Chapter 758 - 479: Samsara Again and Again, 17 Lives!
The dark and damp dungeon
was filled with the smell of blood and decay.
In the corner of the dungeon, faint shadowy figures flitted by, making the only sound in this silent environment.
Niu Lie stood at the cell door, arms crossed, his tall stature imposing.
"Elder Niu Lie..."
Zhao Fu, weak and frail, barely lifted his head.
"Is it you who has come to execute me?"
"Please, Elder, make it quick."
Zhao Fu’s voice was weak, yet very calm.
Niu Lie looked at Zhao Fu in silence.
Outside, it seemed they heard the commotion inside.
"Who’s there!"
"Get out!"
A massive pressure burst forth, shattering the iron cell nearest Niu Lie, silencing the voices at the entrance.
"How long have you been with me?"
"I was eighteen when I started following you, I’m over three hundred seventy now."
"Three hundred and fifty-odd years... almost six cycles of sixty years..."
"During this time, many thanks to Elder Niu Lie for your care." Zhao Fu’s lips curled into a smile.
He seemed to recall the times when he cultivated with Niu Lie.
"Yes, nearly six cycles."
"You should go."
Niu Lie was silent for a moment, but ultimately spoke these three words.
"Hmm?"
"These human resistance organizations, these traitors to the Demon Country, none of it concerns me, Niu Lie."
"I only remember the Little Demon who followed me for three hundred and fifty-five years."
Zhao Fu smiled and replied, "Alright."
He still had important things to accomplish.
Zhao Fu limped away.
Outside, there seemed to be remnants of the White Lotus Sect, and as Zhao Fu exited the dungeon, he disappeared.
Niu Lie’s Divine Sense sensed the entire process.
Yet Niu Lie remained motionless.
Ultimately, everything turned into a sigh of lament.
"Afu, if only you were truly one of my kind."
...
"Niu Lie! How dare you release a criminal, you..."
The angry shout was unfinished.
A massive explosion sounded, a vast force instantaneously pierced through the ground, which collapsed; Niu Lie walked away on air, unchallenged...
[With Niu Lie’s help, you successfully left the dungeon.]
[You also realized you could never return.]
[In this era, the Demon Race’s power completely overwhelmed the Human Race. Within the Demon Kingdom, the resistance of the White Lotus Sect seemed so laughable.]
[In Changshan County, the White Lotus Sect’s forces were almost entirely wiped out, leaving only around twenty or thirty of you.]
[You began leaving Changshan County based on prior intelligence.]
[After a three-year long trek, you arrived at the borderlands of the Great Yan Demon Kingdom, the Boundless White Mountain.]
[The Boundless White Mountain is abundant in Disgusting Stone, whose aura is repulsive to the Demon Race, and with the harsh terrain and sparse Spiritual Qi, few demons are willing to come here.]
[Here, a small human settlement was established, containing people who escaped from the surrounding three Great Demon Kingdoms.]
[In this endless Demon Realm, this harsh place seemed to become the only hope.]
[Yet one never knows when the Demon Kingdoms may take an interest, and this hopeful place might be snuffed out like a candle in the wind.]
[You settled here, becoming one of the base’s Elders.]
[You began teaching the children the Body Refining Technique, and with your priestly experience, you were well practiced in this.]
[Meanwhile, you also helped the half-demons who had joined to master their bloodline inheritances.]
[Half-Demons are currently stronger than the Human Race, but the Human Race outnumbers them, both being marginalized and abused by the Demon Race.]
[Thus, there was little conflict in their interaction.]
[Over long years,]
[Half-Demons and the Human Race began intermarrying.]
[At the age of four hundred and three, in the base there were children born without Half-Demon traits but with latent Demon Race bloodlines.]
[You can smell the faint Demon Race aura on these infants, yet they remain of the Human Race.]
[The Demon Race bloodlines recede.]
[Perhaps, after an unknown number of generations, their descendants may be born as Half-Demons.]
[And this is just one characteristic of the intermarriages between humans and demons in this Demon Realm.]
[You ponder deeply.]
In the generations to come,
The Demon Body actually occupies a significant portion of the special constitutions.
Some even regressed to reveal True Blood.
In the future, the bloodlines of the Human Race would contain more or less a trace of demon blood.
And in this era, it was precisely due to the banding together of Half-Demons and the Human Race.
And the Human Race required the strength of the Half-Demons, leading to intermarriage between them.
The Demon Race bloodline was integrating into the Human Race.
[You view both the Human Race and Demon Race equally.]
[At four hundred and eight, you wrote the last word of your life.]
[Left on your desk was the "White Rhinoceros Qi Refining Technique."]
[This technique was perfected by you based on descriptions of the Qi Refining Realm in the future, combined with your own cultivation dao.]
[After writing the final word, you stopped resisting altogether.]
[You died, your lifespan exhausted.]
[In this life, as a Half-Demon, you experienced this world of the Demon Realm, filled with survival of the fittest.]
[You achieved the reincarnation achievement: The Ageless One] Alive over five cycles of sixty years.
[Lifespan +5]
[You achieved the reincarnation achievement: Non-Human]
[Your affinity with foreign races slightly increased]
[You achieved the reincarnation achievement: Foundation Establishment]
[Your major bottleneck in Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment will be somewhat reduced]
"Demon Race"
"But unfortunately, I have yet to witness the true might of the Demon Race."
The Demon Race has dominated the Jiuzhou Cultivation Realm for so many years, outlasting the Witch Race, once becoming the master of Jiuzhou, naturally possessing its own heritage.
Yet in this lifetime, the strongest Zhao Fu reached was only equivalent to Early-Stage Foundation Establishment.
Though possessing innate divine strength, his combat abilities were immensely powerful.
