Although the Blood Flame Serpent clan was just an ordinary race among the myriad races, lacking Great Luo Golden Immortals, they could not hold the positions of Demon Gods or Demon Sages in the Demon Court.
However, the clan leader of the Blood Flame Serpent clan was appointed to the position of Demon Marshal.
Demon Marshal, the commander of the demon race.
This position, though seemingly prestigious, commanded the demon armies.
But considering that the Demon Court had at least tens of thousands, perhaps even a hundred thousand, Taiyi Golden Immortals, the Blood Flame Serpent clan leader knew that the position of Demon Marshal was not of high value.
Rather than a commander of the myriad races in the Demon Court, it was more like a commander within each individual race.
The same applied to Demon Generals.
Otherwise, how could a Golden Immortal cultivation base be called a Demon General?
It was merely a general of a single race among the myriad races.
The Blood Flame Serpent clan leader was well aware of these facts.
But in the years that followed, he witnessed the methods of Di Jun and Tai Yi.
Many of the myriad races in the Demon Court, including many from the Blood Flame Serpent clan, began to consider themselves as part of the demon race.
Myriad races are the demon race.
This concept made the Blood Flame Serpent clan leader realize that Di Jun and Tai Yi's methods were far more brilliant than those of the Qilin clan, one of the three ancient races.
In the past, all members of the Blood Flame Serpent clan knew they belonged to the Blood Flame Serpent clan, and that the Blood Flame Serpent clan was loyal to the Qilin clan. Thus, the Blood Flame Serpent clan was a subordinate race, and the Qilin clan was a superior race.
The Qilin clan treated the Blood Flame Serpent clan as their subordinates.
Therefore, every being in the Blood Flame Serpent clan knew their identity was that of a Blood Flame Serpent.
However, Di Jun and Tai Yi believed that the Blood Flame Serpent clan was not merely the Blood Flame Serpent clan, but the demon race.
They considered the Blood Flame Serpent clan to be a part of the myriad races.
The term "myriad races" was frequently used before the establishment of the Demon Court, but less so after.
More and more of the myriad races no longer identified with their original races; they increasingly embraced the concept of being part of the demon race.
The demon race, enemies of the Witch race.
The Blood Flame Serpent clan leader saw through this, but he could not change the fact that many young beings in the Blood Flame Serpent clan accepted their identity as demons.
He saw through it but could not change it; Di Jun and Tai Yi's methods as Demon Emperors were indeed brilliant.
The times changed rapidly.
The Blood Flame Serpent clan leader never imagined that, besides the Witch race, another dominant race had risen as an enemy of the Demon Court.
This dominant race was called the Human race.
The Nine Infant Demon Sage and two other Demon Sages, who had led an expedition against the Human race, all perished at the hands of the Human race, thus establishing the Human race's might.
Generations of talented individuals emerge, and it was the same in the Great Desolation.
The Blood Flame Serpent clan leader observed the fear of the Human race within the Demon Court, and the fear of the Human race in Demon Emperor Di Jun.
The once brilliant Demon Emperor had become fearful of the Human race.
The Demon Court seemed like a setting sun.
The Blood Flame Serpent clan leader, having felt the rapid progress of cultivating the Heaven-Shielding Method, had already concluded the downfall of the Demon Court.
The Blood Flame Serpent clan fled the Demon Court, abandoning their identity as demons.
The Blood Flame Serpent clan leader dedicated himself to studying the Heaven-Shielding Method, hoping to learn it to resist the Human race.
However, when a net descended, bringing down various lightning tribulations and enveloping him, the Blood Flame Serpent clan leader realized he could not escape his identity as a demon.
Relying on the Heaven-Shielding Method to strengthen the race was ultimately a fantasy.
That Human Emperor Fang Ming had already laid out a heavenly net, using his own heart to represent the heart of heaven, and with lightning, he had nearly annihilated everything.
This Human Emperor intended to exterminate the myriad races of the Demon Court.
The Blood Flame Serpent clan could not escape annihilation.
The Blood Flame Serpent clan leader perished.
Before his demise, he seemed to see the Human Emperor repelling the Witch race and unifying the Great Desolation.
As for who would win between the Saints and the Human Emperor, and whether the six Saints could tolerate the Human Emperor's actions, the Blood Flame Serpent clan leader no longer knew.
These were no longer matters for him, a fallen sentient being, to ponder.
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Extra Volume: The Chaos Bell Chapter.
Tai Yi, Demon Emperor Tai Yi.
Since his birth, Tai Yi had been a top-tier innate divine being.
He and his elder brother, Di Jun, were born from the heavens and earth on the Sun Star.
They created their own cultivation technique, the Great Sun Heart Sutra.
They established the Demon Court, gathered the myriad races, and opposed the Witch race.
The Great Desolation was then ruled by the two dominant powers, the Witches and the Demons, for billions of years.
Tai Yi appeared unafraid of anyone, except the Saints.
Even in the face of a Saint, he dared to speak a few words, harboring the thought of defying the Saints.
However, he could never forget the scene he experienced within the Chaos Bell.
The Chaos Bell was one of the three primordial treasures formed during Pangu's creation of the heavens and earth, alongside the Taiji Diagram and the Pangu Banner.
Tai Yi obtained it and named it the Eastern Emperor Bell.
Once, while comprehending the laws within the Eastern Emperor Bell, he seemed to see the figure of a young girl.
A green-clothed maiden.
"Who are you?"
Tai Yi asked the green-clothed maiden.
The Chaos Bell belonged to him; how could he tolerate the existence of something within it that he could not control?
Was this person a Saint? Or a Chaos Demon God?
Tai Yi vigilantly observed the green-clothed maiden.
The green-clothed maiden regarded Tai Yi's peak Quasi-Saint aura as if it were nothing.
Tai Yi's Quasi-Saint magical power, upon reaching her, could not even leave a trace.
Tai Yi was greatly alarmed.
Even a Saint could not ignore his full-power strike.
Was this person above Saints?
"Who am I..."
The green-clothed maiden's eyes held a hint of remembrance and a touch of indifference.
"I am the Fox God of Qing Qiu, from Qing Qiu Mountain."
The green-clothed maiden seemed to reveal a fox tail.
"Senior, please do not joke like this."
Tai Yi's tone was full of doubt.
What was Qing Qiu Mountain?
It was the ancestral land of the Qing Qiu Fox clan!
The Fox God of Qing Qiu... Tai Yi knew her; she was one of the Great Luo Demon Gods!
Could a Great Luo Demon God of the Demon Court withstand his full-power strike? A peak Quasi-Saint's strike could not harm a Great Luo Demon God?
This was not a funny joke!
Tai Yi did not make such jokes.
Although... he did feel that this green-clothed maiden truly resembled the Fox God of Qing Qiu.
Why did she look so much like her?
Tai Yi fell into thought.
What benefit would there be in impersonating the Fox God of Qing Qiu? Among the 365 Demon Gods of the Demon Court, the Fox God of Qing Qiu was probably a rather ordinary one.
Someone above Saints, at least at the level of Dao Ancestor Hongjun, why would they impersonate the Fox God of Qing Qiu?
Tai Yi could not find a reason.
"I am not impersonating the Fox God of Qing Qiu."
"It is just that I am not in this epoch."
The green-clothed maiden said.
"If you do not consider me the Fox God of Qing Qiu..."
"You can also call me by another title..."
Tai Yi, after a moment of silence, asked, "What title?"
The green-clothed maiden, with six fox tails, said, "I am the Sect Master of the Heavenly Dao Sect."
"You can call me the Heavenly Dao Sect Master, or you can call me the Heavenly Dao Fox Ancestor!"
"Immortal Dao—the Fourth Qing!"
In Immortal Dao, there were only the Three Pure Ones, where did a Fourth Qing come from?
Tai Yi was confused. What kind of title was this?
Tai Yi knew of the Heavenly Dao, and that cultivators in the Great Desolation all cultivated the Heavenly Dao method—but where did a sect called the Heavenly Dao Sect come from?