Three-colored Mountain and Seas, beyond the thin realm, the Twelve Zodiac Beasts Snake coiled atop a mountain peak, its head held high as it absorbed the clouds from the sky into its lungs.
Beneath the mountain peak was a dense mass of the Demon Clan, Bone Demons and Ear Demons surged like black tides, wave after wave, endless and unceasing.
Just as the Zodiac Beast Snake was about to spit out the clouds to scatter these demons, a dazzling starlight appeared in the distant sky. It flew above the Three-colored Mountain and Seas and stood amidst the throng of demons.
The commanders of the Demon Clan, the Demon Kings, looked up to see a sinister Demon Blade. The demon energy emitted by the blade coalesced into a mountainous corpus, like a mythical ancient tiger emerging from a misty mountain of clouds, its body speckled with stars and its eyes golden. Even in its spectral form, it struck tremendous awe into all demons!
"Get back to the woods, all of you!" shouted the Demon Sword Concubine at the demons.
"Ancestor… Ancestral Immortal…" An Ear Beast King turned pale with shock, scarcely believing his eyes.
The demons groveled. These little demons, with the bloodline of the Demon Ancestor flowing in their bones, naturally feared such a supreme Great Demon God. In the world of demon spirits, the hierarchy was rigorously enforced, and the inherent belief in the strong dominating the weak was etched deep in their bones.
"From now on, when I am not here, stay quietly in your own territories, stop your evil habit of eating humans, do you understand?" The Demon Sword Concubine began her admonition.
Hearing these words, several Demon Kings were also perplexed.
Had the Ancestral Immortal reformed?
If they didn’t eat humans, what was the point of being demons!
Moreover, if they didn’t intimidate the Human Clan, the humans would invade their cultivation areas, plunder their Dao Fruits, fell their Spirit Trees, and excavate their Spirit Roots. The competition among the Demon Clan was fierce enough, and with the extremely cunning Human Clan intruding, how could they still cultivate?
"Yes, yes, we will definitely heed the Ancestor’s teachings, we’ll leave right away." Although the Demon Kings were displeased, they dared not openly defy her.
Ordering the Demon Clan to retreat, the numerous demons also disappeared as quickly as the tide.
After repelling the great army of demon spirits, the Demon Sword Concubine then flew into the Pure Land Thin Realm.
Shen Wenhai, standing atop the Wood Cloud Top, immediately braced for battle. With a grand gesture, many Super Energy Agitation Cannons buried in the Pure Land Thin Realm aimed at the ten-thousand-year Great Demon.
"Let the Nuwa Divine End continue its journey, I will guard the Pure Land Thin Realm in the coming days, and no demon shall dare to intrude," said the Demon Sword Concubine.
Shen Wenhai and the rest of the human elite in the Pure Land Thin Realm were all perplexed.
Where did this divine and speaking Demon Blade come from?
Speaking human words was one thing; transforming into a female Bodhisattva to protect their journey was another.
"This is an Artifact Spirit that Lord Wu Hen tamed not long ago; it used to be a ten-thousand-year Demon God," someone specifically came to inform Shen Wenhai.
Only then did Shen Wenhai relax his guard, his heart thrumming with excitement.
To even tame a ten-thousand-year Demon God—truly, Lord Wu Hen was a superhuman. The True Martial Continent’s most troublesome issue was the demon spirits, and with such a long journey ahead, who knows how many other Great Demons would covet them. Now that this issue was resolved at once…they could devote more energy to fortifying the Divine Barrier, ensuring their homeland remained safe after entering the Cang Chu Divine Realm.
"It’s still Lord Wu Hen indeed."
"I heard that Lord Wu Hen also subdued a Valkyrie recently—that scene was truly stirring."
"No, aren’t you also going to mention the scene where they collaborated against three Martial Gods?"
"We’re not unaccustomed to grand spectacles, but no grand spectacle is as memorable as this gossip."
"That’s really impressive. I remember when I first entered the True Martial World, I met a little beggar. She was quite attractive, but a gang leader took an interest in her, and I couldn’t compete. Now she’s almost on her second child… Since then, I’ve felt that the True Martial Continent isn’t for me."
…
The Yin Rain Law finally dissipated.
That heavy shackle weighing down the entire continent truly suffocated countless low-ranking martial artists. Although intended as a powerful divine weapon against the Demon Clan, it seemed the vast majority of ordinary people were the ones who couldn’t survive.
"Although the Demon Sword Concubine, being a ten-thousand-year Demon God, can intimidate various demon species for a while, such admonitions won’t last many years. The new blood in the Demon Clan won’t adhere to its advice, so the continent will still revert to its former state…" Wu Hen said.
Ruan Muhuan nodded.
The True Martial Continent was a shared existence between humans and demon spirits; unilateral suppression was not possible.
Luckily, in the upcoming years, people could recuperate and the Demon Clan would also keep to themselves. What the following years might bring, though, was anyone’s guess.
"Are you really not planning to join me on my journey?" Wu Hen said, somewhat regretfully.
"Martial God Institute has the Heavenly Gate leading to the Cang Chu Divine Realm," Ruan Muhuan said, "so it’s not like we are parting forever."
Ruan Muhuan had pondered deeply.
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She understood that Wu Hen did not belong here and would not stay just for her sake.
Although she also yearned for the world beyond the heavens, at the moment she became a Martial God, she felt the worship of countless citizens of this world, like threads bound around her, from which she could draw extraordinary Divine Power and more profoundly feel that each of them was struggling in the mire just like her, unable to see the Heavenly Light.
The Rain of the Burning Heaven Martial God suppressed the Demon Clan.
Now that Ruan Muhuan had scattered the Law of Rain, it meant that in the future, the Demon Clan would be more active and more savage.
As a Martial God and the creator of this cause and effect, Ruan Muhuan felt it was her duty to protect these people, or else their fates were predicable.
"Yes, although those Martial Gods were nasty, they still played a role in deterring the Demon Clan while they were alive. By eliminating them, and with your departure, it is these innocent people who will suffer…" Wu Hen lamented.
The life and death of the people of the True Martial Continent were actually unrelated to Wu Hen.
He was not a god of this world and had no obligation to protect them.
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But Ruan Muhuan was different; she was born here and had endured the same trials as them. With the end of this battle, she was the only one left to support Wudou.
She needed to rebuild the martial artist system, reorganize everything from Wuting to Prefecture, confront the Martial God Institute, and establish a new covenant for the Martial Gods. If she and Wu Hen remained the most ordinary people under heaven and earth, as when they first ventured in Jianghu, they could indeed roam freely with swords, traveling the ends of the earth. But now, they each had their own people to protect.
"However, I still want to visit your world," Ruan Muhuan expressed her little wish.
A Valkyrie in the city?
While the image seemed odd, it also felt quite thrilling.
One wonders what sight it would be if Ruan Muhuan wore those fashionable hot shorts, showing off her super white, desirable long legs, or perhaps in black silk high heels, how mesmerizing that would be…
"Let me ask around. If we go through the proper procedures, we are not opposed to receiving visitors," Wu Hen said.
The proper procedure was that they must be suppressed by the Nuwa Divine Law, which kept the Cultivation of all extraterrestrial visitors below Heavenly Light.
When Wu Hen had brought Cai Huang and Cai Ni, he had required them to accept this Law.
Now, Cai Huang and Cai Ni were nearly fully integrated into the large community, especially Cai Ni, who would frequently go drag racing with a group of youngsters. The complicated robes were no longer worn; instead, each day was about little camisoles, short skirts, perfectly embodying an urban Little Demon, far removed from any Holy Sect disciple.
…
Du Mao was left to handle the aftermath.
To manifest his absolute status in the True Martial Continent, Du Mao was very firm in his negotiations with the Martial God Institute.
He strongly promoted Ruan Muhuan as the Rotating Martial God of Wudou, and did not allow those old Martial Gods to interfere with her Law.
Ruan Muhuan had indeed encountered many from the Nuwa Divine Realm and knew that their atmosphere was not as oppressive as the strictly hierarchical system of warrior.
To manage this continent well, she also wanted to see the systems they were implementing.
Knowing that Ruan Muhuan came to learn about advanced scientific systems, Wu Hen was all the more welcoming. He immediately presented what he had learned before, indoctrinating her with the need to respect science, liberation of thought, and advanced concepts...
"Don’t you see, your society is suffering from the double oppression of feudal martial cultivation and Martial God autocracy. Now that the clouds shrouding the entire society have finally dispersed, you need to establish a more scientific and humane martial cultivation system, such as building martial arts schools, creating a high-martial civilization…" Wu Hen spoke with unwavering conviction.
The people of Lu Yun Commerce also welcomed her, like diligent employees awaiting a major leader’s inspection.
But their expressions became strange when they heard Wu Hen teaching these ideological and political lessons to the Valkyrie, Ruan Muhuan.
Cultivation Sciences, huh?
But indeed, they had to admit, although their homeland might be lower in martial strength compared to the entire universe, their intellectual height compared to other Cosmic Race civilizations was not at all inferior, and they were fit to lecture other Cosmic Races on ideology, as they cherished peace and cosmic harmony.
"And another crucial point, the concept of ’evil possession’ must be canceled, though changing this concept for the entire population of the True Martial Continent will indeed take some time," Wu Hen said.
"Yes, I will try my best," Ruan Muhuan nodded.
Ruan Muhuan had also noticed that several of the heads of the Aloe Vera Commerce were actually from Nuwa’s Home and had developed deep ties with the people of the True Martial Continent. But the idea of evil possession entrenched in the minds of the citizens by the Martial God Alliance was deep-rooted, and without undergoing some form of purification, it was feared that many tragedies could brew again.
Regarding whether to let Ruan Muhuan step into the Nuwa Divine Realm, Shen Wenhai also convened an emergency human meeting. Considering that many still wished to stay in the True Martial Continent, in order to allow them to dwell more dignifiedly, it was indeed necessary to have Ruan Muhuan, who was already a Martial God, change the mainstream view of evil possession in the continent...
After all, their awakening on the Lost One was actually with the real intention of guiding them into the Nuwa Divine Tree to enter a new cycle of life, from this perspective, the humans were not different from the Ancient Dream Demons.