"Remember, you are humans!
Humans who stand tall!"
Yang Hong emphasized again.
"..."
The humans at his feet looked at him with fear, as if they hadn't recovered from the shock of Yang Hong killing.
Yang Hong could only sigh gently, "Alas~ you all go back and rest first."
He too was heavy-hearted. These humans had been enslaved for at least ten years, some for over four hundred to five hundred years.
It would be impossible to change their mentality and thoughts overnight; it had to be done step by step.
He turned around and walked to the southeast of the island, where Yu Ke Wei had piled up a mountain of demon beast corpses.
"Master, this Mad Snake Island is an important island in the nearby sea, a transportation hub, hence the abundance of demon races here.
We've roughly counted: 3 seventh-tier Demon Lords, 35 sixth-tier Demon Kings, 792 fifth-tier Great Demons, 8329 fourth-tier Lesser Demons, and over 7 million third and second-tier demon beasts."
Hearing Yu Ke Wei's report, Yang Hong nodded without comment.
Then, he injected his divine sense into the scale space on the back of his hand.
In his divine sense, the six walls of the scale space transformed into six black vortices.
The demon race and demon beast bodies he had placed inside the space began to dissipate rapidly, turning into streams of essence life energy that replenished the entire space.
This was the first ability Yang Hong had mastered over the past few years through constant communication and refining of the scale space:
Accelerated digestion by the space.
Hua Xin Lei, standing beside Yang Hong, looked at the scale on Yang Hong's hand with lingering fear.
He had personally experienced its terror.
Once, he was a master at the fifth layer of the sixth tier, and he had been experimented on by Yang Hong. In just fifteen minutes, his cultivation had dropped to the first layer of the sixth tier.
If Yang Hong hadn't realized it in time, he might have fallen below the fifth tier.
Most terrifyingly, after that experiment, Hua Xin Lei's origin had been slightly damaged. For over two years, he had been stuck at the first layer of the sixth tier.
Yang Hong sensed Hua Xin Lei's fearful gaze and looked up at him, his lips twitching.
That incident was indeed his fault. He had been too engrossed in cultivating the [Earth Escape Technique] and temporarily lost track of time.
For the past two years, whenever he had time, Yang Hong had been infusing Hua Xin Lei with energy, striving to repair his origin as quickly as possible.
However, the scale space was a bit too overbearing, and it hadn't been fully repaired yet.
Yang Hong withdrew his attention and turned back to the scale space.
The demon race corpses in the space disappeared rapidly. After an hour, apart from three seventh-tier demon cores whose luster had dimmed, not even a speck of bone residue remained.
"Huh? Seventh-tier demon cores are this hard?"
Seeing that the three demon cores had not been digested, Yang Hong became somewhat interested. His divine sense immediately wrapped around them.
The divine sense and soul power on them had completely vanished, but the seventh-tier demon cores were already entwined with some kind of heavenly rule, not only protecting them and slowing down the scale space's digestion but also slowly absorbing the space's spiritual energy to enrich themselves.
"Interesting, these seventh-tier demon cores are excellent materials for formation arrays."
With a thought, Yang Hong took out the three demon cores.
"Right, I also collected two seventh-tier demon cores before."
Yang Hong suddenly remembered something. He had burned to death two seventh-tier Demon Lords of the Silver Star Black Fish tribe.
Those two demon cores, due to their high quality, were not something he was willing to give to the scale space to digest.
Therefore, both demon cores were still there.
"Huh? The spiritual energy in these demon cores is indeed more abundant."
"In that case, they can be used as charging batteries."
Seeing this characteristic of the seventh-tier demon cores, Yang Hong immediately thought of many ways and channels to use them.
"Master~ can I eat these demon cores? I feel that by consuming these demon cores, I can rapidly increase my cultivation."
Seeing the five seventh-tier demon cores in Yang Hong's hand, Yu Ke Wei's eyes widened, and tears welled up in her eyes.
"Hmph~ Don't even think about it. Although eating demon cores increases cultivation quickly, the side effects are significant, affecting one's foundation and depth.
Go cultivate obediently."
Yang Hong glared at Yu Ke Wei, and the killing intent that had not yet dissipated from his body rushed towards her.
Yu Ke Wei stumbled back several steps, her face pale.
"..."
This time, Yu Ke Wei was truly frightened. She had just felt the threat of death.
"Yes~ yes~ Master, this servant will definitely cultivate well."
"Hmm~"
Yang Hong did not explain. It was necessary to put Yu Ke Wei in her place.
Then, he looked at the mountain of demon beast corpses.
Under the terrified gazes of Yu Ke Wei and the other demons, Yang Hong rapidly collected all the demon beast corpses piece by piece.
"Ahem~ Master, I'll go check if there are any more demon beasts on this island."
"Hmm, me too."
"I'll go move the corpses."
Yu Ke Wei and the others had already understood the horror of the scale space through Hua Xin Lei. They each found an excuse and left.
Yang Hong nodded, but said, "Leave two people on Humanity Island to clear the demon beast corpses. The other eight will clear out the islands within a radius of ten thousand miles.
All demon races and demon beasts that might possess intelligence, kill them all if you can."
The killing intent on him had not yet dissipated, and his anger towards the demon race had not subsided.
Since it hadn't subsided, he would continue to kill!
"Yes, sir."
The ten demons exchanged glances and cautiously retreated, discussing who would guard the home and who would go out to kill.
As the sun rose again,
There wasn't a single demon race or demon beast of the first tier or above on the entire Humanity Island.
Not even corpses were left behind.
Even the bloodstains were cleaned up by the tree demons under his command.
The sun rose as usual, but the humans on Humanity Island didn't know what to do today.
Without the oppression of the demon race, and with no one assigning them tasks, they felt lost.
"Everyone~ let's just do what we used to do."
Looking at the humans gradually gathering outside the City Lord's Mansion, Lan Fang Xuan also didn't know what kind of work to assign to these fellow humans.
Because many humans' previous jobs were to serve the demon race, and now that the demon race was wiped out, they truly didn't know what to do.
"You all demolish the entire Mad Snake City first, and confiscate all the demon races' homes."
When Lan Fang Xuan found Yang Hong, he was still waiting on the beach,
Awaiting Yu Ke Wei and the others to deliver the next batch of demon corpses.
"My Lord, I will arrange it immediately.
However, my Lord~ there is one matter, I don't know if I should speak of it?"
"Speak~"
Yang Hong was somewhat displeased with the timid Lan Fang Xuan.
"My Lord, the former Mad Snake Island was the center of a million-mile sea area, with many demon races visiting or trading daily.
News of Humanity Island will surely spread quickly.
I'm afraid..."
Lan Fang Xuan didn't dare to finish, watching Yang Hong's calm expression cautiously.
"However many come, kill them!"
Yang Hong's voice was calm yet cold, and a strong killing intent emanated from him again.
He thought again of the scene he had witnessed while walking through the streets yesterday. On this Mad Snake Island, the most popular were various eateries, and the most popular ingredients were humans.
As for the demon race, however many came, they would be killed.
"Yes~ yes~ yes~"
Lan Fang Xuan trembled and knelt down. He felt as if he was about to freeze.
"Get up. Issue your first command: on Humanity Island, humans shall not kneel to anyone except heaven and earth, parents, and elders. Anyone found doing so will be severely punished."
"Also, if anyone dares to force other humans to kneel, upon discovery,
Kill!"
"Yes, sir!"
Lan Fang Xuan quickly stood up, not daring to kneel again, fearing Yang Hong would slap him to death.