Chapter 544 - 508: Returning to the Southern Domain Again

Chapter 544: Chapter 508: Returning to the Southern Domain Again

’Back then, the Major Sects of the Central Domain managed to uproot the Demon Beasts that had occupied the continent for hundreds of thousands of years, driving them into the Outer Sea. It makes no sense that after all this time, they’re being pushed back by a Demon Race that is far weaker than it was in its prime.’

Even though his mind was a tangled mess, Bai Zichen remembered not to wield the Ziwei Dazzling Thunder Sword.

As his fame grew, this Tier Four Flying Sword had become recognized by many people.

If he wielded it, it would be a dead giveaway, exposing the true identity of the Ziwei Star Star Monarch.

The Moon Xuan Sword and Splendid Youth Sword were also too risky. He chose a newly refined Golden Light Fierce Fire Sword instead. Slower Sword Flight was better than exposing his identity.

’As for preparing a dedicated Tier Four Flying Sword for the Ziwei Star Star Monarch persona to use, that idea is too extravagant. I can’t afford that right now.’

’Still, the names Ziwei Star Star Monarch and Ziwei Dazzling Thunder Sword are quite a match. I wonder if it’s just a coincidence, or if there’s a real connection there.’

Although the Demon Race’s current momentum seemed overwhelming, with a ceaseless tide of sea-dwelling Demon Beasts crawling ashore and overpowering the Sects of the Eastern Domain, during the Human Race’s pioneering era, the Demon Race was far more tyrannical. Those with ancient Desolate Beast Bloodlines and their descendants occupied every rich Spirit Vein, large and small.

They viewed the Human Race as an inferior species, enslaving them and raising them like livestock. There were even Human Race Cultivators who willingly defected to the Demon Race, becoming traitors to their own kind.

It was in the face of such adversity that one sage after another led the Human Race Cultivators to clear the mountains and tame the wilds, slaying one powerful Demon Beast after another.

Even the descendants of Divinity Transformation Desolate Beasts—beings who could turn into mountains and rivers, who could pluck the stars and moon from the sky—met their grim end when besieged by Human Race Divinity Transformation cultivators who spared no cost.

As for the Tier Two and Tier Three Demon Beasts that swarmed the mountains and plains, they were melted into endless rivers of blood and gore by an ever-growing arsenal of Arrays and Demon-Slaying Magical Artifacts.

It was during those brutal years that Arrays and large-scale War Magical Artifacts saw rapid development, born from incredible ingenuity.

Even Low-Tier Cultivators could join the war between the two races, immediately nullifying the numerical advantage of the mid-tier Demon Race.

’This is what I can’t figure out. If the Super Sects of the Central Domain just took this seriously and issued a Pioneer Decree to conscript an army of cultivators... they could offer the lands of the Outer Sea as a reward, granting them to Sects from the Central Domain that have hit a developmental bottleneck and can’t expand further. The war potential they could mobilize would be enough not just to solve the Eastern Domain’s crisis, but to push the Outer Sea Demon Clan all the way back to their homeland. From low-level forces and war resources to top-tier cultivators, the Human Race holds the absolute advantage in every respect. So how could the Human Race end up suffering a major defeat and the Eastern Domain fall? How did it get to the point where they’re relying on me to save the Human Race from this crisis, break the stalemate, and claim victory?’

’This isn’t a situation that one more Divinity Transformation Demon Monarch could turn around. Unless... that Old Dragon hiding beneath the Ten Thousand Feet Water Eye secretly cultivated all the way to Tier Five Peak...’

Before the Near Ancient era, the Cultivation Realm would occasionally see cultivators at Divinity Transformation Perfection who would force their Ascension.

Such cultivators truly possessed the power to dominate their era and conquer the world.

If they encountered a particularly domineering one, even Divinity Transformation Sects had no choice but to move their entire sect into a Grotto Heaven to avoid the cultivator’s wrath.

A cultivator who had reached Divinity Transformation Perfection and frequently acted in the mortal plane could remain in the Human World for a century at most, no matter how much they suppressed their Cultivation.

The sects could simply wait it out in their Grotto Heaven. Once the cultivator ascended or died of old age, they could move back out.

There was no mention of the Old Dragon in the records of the Fish Dragon Sect.

They only mentioned that at the edge of the Outer Sea lay the Sea-Covering Water Eye, a place of colossal, sky-high waves where any who entered would surely drown.

A Nascent Soul from the Fish Dragon Sect had visited once. Before he could venture deep, he was terrified by the monstrous power within and fled back in disgrace.

According to legend, beyond the Water Eye lay an even more expansive ocean that led to other fabled continents.

’It’s not very realistic for him to have suddenly reached the pinnacle of this world. A demon’s Cultivation potential is largely determined the moment it achieves Transformation. The bloodline it awakens and the Divine Techniques it inherits dictate how far it can progress in the future. If the Old Dragon had the potential to cultivate to Divinity Transformation Perfection and attempt Ascension, the Moral Sect, with its typical methods, would never have tolerated it growing undisturbed to this day. They would have taken action against it long ago.’

’That means the Old Dragon must have a Treasure powerful enough to turn the tide of battle at the Divinity Transformation level... He either acquired it recently, or he just finished its Refinement and figured out how to use it.’

Top-Grade Heavenly Spirit Treasures are the limit in this realm, but that doesn’t mean higher-tier Magical Treasures don’t exist in the Human World.

For example, the Ziwei Dazzling Thunder Sword at its peak and the Supreme Qingwei Sword Box are both Treasures that clearly surpass Tier Five.

Such Treasures are undoubtedly extremely precious, even in the Upper Realm. Only a handful of Descent Cultivators would even be qualified to carry one. The chances of one of them happening to leave such a Treasure behind in the Lower Realm, instead of taking it back to the Earth Immortal Realm, are astronomically small.

’But since I had such a fortuitous encounter, it’s not impossible for someone else to have similar heaven-defying luck and inherit a Treasure from the Upper Realm. It would have to be a Supreme Treasure specializing in slaughter, one capable of destroying heavens and earth—not an auxiliary Treasure like my Supreme Qingwei Sword Box.’

He was certain a Top-Grade Heavenly Spirit Treasure wouldn’t be enough, precisely because a Tier Five Flying Sword of that exact grade was currently lying inside his Sword Box.

Although he couldn’t wield it yet, having witnessed the power of the Abi Heavenly Prison Demon Sword, Bai Zichen was certain of one thing: no one could rely on it alone to reign supreme among Divinity Transformation cultivators.

Whatever the Old Dragon of the Outer Sea was relying on had to be at least a full tier stronger than the Abi Heavenly Prison Demon Sword.

’The scene Shan Zhi of the Evil Fate Sect saw was "one ruler, one sword." Could it be that due to some external stimulus, the Ziwei Dazzling Thunder Sword will truly awaken and return to its full power?’

For the Sword Spirit of the Abi Heavenly Prison Demon Sword to be so deferential, even addressing it as Venerable, meant one thing. Bai Zichen had long ago confirmed that in Ancient Times, the Ziwei Dazzling Thunder Sword had to have been a Tier Six Flying Sword at minimum.