What followed left the Demon Race throughout the world tongue-tied and dumbstruck.
The announced day of the teachings served as the reference point.
Five days before the teachings, the Heavenly Calamity Yao Emperor slew nearly a hundred beings above Great Yao at the southern Yao Grottoes of Fallen Dragon Ridge. On the spot, he exposed their crimes, including forcing lower-ranking demons to sacrifice their lives to the Blood Spring, and the fact that many Great Yao had already had their souls contaminated by the Blood Spring's sinister influence.
Among the southern Yao Grottoes' upper ranks, several Half-Step Yao Emperors had already been completely corrupted by the Blood Spring and transformed into twisted monsters, but even they could not escape death.
One day before the teachings.
At the Ghost Lodge Lineage's headquarters, which headed the seven great southern Yao Grottoes, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled that day. Fierce winds howled, heavenly fire fell, and a dragon's roar rang out. When everything ended, the Ghost Lodge Lineage had been burned to ashes.
With that, the southern Yao Grottoes were utterly destroyed.
Meanwhile, the sinister Blood Spring flickered in and out of sight. After Ghost Lodge's destruction, it could no longer be found, its whereabouts unknown.
Of Fallen Dragon Ridge's four regions-east, south, west, and north-one was gone.
Of the Twenty-Eight Yao Grottoes, seven were gone.
An area spanning hundreds of thousands of kilometers was blanketed in dense heavenly fire. Draconic might surged, and destruction spread.
All living beings were stunned, angry but afraid to speak.
Yet the Heavenly Calamity Yao Emperor still did not stop. His actions continued. On the very day of the teachings, rather than returning to Yin Islet to teach, he announced a temporary postponement of several months.
Most demons expressed understanding. After all, everyone understood what the Heavenly