The same year.
Within the hundreds of thousands of human academies established by the Human Heavenly Court.
There was an academy named Kui Shui Academy, located on the original site of the Kui Shui Tribe, one of the former Three Thousand Tribes.
The former Three Thousand Tribes, through mergers and divisions, had ultimately become history. From tribes to sci-fi cities, and from sci-fi cities to the Human Heavenly Court… times had changed, and it was no longer what it once was.
The tribal chiefs of the Three Thousand Tribes now held only high-ranking positions within the Human race, their tribal chief status having become a historical title.
Among them, the Kui Shui Tribe, two thousand years ago, was adjacent to the Xuan Yang Tribe. It was the neighboring tribe, and the first to discover the power of the Heaven-Shielding Method. Before Fang Ming became the Human Emperor, the Kui Shui tribal chief had sought Fang Ming to pass down the Heaven-Shielding Method.
Now, the past had turned to smoke. The Kui Shui Tribe had long been merged into the Human Heavenly Court, and its former members now resided above the Nine Heavens, at the pinnacle of the Nine Heavens.
The Kui Shui tribal chief had long since transformed from a mere Profound Immortal into a powerhouse comparable to the late Quasi-Sage stage. Within the Heavenly Court, they were known as high-ranking officials of the Human race. The original tribal structures, the walls, thatched huts, and stone chairs built by the primitive human tribe, had long been discarded.
The people of the Kui Shui Tribe no longer needed to return to their former tribal life.
But as the old faded, the new emerged. In the fifth millennium of the Heavenly Emperor calendar, four thousand years ago – approximately five thousand years after Fang Ming defeated the Demon Court.
The Human Heavenly Court established numerous human academies to educate the new generation of humans. To commemorate history, a Human Great Luo powerhouse specifically selected the original Kui Shui Tribe site to construct a human academy.
This was the origin of Kui Shui Academy.
Many human scholars studied here. Generally, one was allowed to graduate from here only after cultivating to the second level of the Immortal Platform and achieving immortality.
Chu Lingtian, Lin Yulan.
A young man and a young woman, both students of Kui Shui Academy.
The young man was full of youthful spirit, and the young woman leaned beside him. Both possessed cultivation at the Dragon Transformation Realm and were considered prodigies, the pride of the academy.
This was not surprising.
For Chu Lingtian and Lin Yulan were true youths, genuinely fourteen or fifteen years old, with less than ten years of cultivation experience.
Such talent, even within Kui Shui Academy, was considered top-tier. After the Dragon Transformation Realm came the Immortal Platform Realm, which in the洪荒法 (Hong Huang Fa) meant achieving immortality!
Achieving immortality in ten years was an inconceivable feat in the old era. Even in this new era, they were rare and peerless prodigies.
Such peerless prodigies had a good chance of ascending to the Nine Heavens in the future, cultivating to the Great Luo level of power, and entering the core institutions of the Human Heavenly Court.
Chu Lingtian and Lin Yulan, clad in the standard student uniforms of Kui Shui Academy, were passing by a classroom.
The voice of an academy instructor could be heard from within the classroom…
"In this history lesson, we discussed how the Heavenly Emperor descended upon the Demon Court. Donghuang Taiyi, wielding the Chaos Bell, engaged in battle, breaking through to the Sub-Sage realm during the fight. Yet, the Heavenly Emperor calmly annihilated him."
"It turns out that it wasn't that only the Heavenly Emperor could have annihilated Donghuang Taiyi beforehand, but rather that the Heavenly Emperor waited for Donghuang Taiyi to break through, so that the spoils of war could transform from Quasi-Sage realm soul rings to Sub-Sage realm soul rings…"
"…"
"The three Heavenly Dao Sages invited Sage Taiqing to emerge. The arrogant Sage Taiqing… was sealed… his expression eternally frozen for an immeasurable kalpa…"
Chu Lingtian and Lin Yulan had already attended this history lesson.
Upon hearing the instructor's voice drift from the classroom into the corridor, they couldn't help but exchange smiles.
"Every time I hear about the Heavenly Emperor's past deeds, I feel a surge of excitement."
Chu Lingtian spoke first.
His eyes were filled with adoration for the Heavenly Emperor.
"Indeed! The Heavenly Emperor's past deeds, that period of arduous years leading the human race to develop and grow, I never tire of hearing about it."
"Without the Heavenly Emperor, the human race would have forever lived in an era of being slaughtered by the Demon Court and controlled by the faith of Immortals and Buddhas…"
"The Heavenly Emperor is the savior of the human race! Without the Heavenly Emperor, there would be no human race!"
Lin Yulan also held boundless admiration for the Heavenly Emperor.
Although many demons had claimed that the Heavenly Emperor was a descent of an Outer-Realm Demon, with the ultimate goal of invading the Great Desolation World to satisfy his desire for dominion, a selfish ambition.
That he was an ambitious schemer and harbored ill intentions.
But in the eyes of human students like Lin Yulan and Chu Lingtian, what Outer-Realm Demon, coming from the outside, were all mere fictions!
The Heavenly Emperor gave the human race the qualification to rise, allowing them to overthrow the cruel rule of Immortals, Buddhas, Gods, and the Demon Court.
The bloodthirsty primitive demons, no longer preying on humans, were now preyed upon by humans.
The Western Teachings Buddhas and Chan Teachings Immortals, who once controlled humans through faith and incense, were now fit only to kneel at the feet of the Human Heavenly Court.
It was the Heavenly Emperor who led the human race to the position of overlords of the Great Desolation.
It was the Heavenly Emperor who made the human race no longer humble, no longer needing to resign themselves to fate, no longer needing to worry about demons devouring humans, nor about being controlled in their faith and minds by the Western Teachings and Chan Teachings!
The Heavenly Emperor had done so much for the human race, so many tangible deeds. Even if he were an Outer-Realm Demon, so what? Even if he were an ambitious schemer, so what?
Could it erase the countless merits the Heavenly Emperor had established for the human race?
All this talk of Outer-Realm Demons was mere fiction! In the hearts of human students, even if the Heavenly Emperor's true identity was not the young man from the Xuan Yang Tribe, but a possession – he was still the supreme Heavenly Emperor in the Human Heavenly Court!
The Heavenly Emperor's authority never lay in the original human youth from the tribe who was possessed and only had the cultivation of Refining Spirit Returning to Void…
The one revered as supreme by countless humans was the Heavenly Emperor who led the human race to glory – not some ordinary young tribal chief trembling in a tribe…
This was a truth understood by almost all humans!
It was a matter of essence!
"The new batch of soul rings is nearing harvest time."
Chu Lingtian suddenly said.
"The soul rings of demons can be used to cultivate their innate divine abilities, or they can be refined to increase our cultivation."
"They are quite useful."
"Let's go to the breeding farm first and see if there are any suitable soul rings available for our use."
The demon race had now been almost driven to extinction by the human race.
As early as the first millennium of the Heavenly Emperor calendar, many high-ranking officials of the Human race felt that this was not sustainable.
If the demon race went extinct, where would human students get soul rings? Would their cultivation growth slow down? Would their innate divine abilities be unable to be cultivated?
Without demon cores, where would the raw materials for the Human race's Marrow Cleansing Immortal Pills, which improved the talent and roots of human students, be found?
This would not do!
The high-ranking officials of the Human race had jointly discussed and passed a decision: the Breeding Farm Law.