Then, he found the patriarch of the Mingyuan Tribe, one of the Innate Humans, or rather, the man behind the Mingyuan Tribe, Xuandu.
Suirenshi knew Xuandu.
Xuandu was the chief disciple of the Grand Pure Sage and the only human to have taken a sage as his master.
There were three thousand Innate Humans. Some remained in their homeland, while others left the human race to seek masters.
Not a small number sought masters.
Although the Innate Humans were created beings, their innate talent was still decent, and some humans found masters outside.
However, those were merely rogue cultivators at the Golden Immortal and Grand Unity Golden Immortal levels.
Xuandu, on the other hand, was the only Innate Human among them to have taken a sage as his master.
Suirenshi then asked Xuandu if there was any way for the human race to survive amidst the chaos of the demon realm.
Suirenshi recalled that at the time, Xuandu was exceedingly arrogant. Yet, this arrogant being actually pleaded for a cultivation technique for the human race.
This was an unbelievable matter.
Suirenshi was well aware of Xuandu's character. When the human race faced peril, he immediately left them, showing no lingering attachment.
Even after becoming a disciple of a sage and cultivating to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, he had never spoken a word for the human race.
Suirenshi had long lost hope of seeking help from such a Xuandu. If there were other options, he would never have sought him out.
Yet, Xuandu unexpectedly gave Suirenshi hope.
Xuandu's only request was that statues of the Grand Pure Sage be erected in all human tribes and that the humans worship them.
This request was not overly stringent.
If the Grand Pure Sage truly passed down a cultivation method suitable for the human race, one that would allow them to stand tall, then worshipping him would be natural.
Even if it were through faith and incense offerings.
Suirenshi, as one of the Three Ancestors of the Human Race, knew that sages, and their disciples, also required faith, incense, and even destiny.
However, even if incense, faith, and destiny were more important, a suitable reward, such as a cultivation method, would suffice.
What truly worried Suirenshi was whether the cultivation method given by the Grand Pure Sage, the Golden Core Great Dao, could truly help the human race, or if the Golden Core Great Dao harbored malice.
Suirenshi's suspicion was not unfounded.
The more he cultivated the Golden Core Great Dao, the more he felt that this method seemed to treat the human body as a pill to be refined.
A Golden Core, with a human as the pill.
The more Suirenshi cultivated, the more he felt this to be true. He harbored a suspicion that perhaps the demon race, in collusion with the Grand Pure Sage, had devised this method for the human race because humans cultivating the Golden Core Great Dao possessed more vital energy, making them more appealing to the demons.
Those Great Luo demon gods might have harbored such thoughts.
However, though Suirenshi subconsciously felt that the Golden Core Great Dao was not a good thing, and that Xuandu's expression at the time showed no concern for the human race,
there was no alternative. With only one cultivation method available, they could only cultivate the Golden Core Great Dao.
Even if he had other ideas, he was powerless without a method.
Thus, Suirenshi practiced the Golden Core Great Dao for several million years.
Until that day.
Suirenshi heard of the existence of the Heaven-Shielding Method.
In a distant land, there was a tribe called the Xuanyang Tribe, one of the three thousand Innate Humans from the past.
Fang Ming, the son of the Xuanyang patriarch, had created a new method.
That method was called the Heaven-Shielding Method.
The Heaven-Shielding Method allowed for extremely rapid cultivation.
Furthermore, it possessed extremely high combat power.
Suirenshi initially did not believe such a method existed.
After all, it defied common sense.
However,
after personally investigating the matter.
Suirenshi discovered that this cultivation method was indeed real.
Then, Suirenshi returned and discussed it with Ziyi Shi and the others.
"What do you think of this Fang Ming?"
Suirenshi spoke.
"This person is likely no longer the same person."
Ziyi Shi uttered these words.
It turned out that Ziyi Shi had already seen through the flaws.
However, as long as the human race could become stronger, Ziyi Shi did not care if this person was the original one.
Therefore, the Three Ancestors continued to regard Fang Ming as the Human Emperor.
Fang Ming was capable.
Suirenshi personally witnessed him subdue the patriarch of the Yanwu Tribe and force the patriarch of the Mingyuan Tribe to perish by his own hand.
Through a series of measures, he finally succeeded in unifying the human race.
He campaigned north and south, eventually destroying the Demon Court.
And became the Heavenly Emperor.
Everything Fang Ming did was for the benefit of the human race.
Therefore, Suirenshi always turned a blind eye to some of his peculiarities, including the later house arrest of the Xuanyang patriarch. Suirenshi knew about it but said nothing.
This was because the human race did not lack a young patriarch of a tribe, but they could not afford to lose the Heavenly Emperor Fang Ming, who could defeat the Demon Court.
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Extra Volume: Blood Flame Serpent Tribe Arc.
The Blood Flame Serpent Tribe was one of the myriad races in the Primordial World.
They were a branch of the serpent race and had existed since the ancient Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation.
After barely surviving the tribulation at the cost of losing ninety percent of their kin.
The Blood Flame Serpent Tribe received a summons from the then overlords, the Twin Emperors of the Demon Court, Taiyi and Dijun.
Taiyi and Dijun demanded that the Blood Flame Serpent Tribe declare themselves as demons and be incorporated into the Demon Court.
The patriarch of the Blood Flame Serpent Tribe was a Grand Unity Golden Immortal who had survived from ancient times.
He could clearly see through the conspiracy, or rather, the overt scheme, of Dijun and Taiyi.
Nominally, it was to unite all races against the Wu Clan.
However, the patriarch of the Blood Flame Serpent Tribe discovered some clues: the Wu Clan's numbers were not that great. How could they consume all the myriad races?
The Wu Clan's demand for the flesh and blood of the myriad races was not so extreme as to provoke a spontaneous alliance against them.
Why were the myriad races now implicitly pushed to the brink of alliance by the Wu Clan?
Undoubtedly, this was the work of Taiyi and Dijun.
The tribes that had already been annihilated might not have been destroyed by the Wu Clan. It was likely that Taiyi or Dijun, disguised as Wu Clan members, had acted to incite the vital energy of the myriad races.
This was a conspiracy.
However, the patriarch of the Blood Flame Serpent Tribe knew he could not expose it.
In the Primordial World, it was a case of the strong preying on the weak. Exposing the conspiracy of a Quasi-Saint was seeking one's own death.
This was called a conspiracy, but in essence, it was an overt scheme.
The patriarch of the Blood Flame Serpent Tribe had no choice but to submit.
Just as in ancient times, during the Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation, the patriarch of the Blood Flame Serpent Tribe had submitted to the Qilin Clan, one of the three great clans.
And now, the patriarch of the Blood Flame Serpent Tribe submitted to the Demon Court.
The Blood Flame Serpent Tribe, at this time, also called themselves demons, being one of the myriad races of the Demon Court.