"The Legend of the Heavenly War"

The first part of Azure Sacred Lake

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Since ancient times, the sun and the moon have alternated, and various spiritual energy has promoted the changes of the wind and clouds. Under the sky, the earth is vast, the sea is boundless, and all things are born to grow and compete freely. On the continent of one million miles from east to west and 600,000 miles from north to south, the human race occupies a territory of more than 200,000 li around Tianqing Lake in the northeast of the continent. The rest of the continent is still inhabited by poisonous insects and beasts, and the demon clan is dotted everywhere, known as a wild land. The continent is divided into four seas, and under the waves, I don't know how many sea clan monsters lurk.

Since the ancient catastrophe, the endless aura has been reversed into demonic energy, and since then, the aura and demonic energy between heaven and earth have been mixed, and the ancient prosperous fairyland is no more. Relying on scattered fragments of ancient exercises, the human race re-established the human cultivation method with reference to the demon race. And in order to adapt to the change of aura, the Terran Dao gradually differentiated into different paths. The first is that most of the human races adapt to the reality of mixed spiritual energy and cultivate spiritual energy and demonic energy, which is called barbarism. The second is to only cultivate spiritual energy according to the ancient Taoist method, which is called the immortal way. The third is that the new creation method is based on demonic qi and is known as the demonic way.

According to the division of the realm of the ancient human race monks, the monks in this realm are divided into nine realms: Qi training, Jue Ling, Zhuji, Jindan, Yuan Fetus, Yuan Baby, Dao Body, Hedao, and Avatar God, each realm is divided into nine layers, and after the consummation of the gods, they can cross the tribulation and ascend to the upper realm, and then the gods, immortals, and Tianzun are all legends, and there are legends that if they eventually become Taoist ancestors, they can turn themselves into the world. There is even a legend that the immeasurable lower realm was transformed by the Dao Ancestor. The immortal path is inherited in ancient times, the realm division is the same, the barbarian realm is the same, and the subtleties are somewhat different. The Demon Dao is very different, it is only divided into seven realms: refining the body, refining the soul, condensing the demon, the demon body, the demon baby, the merger, and the heavenly demon, and each realm is divided into eleven layers. The Demon Cultivation Transformation Consummation will also cross the tribulation and ascend to the legendary Demon Realm, but it is unknown how it will be after the ascension.

In the competition for survival with the demon race, the three realms coexisted and revived the human race for countless thousands of years, until the human race re-emerged millions of years ago, and monopolized the rich land in the northeast of the continent with the Azure Holy Lake as the center with absolute strength. And from time to time, the human race sent expeditionary armies to sweep the demon clans everywhere, continued to weaken the strength of the demon clan, and firmly occupied an advantage in the competition of all races. By 300,000 years ago, a group of amazing and brilliant people appeared in the three realms of the human race at the same time, and the two realms of immortals and demons each perfected the Great Soul Purification Formation and split from the human race.

The Immortal Dao, led by the Seven Sons of Yunyang, occupied the southeast of the Terran Race, built a Seven-Star Immortal Spirit Array to isolate the demonic energy, and established the Eastern Earth Immortal Alliance. There are many distinct levels of sects in the Immortal League: there have been those who have ascended to success, those who have been transformed into gods have been called sects, and there are still sects that have been transformed into gods and monks will proudly mark the word "god" in their names. The rest of the monks from the Yuan Infant Period to the Hedao Period are called factions, and the weaker ones can only be called gangs. The sects also established a number of secular states as foundations, plundering populations and resources through secular warfare. Due to the ancient inheritance, the Immortal Alliance prides itself on being orthodox of the human race. Immortal Dao cultivation has ancient exercises to follow, and ancient pills are available, and it is relatively easy to cultivate and advance, which also makes the Immortal Alliance maintain an advantage in high-end combat power.

The Demon Dao occupied the northwest of the human race led by the Lingxiao Demon Lord, built a five-element demon spirit array to isolate the aura, and established the Western Continent Demon Kingdom. Since its establishment, the Demon Kingdom has been one country, one religion and one Demon Lord, and the different Taoist inheritances are collectively referred to as the Demon Sect, all of which are under the command of the Great Demon Lord. In the Demon Kingdom, whether monks or mortals, everyone planted magic talismans and worshiped magicians. The above condensation demons are called mages, and they can obtain a territory commensurate with their strength and different levels of mage runes. Planting the magic talisman into the body of the human race under his rule can obtain different amounts of telekinesis, and the successive great demon lords have used the highest level of heavenly demon talisman as a inheritance token to control the national telekinesis. With the help of the characteristics of the easy condensation of demonic qi, the initial progress of demonic path cultivation was very fast, but due to the violent nature of demonic qi, it was not easy to condense talismans, coupled with the lack of systematic exercises, etc., it was very difficult for demonic dao to advance to the high level. However, once achieved, high-level combat power is often extremely strong. This makes the Demon Kingdom slightly inferior to the Immortal Alliance as a whole, but it still maintains a great advantage over the barbarians.

Most of the remaining human races are called barbarians by the two realms of immortals and demons. The barbarian territory is divided into the Tianbei Barbarian and the Tiannan Barbarian by the Immortal and Demon Paths and the Azure Lake. On the north shore of the lake is the Tianbei barbarians, the region borders the wilderness, and there are many bitter colds, and the internal organization is similar to that of the Immortal Alliance, which is also divided into hundreds of countries and four major alliances. On the south shore of the lake is the Tiannan barbarians, whose territory is vast and deep into the wilderness, most of the territory is mixed with the demon clan, although several countries have also been established, but the structure is loose, most of the human race still take the tribe as their home, and always fight with the demon clan for life and death. In order to escape the war, some tribes of the Tiannan barbarians moved into the depths of the wilderness to develop on their own, and gradually lost contact with the human race. The sources of barbarian exercises are mixed, and because the spiritual energy is mixed and it is difficult to refine spiritual power, the proportion of high-level monks is much lower than that of immortals and demons, and they are just barely maintaining it by relying on the population advantage.

In addition, many Terrans fled the mainland for various reasons and scattered across the islands of the East China Sea. In order to survive in the cruel sea, the Terran monks once again put aside their prejudices and jointly formed an overseas alliance. Therefore, there are all three ways in the alliance, and there are many ghost cultivators and demon cultivators who participate, and the strength they occasionally show is enough to make all parties jealous. With the strength of the Immortal Alliance, the overseas alliance was also nominally attached tens of thousands of years ago, and some Immortal Dao sects established the Haixi Kingdom on the mainland. However, the true strength of the overseas alliance has never been figured out.

After the three divisions, they fought against each other. With the intensification of the internal friction of the human race, the large-scale conquest of various demon races by the human race gradually stopped, so that the vitality of the demon race slowly recovered, and a number of demon kingdoms and countless demon clan sects were established in imitation of the human race. The entire continent once again fell into a situation where all races rose together, and the whole continent was like a forest, and the situation was even more chaotic. In order to have enough resources to deal with the large-scale invasion of the demon clan once in hundreds of years, the immortals and demons reached a peace agreement: non-aggression against each other, joint crusade against the barbarian demon clan, and joint division of the barbarian land and population.

Until now, the 28 countries of the Immortal League, with a territory of 60,000 li, east of the East China Sea, west to the Azure Holy Lake, with a population of 6 billion. The territory of the Demon Kingdom is 140,000 miles from east to west, 40,000 miles from north to south, from Tianqing Holy Lake in the east to the wilderness in the west, with a population of 4 billion. Thirty percent of the remaining eighty percent of the land belongs to the Tianbei barbarians, and forty percent and a half go to the Tiannan barbarians. Although the total population of the barbarian tribe is more than 50 billion, because the number of high-level monks is not as good as that of immortals and demons, and the internal chaos cannot form a joint force, they have been defeated repeatedly. In order to get rid of the encirclement and suppression of the two realms of immortals and demons, the four major alliances of the Tianbei barbarians quietly reached an agreement and secretly organized forces to force the North Sea to open up new territories.

The two realms of immortals and demons will establish a Pure Spirit Array to consolidate the occupation of the barbarian and demon lands they have seized. For the plundered population, the demon kingdom will be abolished, cultivated into mortals, and then planted into the lowest level of offering talismans. The Immortal League was divided into hierarchical slave seals, and developed a complex naturalization system: for mortals who were enslaved for several generations until their physique was transformed into the so-called fairy body, they were separated from slavery and turned into commoners; for barbarian monks who were difficult to transform, they brutally killed low-level monks and forced middle and high-level monks to engage in dangerous mining and exploration work. In short, once the barbarians are captured, life is worse than death. Therefore, the war between the barbarians and the immortals and demons was very tragic, although the barbarians were defeated and retreated, they always insisted on resisting desperately, and often lost one place and even the monks and mortals did not survive, which also caused serious casualties among the immortals and demons. With the internal contradictions of the Immortal Alliance, all sects wanted to preserve their own strength and weaken the strength of others, which caused the middle and high-level monks above the Yuan Infant to be generally reluctant to participate in the war.

20,000 years ago, in order to encourage war against the barbarians, the Senate of the Immortal Alliance jointly formulated a system of barbarian slave competitions held every ten years, and teams were formed according to the country, and the captured low-level barbarian monks were used as gladiators to fight for life and death. Each country will then send high-ranking monks to participate in the war for ten years according to the results of the big competition, so as to ensure that each battlefield can maintain sufficient high-end combat power. At the same time, it also stipulated the system of accumulating military merits in exchange for the right to be exempted from war, so that high-ranking monks could be exempted from conscription during the critical period of cultivation. In order to win the victory, the twenty-eight states of the Immortal Alliance established by each sect must strive to defeat the barbarian ** team and plunder the barbarian population in order to obtain a strong and sufficient number of gladiator slaves.

Now, in Tianjing City, the capital of the Immortal Alliance's lord Dajin Kingdom, the final of the two thousand and twenty-fourth Barbarian Slave Contest is underway.