My Arts Evolve When Perfected

One hundred thousand people entered the Dusk Holy Ruins. More than half were at the Half-Step Unity Realm, and a large portion were at the Unity Realm. There was also a significant number of experts at the very peak of the Peak of Unity Realm—powerhouses like Zuo Xuan, whose cultivation could advance no further.

One could say that from across the entire Primordial world cluster, every supreme expert—whether they were in closed-door cultivation or living in seclusion—had now emerged!

Those peerless prodigies who had once been famous throughout the Primordial world cluster had also descended upon this spatiotemporal ruin, each carrying a Dusk Token. However, they were all separated into relatively independent regions and did not encounter one another at the start.

However, the Will of the Dusk Holy Ruins—which was, in fact, the Epoch Will of the previous era—activated a communication system called the Public Channel. This allowed it to issue the latest directives to everyone at a moment's notice and coordinate them with precision.

[Dusk Holy Ruins Channel]

[User A: So this is what the Will of the Dusk Holy Ruins can do? It actually compiled all our names into a ranked list and even gathered contact info for all the major powerhouses.]

[User B: *Hiss*... There's no way this count is right. Over thirty thousand Unity Realm cultivators?! Holy shit! Just how many old monsters has the Dusk Holy Ruins brought together?]

[User C: What? There are really that many? Damn... The weakest among us are at the Peak of Fusion Realm, and you can count them on one hand. Is *this* the caliber of the Dusk Holy Ruins?]

[User A: As expected of the Epoch Will from the previous era. With a single summons to these ruins, it gathered the most powerful group of people in our entire current era. Plus, many of them are supreme experts reincarnated from the last era.]

[User B: What? Experts from the last era were able to reincarnate? Wasn't there a great, era-ending purge? Shouldn't they all have been wiped out?]

[User A: Heh, you're just not well-informed. In the last era, the strongest was the Dragon Emperor. Besides him, the other top experts were about our level—Peak of Unity Realm, or Perfection. But their era spanned hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, giving rise to countless Divine Artifacts and Secret Techniques. There was even a Peak Race that suppressed all Ten Thousand Races with its power alone!]

[User B: You don't mean the Human Race, do you? I've heard those rumors too. That in the last era, the Human Race was one of the Peak Races... No, they were the Peak Race of all Peak Races. It's said they had three great factions that suppressed the Ten Thousand Races, and their presence was even felt in the Exotic Realms. Are you telling me that's not just a legend?]

[User A: A legend? Heh, don't assume the era-ending purge wiped everything away. There are still records in the ruins of many Secret Realms. The three great factions of the Human Race had backing so immense it was said to touch the heavens—it might even be connected to the Sea of Chaos, which lies beyond all realms of existence...]

The contest for the Dusk Holy Ruins had yet to begin, but in the public channel, a well-meaning Unity Realm expert was already explaining the legends he knew to the crowd of cultivators at the Peak of Fusion Realm and the Unity Realm.

These legends—or secret histories, rather—weren't particularly important. After all, the golden age of the Human Race was long past. Now, the humans of the Primordial world cluster were just a group of natives, with virtually none worth mentioning.

This, however, didn't change the fact that most people were unaware of this history. Not every expert was born into a Peak Race, like Yang Lei and Celestial Star of the Three-Life Race, and not everyone was a reincarnated powerhouse, like the Bloodthirsty White Tiger.

Oh, right. Even the Bloodthirsty White Tiger wasn't entirely sure why the once-pinnacle Human Race had degenerated to its current state.

Back then, in the true Ancient Times, the Human Race had been at the absolute zenith. With the strength of a single race, they designated all other races as the Demon Race and personally drew up the list of the Ten Peak Demon Clans. They were an insurmountable summit!

Of course, the Human Race did not remain prosperous forever. When internal strife broke out among them, the Ten Great Demon Clans of that peak era rose to prominence. However, their subsequent development did not go smoothly, and they fell one by one.

His bloodthirsty and war-loving White Tiger Race had borne the brunt of it. Yet, even he didn't know what had happened back then. He only remembered an incredibly brutal war, a war whose aftershocks alone could have annihilated countless little ponds like the Primordial world cluster.

As he delved deeper into these thoughts, the Bloodthirsty White Tiger's blood began to boil, and his very soul trembled as if triggered by a traumatic memory.

His scarlet eyes seethed with immense killing intent, and his hatred for the Sea of Chaos intensified ten-thousandfold. 'If I can't go back and slaughter my enemies, I will have failed the entire White Tiger Race!'

As the Bloodthirsty White Tiger's immense killing intent spilled out uncontrollably, in a remote corner far away, a youth with a tranquil aura slowly opened his eyes. A soul-shaking pressure erupted from his brilliant gold pupils.

He was like a True Dragon descended upon the world. Even without deliberately releasing his aura, he could make all living things tremble in fear, as if an ancient being from before countless epochal cycles was enthroned in this very spot.

"The aura of the White Tiger Bloodline... One of my Demon Marshals, the Bloodthirsty White Tiger?"

He murmured to himself. With a single glance, his vision seemed to pierce through tens of thousands of kilometers to see the Bloodthirsty White Tiger's True Form. At the same time, he sensed a rather unfamiliar remnant soul aura about him.

'Yes, this subordinate is no longer my own,' he thought. 'The moment the Bloodthirsty White Tiger achieved Unity, his White Tiger Bloodline must have counteracted the control of my Dragon Race bloodline. Besides, he is a Unity Realm expert in his own right. How could he possibly be controlled?'