no explanation.
Even Su Changsheng could not remain immune to the lure of this mysterious Source Substance. But he already possessed the powerful mythic Torch Snake