Chapter 164: Can Humans and Demons Coexist? The Human Emperor is Supreme!

"Wind! Wind! Wind!!!"

Upon the earth, countless lives were roaring at this moment.

If there were any powerful existences capable of observing the world at this moment, they would be able to clearly see that within the ten directions of the entire earth, specks of red flames were rising from the ground.

That was the Starfire Technique burning; that was each and every living being fully displaying their own insignificant power.

The flame of a single cultivator is so meager, and the flames of ten cultivators are merely a cluster of unremarkable sparks.

But if there were millions, tens of millions of cultivators on this earth raising their own techniques and igniting themselves, what a magnificent scene would be stirred up on this earth? Gu Jiangming won; under the gaze of the strongest of the Human Race and the Demon Race, Gu Jiangming walked out of the darkness alive.

Even though his bones were exposed and he looked so miserable.

Yet the corpses of the great demons displayed in that deep valley left all the powerful beings in this Heaven and Earth who were watching this territory silent and speechless.

The invisible confrontation still continued.

More and more terrifying powerhouses among the Demon Race awakened from their slumber; looking at that somewhat disheveled figure, they felt as if they were seeing the light and shadows of two eras overlapping on Gu Jiangming.

It was not that there were no murderous old demons in this world who wanted to enter the fray personally to completely eliminate Gu Jiangming.

But although the Human Race was weak, their fighting spirit was boiling at this moment.

Countless humans on the earth were shouting "Great Wind"; that was not a phrase praising the wind, but the sound of millions of people shouting in unison, the heartfelt wishes of the entire Human Race coalescing into one at this instant, and then venting the prayers within their hearts! Even the old demons who were most unwilling to see Gu Jiangming survive lowered their heads and pondered at this moment.

Having lived for so long, no one wants to die like this.

To put it nicely, Gu Jiangming's existence ushered in an era of confrontation between the Human Race and the Demon Race; to put it bluntly, even if a new era has arrived, so what?

Among the demons who have cultivated to the Heaven and Earth Enlightenment realm, how many are truly willing to fight the current Human Race for the sake of a so-called race?

The so-called Demon Race is merely the Human Race's term for races other than themselves; there are infinite varieties of demons in this world. Would an old demon of the Qilin Clan really step up and fight to the death for the alpaca race?

In the end, in the eyes of those old demons, the rise of the Human Race is nothing more than a new race standing up on this piece of land.

As long as the Human Race becomes a beneficiary, as long as the humans who were once kept as livestock are replaced by pigs, dogs, cows, and horses, the order on this land will not be any different.

The dragon slayer becomes the evil dragon, the oppressed become the beneficiaries; has this not been the scene continuing on this land throughout history? The Human Race has stood up, so they have stood up.

Without the Human Race as food, there are still thousands upon thousands of other races that can serve as food for the existing order.

The new order seen in the eyes of these old demons is nothing more than a change in the landscape of the beneficiaries! Even, in the minds of those old demons, the Human Race could equally be a Demon Race, or even a powerful branch of the Demon Race!

Even if the establishment of a new order takes a long time, for those old demons at the Heaven and Earth Enlightenment realm, they have nothing if not time.

No one believes that the Human Race can truly expel all the Demon Race. In the heyday of the Qilin Clan, they could not do it; in the heyday of the Dragon Race, they could not do it. By what right could the Human Race do it? The various thoughts intertwined in the firmament began to slowly withdraw after realizing this point.

The great clans do not believe their interests will be infringed upon, so let the Human Race rise if they will.

The medium-sized groups are worried about their interests being divided, but facing the Human Race, which is now like a rope twisted together and ready to strike anyone who dares to make a move, the medium-sized groups can only hold their noses and accept it.

As for the small clans...

They have already begun to worry about whose turn it will be to be kept as livestock next. They are the most unwilling, but facing the mountain-shaking shouts on the earth, what can they do if they are unwilling?

Six out of nine of the great demons who grew up eating humans are gone. As for the remaining groups, as long as they make the proper cuts, the order on this land should remain as it always has! "A new, peak great clan has grown up..."

"This time, did I misjudge?"

"It is just that the number of human powerhouses now is probably already more prosperous than the entire Dragon Race!"

"The Dragon Race is weakening, but the Human Race is like the rising morning sun, capable of going even further..."

In the Dragon Palace, the old Dragon King frowned tightly. For a race that transformed from food into a peak great clan, the old Dragon King had no experience to speak of.

Looking at the countless pasts on this land, all the races chosen as food have only had the outcome of extinction.

Unknowingly, the Human Race has instead displayed the foundation of their own race in this battle, displaying a strength that makes all the Demon Race unwilling to face their edge.

The old Dragon King frowned, not having thought of how to communicate with the Human Race.

"Retreated?"

In a desolate mountain territory, the old man Taicang also frowned tightly.

He could not understand why those old demons of the Demon Race retreated. The Human Race is strong, but they are also very weak.

At least in the eyes of the old man Taicang, the current Human Race has not yet reached the point of being able to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Demon Race. This was also the reason why the old man Taicang sighed earlier that Gu Jiangming's steps were too big.

But what the old man Taicang could not understand was why the old demons of the Demon Race just retreated like this? It was not just the old man Taicang who could not understand; the various powerhouses of the Human Race were also at a loss at this moment. They also could not understand why those old demons did not fight to the death to stop the rise of their Human Race.

It can only be said that they have been oppressed for too long, the entire Human Race has been oppressed for too long! So long that all humans thought that if the Human Race wanted to rise, they would face the suppression of all the Demon Race.

But the rules of this land are not like that; the strong are cherishing their lives, and the rule is that the Human Race is the new superior race.

The long-oppressed human powerhouses could not understand, but they also knew that this was a good thing for the Human Race.

"That's it, that's it!"

"I have seen the scene of the Human Race dominating the world in the future, thinking that the rise of the Human Race must inevitably be an enemy to all the Demon Race."

"But I was also biased. There are thousands of races that have risen on this land; who could have imagined that one race could dominate the entire world?"

"The reproductive ability of the Human Race is very strong, but looking at the Demon Race, there are not a few that have stronger reproductive abilities than the Human Race."

"When a race is strong to a certain extent, the race will actively screen for elites, just like the Qilin Clan, just like the Dragon Race."

"After all, weak members of the same race only add disgrace to a great clan. No one would think that one race could dominate the entire world."

"Both I and the Human Race have cognitive barriers!"

"My cognitive barrier comes from the future, while the Human Race's cognitive barrier is that the Human Race has never thought that they have anything to do with the Demon Race!"

"Most importantly, Gu Jiangming's approach made the Demon Race mistakenly believe that the Human Race has already begun to screen for elites."

"The Starfire Technique screens out humans on the earth who have even the slightest aptitude to cultivate. In the eyes of those old demons, this is probably the preparation the Human Race has made to integrate into the superior races of the Demon Race." "One more beneficiary is just one more beneficiary, why must we fight to the death?"

"It is not as if all the Demon Race powerhouses have taken a bite of the Human Race for the sake of their appetites!"

In the territory of the Guhuoniao, Jiu Jiu looked at everything before her in a daze. After a good while, Jiu Jiu seemed to come back to her senses, but she could not help but add a smile to the corners of her mouth.

Cognitive barriers are good! The cognitive barriers of the Demon Race are even more wonderful. At least Jiu Jiu has figured out that Gu Jiangming has finally temporarily escaped the crisis.

Even if Gu Jiangming is still the first to bear the brunt after the Human Race's ambitions are exposed in the future, Jiu Jiu firmly believes that after this battle, Gu Jiangming's strength will inevitably be able to go a step further, or even several steps further.

As long as Gu Jiangming is given time, Gu Jiangming will sooner or later give this world a big surprise!

As time passed, more and more people understood this point, but Gu Jiangming alone had disappeared without a trace after that battle.

Among the Human Race, the number of people practicing the Starfire Technique grew increasingly large; when tens of millions began to spread the Starfire Technique, everyone in the entire Human Race began to take up the Starfire Technique.

One month, three months, ten months...

Time passed day by day, and the changes in this world became more numerous and faster! With the passage of time, some in the Demon Race began to realize that what they had previously assumed—that the Human Race was merely selecting elites and following the paths already paved by the great races—did not seem quite the same as the rise of the great races in the past.

But those old demons at most only thought that this was the Human Race further selecting its elites.

The resources between Heaven and Earth are limited, and the resources that the great races should occupy are likewise limited; they believed that the Human Race must have a scale in their hearts.

It was not that no great demon had thought that the Human Race wanted to plot against the entire world, but such a thought was simply too shocking and too fantastical; they themselves did not quite dare to believe their own judgment.

The Human Race, this time, had truly ushered in a period of extremely scarce development time.

In the past ten months, the Starfire Technique had been iterated to the seventeenth version, the number of Golden Core Stage Starfire practitioners was increasing, and the Starfire Technique seemed to have become the mainstream technique of the Human Race.

The only thing that made the Human Race feel regret was that Gu Jiangming still had not appeared.

After that battle, Gu Jiangming seemed to have vanished from the world, but ten months was still too short—so short that no one felt Gu Jiangming would have met with any accident.

In fact, Gu Jiangming indeed had not met with any accident.

His injuries from that battle were very heavy, but Gu Jiangming's speed in recovering from his injuries was even faster than everyone imagined; with the Four Thousand Bureau in his body, Gu Jiangming only used a short month to recover seven or eight tenths of his injuries.

In the several months that followed, Gu Jiangming was digesting what he had gained from that battle.

If there were distinctions in the Enlightenment Stage, then during these ten months of recuperation, Gu Jiangming had walked to a relatively peak state of the Enlightenment Stage, a state extremely close to the limit.

【For the Human Race, you have opened a new era.】

【Only for those Demon Race members old to the point of decay, they still only believe that the Human Race will merge into the Demon Race after a period of time, just like the Qilin Clan and the Dragon Race.】

【Because you opened a new era, you have obtained racial favor.】

【Countless humans chant your name, and the mighty Human Race gratitude transforms into the racial origin of the Human Race; such origin, in the future, is called Merit.】

【You have great merit and great virtue toward the Human Race; you have received an infusion of Human Merit.】

【From this point on, as long as there are humans in the world who know of your achievements, you will continuously receive Human Merit.】

【This is the origin power of the Human Race; you can use Human Merit to repair your injuries and use Human Merit to cultivate.】

【Remember, use the Merit you should use; unlimited extraction will attract the malice of the race, and if malice entangles you, you will need to repay the corresponding price for the race.】

【Because of the merit you have done for the Human Race, one of your offspring has confirmed their golden aptitude: Human Supreme!】

【Human Supreme: One born as a Human Supreme; he is noble because of you and precious because of the Human Race. One of your offspring is born with a Supreme Bone and has a very high probability of becoming the Human Emperor!】

On the Seek Immortality Interface, lines of text were still constantly refreshing.

Previously, Gu Jiangming could not distract himself with the Seek Immortality Interface, but as Gu Jiangming recuperated, he finally had the leisure to pay attention to the text refreshing on the Seek Immortality Interface.

"Human Supreme?"

"Human Emperor?"

"It should be the son of Wang Qinghe and me..."

Gu Jiangming looked at the text refreshing on the Seek Immortality Interface, and with a thought, he also thought of his offspring with Wang Qinghe.

As for the offspring with Jiu Jiu...

If Gu Jiangming remembered correctly, his offspring with Jiu Jiu should be a daughter.

As long as Seek Immortality didn't mess around, Gu Jiangming felt that the first Human Emperor of the Human Race shouldn't be an Empress, right?

Of course, if the first Human Emperor of the Human Race were an Empress, Gu Jiangming would have nothing to say, but if the first Human Emperor were an Empress, her path would definitely be infinitely harder to walk.

"As for the thoughts of the Demon Race..."

"Although unexpected, thinking about it carefully, it is also within reason."

"Even among the Human Race of today, I am afraid there are not many who truly think about leading the entire Human Race to completely dominate the world."

"In that case, I should still have some time!"

Gu Jiangming looked at the text refreshing on the Seek Immortality Interface, and for a while, he was not in a hurry to come out of seclusion.

This battle also had great benefits for Gu Jiangming; at least in Gu Jiangming's view, as long as he was given a little more time, he should be able to walk the Enlightenment Stage completely to the limit of the current stage.

As long as he could reach the limit, combined with the Four Thousand Bureau, Gu Jiangming was confident that even if he faced the siege of dozens of Heaven and Earth Enlightenment powerhouses, it would no longer be as tragic as before.

"The seed has sprouted; if the Demon Race misunderstands, then let them continue to misunderstand."

"Great Harmony of the Human Race is not yet at the time to be completely exposed; at least we must wait for the Human Race to be stronger before we can truly shout the words of Great Harmony of the Human Race to this Heaven and Earth!"

"After all, once the Great Harmony of the Human Race is shouted, that is truly being enemies with the world!"

(End of this chapter)