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Chapter 301: Chapter 298 Demon Realm
The danger posed by Demon Spirits from the Demon Realm to the human world has existed for ten thousand years.
It was precisely because of the threat of Demon Spirits that the Heavenly Master System was born.
In the continuous struggle against Demon Spirits, the Heavenly Master System was constantly refined and expanded, from apprentices just mastering Spiritual Power, to Heavenly Masters, to Great Heavenly Masters, to Heavenly Monarchs...
Until the emergence of the creators.
The first creator was born three thousand years ago!
It was precisely due to the existence of such top-tier beings that the battles between humans and Demon Spirits gradually switched from defense to offense.
And a thousand years ago, the Heavenly Master civilization reached its peak.
The Master of the Holy Sanctuary, the Twelve Creators!
Gods Mountain, Sea God Temple, Netherworld...
One by one, great Heavenly Master powers rose.
During that period, the threat of Demon Spirits to human civilization was minimized to the extreme.
The Demon Realm even became a hunting ground for the Heavenly Masters.
One after another, creators continuously took Heavenly Masters, Great Heavenly Masters, and Heavenly Monarchs into battle, crafting countless miraculous creations from the Spiritual Energy obtained by annihilating Demon Spirits.
Floating Islands, Floating Cities, Giant Divine Weapons, Heavenly Dragons, Ruins Beasts, and so forth, were all war weapons that appeared during that era.
That was the strongest and most glorious era for mankind.
However, no civilization can escape reaching its peak and then declining.
When the Heavenly Master civilization was at its ultimate strength, a civil war broke out.
Countless Heavenly Masters, Great Heavenly Masters, Heavenly Monarchs, including the creators, all perished one after another.
The Sky Dome was obscured by dust, the Earth was torn apart by meteor stars, the oceans were evaporated by flames...
It was a great war with no victors.
At that time, the world once became uninhabitable for ordinary people, and countless people barely survived by hiding in various shelters during the most challenging times.
During that time, the cultivator civilization rose rapidly.
The alternation of old and new dominions brought by different Cultivation Systems inevitably led to great wars.
Especially since it was entirely due to the internal conflict among the Heavenly Masters that caused the world to be nearly destroyed.
Not only did cultivators detest the Heavenly Masters, but even some Heavenly Masters themselves were deeply dissatisfied with the creators, the culprits responsible for all this.
It is said that the hostility between cultivators and the Heavenly Master System lasted for hundreds of years.
Although the number of cultivators soared rapidly thanks to the harsh external environment, the thin camel is still bigger than the horse of the cultivator system.
To avoid a devastating outcome for both, the two sides had to choose reconciliation.
Although they reconciled, frictions still existed.
Due to the existence of Demon Spirits, some top powers did not completely ban the Heavenly Master System, but they treated the top creations, such as Heavenly Dragons and Ruins Beasts, as taboos, no longer allowing them to be shared with the outside world.
Even the Heavenly Masters themselves held this attitude.
The Heavenly Master System could remain powerful, but it must not continue to grow uncontrollably; otherwise, it would once again bring destruction to the world.
This situation continued until more than a hundred years ago.
Demon Spirits invaded in the guise of Devils, specifically targeting the Heavenly Master System. 𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒑𝒖𝙗.𝒄𝒐𝒎
Since the grudge between the cultivator system and the Heavenly Master System had persisted from a thousand years ago, at first, the cultivators seemed to take pleasure in the misfortunes of the Heavenly Masters as they were killed one by one, and numerous Heavenly Master lineages were disrupted.
After all, the Devils at that time were not very powerful, and the cultivators believed they were fully capable of controlling the situation.
It wasn’t until the birth of the first Demon Demon Emperor that the cultivators gradually realized the severity of the issue and started to provide shelter for the Heavenly Masters.
But by this time, countless Heavenly Master Sects had lost their legacy, and the world no longer had the brilliance of the two major systems complementing each other.
In contrast, the threat of the Devils intensified.
...
"Ten thousand years."
Gu Jinlai muttered this number to himself.
The human civilization in this world has complete records dating back to sixteen thousand years.
Of course, there are also some older texts that are not systematic.
Therefore, it’s generally accepted that human civilization started sixteen thousand years ago.
And the Demon Realm civilization...
In these sixteen thousand years, and even in the more distant past, it has never stopped its harassment of human civilization in this world.
Therefore, when Gu Jinlai stepped into the Demon Realm Rift, he was fully alert.
He had even prepared for immediate attacks by numerous Demon Spirits upon entering the Demon Realm Rift.
However...
When he actually entered the Demon Realm Rift, the first thing was his vision becoming blurry and chaotic, accompanied by a sensation of weightlessness.
It was like suddenly entering space, losing any sense of up, down, left, and right.
As his journey continued, he felt a strong pressure.
This pressure was not against his body but against his True Spirit.
Fortunately, after the Crystalization of his True Spirit, its stability had significantly increased, and this level of pressure did not affect him too much.
Then...
Light scattered everywhere.
Blurry and chaotic, it suddenly became clear.
Along with that came a sense of frenzy and scorching heat, as if flames were refining his True Spirit.
Although the refining wasn’t intense, it persisted continuously, making one’s True Spirit weaken and gradually become "thirsty."
Gu Jinlai immediately looked around, surveying the surrounding environment.
This was a place...
with a terrain like a plain.
There were no man-made structures.
The overall lighting was somewhat dim.
The clouds in the sky seemed to be fiercely burning, rendering everything within sight a dark red, with the earth primarily gray-black.
In some areas, there were still flames and magma.
Black snow was falling in the sky, not heavily, but it filled the view.
Moreover, he could feel a special energy in this land eroding his body.
Since his physique was strong enough to rival an Upper Demon King, the erosive effect wasn’t pronounced, but since he could feel it, probably any cultivator who stepped here without the protection of True Qi would be eroded by this special energy in a very short time, leading to bodily disease and deformity.
"It feels like standing on land that has just experienced a nuclear blast."
Gu Jinlai thought to himself.
Overall, the environment was extremely harsh.
So harsh that it was hard for anyone who wasn’t in the True Qi Realm or a Demon God Guard to survive.
That didn’t even include analyzing whether the air contained other harmful substances.
While Gu Jinlai was surveying his surroundings, several large Demon Spirits and Catastrophic-level Demon Spirits also noticed his presence.
The arrival of this human caused these Demon Spirits to pause, momentarily unable to react.
But the next moment, a silent roar mixed with a powerful spiritual shock came rolling in, shaking Gu Jinlai’s True Spirit.
Immediately after, a multitude of Catastrophic-level Demon Spirits and large Demon Spirits surged toward him like a torrent, frantically sweeping over him.
"So many Demon Spirits!"
Gu Jinlai’s scalp tingled.
Due to the large size of the Demon Spirits, as he "looked" over, they densely packed his view, completely filling his sight, making it impossible to count just how many there were.
A thousand? Several thousand? Or tens of thousands?
All he could do was to quickly commence Visualization of the Great Sun Core, casting the light of the Great Sun Eternal Radiance far and wide, illuminating hundreds of meters around himself as the center.
All the Demon Spirits that invaded this area were scorched by the light of the Great Sun Eternal Radiance Technique as if burnt by fierce flames, screaming as their forms rapidly dissolved.
But, these Demon Spirits were different from those in the Demon Realm Rift.
Due to the limited width of the Demon Realm Rift, only one Catastrophic-level Demon Spirit or two to three large Demon Spirits could emerge at a time, making it incredibly easy for Gu Jinlai to slay them.
But now...
Having lost the geographical advantage, and facing attacks from not only a large number of large Demon Spirits but also several Catastrophic-level Demon Spirits at the same time.
Even though he immediately released the Eternal Heavenly Curse to strike at the nearest Catastrophic-level Demon Spirit, he still couldn’t block the erosion from several other Catastrophic-level Demon Spirits.
As the bodies and tentacles of these Catastrophic-level Demon Spirits grazed him, he distinctly felt a substantial amount of his spiritual essence being ravaged.
The light of the Great Sun Eternal Radiance Technique quickly dimmed.
Even the crystallized True Spirit seemed to be wrapped in a cluster of flames, as if to refine and burn it away.
During the burning process, a large amount of spiritual essence dispersed from the True Spirit.
Just like how burning coal releases light and heat.
"Good thing I was prepared."
Gu Jinlai took a deep breath.
A streak of Qingguang quickly infused into the True Spirit.
Under the wash of Qingguang, the flames were quickly extinguished.
The originally dim light of the Great Sun Eternal Radiance was also reignited, continuing to incinerate the approaching Demon Spirits.
"The Demon Realm Rift has impacted the space, making it so that the Demon Spirits, which could originally traverse through the earth and trees, can now only attack from the ground like creatures of the Material World. Plus, the spatial distortion caused by the Demon Realm Rift itself means I only need to face attacks from the front, above, left, and right simultaneously. And with the large size of the Demon Spirits... the number of Demon Spirits that can attack me at the same time is not that many..."
Gu Jinlai quickly did some calculations and soon came to a conclusion: "With the help of Qingguang, this level of attack is still within my capacity to withstand."
With that thought, he immediately activated the True Spirit Projection Technique left in the outer sector of the Tianhe Demon Realm Rift.
And those who had been awaiting orders, like Zhang Lihuo, Zhang Yukan, Si Tianyan, Guan Xingyun, Xiang Fengyun, and others, upon receiving the orders, did not hesitate for a moment.
Now, all of them also practiced the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method, each of their strengths no less than that of an Upper Demon.
Together with their capability of carrying the Cheng Ying Mecha through Spiritual Explosion, they quickly brought this colossal entity into the Demon Realm Rift.
After undergoing a similar experience to Gu Jinlai, several Great Heavenly Masters quickly appeared behind Gu Jinlai.
Zhang Lihuo, the Heavenly Monarch, was still okay, but Zhang Yukan, Si Tianyan, and others showed significant signs of strain, their faces slightly changing.
"This is the Demon Realm... I feel like my Spiritual Sense is about to start burning..."
"Such a strong suppressing effect. Here, trying to visualize our Great Sun Core, the difficulty has gone up several times."
"So many Demon Spirits... Just the Catastrophic-level Demon Spirits alone might number in the tens or even dozens!"
Their expressions changed continuously.
Discomfort, oppression, shock, horror.
"Steady yourselves."
Zhang Lihuo, being the Heavenly Monarch, reacted first.
Watching Gu Jinlai ardently battling the Demon Spirits, even occasionally being wounded, he said gravely, "There’s no time to lose, quickly refine the dispersed spiritual essence from the Demon Spirits, and try to complete the co-spirit with the Cheng Ying Mecha before the Demon Realm Rift starts to close!"
