"Humans are merely created from mud, how can they compare to the bloodlines of the myriad races of the Demon Court?"
"Among the myriad races of the Demon Court, any race, any individual, can be born as an immortal, born as an immortal."
"The fact that humans have cultivation realms like refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, refining spirit into void, and refining void into the Dao, shows that the bloodline power of any race in the Demon Court is superior to that of humans."
"The myriad races of the Demon Court have no cultivators."
"Ten thousand years ago, I divined the heavenly secrets with a flick of my finger. Over ninety percent of the human population were cultivators, and only one in ten humans achieved the Earth Immortal realm."
Di Jun continued:
"Earth Immortals are already high-ranking officials in human tribes, Heavenly Immortals are elders, and Profound Immortals can control a human tribe."
"The patriarchs of major human tribes are only at the Golden Immortal realm."
"The entire human race only has three Taiyi Golden Immortals: Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi."
"With such meager strength, do I need to mobilize all the legions of the myriad races of the Demon Court to collect trillions upon trillions of human essence blood? Do I have no dignity?"
"Even if this matter of forging the Witch-Slaying Sword is important, sending just one Great Luo Demon God would be giving the humans enough face!"
Di Jun utterly disdained humans, believing that any one of the over three hundred Great Luo Demon Gods from the Demon Court could annihilate the entire human race.
This Kunpeng was clearly out of his mind, suggesting that all the forces of the myriad races of the Demon Court should descend. This was far too high an estimation of the humans!
It was also too damaging to the prestige of the Demon Court and his own status as the Lord of the Myriad Races.
How could such a loss of prestige be tolerated?
It was sufficient to have his subordinates handle it; there was no need for him to personally intervene.
Di Jun paced back and forth, and instantly decided who to send for this task.
"Kunpeng, go inform Jiuying Demon Sage. Let him handle this matter."
"This matter, the forging of the Witch-Slaying Sword, will be his full responsibility."
"I want to see results within a hundred years."
Jiuying Demon Sage!
The Demon Court had Ten Great Demon Sages: Baize, Yingzhao, Citie, Jiuying, Guiche, Feilian...
These Demon Sages were of equal status, second only to Kunpeng, Di Jun, and Taiyi, serving as Di Jun's subordinates.
The strength of the Ten Great Demon Sages varied depending on their innate divine abilities.
However, their basic cultivation levels were similar, all belonging to the early stage of the Quasi-Saint realm. While there were differences in combat power, they were not significantly large.
They could all be categorized as newly promoted Quasi-Saints or ordinary Quasi-Saints.
Di Jun confidently entrusted the forging of the Witch-Slaying Sword entirely to Jiuying Demon Sage. In his opinion, Jiuying, an early-stage Quasi-Saint cultivator, was fully capable of handling this matter alone.
Upon hearing the name Jiuying Demon Sage, Kunpeng had no objections. His thoughts were similar to Di Jun's.
Although forging the Witch-Slaying Sword was a significant matter, crucial for breaking the Ancestral Witch's true body, its acquisition was not difficult and was quite simple.
Jiuying, as a Demon Sage, one of the Ten Great Demon Sages of the Demon Court, and holding a status second only to Kunpeng, Di Jun, and Taiyi, was fully capable of handling this matter.
Frankly, Kunpeng would not have found it problematic even if Di Jun had sent a Great Luo Demon God to oversee this task.
The reason for sending a Demon Sage instead of a Great Luo Demon God, in Kunpeng's view, was that Di Jun did not want to diminish his own prestige.
After all, the Great Luo Demon Gods were subordinates of Di Jun's subordinates. When giving orders, it was sufficient to summon one's own subordinates.
Giving orders across multiple levels, summoning subordinates' subordinates to assign tasks, was also a matter that damaged one's prestige.
Kunpeng completely understood Di Jun's decision to directly instruct Jiuying Demon Sage.
Having figured this out, Kunpeng respectfully said to Di Jun, "I shall go now to inform Jiuying Demon Sage and let him take full responsibility for forging the Witch-Slaying Sword and slaughtering the human race."
Di Jun said, "I trust your work. Go quickly."
Kunpeng received the order and departed.
Not long after Kunpeng left, a small Golden Crow emerged from beneath Di Jun's desk.
The small Golden Crow seemed to possess Golden Immortal cultivation. He transformed into a young boy with a flame divine pattern between his eyebrows.
The boy asked Di Jun with confusion, "Father Emperor, why did you publicly embarrass the Demon Master? The Demon Master is the Teacher of Myriad Demons of our Demon Court, has rendered great service, and is loyal..."
Upon hearing this, Di Jun said, "Lu Ya, you still don't understand. While the Demon Master has rendered great service, he is not necessarily loyal."
The boy's identity was now clear: he was the youngest Golden Crow Prince, the Tenth Prince Lu Ya.
In the myths of the Primordial Era, he was the only one who survived the ordeal of Hou Yi shooting the suns and remained extremely active during the Investiture of the Gods era, even holding the title of Daoist Lord Lu Ya.
Of course, at this time, he was not as powerful as in later times. He only possessed Golden Immortal cultivation and was the weakest among the ten Golden Crow Princes.
Di Jun looked at Lu Ya, his expression becoming serious, no longer the foolish demeanor he displayed before Kunpeng.
He said gravely, "My son, you must remember that among the Ten Great Demon Sages, you can trust all of them."
"However, the Demon Master Kunpeng is not to be fully trusted."
"Sometimes, he must be put in his place to prevent him from harboring any ill intentions."
Lu Ya pondered for a moment and said, "So, Father Emperor, you deliberately reprimanded the Demon Master in person?"
"Deliberately called him incapable of understanding and an idiot with low intelligence?"
Di Jun, with a wise demeanor, replied, "This is part of the art of ruling. My son, you must learn it well."
Lu Ya fell silent.
What did this have to do with the art of ruling?
Could he say that when he saw Di Jun scolding the Demon Master earlier, he thought Di Jun was the idiot?
"The art of ruling..."
"What is that..."
Lu Ya's eyes held a hint of confusion.
...
"His Majesty ordered me to slaughter the human race and forge the Witch-Slaying Sword?"
Jiuying Demon Sage was slightly bewildered upon receiving the message from Kunpeng.
"And I am to be fully responsible for this matter?"
Kunpeng Demon Master was not as respectful to Jiuying Demon Sage as he was to Di Jun.
He said with a hint of ferocity, "That's right, His Majesty the Demon Emperor gave the order."
"And he wants you to provide a result within a hundred years... meaning, to present the finished Witch-Slaying Sword to His Majesty."
"Can you accomplish this?"
After speaking, Kunpeng's gaze fixed on Jiuying Demon Sage, extremely sinister.
Jiuying Demon Sage smiled and readily agreed.
"What difficulty is there in this? It's merely a weak race."
"To deal with a race that doesn't even have a single Great Luo Golden Immortal, I only need to dispatch a hundred million demon soldiers to completely annihilate them and achieve the goal of collecting essence blood and forging the Witch-Slaying Sword."
"There are no difficulties in this matter. Please rest assured, Your Majesty, and please rest assured, Demon Master."