Ten thousand miles below Mount Hengdu, in the Western Ancestral Vein.
The God of Destruction had awakened in this place for thousands of epochs. Using residual fragments, blood, heavenly malevolence, and the energy of destruction collected from the battles of innate gods and demons, combined with his own years of research, he created a new innate race, which he named the Demon Race.
When he had joined forces with many gods and demons to attack the God of Yin-Yang and Yang, although he appeared reckless, he had actually left himself a retreat. That retreat was leaving one-third of his true spirit in his birthplace.
Therefore, he ultimately did not die, merely suffering severe injuries and needing to reconsolidate his innate divine-demon body.
Coupled with the subsequent chaos of the world, with frequent battles among gods and demons, large areas were destroyed, constantly generating destructive energy that was beneficial to him. Thus, the God of Destruction quickly recovered to a great extent. Furthermore, having died once, he became much more cautious than before.
He almost never personally ventured out to do anything dangerous. He either sent out avatars or dispatched trusted subordinates to carry out tasks. After all, nothing was more important than his own life.
Later, as the era of innate life arrived.
He went with the flow, using the spoils he had secretly collected from previous god-demon battles to create an innate demon race primarily focused on destruction and slaughter, capable of devouring all things and sowing chaos. He intended to use these demons as a foundation to destroy heaven and earth and achieve enlightenment.
At this point, for all native beings, they were in a state of uncertainty about how to achieve enlightenment, each fumbling in the dark, whether it was through the path of destiny or revelations from the world consciousness.
However, witnessing the God of Yin-Yang and Yang achieving Dao through destruction, how could they still believe in the so-called path of destiny?
Therefore, he could only, according to his own understanding and the characteristics of his own laws, define his future path to enlightenment as the path of world destruction, obliterating heaven and earth, absorbing the world's origin into his body, and thereby controlling all laws.
In this way, there was no reason he could not achieve enlightenment.
Inside the Destruction Demon Palace.
Seeing the Ten Great Demon Generals return from their missions unharmed, the God of Destruction nodded with satisfaction. "It seems you have all handled your tasks well.
Has the plan, for the most part, succeeded?"
"Father God, the inspections by the Spirit Race were not strict at all. We merely had to fabricate some stories about being persecuted by the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin tribes and then show some wounds.
Jidu and I successfully infiltrated.
In the beginning, we were still worried it might be a trap, so for the first few years, we didn't dare to do anything. At most, we cautiously explored the layout of the Spirit Race. It was only after several years, when we became familiar with many members of the Spirit Race and could freely enter and exit some of their gathering places, that we began to spread the demonic seeds that ignite beings' greed, as you planned.
Most of the non-plant spirits in the entire Spirit Race.
We have planted demonic seeds in almost all of them.
When we left, many incidents had already occurred within the Spirit Race. Non-plant spirits assassinated plant spirits, stole their root origins, and practiced the cultivation of divine cave heavens. Many spirits also began to forcibly seize the divine cave heavens of other spirits, enhancing their own to hopefully accelerate their cultivation speed."
Bi Hui and Jidu were the first to return, so naturally, he was the first to report on the execution of the plan.
"Excellent, excellent, very good.
The Spirit Race leader is of average ability but harbors great ambition. If he had only wanted to lead the spirit tribe and establish the Spirit Race, I might not have been able to do anything about him for a while. But who made him so ambitious, not only expanding the scope of the Spirit Race but also extensively sheltering other races besides the non-plant spirits. Most importantly, the cultivation techniques he propagated could not be cultivated by non-plant spirits, and other races wishing to cultivate had to rely on plant spirits.
Is this not rushing to create conflict for oneself?
If I don't stir up this conflict and let it spread, I would be letting down the effort I spent investigating.
With those demonic seeds amplifying the greed of those non-plant spirits, the Spirit Race will first fracture from within.
It may even lead to war.
They will be no threat then..."
After summarizing with a smile, the God of Yin-Yang and Yang looked towards Luohu and Pi Mo, who were ranked behind Jidu and the others.
"Father God, our plan has also proceeded smoothly.
During this recent period, we have been lurking within the Dragon Race, secretly collecting traces of their bloodline. After years of study and imitation, we have finally been able to successfully transform into some of the pure-blooded true dragons. Then, we exchanged information with the demon generals lurking in other tribes and ascertained the movements of the high-ranking direct descendants of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin tribes, and carried out an assassination.
We transformed into true dragons and assassinated members of the Phoenix tribe. Those lurking in the Phoenix tribe transformed into phoenixes and assassinated members of the Qilin tribe. Those hidden among the Qilin tribe transformed into Qilin and assassinated members of the Dragon Race. We, along with the demon general responsible for assassinating the Qilin tribe, were successful. Only the assassination of the Dragon Race failed.
We never expected that the seventh son of Ancestral Dragon was so favored and possessed a top-grade defensive spiritual treasure, making him impossible to kill in a short time. To avoid revealing ourselves, we had to flee.
However, although we did not succeed in assassinating that true dragon.
The conflict between them has successfully been escalated.
When we returned, the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin tribes had escalated from localized conflicts to high-level confrontations. The Phoenix and Qilin tribes had also torn off their masks, and barring any accidents, they would surely engage in a great war.
This is roughly the situation."
As Luohu spoke, he also recounted the situations of the two groups behind him. The demon generals who had handled their tasks perfectly were naturally a bit displeased, but those who hadn't performed as perfectly and couldn't kill the direct descendant true dragon of the Dragon Race felt a measure of gratitude.
When three connected tasks were reported together, a slight imperfection in the middle was more acceptable. But if two perfect successes were reported first, and then they spoke of their less than stellar performance, although they might not be punished, their impression would surely be worse.
Therefore, for the demon general tasked with infiltrating the Qilin tribe, Luohu speaking for them all actually helped them.
"Although there are minor flaws, the result is not affected. It might even be better. If that true dragon of the Dragon Race had been killed, perhaps Zhulong, who is skilled in the laws of time, could have traced back through time to find the real culprit.
At that time, if something inappropriate were discovered, it would be troublesome.
Now that he is alive, Zhulong might not expend such great effort tracing back the river of time. Yu Yun, Bing Mie, what about your plans regarding the Xuanwu and Baihu tribes?"
The God of Yin-Yang and Yang pondered for a moment, finding the current situation potentially better and safer. Thus, he quickly gave his approval and turned his gaze to the last two demon generals.
Because the Xuanwu and Baihu tribes had relatively smaller forces.
And he also lacked sufficient manpower.
Therefore, he had only dispatched one demon general to each.