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Chapter 1575 - 1115: Ancestral Return

Chapter 1575: Chapter 1115: Ancestral Return

The kingdom legion was encamped in the continuous black valleys, apparently ready for a prolonged war.

Meanwhile, it was only natural that the Bronze Demons in the mountains had discovered the camp.

But they did not approach, instead cautiously maintaining a distance.

It seemed they were plotting something.

However, for the kingdom’s scouts that got close, the Bronze Demons were overtly hostile. There were skirmishes, with casualties on both sides.

The Demon Domain is an area wrapped by countless black mountains. The entrances of three worlds form a triangle around it.

To invade other worlds, each world must pass through the controlled regions of the Bronze Demons.

This led to frequent clashes involving three or even four parties during the Divine Will Battle.

In response, Li Changhe ordered the legion to hold the camp and be vigilant of the approach of other world legions.

He intended to blend in with the Demons to gather intelligence.

This left the human powerhouses momentarily at a loss for words, as in their eyes,

the disparity between Demons and humans was too great, making disguise difficult.

However, in the next second, Li Changhe transformed before their eyes into a six-armed Bronze Demon, even more terrifying and ferocious than the actual Bronze Demons.

This was... Li Changhe’s voluntary release of the Jiuli Sequence’s uncontrollable state. The sequence going out of control was frightening, but as the current General, no amount of Jiuli Sequence disturbance was a problem for him.

"I’ll be back shortly, stay alert," Li Changhe, in the guise of a General, made a bell-like sound before leaping out of the camp.

These Bronze Demons’ level of civilization wasn’t high, seeming still to be in a primitive tribal state without a kingdom-like system.

But their unimaginably strong physical strength and battle consciousness allowed them to stand a chance against organized legions.

Because they did not appear to lack rationality and possessed a certain level of civilization, the Human Race kingdoms tried to cooperate with them.

In several Divine Will Battles ago, the Human Race kingdoms intended to ally with the Bronze Demons, the Demon Clan, and the stone people to resist the Heaven Demon together. However, the Demons’ hostility towards humans was intense, and even Divine Existences unbound by language could not communicate with them. There was an attempt by divine powerhouses to venture deep into the Demon Domain to negotiate with Demon high-ranking members. However, they were completely annihilated. Since then, the Human Race kingdoms had given up on communicating with them.

As for being considered insane, at least to the Human Race kingdoms, they indeed seemed irrational.

Regardless of age or gender, upon discovering humans, they would immediately attack. A few strong individuals could restrain from killing but still harbored malice towards humans. Contact inevitably led to war.

As time passed and hatred deepened, there naturally was no longer any exchange. Mutual slaughter became the only choice between humans and Demons.

The powerhouses of the Human Race kingdoms suspected that these Demons were also corrupted by beings similar to the Heaven Demon.

After all, judging by some of the Demonic monsters, they still retained a large part of human characteristics. Moreover, after the Demons died, their bodies would revert to human form...

The Human Race kingdoms always had this speculation but, unable to communicate, could only let it be.

But Li Changhe knew that this was not distortion, but ancestral awakening.

Some ancient memory had been awakened within these human fellows, and they were reverting towards that direction. If soldiers from the Human Race kingdoms stayed in this Demonic Territory, they would also turn into such Bronze Demons.

Li Changhe had seen these Bronze Demons in the Elf world, where the elves contaminated by the ancient ancestors presented such a copper skin disease.

But the elves’ situation was considered distortion, a consequence of assimilation by the ancient ancestor’s strength.

Whereas these Bronze Demons represented a higher level of ancestral awakening.

As mentioned before, whether it was Emperor Yan’s opposition to the Yellow Emperor, the Jiuli against Yan Huang, or Xingtian against the Yellow Emperor.

In fact, it was the confrontation between the bloodlines of Emperor Yan and the Yellow Emperor.

Emperor Yan was reluctant to contend, but Chiyou and Xingtian still remained defiant.

And with each great battle, it heralded the fusion of the bloodlines of various human clans.

After thousands of years, whose body does not carry the traces of their various ancestors?

Here lies the hellish prison of the Jiuli powerhouses, the permeated strength transforming humans within the Demon Domain back into their ancestral Bronze Demons.

This Li Changhe had already ascertained.

His own Sequence hails from Jiuli, and the inherent ability of the Jiuli clan is to become incarnate in bronze armor.

Just as now, Li Changhe could also transform into such Bronze Demons. The only difference is that Li Changhe can retain his rationality.

At the same time, Li Changhe speculated that Demons are not completely devoid of rationality.

Ordinarily, or namely outside of the Divine Will Battle, they must also reproduce and thrive like humans.

As he thought about this, Li Changhe, who was trekking on the rugged mountain path, looked toward the woods beside him.

He sensed the presence of Demons, no, what should be called humans returned to their ancestral form.

It was a humanoid creature with long hair tied up, enveloped in bronze armor, with three Bronze Arms—judging by its body contours, likely a female.

And behind her was a smaller being of ancestral return.

Although armor had also grown on its skin, it was clearly a small child.

They hid in the forest upon the mountain range, curiously observing the more fearsome Li Changhe.

Li Changhe thought for a moment, walked towards them, and instructed his neural hub to be ready for language translation. Hoping they still possessed the ability to communicate...

"Master, there’s a child, and of a genuinely young age, not one of those ancient creatures that has lived countless years," the neural hub, having used Optical Invisibility, reminded silently from the shadows: "This means they are capable of procreation! Your guess was right, oh great master."

"No need for flattery, I know," Li Changhe thought to himself with a bit of mockery.

Every human tribe has their own abilities, stemming from the transformation by the bloodline of the strong figures from their midst.

Some tribes control fire, others command water.

And the ability of the Jiuli clan is to incarnate as bronze armor, and with the existence of the General, every Jiuli warrior possesses the innate power of damage reduction and Battle Mastery.

This talent is similar to that of the later Extraordinary Soldier.

In the age of cold weapons, this was almost an existence impervious to blades and spears and invincible in close combat.

But life can’t be conceived in such a State.

How could two suits of armor procreate?

Sparking flames won’t help either!

But if the human kingdoms have never seen normal humans within the Demon Domain, doesn’t this mean that whenever the Divine Will Battle commences, there will be a force affecting these ancestral humans... compelling them to take on Demon forms?

It’s highly likely.

"It seems, the Divinities of Jiuli in hell, are very unwilling and angered," Li Changhe mused to himself: "After so many years, their hatred is still influencing this land."

At that moment, the three-armed Bronze female demon suddenly knelt before Li Changhe, offering up a Bronze Longsword.

Li Changhe did not reach for the Longsword, as he was still unfamiliar with the customs of this world; it wouldn’t look good if accepting the sword implied a challenge to a duel.

Instead, he spoke directly with Divinity: "Take me to see the strongest member of your tribe."