High Martial Arts: I Travel Through Heaven and Earth Through Dreams

Chapter 285 Past Events of the Heavenly Profound Realm

"That was about a million years ago, when the Tianxuan Realm was still a complete and intact Great Thousand World..."

"The sky has cracked open."

As the voice narrated, Lin Hanzhou seemed to see a series of extremely tragic scenes before his eyes.

Above the sky, a massive, pitch-black rift, like a wound in the heavens, stretches across the border between the eastern and western continents.

Countless black creatures, exuding an aura of evil and tyranny, surged wildly out of the crack like a flood bursting its banks.

They call themselves—the Demon Race!

"At first, our various factions did not take these ugly-looking, mixed-breed creatures seriously."

The voice was filled with endless regret and self-mockery.

"The cultivation world back then was too prosperous, and too arrogant."

"The top sects and ancient families are all busy vying for resources, fighting amongst themselves, and scheming against each other. In their eyes, the other side is the greatest enemy. As for this suddenly appearing demon race? They are nothing more than a bunch of uncivilized barbaric beasts."

"Therefore, the major powers only symbolically dispatched some outer disciples or affiliated minor sects to quell the rebellion."

"We originally thought that was enough."

Little did we know that it was precisely this arrogance and contempt that would lead us to pay an extremely heavy price later!

……

"Because we failed to concentrate our efforts to destroy the spatial portal established by the demons in the first instance..."

"The main force of the demon race, their true main legion, has successfully arrived!"

The Five Elements Sword Saint's voice began to tremble. Even though it was just a wisp of a soul, even though millions of years had passed, the sense of despair still overwhelmed him.

"Their strength is beyond everyone's imagination!"

That night, the black fog obscured the entire starry sky.

"A full hundred Demon Emperors, whose auras were comparable to those of the ninth-tier Mahayana Realm, and thousands of Demon Sovereigns at the eighth-tier Tribulation Transcending Realm, swept across the entire Eastern Continent like locusts!"

"What a terrifying force that was!"

"The three super sects responsible for guarding the Eastern Continent were razed to the ground overnight before they could even send out a distress signal! Not a single one was spared!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Hanzhou's pupils contracted slightly.

Hundreds of ninth-tier individuals? Thousands of eighth-tier individuals?

Even in the universe on Earth today, this number represents a terrifying force that cannot be ignored.

"By the time we realized what was happening, it was too late."

"The demon race has already occupied almost half of the Tianxuan Realm's territory!"

"Countless lives were lost, and countless traditions were severed!"

"Only then did we realize how foolish and ridiculous our previous underestimation had been!"

"For survival and the continuation of their race, the remaining major powers of the Tianxuan Realm have finally put aside their prejudices and formed an unprecedented alliance—the Demon-Slaying Alliance!"

"We gathered the entire foundation of the cultivation world at that time, a total of one hundred and thirty-six ninth-tier powerhouses, and they all came out in full force!"

At this point, a hint of fighting spirit and pride crept into the aged voice.

"It must be said that, in terms of individual combat strength, cultivators of my Heavenly Profound Realm, relying on magic treasures, formations, and supernatural abilities, are more than capable of overwhelming demons of the same level!"

"The initial counterattack did indeed achieve very good results."

"That battle was so fierce that the heavens and earth trembled, and the sun and moon lost their light!"

"Our 136 powerful beings joined forces to set up a ninth-tier killing formation, trapping and killing those hundred Demon Emperors of the Demon Clan!"

"In this battle, we lost more than half of the enemy's hundreds of ninth-tier warriors, and the remaining demon army was almost completely wiped out!"

"That day, the entire cultivation world was cheering and celebrating! We thought victory was just around the corner."

"As long as that spatial passage is sealed, everything will be over completely."

"But we were wrong, terribly wrong!"

"Just before our army advanced into that spatial passage, preparing to seal it completely..."

"A nightmare has begun."

"A large number of demons surged out of that passage once again."

"Those are all ninth-tier Demon Emperors!"

"One hundred...two hundred...five hundred...one thousand!"

"A full thousand ninth-tier Demon Emperors!"

"boom--!"

Upon hearing this number, Lin Hanzhou's breath hitched.

Over a thousand ninth-tier beings?!

Is this still war?

This is simply a one-sided massacre!

"How is that possible?"

Lin Hanzhou couldn't help but question it in his heart.

"How could one race possess so many top-tier combatants? This doesn't conform to the law of conservation of energy!"

As if anticipating Lin Hanzhou's question, the voice said bitterly:

"I couldn't believe it at the time, but it was true."

"Not only that, but to our despair, we discovered that those Demon Emperors, whom we had previously slain and whose souls we had obliterated, had actually been resurrected among that group of reinforcements!"

"They possess some kind of immortality that we cannot understand, or perhaps their true forms are not even here; what has descended is merely a projection, or some kind of infinitely regenerating clone!"

"At that moment, our resolve to follow the Dao completely collapsed."

"Faced with such a large and seemingly invincible number of enemies, even if one of our ninth-tier powerhouses could take on several ninth-tier demons, it would be futile in the face of such overwhelming numbers!"

"It was precisely for this reason that the defensive line completely collapsed, and powerful beings fell like rain!"

"We lost."

"A complete and utter defeat!"

……

At this point in the story, the entire Primordial Demon Abyss seemed to fall into a desolate silence.

Lin Hanzhou didn't say anything either; he could imagine the despair in that scene.

When you've given it your all, made countless sacrifices, and finally thought you were about to win, the enemy tells you that what happened just now was a warm-up, and now they're going to get serious, and they've even activated the cheat of "unlimited resurrection" and "ten times the troop strength".

This kind of despair is enough to break any strong person.

"And then?"

Lin Hanzhou asked in a deep voice.

"Faced with such a desperate situation, what did you do?"

Since there are still humans in the Tianxuan Realm, it means that they were not completely wiped out back then.

"later……"

The aged voice sighed.

"Faced with such a powerful demon race, we have no way out."

"We can only use our last resort, which is to contact the upper realm and ask the immortals there for help."

At this point, the Five Elements Sword Saint's voice became somewhat muffled and uncertain.

"As for the outcome of the subsequent appeals for help, whether the immortals from the upper realm truly descended, and whether they repelled the demons..."

"I don't know."

"Because, just as the call for help was being initiated, the demon army had already arrived here."

"In order to buy a little more time for the call for help, I burned my own Dao traces, transformed myself into a sword, and forcibly sealed the three ninth-level Demon Emperors here together."

"After that battle, I completely lost consciousness."

"The time when my remaining soul was reawakened was not long ago."

"I have discovered that the three demon emperors I suppressed have long since turned to ashes under the erosion of time."

"But this world has changed too; it has become incomplete, its laws are fragmented, and the path to the ninth rank is severed!"

The voice gradually lowered, eventually turning into a question filled with trepidation and hope.

"Young friend, I have a question for you..."

What is the current situation in the outside world?

"Will humanity triumph, or will the demons have already taken control of this world?"