My little sect, which disappeared a thousand years ago, has become a sacred site!

However, the instant their thoughts or gazes touched that area—

"Buzz!"

An indescribable, ancient pressure and awe, originating from the deepest part of their blood and soul, struck their minds fiercely from a great distance!

"puff!"

An ancient demon ancestor who was in seclusion and whose aura was unstable groaned on the spot, a strand of demon blood with golden light spilled from the corner of his mouth, and the Dao aura around his body became disordered.

"This...this is...the aura of an ancient divine beast?!"

The knowledgeable Phoenix Clan ancestor gasped in disbelief, his voice trembling with disbelief.

She felt that the faint Phoenix bloodline within her body resonated weakly with... fear in front of those distant phantom figures!

"No, how could a divine bloodline appear in the Nine Heavens Realm?! Could it be the reproduction of some kind of formation? But what kind of formation could summon ten ferocious beasts at once?!"

"A malevolent force! The ultimate malevolent force of destruction! How could these two completely different powers... coexist so harmoniously?!"

Another reclusive elder of the dragon clan had his pupils shrink to needle size, and his dragon soul was trembling.

All the powerful beings who turned their gazes towards this moment felt the absolute suppression and vast heavenly might that surpassed all the bloodlines of the demon race, as if they were facing the ancestral laws at the beginning of the world.

Their gazes involuntarily shifted from the world-destroying formation to the eleven figures standing high in the sky.

Those ten demonic figures, each exuding a semi-immortal aura and displaying different postures, were not unfamiliar to them—they were none other than the Ten Demon Ancestors of the Heavenly Demon Pavilion, who had risen to prominence in the past thousand years and attracted the attention of countless forces.

Judging from their current posture, standing half a step behind the man in black with a subtle sense of protection and reverence... all the observers instantly came to the same earth-shattering conclusion:

This black-clad man with an unfathomable aura is probably the mysterious and enigmatic Lord of the Heavenly Demon Pavilion, who has never truly appeared before the demon realm in the past thousand years.

For thousands of years, they have speculated countless times about the identity and strength of this Heavenly Demon Pavilion Master. Some say he has already perished, some say he has gone into seclusion to cultivate, and some say he has already left the Nine Heavens Realm, but no demon has ever seen him truly appear.

No one could have imagined that this legendary pavilion master would cause such a sensation upon his first appearance.

With a single move, he unleashed two ancient killing formations, summoning ten phantom images of divine beasts that directly crushed the entire Myriad Demon Alliance.

The oppressive and destructive power brought by the six divine beasts summoned by these two great formations was several times, or even a hundred times, stronger than any ancient formation or sect secret formation they knew.

A cold and desperate realization surfaced in the minds of these powerful beings:

Let alone the superposition of these two formations, even if either one were placed in the core of their ancestral land, which their clan had cultivated for thousands of years, and the entire clan were mobilized to activate the clan's protective formation, they probably wouldn't be able to withstand it.

The primordial Dao traces and destructive power contained within that formation are beyond the imagination and resistance of any force in the current demon realm.

This was also the effect Gu Changyuan wanted.

Not only must we completely eradicate this constantly provocative Demon Alliance, but we must also take this opportunity to demonstrate to the entire demon realm what the untouchable "divine might" is and establish unspoken rules.

Finally, under the devastating power of the two formations and the focus of the entire demon realm, the remaining elders and leaders in the City of Ten Thousand Demons, who had just been clamoring for "settling things," completely collapsed.

Dignity and power are worthless in the face of life and death and absolute power disparity.

However, Gu Changyuan did not even flinch at these belated pleas and surrenders.

His mind stirred slightly.

"boom--!!!"

The combined pressure suddenly surged to an indescribably terrifying level.

The demon cultivators below, whether they were the elders begging for mercy, the leaders, or the demon cultivators themselves, all suffered shattered souls and exploded demon cores under this terrifying pressure, and were instantly killed by the formation.

In the blink of an eye, the once arrogant and powerful Ten Thousand Demon Alliance was reduced to ruins, devoid of any vitality.

Gu Changyuan remained expressionless, casually waving his right hand.

A huge gourd, entirely black with dark gold and mysterious patterns flowing across its surface, appeared out of thin air directly above the ruins of the City of Ten Thousand Demons.

With the gourd mouth facing down, give it a gentle shake.

"Buzz..."

A powerful, pure, yet incredibly gentle suction force descended upon them.

In an instant, the vast energy permeating the entire site began to be extracted and separated in an orderly manner.

That was the vast legacy left behind after the fall of countless demon cultivators in the Myriad Demon Alliance:

The spiritual energy condensed by the cultivator, the rich life force, and the lingering soul energy that has not yet completely dissipated.

The gourd contains its own universe, where spiritual energy, blood energy, and soul energy are completely separated and placed without interfering with each other, and not a single bit is wasted.

Gu Changyuan watched as the gourd slowly absorbed the three energies, a faint smile curving his lips.

He thought of his disciples in the Heavenly Demon Sect in the Demon Realm. These spiritual energy, blood energy, and soul energy were undoubtedly the most precious cultivation resources for them.

The Demon Realm has a unique environment and is mainly composed of three races with very different innate constitutions: humans, ghosts, and souls.

Among them, human demon cultivators absorb and refine spiritual energy to strengthen their demonic essence; ghosts devour blood energy to temper their ghost bodies and improve their cultivation; and soul cultivators rely on absorbing pure soul energy to nourish their soul cores and elevate their realm.

And the source of these three energies is cultivators.

The demon races are not inherently evil, nor can they be simply equated with "evil cultivators".

They are born with a special constitution and must transform one of the three energies—spiritual energy, blood energy, and soul energy—into a unique demonic energy for cultivation. This is their way of survival and evolution.

Take the human race in the demon realm as an example. Initially, the demon realm only had two races: ghosts and souls.

The human race migrated there later for various reasons.

Human cultivators are born with vastly different physical constitutions and talents, among whom there are naturally those with special constitutions who are compatible with demonic energy or even rely on it to grow.

These children are often seen as "outcasts" or "ominous," abandoned or persecuted, and driven to desperation, they eventually escape into or are led to the demon realm.

They multiplied and thrived in the demon realm, gradually growing stronger, and eventually became the new demon race.

However, due to differences in cultivation philosophies and interests, it later split into multiple human factions, fighting each other and creating chaos.

The Heavenly Demon Sect was founded by Gu Changyuan himself, ten thousand years after the formation of the Demon Realm's power structure.

From the very beginning, he established an ironclad rule: do not kill the innocent indiscriminately, and do not harm living beings.

So, where do the cultivation resources of the Heavenly Demon Sect disciples come from?

The answer is simple: it was taken from the innocent, from those who deserved to die.

Therefore, when the Heavenly Demon Sect was established, the system rewarded it with a special standard magic weapon tailored specifically for the Heavenly Demon Sect - the "Three Qi Returning to Origin Gourd".

This gourd has miraculous effects; it can absorb, purify, and preserve the spiritual energy, blood energy, and soul energy within a living being after its death.

Afterwards, the disciples only need to bring the gourd back to the sect and transfer the absorbed three energies into the corresponding "three energies reservoir" to receive contribution points based on the capacity.

One can also refine the Qi one needs for cultivation, and exchange the other two types of Qi with disciples who need them.

In contrast, many other races or factions in the Demon Realm often acquire resources in a more direct and brutal way.

They either hunt and absorb the animals on the spot, or capture them alive and keep them in captivity, extracting the nutrients slowly.

Its efficiency is far inferior to that of the Heavenly Demon Sect's model.

For this reason, disciples of the Heavenly Demon Sect often choose to accept sect missions and go to various secret realms, ancient battlefields, or chaotic regions where fierce fighting and heavy casualties are rampant.

There, if you encounter an unclaimed corpse, you can directly collect its three energies; if you encounter a vicious and evil cultivator robbing and bullying the weak, you can decisively take action, slay the demon and eliminate the evil, and then use the gourd to collect its "inheritance".

Over time, many cultivators in the Nine Heavens Realm may become wary of demonic cultivators, but when they encounter a disciple wearing the Heavenly Demon Sect's insignia and wielding that iconic black gourd...

Many upright or neutral monks would actually develop a favorable impression and even offer clues or cooperation.

As a result, an unwritten rule has been passed down among cultivators.

If you encounter disciples of the Heavenly Demon Sect, you can travel with them without worry. They never provoke trouble, but they are never afraid of trouble either.

Many cultivators even gave the Heavenly Demon Sect a "five-star rating," calling it a "breath of fresh air in the demon realm."