Among the myriad races of the Demon Court, only the Golden Crow clan possessed strength that could rival that of the Human race.
No other demon god or demon saint's race could match the current might of humanity.
As for the Golden Crow clan, with only two innate Golden Crows and ten acquired Golden Crows, it was questionable whether they could truly be considered a race.
The current strength of the Human race was surpassed only by the combined might of the Wu clan and the myriad races of the Demon Court.
Unless the myriad races of the Demon Court truly regarded the Human race as an opponent on par with the Wu clan and launched a full-scale assault,
the scattered races that merely hunted humans for their blood and flesh would be no match for the Human race.
"The Chaos Profound Yellow Guardian Array is quite reliable."
Fang Ming habitually flew to the central array eye of the city to check the operational status of the Chaos Profound Yellow Guardian Array.
He found that this mystical array, which he had purchased from the system store, was indeed very dependable.
These array eyes would likely last for millions of years.
"How is its stability? Can it be combined with other arrays?"
Fang Ming asked the array master who was presiding over the array.
The array masters of the Human race had all been trained through the array knowledge purchased from the system store.
Their numbers were not large, and they were uniformly assigned by Fang Ming to areas such as array maintenance, construction, and theoretical integration of arrays.
Currently, these array masters were stationed at the numerous array eyes of the Chaos Profound Yellow Guardian Array in the Human Ancestral Land.
In normal times, they were responsible for checking for any residual issues or flaws in the arrays and for maintenance work.
If they detected any demon incursions, they would operate the array to repel or eliminate the demons.
However, these situations were generally infrequent, and they spent most of their time researching ways to enhance array power
and on theoretical operations such as integrating multiple arrays.
The array master replied, "Human Emperor, I have combined over a hundred arrays and developed dozens of modes.
These combined arrays have improved both in power and defensive capabilities.
However, most of these combined arrays lack strong stability. They are fine in normal times, but prone to collapse at critical moments.
Once a collapse occurs, it signifies a calamity for the Human race.
Therefore, these arrays can only be used for research and cannot be put into practical application."
Fang Ming, upon hearing this, naturally understood what constituted a critical moment.
Of course, it was when the demon race invaded.
Fang Ming dared not use arrays that might falter at crucial junctures.
Thus, Fang Ming inquired, "Among the dozens of modes, is there not a single usable one?"
The array master replied, "Three can be used. Their stability is guaranteed, but their power increase is not significant, merely a case of better than nothing."
Fang Ming sighed inwardly.
Currently, most of the Human race's array masters only knew how to use arrays, not their underlying principles.
This was a deficiency stemming from directly purchasing array knowledge from the system store.
Obtaining finished products directly might diminish the desire for innovation and the process of exploration.
However, faced with the immediate threat of the demon race, the Human race could only proceed in this manner.
Fang Ming could conceal the specific situation of the Human race from the high echelons of the Demon Court for two thousand years, but he could not conceal it forever.
Even if the high-ranking officials of the Demon Court were superstitious about the results of heavenly calculations and disregarded the opinions of their subordinates, their perception of time, often spanning millions or tens of millions of years, meant they paid little attention to a mere two thousand years.
This might seem extremely decadent, as if their minds were flawed.
However, there was a limit to this.
If all subordinates reported to the Great Luo Demon Gods that the Human race had truly risen,
if a Great Luo Demon God's own offspring discovered the anomaly of the Human race and reported the Human race's development to their parent in their capacity as a child,
if a Quasi-Saint level Demon Saint personally descended upon the Human race,
then the time for the Human race's development, bought by the heavenly mechanism interference device, would vanish in an instant.
Such a scenario was not impossible.
After all, over the past two thousand years, many demons who invaded human cities were either killed or repelled by the Human race.
What would these demons do?
One could imagine.
As time passed, problems would inevitably arise.
Secrecy could not be maintained indefinitely.
In this vast Primordial World, the commotion caused by such a large race as the Human race could not be kept secret forever.
The Demon Court was a force comprising tens of trillions of demon soldiers and a multitude of innate divine beings at its apex.
It was only a matter of time before so many demons discovered the anomaly of the Human race.
This was unlike the Taiqing Saint, who, along with Xuandu, numbered only two individuals, cultivating in seclusion in Shouyang Mountain, unaware even of the change in eras outside.
The heavenly mechanism interference device could ward off heavenly calculations, but it could not prevent demons from witnessing the various developments of the Human race with their own eyes.
Therefore, compared to those two individuals of the Human Sect who frequently resided and cultivated in seclusion in Shouyang Mountain,
the Demon Court's high command had a greater possibility of discovering the anomaly of the Human race first!
Fang Ming had to guard against this possibility.
Thus, in terms of military strength, such as arrays, as long as they were usable, the priority of researching their principles was secondary.
Fang Ming could only say to the array masters:
"We will use this Chaos Profound Yellow Array for now.
Only when you have adjusted the stability of the combination of dozens of arrays and ensured it does not collapse can the integrated arrays be activated."
The array master nodded and said, "Co-lord, once the integrated array is researched, it can resist the attacks of early-stage Great Luo demons.
However, its stability is always insufficient, so we can only rely on this Chaos Profound Yellow Array for now."
Fang Ming looked at his expression and sighed inwardly.
It was likely that it would be a long time before the integrated array could be truly put into use.
Well, this Chaos Profound Yellow Array, exchanged from the system store, was sufficient to resist demons below the Great Luo realm.
For the present, it was enough.
The pursuit of fundamental principles would have to wait until the Human race had destroyed the Demon Court and was no longer in crisis, before they could progress from mere usage to understanding the principles.
After staying for a while, Fang Ming flew away.
Along the way, he sensed the surging vital energy of many humans cultivating the Heaven-Shielding Method.
The third and fourth layers of the Immortal Platform were ubiquitous.
Fang Ming was naturally very pleased.
With the system's "immortal medicine propagation and division" technology from other worlds,
coupled with the accelerated ripening from the "Heaven-Grasping Bottle" of the Mortal World,
the resources for the Human race to cultivate the Heaven-Shielding Method were extremely abundant, even terrifyingly so, far beyond what could be described by merely using Origin stones.
Now, upon arriving at the spiritual medicine cultivation base, Fang Ming could even see vast expanses of Peaches of Immortality and True Dragon Immortal Medicine.
Thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of plants.
They had completely become mass-produced goods.
Although the gap between these and the genuine article was like the difference between the Primordial Innate Spiritual Root Ren Water Peach and a three-thousand-year Peach.