Suddenly, a strange light flashed in the mackerel's eyes.
Vast energy descended from a place of nothingness.
Due to the mackerel's form, the descended being remained, and this ancient sage brought down almost all the energy from the Dao fruit.
Boom!
The weather changed.
The mackerel that was in the river disappeared.
In its place, a lotus platform emerged from the river, and on it sat a maiden in green.
The maiden in green had the same peculiar glint in her eyes as the mackerel.
She murmured to herself, "It has been too long, too long since I descended to the Primordial Era..."
"I wonder, what is the strength of the Outer Realm Demons now? Is it within my capacity to resolve?"
The maiden in green was a mackerel spirit.
In the distant past, when the Great Desolation was first opened.
When Pangu split the heavens and the Great Desolation began, the pure and turbid energies separated, with the pure rising and the turbid sinking.
Half pure and half turbid remained in the middle, transforming into the Human Race.
The Human Race was not created by Nuwa, but rather by the half pure and half turbid energies between heaven and earth, forming a race from qi.
Therefore, the Human Race were also innate beings, known as innate divinities.
The other half of the pure qi floated upwards, was possessed by a Chaos Demon God, and gave rise to the Xuanhuang Ancestor.
There is a poem praising the Xuanhuang Ancestor: "Who was born from chaos? In the time of chaos, Xuanhuang emerged."
"Without heaven and earth, only the ancient ancestor existed before."
"Before heaven and earth were born, he was already present, known as Zhenyi and Xuanyuan."
"With form but no shape, he was always at ease, his majestic body existing innately."
The Xuanhuang Ancestor was the first Chaos Demon God in chaos, born with half-step Great Dao realm cultivation.
Pangu, known as the Demon God of Strength, fought with the Xuanhuang Ancestor.
They fought for thirty million years.
Finally, a victor was decided, and it was the Xuanhuang Ancestor who lost.
It turned out that the Xuanhuang Ancestor's divine abilities, will, killing moves, Great Dao laws, cultivation... and everything else were on par with Pangu.
Only in terms of magical treasures did Pangu possess the Chaos Supreme Treasure, the Jade Disk of Fortune, and wielded the Pangu Axe, the Thirty-Six-Petaled Green Lotus of Fortune, and the Chaos Pearl, four Chaos Supreme Treasures.
The Xuanhuang Ancestor, with only one Chaos Supreme Treasure, was naturally no match for Pangu.
However, the Xuanhuang Ancestor had his own methods, which was "calling for a group beatdown."
If you can't win, what do you do? Of course, you call a bunch of Chaos Demon Gods to gang up on them!
The Xuanhuang Ancestor first called his younger brother, the Xuanxuan Ancestor.
Then he called some peak Demon Gods of the Hunyuan Wuji realm, the Youquan Ancestor, the Xuanguang Ancestor, the Beiming Ancestor, and Consort Baifei, and the Heyue Ancestor.
With the assistance of the Chaos Ancestor, the Hanqing Ancestor, the Jiangpao Ancestor, the Xuanzhen Ancestor, and the four sons of the Youquan Ancestor.
Finally, with the combined strength of many Chaos Demon Gods and many ancestors, Pangu was killed.
This is also known as the battle of the Three Thousand Demon Gods against Pangu.
The Great Desolation world was a great thousand world jointly opened by the Three Thousand Demon Gods and Pangu during their great battle.
It was the residual power of the battle, the constant creation and destruction of worlds, and finally, the fall of many Chaos Demon Gods, which transformed into origin energy, replenishing the Great Desolation, thus forming the Great Desolation world.
Among the Three Thousand Demon Gods, Pangu perished, as did the Youquan Ancestor, the Xuanguang Ancestor, the Xuanxuan Ancestor, and a large number of other ancestors.
The Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods were almost annihilated, with only the primordial spirit of the Xuanhuang Ancestor surviving.
Having lost his true Chaos Demon God body and with his strength diminished, the Xuanhuang Ancestor possessed half of the pure qi of the newly formed Great Desolation world to cultivate anew.
At the beginning of heaven and earth, although the Human Race had many innate divinities, born powerful, they lacked cultivation techniques.
In this Primordial Era, the Human Race was born powerful and had no enemies, thus they did not prioritize developing cultivation techniques, relying entirely on their own bloodline power to procreate.
The earliest Human Race were innate divinities, hence they were called the first generation Human Race, the primeval Human Race, each possessing the strength of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal by virtue of their bloodline power.
Destroying galaxies was effortless, and a single drop of blood could obliterate mountains spanning millions of miles.
The first generation Human Race gave rise to the second generation, and the second generation gave rise to the third generation.
As generations multiplied, the bloodline power gradually weakened.
After a thousand generations, the Human Race of a thousand generations no longer possessed even the strength of an Earth Immortal, but only the cultivation of a Void Refining and Dao Integration practitioner.
They also lost their immortality, gaining a lifespan limit.
Those of the first generation, born of heaven and earth, formed from half pure and half turbid qi, became the source of the bloodline.
Bloodline power represented innate strength. The closer one was to the source of the bloodline, the stronger the power. Conversely, humans hundreds or even thousands of generations away from the source had weaker power.
Bloodline power did not involve cultivation; one's strength at birth was one's strength for life.
The so-called increase in acquired strength did not actually increase power, but merely enhanced the Human Race's combat experience and skills.
Therefore, among the early Human Race, bloodline was paramount, and the number of generations was highly valued.
To purify the bloodline, many humans of the hundredth or three hundredth generation would interbreed with the first generation, thus obtaining the bloodline of the first generation and giving birth to a second-generation human.
Many first-generation humans, who were innate divinities, had an unknown number of descendants in their harems.
In this way, through intergenerational breeding, the degeneration of bloodline power was slowed down.
However, even with the efforts of many first and second-generation humans, they could not care for all their descendants.
Thus, humans with Heavenly Immortal strength appeared, humans with Earth Immortal strength appeared, and humans with the True Cultivation realm appeared.
Eventually, even humans without any extraordinary power appeared.
The weakest of the first-generation Human Race possessed galaxy-level combat power, capable of destroying tens of millions of trillions of star systems.
Whereas the thousand-generation Human Race was no longer at the immortal level, and the five-thousand-generation Human Race had completely degenerated into mortals with lifespans of only a hundred years.
Did the first-generation Human Race truly consider the thousand-generation Human Race, or even the five-thousand-generation Human Race, those mortals with lifespans of only a hundred years, as equals?
The answer was no.
Let alone true mortals, even humans with less potent bloodlines, possessing only Heavenly Immortal or Earth Immortal strength, were often oppressed and treated unfairly by the upper echelons of the Human Race.
As for mortals who could not even achieve longevity, who were at the True Cultivation realm or lacked any extraordinary power, they were regarded as another species by the Human Race's high command.
Conflict was inevitable.
Although the setting of the Great Desolation world in this Primordial Era had been greatly altered, a certain thread remained similar.
The first and second generations of the Human Race... up to the tenth generation of the Human Race were like the myriad demons of the Demon Court.
Born powerful.
Whereas the Human Race with only True Cultivation strength seemed to be like the Human Race in the Wu-Yao era of the Great Desolation plot.
The oppression and struggles within were no less cruel than the damage inflicted by the Witch-Slaying Sword on the Human Race.
Under the absolute suppression of bloodline power, the Human Race with only True Cultivation strength had almost no power to resist.
And it was precisely at this time that the Xuanhuang Ancestor, after possessing and cultivating anew, finally re-attained the fruit of the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
With his strength restored, the Xuanhuang Ancestor decided to seize hegemony over the Great Desolation world.
Therefore, amidst the widespread Human Race, he secretly spread the Xuanhuang Immortal Dao, which had been tampered with.
The Xuanhuang Immortal Dao was fundamentally different from the Golden Core Great Dao.