Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

The Holy Son of All Spirits plans to use the lives of three million mortals to activate a secret technique to forcibly break the restriction.

As for the lives of these mortals, the people of the Myriad Beasts Spirit Lord's Palace have never cared.

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The Palace of Ten Thousand Beasts

Cangyun is one of the seven overlords in the cultivation world.

Its style is completely different from that of the Yunhai Cangming Sect, which emphasizes order and tradition.

The Myriad Beasts Spirit Lord's Palace is jointly ruled by several ancient demon beast bloodline families. There are no sect competitions, no Daoist Hall, and no master-disciple inheritance. What exists is bloodline and the law of the jungle. The internal competition is brutally ruthless—

The highest-ranking ruling families are known as the "Holy Clan," and they are the ones who rule over everything.

Below the Holy Clan are various large and small families. Below that, there are no so-called independent cultivators.

At the very bottom are mortals without spiritual roots.

In the Cangyun cultivation world, the most populous sects are the Heavenly Law Divine Sect of the Central Continent and the Myriad Beasts Spirit Venerable Mansion of the Southern Continent. Both have populations exceeding one trillion.

Southern Continent. These trillions of mortals are divided into 50,000 "tribes." Each tribe contains anywhere from several million to hundreds of millions of people.

Each tribe supports a third-tier demonic beast comparable to a Core Formation cultivator.

The sole purpose of these tribes' existence was to feed demonic beasts. And these holy clan members rode these third-tier demonic beasts to patrol their pastures.

Over the years, the Myriad Beasts Spirit Lord's Palace discovered one thing: humans are the essence of heaven and earth, born with an innate spirituality. This innate spirituality can promote the growth of demonic beasts, increase their foundation, improve their advancement probability, and even enable them to develop more powerful magical abilities.

Meanwhile, the cultivators of the Myriad Beasts Spirit Lord's Mansion harvest the power, bloodline, and supernatural abilities of demonic beasts, transforming them into their own cultivation and foundation.

Mortals feed demonic beasts. Demonic beasts provide sustenance for cultivators. Cultivators rule over mortals.

This forms a perfect closed loop.

The Southern Continent is the breeding ground of the Myriad Beasts Spirit Venerable's Mansion. It's specifically for raising those few Divine Transformation Saints.

Mortals without spiritual roots are of no value to them.

They were not considered one of the same kind by the cultivators of the Myriad Beasts Spirit Venerable Palace. They had a special name—Flesh Worms.

In order to enable mortals to reproduce more quickly and produce more "meat" faster, the Palace of Ten Thousand Beasts destroyed all civilization of the mortals in the Southern Continent.

There is no writing, no history, no art, no commodities, and no morality.

Only one thing was preserved—faith.

Belief in demonic beasts.

From birth, mortals are taught that being devoured by monsters is an honor, a stroke of luck, a salvation, and a final destination.

They walked willingly into the beast's mouth like lambs.

Their fate seemed to be destined to be devoured by monsters.

Therefore, the Cloud Sea Cangming Sect's evaluation of the Myriad Beasts Spirit Venerable Mansion can be summed up in four words: "Inhuman."

The cultivators of the Myriad Beasts Spirit Lord's Mansion have lost their right to be human.

Such a force should not exist under normal circumstances.

But it has existed, and has stood for tens of thousands of years.

They rely on their powerful foundation, their fifty thousand demonic beasts comparable to those at the Core Formation stage, and their terrifying supernatural abilities, secret techniques, and forbidden arts nurtured from the flesh and blood of countless mortals.

Historically, other overlords have also joined forces to besiege the Palace of Ten Thousand Beasts on several occasions, but they have never been able to completely eliminate them.

Ultimately, their sphere of influence could only be limited to the Southern Continent, and they were not allowed to expand outwards.

The strongest cultivation sect in Cangyun is the "Tianlu Divine Sect" in Zhongzhou.

They controlled ninety percent of the continent's spiritual veins, and the remaining ten percent was transformed into eight hundred secret realms, where they cultivated various monsters as training subjects.

Then they trained countless cultivators into army legions of cultivators.

Every year, the Heavenly Law Divine Sect launches an expedition with two targets—the first being the Nine Nether Demon Sect in the Western Wilderness Continent. The Nine Nether Demon Sect was originally a product of the human race using demons to control demons. Over tens of thousands of years, the situation has spiraled out of control, but that's the way of the demons, so it's not surprising.

The other one is the Palace of the Myriad Beasts Spirit Lord.

The Heavenly Law Divine Sect fought against two opponents single-handedly.

The Nine Nether Demon Sect would occasionally catch its breath and negotiate. In fact, because the demons in the Western Demon Abyss were multiplying too quickly and growing too powerful, when the Nine Nether Demon Sect asked the human race for help, the Heavenly Law Divine Sect could only reluctantly accept it, which was a relationship of both fighting and coaxing.

However, the Myriad Beasts Spirit Venerable's Mansion did not have this option. The Heavenly Law Divine Sect had only one attitude towards the Myriad Beasts Spirit Venerable's Mansion—complete annihilation.

During the annual expedition, other overlords would also send some of their forces to join.

Wuji Sword Sect and Bingpo Profound Sect are frequent visitors.

The Yunhai Cangming Sect also has dozens of Core Formation cultivators who frequent the expeditionary force year-round.

Even the Nine Nether Demon Sect, which everyone hates, the Hundred Arts Immortal Alliance, which maintains neutrality, and the Star Ruins Sect, which has been closed for many years due to an accident, occasionally come to lend a hand.

But it's been 50,000 years.

The Palace of the Myriad Beasts Spirit Lord still stands tall.

The path of feeding monsters with humans, though cruel, is indeed feasible.

Monsters often undergo mutations and revert to their ancestral forms, giving birth to powerful ancient monsters.

The law of the jungle, survival of the fittest—that's one way to go.

Or perhaps, from the perspective of heaven and earth, there is no essential difference between demons eating humans and humans eating demons.

Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are dogs.

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Three days later. The three million "flesh worms" were gathered.

The Holy Son of All Spirits stood before the entrance to the sacred land. Behind him lay countless streams of blood, forming a massive blood-patterned magic array that covered the entire ancient city. Blood-red light soared into the sky, dyeing it a dark crimson.

The power of the blood sacrifice seemed to erode through the outer layer of restrictions on the holy land. When the last layer of restrictions shattered, light surged out from within the holy land.

The Holy Son of All Spirits went inside.

When he came out, he was holding a treasure bottle in his hand. The bottle was pure white, and inside the bottle, gold, silver and purple light intertwined and swirled, like a small galaxy.

Three Lights Treasure Bottle.

A fourth-tier magic weapon. It can produce fourth-tier true water—the True Water of the Three Lights of Sun, Moon, and Stars.

But the Holy Son of Ten Thousand Spirits did not look well.

That wasn't his goal. His real target was the Luo Tian Palace, a fourth-tier superior palace-grade magic treasure, the number one treasure in the Luo Tian Sect, second only to fifth-tier spiritual treasures.

Before entering the secret realm, the Myriad Beasts Spirit Venerable's Mansion also acquired several surviving descendants of the Luo Tian Sect. They used special methods to reproduce these individuals, cultivating tens of thousands of flesh worms.

Finally, a few rare species similar to Yan Feng, which had reverted to their ancestral forms, appeared. The Holy Son of Ten Thousand Spirits used the souls of these fleshy worms to detect the existence of the magic treasure, the Luo Tian Palace.

This is the real reason he entered the secret realm.

Although the Three Lights Treasure Bottle is quite valuable, after tens of thousands of years, it would take at least a hundred years to produce Three Lights True Water again before it could be used normally. But for him now, it's somewhat of a useless item.

The Holy Son of Ten Thousand Spirits stared at the fourth-tier magic weapon for a long time. In the end, he put away the Three Lights Treasure Bottle.

"Pass down the order," his voice rang out, "Let the demonic calamity sweep across the entire secret realm."

The nine disciples behind him bowed their heads at the same time.

"Yes."

The wind blew by, carrying a heavy smell of blood, causing his loose black hair to flutter backward. On his dark gold armor, the scales flickered in and out, like breathing.

In the distance, the howls of the demons outside the city rose and fell like waves, perhaps never ceasing.