Chapter 423 - 318: Initial Demon Scripture
"Mara..."
Xiang Wuji muttered these two words under his breath.
The legend of the Invincible Demon Blood was not widely spread across the Jiuzhou Cultivation Realm.
Every Blood Lord was relentlessly suppressed by the Ten Thousand Dao Alliance.
If it weren’t for Black Heaven causing chaos in Xuanzhou, the Invincible Demon Blood might have remained just a Demon Dao rumor confined within Ningzhou.
This was due to the suppression by the Ten Thousand Dao Alliance, unwilling to see an outside Demon Dao power aiding the Blood Lord.
Among the many Blood Lords, Black Heaven was the most renowned, the Ancient Owl Demon Emperor the most low-key, and the Undying Xuanyuan the most legendary.
But as for the first Blood Lord, there are no records of him to be found today.
Rumor has it that the first Blood Lord of the Invincible Demon Blood founded the Ten Thousand Dao Alliance, passing down supreme legacies of myriad paths, using these legacies as nourishment for his bloodline successors.
In the history of the Ten Thousand Dao Alliance, the founder is mentioned only briefly.
Or perhaps in the heritage of various lineages, there are records of their patriarchs.
For example, Wood King Peak and other branches of the Wood Lineage have records of the revered Lin Sen of the past.
Mara
Xiang Wuji had never heard of this name.
But at this moment, Xiang Wuji was certain this Great Power had immense karmic relations with him.
The surrounding world started to change relentlessly.
The entire world seemed to press the rewind button, with everything reversing through time.
Xiang Wuji couldn’t discern what was happening within, or rather, he was unworthy of glimpsing the River of Time.
And in the end.
The world became desolate, Spiritual Qi surged from the earth and oceans, gradually filling the continent.
Turbid Qi sank while pure Qi rose, with sinking transforming into Spiritual Qi and rising becoming Star River Qi.
That was the beginning of the Jiuzhou Cultivation Realm.
The scene shifted, and Xiang Wuji found himself in the cosmos again.
A figure, towering to the extreme and beyond the concept of size, appeared before the Jiuzhou Cultivation Realm in an instant.
He seemed unstable in breath, severely wounded.
In a flash, a beam of light traversed millions of star rivers, crossing the cosmos and in an instant obliterating the shadow.
Eventually, only a drop of dim blood remained, falling into the still primitive Jiuzhou Cultivation Realm.
The sun and moon rapidly flickered in the sky.
After countless ages, the Human Race had risen, able to contend with the Demon Race, which possessed Great Saints.
In an ordinary small town, a youth—whose appearance, temperament, talent, and Qi Fortune were all unremarkable—accidentally discovered a piece of Blood Amber...
The Blood Amber altered his Qi Fortune and aptitude.
White Qi Fortune, signifying a mundane life destined for ordinariness.
Under the Blood Amber’s influence, his Qi Fortune started to boil, slaying immortals and eliminating demons, proudly standing in the world.
Immortals bowed, and demons surrendered.
With his strength alone, he expelled the local Demon Court and established a Taoist orthodoxy.
People did not know his original name, only that he was called... Mara...
One epic event after another flashed rapidly before Xiang Wuji’s eyes, as if simply narrating a story.
Xiang Wuji gradually realized...
This place seemed somewhat familiar...
Ningzhou!?
Xiang Wuji was stunned.
Mara dominated Ningzhou but struggled with the path of immortality.
To this end, Mara created the Ten Thousand Dao Alliance, gathering endless legacies from Ningzhou and surrounding states.
Compiling them into the Ten Thousand Dao Grand Ceremony...
Seeking to master all the ways of legacy with his own strength.
The entire Ningzhou was engulfed in the storm of blood and bloodshed stirred by Mara.
For a time, the Demon Dao legacy thrived within, with every legacy path subtly tainted by a trace of Demon Intent.
Other states even called Ningzhou the Demon State.
Countless Demon Giants were born here.
In the process of cultivation, Mara’s power gradually coalesced.
The Qi Fortune and will of countless Demon Giants in Ningzhou fused with the power within Mara.
Transforming into a unique bloodline.
Mara named it: Undefeated Demon Blood...
"Demon State?"
"But the records never mentioned any of this..."
Xiang Wuji frowned deeply.
The Ten Thousand Dao Alliance continued to grow, almost dominating over half of Ningzhou.
Currently, the most powerful state-level influence in the Jiuzhou Cultivation Realm is the Great Wei Immortal Dynasty, also the largest Immortal Dynasty in Jiuzhou.
Back then, the Ten Thousand Dao Alliance’s territorial extent was already on par with the Great Wei Immortal Dynasty.
It’s important to know that although the Great Wei Immortal Dynasty had vast territories, it operated under a Dynasty System.
Allowing coexistence with numerous sectarian forces.
While the Ten Thousand Dao Alliance had this extensive territory in reality.
"How could such immense power become so unknown today, with the Ten Thousand Dao Alliance being merely a mid-level state-level influence, not considered top-tier..."
This question flashed through Xiang Wuji’s mind.
Everything around him was fast-forwarded.
With Xiang Wuji’s Divine Sense and perception, he could precisely extract information from the rapid images, but now he was like a mortal, unable to discern the rapidly moving scene.
The image paused, and the world changed color.
Every Demon Cultivator in Ningzhou felt their physical bodies melting.
From the center of Ningzhou, angry roars echoed from the Divine Palace of the Ten Thousand Dao Alliance.
"Why me!?"
Suddenly, the roars came to an abrupt halt.
Xiang Wuji could no longer sense even the slightest trace of Mara.
Yet Xiang Wuji, or rather Jiang Ming, sensed another aura...
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As Jiang Ming, with his Celestial Soul descent, could clearly sense...
That aura was... the God-Demon List!
However, the aura seemed strange, appearing somewhat incomplete, no, it seemed not yet fully formed.
Indeed, Jiang Ming could feel that a hint of Mara’s aura seemed to exist on the God-Demon List.