The Lord of the Clouds and the Nine-Colored Divine Deer joined the Demon Race, sending tremors through the mountains of the Southern Wilderness. Great numbers of transcendent divine beasts and strange beasts came upon hearing the news.
Many wished to join the Demon Race.
The Vermilion Bird accepted only those among them whose natures were pure and kind.
Not just any "person" could join the Demon Race.
Jiang Yang returned to the Eastern Wasteland to continue recruiting the eastern members of the Demon Race.
After several months, the Demon Race's strength and numbers rose rapidly.
On this day.
Di Jun, Taiyi, and the Vermilion Bird led their respective recruits to the summit of Mount Tai.
They had long since agreed to gather here.
Mount Tai had once been the residence of the Divine Clan's great God King in an ancient age, but now, tens of thousands of years later, it had long since become a ruin.
The pavilions and palaces of old had also been swept away by wind and rain.
Yet Di Jun had his reasons for proposing that they gather the Demon Race here.
"I have heard that Mount Tai was once the seat of God King Jiang of the Divine Clan. Here, God King Jiang established the God King's Personal Guards, maintaining order throughout the world."
"Later, a group of divine beast cubs entered Mount Tai seeking shelter. Those divine beasts were the bloodline ancestors of all the descendants of divine beasts in the world today."
"Mount Tai was the Divine Clan's Royal Court, but even more than that, it was the ancestral court of divine beasts!"
Standing atop Mount Tai, Di Jun imagined the great God King who had once stood here and held heaven, earth, and all things beneath his might. For a moment, his