Chapter 185

Eastern Xuan Region, Yuan Region.

Yuan Region is the area where Yuan Gate is located, referred to as Yuan Region by the powerhouses of the Eastern Xuan Region. Among all the areas where the super sects of the Eastern Xuan Region are located, Yuan Region occupies the largest area.

After all, for a long time before this, Yuan Gate had always been the leader of the eight super sects of the Eastern Xuan Region, the overlord of the Eastern Xuan Region.

However, although both were overlords, Yuan Gate could not compare with the Darkness Hall of the Northern Xuan Region. As the overlord of the Northern Xuan Region, this was merely its most low-profile title.

Yes, the overlord of the Northern Xuan Region is the most understated alias of the Darkness Hall, because, in reality, the Darkness Hall is the ruler of the entire Northern Xuan Region, and the Darkness Hall's control over the Northern Xuan Region is even stronger than the control of those dynasties within their own territories.

Take the Great Yan Dynasty for example, the Great Yan Dynasty cannot control every province, every large city, because the Great Yan Royal Family is not the sole dominant force in the Great Yan Dynasty, there are also the Four Great Clans that can contend with it.

Of course, as of now, the most powerful and transcendent force in the Great Yan Dynasty is the Lin Clan. Two super geniuses joined Dao Sect, and Lin Ke'er and Lin Xue also joined Dao Sect. Even Lin Qingtan was taken as an heir by the Darkness Hall's Hall Master.

If the Lin Clan were willing, they could completely control the entire Great Yan Dynasty, even the Great Desolate Province in the most border region could be completely controlled by the Lin Clan. After all, the strongest force in the Great Desolate Province now, the Great Demon Gate, is the Lin Clan's in-law, the two major forces have marital ties.

And the Darkness Hall is even more powerful than the Lin Clan. In the Northern Xuan Region, almost all larger cities have branches of the Darkness Hall. The Darkness Tribunal is the only Enforcement Team in the Northern Xuan Region.

This is the Darkness Hall's terrifying control over the Northern Xuan Region. Therefore, after the Demon Prison went to great lengths, it did not choose to set up a base in the Northern Xuan Region, because the difficulty coefficient was too high, unless the Demon Prison could completely eliminate the entire Darkness Hall.

However, it is a pity that after the Demon Prison painstakingly killed the previous Hall Master of the Darkness Hall, the Demon Prison was already unable to spare any energy to erode the Northern Xuan Region, and could only settle for second best, setting up a base in the Eastern Xuan Region.

In fact, the reason why the Northern Xuan Region was chosen as the first target was because the geographical location of the Northern Xuan Region was too good. The entire Northern Xuan Region is relatively closed and adjacent to the Eastern and Western Xuan Regions.

More importantly, there is a Mountain Range separating the Northern Xuan Region and the Eastern Xuan Region, making it difficult for the Eastern Xuan Region to enter the Northern Xuan Region. But the Northern Xuan Region is different. The Northern Xuan Region has a relatively higher terrain, which means that it is easier for the Northern Xuan Region to cross the Mountain Range than the Eastern Xuan Region. Moreover, once the Mountain Range is crossed, it can drive straight in.

Another point is that the other adjacent area of the Northern Xuan Region, the Western Xuan Region, is the Demon Prison's base camp!

If the Demon Prison could take down the Northern Xuan Region as well, then when the Western Xuan Region and the Northern Xuan Region go south together, they could directly pacify the Four Great Xuan Regions, and then, with the army of Demonic Contamination, sweep across the entire Tianxuan Continent. At that time, their chances of winning would be much greater.

It's a pity that the Northern Xuan Region is too hard a bone to gnaw on. The Demon Prison tried all means, but not only failed to successfully gnaw down the Northern Xuan Region, but was instead chipped a tooth by the Northern Xuan Region.

After suffering setbacks in the Northern Xuan Region, the Demon Prison then set its sights on the Eastern Xuan Region. Just at this time, the people of Yuan Gate entered the Demon Prison's line of sight, and they took advantage of the situation to plant a chess piece in the Eastern Xuan Region.

It's a pity that although the Demon Prison planted a chess piece in the Eastern Xuan Region, it did not make any big moves at all.

The Eastern Xuan Region's succession was too severely interrupted. Among the Four Great Xuan Regions, only the Eastern Xuan Region had one of the major core battlefields of the ancient times, which was the Otherworldly Demon Domain.

In that battle, most of the top powerhouses in the Eastern Xuan Region died in battle, which led to the interruption of the Eastern Xuan Region's succession, and also buried a lot of news about the Otherworldly Demons. In addition, the demise of the Great Desolate Sect and many other Ancient Sects later buried the news about the Otherworldly Demons even deeper.

This not only caused a huge blow to the inheritance of the Eastern Xuan Region, but also made it more difficult for the Demon Prison to find those Otherworldly Demon powerhouses who had once gone to perform tasks in the Eastern Xuan Region.

Too much time has passed. Most of the top powerhouses in the Eastern Xuan Region fell not long after the ancient war had just ended.

It can be said that in the years after the ancient war, the Eastern Xuan Region was the main force resisting the remaining forces of the Demon Prison. Countless powerhouses from Ancient Sects made great sacrifices for the continuation of the Tianxuan Continent.

It was also for this reason that the Demon Prison initially did not set its sights on the Eastern Xuan Region, because there were no more powerhouses in this place. Even if they took down the Eastern Xuan Region, they would not be able to use the power of the Eastern Xuan Region to conquer other Xuan Regions.

In comparison, the Northern Xuan Region is the best place. Once the Northern Xuan Region is taken down, crossing the snow mountain and going directly south can easily take down the Eastern Xuan Region, and it will not be suspected by the powerhouses of the Tianxuan Continent. They can act completely silently.

As for the Southern Xuan Region, the Southern Xuan Region is adjacent to the Chaotic Demon Sea, a place that is really difficult to act in.

It should be known that during the ancient war, unlike the human race of the Four Great Xuan Regions, many ancient existences of the Sea Beast Clan of the Chaotic Demon Sea and the Demon Beast Clan of the Demon Territory still survived. After all, in terms of vitality, Sea Beasts and Demon Beasts still have a considerable advantage compared to humans.

Of course, everything has its advantages and disadvantages. Although Demon Beasts and Sea Beasts are born with strong vitality and outstanding talents, the human race is the leader of all spirits. The growth potential of the human race is the highest and strongest among all races in the Tianxuan Continent.

In ancient times, among the Ancient Eight Rulers, the Lord of Life and Death and the Primordial Lord came from the Sea Beast Clan. Among them, the Lord of Life and Death came from the Undying Holy Whale Clan, and the Primordial Lord came from the Sea Giant Clan. It can be found that the origins of the two Ancient Eight Rulers are closely related to the Ancestor Symbol Dao they practiced.

As for the remaining Flame Master, Thunder Master, Space Master, Devouring Master, and Lord of Darkness, they were all humans. However, the Devouring Master was more special. He was a hybrid of humans and Demon Beasts, but he did not inherit much of the Demon Beast's bloodline. He was only a little stronger than ordinary humans.

Including the Ice Master, who is also of human bloodline, but not from the Tianxuan Continent.

Among the Ancient Eight Rulers, unless their racial talent was special and happened to align with an Ancestor Symbol, leading to them becoming the Lord of Life and Death and the Primordial Lord, the rest were human.

Besides that, the human race in ancient times also produced many top experts. For example, the Great Desolate King, also known as the Great Desolate Emperor, was the ruler of the Great Desolate Region in ancient times. Outsiders respectfully called him the Great Desolate Emperor, but the always arrogant Great Desolate King was low-key and called himself the Great Desolate King. After all, compared to the Six-Fingered Holy Dragon Emperor, who unified the Demon Continent, the Great Desolate King was still somewhat lacking at the time.

But at that time, the Six-Fingered Holy Dragon Emperor was already a top expert who had been famous for many years, while the Great Desolate King had just begun to emerge on the continent. It can be said that the top experts at the time all believed that given some time, the Great Desolate King would definitely become a top figure on par with the Six-Fingered Holy Dragon Emperor.

It should be known that a Spiritual Martial Art like that could crush countless Heavenly Martial Arts. The Great Desolate King was already close to the Ancient Eight Rulers in his cultivation.

However, it is a pity that not everyone is like the Ice Master, who can simultaneously pass through three Reincarnation Tribulations of the Reincarnation Realm within a short year.

Although the Great Desolate King was extremely talented, he was born too late. At that time, the war was imminent, and before the Great Desolate King could raise his cultivation, the war had already broken out. In the end, the Great Desolate King fought several Otherworldly Demon True Kings in the Otherworldly Demon Domain, burning his Reincarnation Realm and dying.

After all, the human race truly ascended to the stage of the entire Tianxuan Continent after the arrival of the Symbol Ancestor. The arrival of the Symbol Ancestor gave the human race more inheritance, and even directly gave birth to a complete Symbol Ancestor lineage.

With a complete inheritance, the human race began to explode with talent. Compared with the human race, the Demon Beast race and the Sea Beast race had far too many innate advantages.

In the Primordial Era, after the end of the Divine Beast era, the beast era of Demon Beasts and Sea Beasts had already begun.

Although they lost the abilities of Divine Beasts, they still had a thin inheritance of Divine Beast bloodlines. Among them, some top Demon Beasts and Sea Beast races even had thin bloodlines of the Four Sacred Beasts and Four Fiend Beasts.

For example, the Dragon race obtained the bloodline of the Sacred Beast Azure Dragon, while the Dark Holy Tiger race obtained the bloodlines of both the Sacred Beast White Tiger and the Fiend Beast Qiongqi. The Nine Phoenix Clan has the Vermilion Bird bloodline, and although the Kunpeng Clan does not have the Vermilion Bird bloodline, it has the bloodline of the top Divine Beast Kunpeng, second only to the Sacred Beasts, and the concentration is even higher.

Among those thin bloodlines, although there is no bloodline inheritance of the Divine Beasts of the Primordial Era, they are also mixed with some broken powers of heaven and earth rules. Although they are very few and extremely broken, and cannot be used at all, the strands of power in them can allow the earliest beast races in ancient times to have the instinctive power to learn.

Before the arrival of the Symbol Ancestor, the Demon Beast race and the Sea Beast race were the masters of the entire Tianxuan Continent. The Sea Beast race mainly lived in the current Chaotic Demon Sea area, while the Demon Beast race mainly lived in the ancient Demon Continent, which is now the Demon Territory.

As for the Four Great Xuan Regions, at that time, they were just a very marginal place, which can be understood as a barren land, because there were exiled Ancient Battlefields.

At that time, the Xuan Regions were considered a bitterly cold and desolate place for the Demon Beast race, exiling many criminals of the Demon Beast race, as well as some Demon Beasts without bloodlines.

After all, for the Demon Beast race, the worse the bloodline, the worse the talent, and there is no value in training, so it is naturally not worth staying in the noble ancestral land—the Demon Continent.

This is why there are almost no low-level bloodlines in the current Demon Continent. Even if there are, it is because the race has declined, and the clan has lost its strong members, thus falling into decline. However, there is still a high-level bloodline inheritance in the clan.

In the Four Great Xuan Regions, there is almost no high-level bloodline inheritance. Even if there are some, they are all mixed-blood Demon Beasts with more bloodlines, such as the Dragon race and the Tiger race.

The rise of the human race only appeared after the arrival of the Symbol Ancestor, but the arrival of the Symbol Ancestor also meant the arrival of the crisis of the Tianxuan Continent.

Therefore, the human race experts in the entire Tianxuan Continent are so rare, because those with talent have just grown up a little, and they ushered in a catastrophe.

Moreover, compared to the powerful foundation of the Demon Beast race and the Sea Beast race, the human race at that time had no foundation at all. All the experts had just grown up. Naturally, there were the best talents, and even because of the extremely dangerous environment, they grew faster.

After all, in adversity, geniuses can often show more amazing talent and perseverance.

However, geniuses are still a minority. The human race lacks intermediate strength. Therefore, after the ancient catastrophe, the top human experts either died in battle, fell asleep, or escaped into Reincarnation Realm. With the disappearance of the top human experts, coupled with the few descendants who had not yet grown into new top experts, were cleared by the Demon Prison, resulting in the human race being cut off.

Among them, the Northern Xuan Region is relatively better. After all, the Northern Xuan Region has an excellent geographical location and is relatively closed. In addition, after the end of the war that year, there were too many top experts in the Eastern Xuan Region. The Great Desolate King used several Demon Prison Otherworldly Demon True Kings as scapegoats in that battle.

Therefore, after the new Sect Master Black Eyes of the Great Desolate Sect emerged, the Demon Prison began to worry, fearing that another Great Desolate King would appear, especially since Black Eyes had also obtained the Devouring Ancestor Symbol, which made it even more necessary to guard against.

In that battle, although Black Eyes failed to break through the Reincarnation Realm, she had already reached the realm of the Reincarnation Realm. She directly burned her Reincarnation Realm in adversity and suppressed the person in charge of the Demon Prison at that time, the Nine Kings Hall, causing the Demon Prison to be directly emptied for the most part.

This led to the Darkness Hall being cut off once, but it still rose again.

Although it is said to be the Four Great Xuan Regions, the Demon Prison has always regarded the Eastern Xuan Region as a confidant's trouble. This Xuan Region always has some special geniuses. It is said that among the former Ancient Eight Rulers, five of them seemed to be born in the Eastern Xuan Region.

And the fact is indeed the case. Even later, after the failure of the Northern Xuan Region's plan, the Demon Prison successfully placed a chess piece in the Eastern Xuan Region, but it has never been able to gain anything in the Eastern Xuan Region. It has always been unable to succeed for some reason, both openly and secretly.

The Demon Prison had been planning for many years, and perhaps their greatest gain in the Eastern Xuan Region was the successful Demonic Contamination of the Space Ancestor Symbol's controller a century ago, but not long ago, he was personally killed by the Seven Kings Hall.

Apart from these, the rest should all be losses. They even directly lost a King Hall, making the remaining losses even greater.

Now, the Seven Kings Hall felt that this avatar of his might end up being completely accounted for in the Eastern Xuan Region.

However, fortunately, the most crucial link had already been completed, which could be considered a bit of consolation.