595: Chapter 44 The Size of a Nation _1 595: Chapter 44 The Size of a Nation _1 The Demon clan was once the master of this world, but that was a tale from the Ancient Era.
Of all the great eras, the Ancient Era was the longest, its beginning untraceable, even ti itself imasurable.
Perhaps only the most ancient Taoist Sects retained sparse records, yet they never made such information public.
However, the end of the Ancient Era is well known to many.
The mark of its end was the Human Race driving the Demon clan out of this world, becoming the new masters of the present world.
After that followed the long stretches of the Ancient Era, the Middle Ancient Era, the Recent Ancient Era, and now the present day.
In the entire current world, the Demon clan has almost vanished without a trace.
Jiang Wang had cultivated all the way to this day, from an obscure Youmai Taoist to now being a Divine Skills Inner Mansion, a prodigy of Daqi, yet this was the first ti he had truly seen the Demon clan!
Compared to the sudden sighting of the Demon clan, even the miraculous “Perspective” technique employed by Yin Guan no longer seed so startling.
Could the Demon clan still exist in the current world?
Could it be that the Demon clan never disappeared?
The prisoner cart carrying the single-horned elder of the Demon clan moved towards the Array, observing those Fierce Beasts prostrating inside, the old Demon’s face was evidently filled with fear: “What do you want to do, what do you want to do!?”
He wasn’t speaking a language Jiang Wang knew from any country, but the aning of each word was clear to the ear.
It was the language of the Tao!
The sa as the voices within the Taixu Illusion Realm.
The Town Guard cultivator from Xu Country within the Inner Mansion Realm frowned upon hearing this: “Why does every demon ask the sa question?
What we want to do, isn’t it clearly obvious?”
The guard standing beside him chuckled in response: “The Demon clan is not without intelligence, but sotis abandoning thought might make things easier to bear.
Fear is deluding himself.
By pretending not to know, perhaps so things might not happen.”
This guard seed quite insightful in his remarks.
Even the Inner Mansion Realm cultivator looked at him with a hint of surprise.
He laughed embarrassingly: “The Great General had said sothing like this during his inspection.”
The old Demon inside the prisoner cart couldn’t understand what they were saying, and the laughter of the humans filled him with even greater fear.
He was trapped in the cart, surrounded by Fierce Beasts, and these people were discussing him fervently.
“If you want to display your ferocity, you could easily find our generals, our king, our warriors!”
He struggled and yelled: “What skills do you have by bullying us, the old, the weak, the won, and the children!”
The Inner Mansion Realm cultivator from Xu Country sneered: “Since when are there old, weak, won, and children among the Demon clan?”
The “exchange” between the two parties was dood to no results, as they could understand the language of the Demon clan, but the Demon could not understand what he was saying.
The fear intensified.
The muscles of the old Demon, already withered from age, were tightly tensed, very rigid.
At this mont, the prisoner cart had already been pushed into the center of the Array.
The two cultivators pushing the cart nearly ran out of the Array at an escapee’s pace, retreating all the way to the side of that Inner Mansion Realm cultivator.
“The timing is just right.” The Inner Mansion Realm cultivator from Xu Country quickly ford a hand sign, not wasting a single mont.
The Array suddenly lit up!
Nurous dark red lines crawled along the ground, spreading like a spider’s web, rapidly connecting all the Fierce Beasts together.
And the endpoints of all the dark red lines were on the body of the single-horned elder from the Demon clan.
“Ah!!”
The Demon imdiately scread in agony, his voice echoing through the cave.
And his body, visible to the naked eye, withered away.
At this mont, Jiang Wang saw a Fierce Beast that had been lying down, suddenly stand up, and the pure malice and bloodlust in its eyes had dissipated.
What was even more poignant was that within this “Fierce Beast’s” body, sothing was faintly being nurtured…
It was a Taoist vein!
Jiang Wang quickly recognized, it was a Taoist vein slowly taking form!
This ant that this Fierce Beast, at this very mont, had transford into a Demon Beast!
All the answers had been revealed.
The doubts Jiang Wang harbored on Jade Balance Peak, at this very mont, were resolved with the latter half of the answers unraveled.
Beasts “evolve” into Fierce Beasts through a process that necessitates their mutual slaughter, catalyzed by specific arrays.
Back at Jade Balance Peak, Jiang Wang had already witnessed this process.
The catalyzed Fierce Beasts were to wreak havoc everywhere, even killing mbers of the Human Race, further nurturing their ferocity.
Only after reaching a certain level could a Fierce Beast qualify to evolve further.
Just as Miao Yu had once speculated, “Wildness is an essential elent for Demon Beasts, and killing is a certain necessary process.”
The next step was the “evolution” of Fierce Beasts into Demon Beasts.
This process required the massive catalyzing array before them, and, more importantly, living mbers of the Demon clan!
With Demon Beasts ca the Channel-opening Pills.
Dosticated Demon Beasts, from the second generation on, couldn’t possess Taoist channels.
This might be a “self-preservation asure” inherent in the Race’s origins, rendering captive Demon Beasts utterly aningless, and naturally, nobody would bother dosticate them anymore.
But rely relying on wild Demon Beasts could never satisfy the Human Race’s cultivation needs.
No matter how nurous, Demon Beasts would eventually be hunted to extinction!
Thus, the thod Jiang Wang and Yin Guan witnessed had been devised.
Through multistage transformations from beast to Fierce Beast and then to Demon Beast, they directly catalyzed the production of Demon Beasts artificially.
As long as the Beasts didn’t disappear, neither would the Demon Beasts!
Setting aside the discussion of right and wrong, this thod in itself was an earth-shattering invention, one that could even be said to have laid the foundation for the prosperity of the cultivation world.
Because it popularized Channel-opening Pills!
Jiang Wang then thought that if ordinary Channel-opening Pills were obtained this way, then those priceless Ground Essence Great Pills, and the even more elusive Heaven Essence Great Pills…
could they be made by extracting the Taoist channels of Demon clan mbers, or even those of powerful demons?
But in the current age, where the Demon clan had disappeared, where could they possibly be capturing these demons?
Forest Sea Source Realm, Floating Land…
Jiang Wang suddenly rembered these two worlds.
Perhaps there existed such a world where the Demon clan lived.
And human Cultivators would descend from ti to ti to that place, capturing demons and bringing them back.
What about those powers or nations incapable of capturing demons, or unsatisfied with the quantity they caught?
Jiang Wang then recalled the Cultivator beside the Qing River who had secretly kidnapped the shellfish girl.
He couldn’t help but shudder.
The Water Race and the Demon clan…
They were too similar!
Both closely resembled humans while retaining certain racial traits.
Jiang Wang felt he was almost touching upon the historic truth, only a thin veil of haze left to be swept away by the wind of cognition.
At that mont, the agonizing screams of the old Demon clansman with a single horn from within the array had ceased, and he lay dying, sprawled in the prison cart.
Within the entire array, about one-third of the Fierce Beasts had stood up, transford into Demon Beasts.
Many more Fierce Beasts had forever closed their eyes, silently passing away.
“The harvest is not bad,” said the Inner Mansion Realm Cultivator from Xu Country, nodding in satisfaction as his gaze swept over the new Demon Beasts before landing on the prisoner in the cart, “Take him down for treatnt and rest.
Once he’s in good health, he should be able to endure another round.”
“It’s a pity,” he remarked to a guard beside him, “that we’re only given such decrepit mbers of the Demon clan, which can hardly withstand much use.”
One of the guards replied, “Those blood-sucking beasts from Qi Country, how could they let us have our way?
Even if they allotted us strong demons, they’d definitely demand more Channel-opening Pills in tribute.”
The Cultivators from Xu Country indulged in a litany of complaints, clearly harboring long-standing grudges.
In the gloomy depths of the dungeon, they freely cursed at Qi Country.
Yin Guan cast a deliberate glance at Jiang Wang.
His expression was impassive.
But internally, he had finally unraveled a longstanding mystery—why there were no Fierce Beasts in Qi Country, why ordinary citizens of Qi Country could venture into the wilderness at will.
Why in Qi Country, common people could still enjoy “picnics.”
All the danger had been shifted onto these smaller nations.
The Channel-opening Pills of Qi Country originated from the tributes of these smaller states!
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