Ancestor Tianmo had been nothing but amiable. Seeing the tension on their faces, he said calmly, "There is no need for alarm. Simply recount everything that happened at the
Though Ancestor Tianmo wore a pleasant expression, the Wood Demon cultivators remained shaken, unable to recover from their terror.
It was only when the sole remaining Divine Path Ancestor of the Wood Demon lineage spoke up that they began to settle. "What are you afraid of? Ancestor Tianmo has already pardoned your guilt. You should make the most of this chance to redeem yourselves — report your intelligence. What is there to hesitate about?"
With their own lineage's Ancestor finally addressing them, the group slowly regained their composure and began recounting what they had witnessed during the battle. Their rank had not been particularly high, and they lacked a comprehensive understanding of the overall situation, but they had participated in the battle and had witnessed certain events firsthand.
They laid out every detail of what had occurred after
Through the different perspectives of several individuals, the entire affair was pieced back together.
The hall fell deathly silent. Wood Demon parasitic worms — what kind of terrifying existence were they? Since the primordial era, they had always been one of humanity's most dreaded threats. Many human sects had been completely annihilated by the Wood Demon parasitic worms.
For as long as anyone could remember, humanity had never found any truly effective method of countering the Wood Demon parasitic worms.
"Strange. Very strange indeed." The sole surviving Divine Path Ancestor of the Wood Demon lineage wore a look of deep puzzlement. "How could the human race produce such a monster? Even during the primordial Demon War, humanity was utterly powerless against the Wood Demon parasitic worms. How is it that in this later age, they've somehow found a way to deal with them? And how did they discover that the First Sun Fire counters the parasitic worms?"
It was not just this Ancestor of the Wood Demon lineage who was astonished. The Ancestors of every other demon lineage were equally shocked. In their memory, humanity had never been that powerful. The human race had always struggled to cope with the myriad techniques of the demon race.
Each demon lineage wielded different methods, different Divine Abilities — together they had inflicted tremendous trouble upon humanity, who had always been vexed by the demons' endlessly varied arsenal.
In later ages, humanity's inherited traditions should have only grown weaker over time, not stronger. So how was it that a problem the primordial humans could never solve — the Wood Demon parasitic worms — had been resolved by the humans of a later era?
Something was deeply odd about all of it.
"Who exactly spread the rumor that the First Sun Fire counters the Wood Demon parasitic worms?"
A one-eyed cultivator who had escaped from the Wood Demon lineage spoke up. "We don't know where it originated either. The Eternal Sacred Land had been just as helpless at first. But after a certain human cultivator appeared, it was as if he had brought them the antidote. From that point onward, the advance of the Wood Demon parasitic worms met resistance everywhere and ground to a halt. Before that, when attacking the True Martial Sacred Land and the Nine Abyss Sacred Land, the parasitic worms had swept through unopposed — they hadn't encountered any obstacle at all. The Eternal Sacred Land is truly peculiar. It must have something to do with that Jiang Chen."
When something could not be explained, the answer was Jiang Chen. That much was certain.
And the one who had ultimately brought the First Sun Fire to annihilate the main force of the Wood Demon parasitic worms was, of course, the Vermilion Bird divine bird led by Jiang Chen. The Vermilion Bird had clearly refined the First Sun Fire and unleashed it through its nature as a Divine Path True Spirit — combined with the element of surprise, the devastation inflicted upon the Wood Demon parasitic worms could well be imagined.
It was precisely because of this that the Wood Demon lineage's parasitic worms had been virtually annihilated.
As for Ancestor Wang Ban's capture, it was even more bizarre.
He had already fled, yet the void in the direction of his escape had been directly torn apart by Jiang Chen, completely shattering Ancestor Wang Ban's escape plan.
After that, it was as though he had been bound by some mysterious force — offering almost no resistance, he was ensnared by one of Jiang Chen's strange ropes.
The entire process had lasted hardly any time at all.
As recounted through the accounts of several different people, the account was quite convincing.