Although Li Yao did not know much about the demon race, he did have some basic knowledge about them.
If the demon race was classified vertically, it could be divided into four classes: saint blood, silver blood, bronze blood, and black blood.
The saint blood demons used to be the royal family in the Demon Beast Dynasty thirty thousand years ago. They boasted mysterious and unpredictable strength. According to the legends, they could even communicate with the gods and activate the powerful techniques of the ancient demon race temporarily.
However, in the era of the Star Ocean Imperium, the saint blood demons had been almost annihilated by the Supreme Emperor.
Today, after ten thousand years, even if there were still saint-blood demons, they were few and far between.
The silver blood demons were the ruling class. Most of the demon kingdoms and demon cities in the Blood Demon Sector were controlled by the silver blood demons.
On Boneyard, Li Yao had slain 'Wang Ji', the son of the monarch of the Kingdom of Lion Butchers, who had been a silver blood demon.
The bronze blood demons were the warrior class, and the black blood demons were the farmers, miners, and producers at the bottom level.
The higher the class of the demon race, the more features of human beings they would be born with. The bottom-level demons could only grasp the ability of 'shapeshifting' and make themselves more and more like human beings through training.
In the small village deep inside the Hundred Desolation Mountain, the villagers could not be silver-blood demons with noble bloodlines, nor could they be experts with profound Cultivation. But Li Yao had discovered the distinctive features of human beings in them.
Some of the villagers were almost identical to human beings except for the horns on their heads, the long tails on their butts, and the membranes between their fingers.
No wonder he could blend into the villagers with only a slight disguise!
Other than that, there was something else that was even more uncanny.
Other than the vertical division of the hierarchy, the demon race was also divided horizontally by species.
Even if the species were not as numerous as the hair on a cow, they could generally be classified as the Feather Clan, the Sea Clan, the Insect Clan, the Claw Clan, the Horn Clan, and so on.
Generally speaking, demons of different races would live together in groups.
The tiger demons lived in the same village. Rabbit demons and rabbit demons lived in the same village. They had different living habits and environments, so they lived together. Wouldn't it be a mess?
Only in the big cities where the 'mouths of demons' were densely packed would there be scenes of hundreds of demons living together.
However, there were more than ten different kinds of demons living in this remote mountain village with only thirty to fifty households. Maybe the snake demon and the rabbit demon lived next to each other, while the tiger demon and the ox demon lived in harmony. It was really strange!
"Chaos" was Li Yao's first impression of this village.
Not only in the village, but also in the family.
Li Yao discovered that in many families, each family of demons had a different appearance. It was not just the difference in the degree of demonization. Some demons even had the characteristics of multiple races.
Perhaps, on the head of a tiger demon, there would be a collision horn unique to ox demons. And the teeth of the ox demon would become as sharp as those of the tiger demon.
This phenomenon made Li Yao frown. He could not help but imagine how chaotic the relationship between the previous generation of the Demon Clan was.
But that's not right!
However ignorant Li Yao was, he knew the logic of 'reproductive isolation'.
Even if a tiger demon and an ox demon were unable to control themselves, and their 'organs' did boast certain 'functions', it was impossible for them to give birth to offspring that had the characteristics of the tiger demon and the ox demon.
"Weird. Weird!
"The so-called Demon Clan was created from spirit beasts forty thousand years ago by the Human Clan. Since that's the case. So, they should still be spiritual beasts in essence, right?
"Spiritual beasts of different species shouldn't have offspring at all!
"Alright. The tiger demon and the ox demon are both mammalian spiritual beasts. Maybe, under the catalysis of the 'Demon God Virus', the reproductive isolation can be broken. I'll put up with it for now.
"But I saw it clearly yesterday. There was also a beautiful snake demon with rabbit ears in the village!
"That doesn't make sense at all!"
Li Yao scratched his hair hard. For the first time, he had doubts about the history that he had been told since he was a little kid.
Over the past few days, Lei Lan, the cat-eared girl, had read a lot of stories from the 'Legends of Ancient Demons' to her 'brother' in order to 'awaken' his memories'.
The 'Legends of Ancient Demons' was a very popular classic among the demons. Li Yao discovered that the old demons in the village liked to explain the 'Legends of Ancient Demons' to the young demons under the bright red sun when they were free.
In Li Yao's eyes, the 'Legends of Ancient Demons' was equal to a collection of myths and the most elementary textbook. It was probably compiled by the leadership of the Demon Clan for the education of the people.
The myths and legends about the origins of the demons and human beings in the 'Legends of Ancient Demons' were nothing special.
Of course, the myths were all written in such a way. They would brag and claim to be ancestors randomly. They would write as exaggerated and boastful as possible. They would write as righteous as they could.
It was not like the demons were expected to admit that they were the evil weapons created by human beings, right?
As for the Primeval Lord of Heaven, the Pangu Clan, the Nuwa Clan, and so on, it was perfectly normal, too.
Essentially speaking, the demons were a secondary civilization. Before them, human beings had already created a splendid civilization. Even during the thirty thousand years when the demons reigned over the sea of stars, it was neither possible nor necessary for them to create a brand-new civilization from scratch. Instead, they had largely adopted everything from the civilization of mankind, including the language, the characters, the surnames, the social form, the national structure, and so on.
It was only natural that the myths of human beings were slightly modified into the myths of demons.
Therefore, no matter how extravagant the 'Legends of Ancient Demons' was, Li Yao's belief was not shaken at all.
However, the fact that there were so many different characteristics of the Demon Clan on the same Demon Clan member was indeed strange to him.
It was also the reason why he had not left the village even though he had recovered three days ago.
He was eager to figure out the secrets behind the demons.
What were the so-called 'demons' exactly?
In the age of ancient Cultivators forty thousand years ago, human beings had called all the spiritual beasts that had trained themselves into the shape of human beings as' demons'.
But in the modern society forty thousand years later, the theory of evolution had become popular. Human beings had long admitted that they were animals that had evolved from monkeys, too.
In other words, human beings were also 'spiritual beasts that had trained themselves into the shape of human beings'.
Therefore, the definition of 'demons' had been changed again. The species that did not evolve naturally but were modified and catalyzed artificially were called 'demons'.
But on second thought, wasn't the training of the Cultivators a kind of artificially modified and catalyzed artificially, too?
When the body fundamentalists trained themselves to the peak, the potentials in the deepest part of their cells would be triggered and the features of the primeval beasts would appear. The body fundamentalists in the primeval state looked even less like human beings than many demons!
Perhaps, there is no fundamental difference between human beings and demons, right? Everything is just defined by people. "
Right now, the minor apocalypse of the Imperium of True Human Beings is imminent. The war between the Tian Yuan Realm and the Blood Demon Sector must be ended as soon as possible.
But the Blood Demon Sector is well-trained, and the demons have a high survivability. A total war cannot be finished in a couple of years, either. “
Even if we gather the forces of the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Flying Star Sector and burn the Blood Demon Sector to the ground and occupy the surface of the planet, the remaining demons will still be able to sneak into the underground and engage in protracted guerilla warfare, attrition warfare, and harassment. Most of our forces will be stalled!
By then, how will we be able to compete with the Imperium of True Human Beings when we suffer heavy casualties?
What do we do? How can we end the war in only a couple of years?
Maybe, we can change our mindset.
Right now, I have the strength of the Blood Stripe Virus. I can conduct new training on myself on the cellular and even genetic level. I can even absorb the essence of the demon beasts and demons and embed it into my genetic strands to make up for my body. I will be able to build an unparalleled 'apocalyptic body'!
With such an ability, I may be able to cultivate the strength of the demon race at an amazing speed without resorting to the strength of the Cultivators. I will become an expert of the demon race in a very short amount of time and boast a certain amount of influence. I might even become the master of the demon planet!
By then, won't I be able to manipulate the direction of the war?
Li Yao's lips curled into a cold smile beyond his control. He did not seem to have noticed that his left arm, which was somewhat shriveled because of the bandages, was slowly filling up, as if a mysterious force was growing, filling, and expanding inside his left arm!
Suddenly …
Li Yao sniffed. His soul unleashed an electric aura that slashed at the depths of his brain like a sword!
Screams echoed deep inside Li Yao's brain. A tiny bloody figure was slashed in half by Li Yao's electric sword and turned into two pools of blood, which shivered and melded into the shape of a bloody figure again, except that it was smaller than before.
The bloody figure was small, but it had all the internal organs and facial organs. It was exactly the same as Li Yao's. It was grimacing in pain and jumping crazily.
Li Yao's soul sneered. "You've been obedient for only two days, and now you're up to no good again. Are you trying to trick me in secret?
"As I said, if you trick me once, I will slay you once. If you trick me a hundred times, I will slay you a hundred times. One day, I will slay the mental devil that is you for good!"
The tiny bloody figure in the deepest part of his brain was Li Yao's mental devil after he melted the Blood Stripe Virus.
Half a month ago, in the fierce battle against the Blood Stripe Virus on Firefly, although he failed to completely purge the Blood Stripe Virus in the end, he had successfully driven the Blood Stripe Virus out of his soul and condensed it into such a mental devil. He had sealed it inside his left eye and his left arm.
As a result, Li Yao's left eye and his left arm became a cage for the mental devil. Li Yao could monitor its status at any time without worrying that it might escape and savage the human world.
However, the Blood Stripe Virus was attached to his mental devil, and mental devils were invisible and unpredictable. They were born with his negative feelings and could never be annihilated.
In the first few days, whenever Li Yao sensed that a mental devil was growing inside him, he would slay it with the power of his soul.
However, such a way of killing was merely a temporary solution. One moment of carelessness, and the mental devil would rise again. The more he killed, the more mental devils there would be.
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