As this man's reputation grew, some monks gradually seemed to recognize him and said that he looked very similar to a monk who had disappeared from their clan.
Just when there were many different opinions in the outside world, this Nascent Soul cultivator who was as black as fine iron finally admitted that he was the man.
His skin color was due to practicing some kind of martial arts, and he listed some things to explain his identity.
Although he has a high level of cultivation, his current appearance makes him look like an alien. He cannot resist the rejection of the entire demon race by himself.
What's more, he was extremely ambitious and was not someone who was willing to be inferior to others. The confirmation of his identity finally allowed him to gain a foothold in the Lost Continent and create his legend.
This person was the "Ancestor of the Dark Demon" who later became famous throughout the world - Xiahou Shangxie.
After proving his identity, Xiahou Shangxie began to build his own family. With his status as a Nascent Soul cultivator and his unparalleled combat power, it was not difficult for him to do so.
I wonder how many immortal cultivators are willing to become his disciples.
His family began to keep a very low profile, and Xiahou Shangxie went from appearing out of nowhere and being dazzling at the beginning of his career to disappearing without a trace.
He lived in seclusion for many years, and few of his family members traveled outside.
It was not until seventy years later that the war between the Lost Continent and the Green Continent broke out.
When the two sides were fighting extremely fiercely and the demon leaders were constantly urging the major families and sects to recruit monks to join the army, a demon army composed of a family came into their sight.
What first caught their attention was the skin color of these monks, which was very different from that of other demons.
Each of the soldiers was as black as iron, with skin that shone with a metallic luster. They gave people a great sense of oppression, as if they were demons from hell.
What was even more surprising was that this army’s combat power far exceeded that of other armies.
At the same level and with the same number of people, they can often fight one against two or even more.
Both their bodies and their magic skills are extremely powerful, and the enemies often suffer greatly whenever they appear on the battlefield.
Soon, many people knew the origin of this demon army, the hidden immortal cultivation family - the Xiahou family.
In the great war with Qingqing Continent, the Xiahou family's demon army was almost indestructible. They emerged as a rising star in several major battles and led the direction of the war.
The ancestor of the Xiahou family, Xiahou Shangxie, was even more unstoppable. With the strength of a middle-stage Nascent Soul, he was able to fight against a great cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage.
Although he was suppressed and beaten back by the opponent, he finally escaped unscathed.
With just this one battle, Xiahou Shangxie, who had not been seen for a long time, became famous in both worlds again.
By the time the war between the two worlds slowly subsided, Xiahou Shangxie had already killed a mid-Nascent Soul cultivator and an early-Nascent Soul cultivator of the other side, and severely injured several Nascent Soul cultivators.
He was the most famous at the time, but at this time, Xiahou Demon Army had lost most of its troops and became a remnant army. However, their strength and ruthlessness had attracted the attention of countless people.
The skills practiced by the Xiahou family were once again constantly mentioned, but at the same time they also caused criticism from many people in the demon clan.
"After practicing the Xiahou family's martial arts, the demon clan's bloodline has changed, turning them into ferocious beasts that only know how to kill..." and so on.
But even so, there are still many people who resolutely began to join the Xiahou family in the hope of gaining more powerful strength.
In this way, the Xiahou family gradually became a behemoth.
During this period, although many demon families and sects wanted to stop its development, Xiahou Shangxie's skills were unparalleled, and even the great cultivators in the late Nascent Soul stage could not do anything to him.
Instead, he successfully entered the late Nascent Soul stage just one hundred and forty years after his comeback, and his power was unmatched.
After reaching this point, Xiahou Shangxie no longer had too many concerns and began to expand even more frantically.
And the biggest secret of their family is no longer a core secret.
That is, the Xiahou family has a mysterious secret realm. When a cultivator practices in it, the speed of practice will increase exponentially.
There is a so-called "demon energy" in the secret realm that can be quickly cultivated and improved. This demon energy is more domineering than spiritual energy and more suitable for the demon's body.
This "secret" was of course deliberately released by the Xiahou family in order to attract more monks to join and rely on them.
As the secret realm could no longer support the growing needs of the family's cultivation, Xiahou Shangxie simply planned to expand the scope of the "demonic energy" and occupy more territories.
At this time, no one could stop the expansion of the Xiahou family. It was said that Xiahou Shangxie had reached some kind of agreement with an ancestor who had reached the state of transformation, which led to the other ancestor's no longer interfering in the matter.
The demons believe in the law of the jungle the most, and will do whatever it takes to kill outsiders.
As for the competition within the clan, they will not suppress it excessively, so as to keep the combat power of the entire demon clan unparalleled.
At this time, even if all the demons in the Lost Continent gathered their strength to destroy the Xiahou family, most of the elites of the entire demon race would die at the same time, and they would inevitably become the weakest race in the Lost Continent.
As the Xiahou family expanded, they began to plant some spiritual plants in the occupied areas.
These spiritual plants grow very quickly. They can absorb a large amount of spiritual power between heaven and earth and quickly grow stronger.
In just five or six years, a thousand-mile area can be covered with endless towering trees and dense blue-black grass.
What is even more terrifying is that while these spiritual plants devour spiritual power, they will continuously secrete large amounts of black smoke, causing the spiritual energy in this area to become complex and extremely violent.
If there are fewer spiritual plants, the black smoke will be almost invisible, that is, it will be integrated into the spiritual energy and can easily be ignored.
However, when a jungle or grassland was formed, the black smoke had become visible. At a glance, the demonic energy was rolling, and the blue and black colors rose into the sky. As a result, the demonic beasts in many places in the Forgotten Continent began to mutate, becoming more ferocious and violent, constantly killing and even devouring their own kind.
If an ordinary cultivator enters the cave after a while, he will become bloodthirsty, slowly lose his sanity, and become an unconscious, violent killing puppet.
The Xiahou family's actions eventually led the cultivators of the original demon clan to come up with a plan to gather the strength of the entire clan and eliminate dissidents.
The original demons were not only dissatisfied with the expansion of these things that could absorb spiritual energy and spit out so-called demonic energy.
He even looked down on the bloodline of the Xiahou family, believing that it was an inferior bloodline polluted by demonic energy, turning the noble and holy Demon God into a Shura from hell.
What the Xiahou family did was to destroy the real demon clan. The two sides started out with small-scale frictions, secretly attacking and killing each other, and it eventually turned into a protracted war.
This intra-racial war lasted for seventy-one years. In the end, the original demons were defeated by the Xiahou family's army and were forced into a corner in the northwest.
Even the "Holy Demon Palace" of the tribe was surrounded, and the original demon tribe was about to be destroyed by Xiahou Shangxie.
And at that time, for some unknown reason, after a certain night, the Xiahou family army that besieged the "Holy Demon Palace" retreated completely.
Moreover, the army returned the Xiahou family's territory after a few days and gave up many of the territories it had previously occupied.
Just when other races were confused and thought that a primitive demon cultivator had intervened, and there were many different opinions, Xiahou Shangxie suddenly announced a shocking news to the Lost Continent.
From then on, an era began. Xiahou Shangxie declared that the Xiahou family no longer existed, and he became the "Ancestor of the Black Demon" and established the Black Demon Clan.
They occupied 60% of the eastern part of the Lost Continent and ruled it separately from the original demons.
For other sects or families in the original areas, if they are willing to stay in the Black Demon Clan, the Black Demon Clan will provide the same protection and training resources.
In order to enable it to adapt to the demonic energy, some corresponding exercises will also be provided.
Those who do not want to stay can move to the territory ruled by the original demons at will. They will not make things difficult for them or hunt them down.
For a time, the world of immortal cultivation in the Lost Continent became more chaotic and turbulent.
In response to this, the original demon clan also spoke out quickly, acknowledging what Xiahou Shangxie said, and declared that the western region was the territory ruled by the "White Demon Clan".
The sects of other races can decide whether to stay or leave, but once they choose to leave, their sect ruins will no longer be preserved and will be allocated to other sects and families.
Regarding this, the White Demon Clan is not as generous as the Black Demon Clan. The Black Demon Clan allows others to come and go as they please, and even give them techniques to cultivate demonic energy.
The White Demon Clan directly confiscated the former sites of other people's sects.
From then on, the Lost Continent was divided into six parts: the east and the west: black and the west: white, and governed separately.
The White Demons do not allow any spiritual plants that can produce demonic energy to appear in the west, and they station troops on the border all year round to guard against it.
Kill the magical beasts that cross the border with strong demonic energy, as well as the black demon monks.
Li Yan heard most of these from Shan Yiyuan. Although Shan Yiyuan was surprised by Li Yan's questions, he still answered them one by one.
Li Yan just asked a seemingly casual question, but to his surprise, Shan Yiyuan knew so much about the world of immortal cultivation that he was shocked.
Seeing Li Yan's strange look, Shan Yiyuan finally explained.
“The origins of us and the Black Demon Clan are all things passed down from ancient times, and this is something almost everyone knows.
So, as soon as you opened your mouth, Master, we knew that you must be an outsider cultivator. Although we don’t often see cultivators of other races here, there are some, after all, this is the Lost Continent.”
Li Yan finally felt relieved. His seemingly careful efforts to get the other party to talk might be seen as a laughing stock in the other party's eyes. The other party could see through his general background at a glance.
However, after learning about Li Yan's origins, Shan Yiyuan was also surprised. An outsider cultivator could establish a relationship with the immortal master in the army as soon as he arrived. This relationship was deep enough.
However, if Shang Gong Changge were to face Li Yan's question at this time, she would definitely conclude that Li Yan and Zhao Min were just living in seclusion for many years and were oblivious to worldly affairs.
At the same time, Li Yan also roughly knew that the White Demon Clan still mainly relied on breathing in spiritual energy to cultivate the purest "magic source power" into the body.
Therefore, the further west you go on the Lost Continent, the less demonic energy there is, until it finally turns into completely pure spiritual energy.
The village where he is now is at the border of the two worlds, where the heaven and earth are filled with a mixture of demonic energy and spiritual energy.
These evil spirits do not have much impact on mortals, as their physical bodies are unable to absorb the spiritual and evil spirits between heaven and earth.
If he can, it means that he has the qualifications to cultivate immortality. At most, the rich spiritual energy or demonic energy will nourish their physical bodies.
The demonic energy still has some influence on the minds of mortals, but these mortal demons, because their ancestors have lived here for a long time, have gradually adapted to the demonic energy that is spreading here.
People like Shan Yiyuan have become more adapted to the demonic energy. Their bloodlines have also undergone certain changes, and their bodies are stronger than those of the original White Demon Clan mortals.
In addition, the White Demon Clan and the Black Demon Clan had not fought a major war for many years, so not many mortals from the border villages migrated to the west.
However, the armies of monks stationed on the border between the two sides are still stretched out to guard against each other.
Now on the border, most of the monsters appearing are from the Black Demon Clan, crossing the border from time to time.
Those magical beasts, nourished by demonic energy, are extremely ferocious and bloodthirsty. They like to cross borders and slaughter mortals, even low-level monks.
In general, there was no major battle between the two sides, but there were constant frictions in secret.