Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil in the Cultivation World Chapter 1439 - 667: The Spirit Ruins Realm Five Hundred Years Later, Reclaiming the Demon Realm

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, five hundred years have passed.

As the Human Race and Demon Race launched a full-scale counterattack, one Demon Cave after another was eradicated.

Now, five hundred years later, basically all Demon Caves have been removed.

The vast majority of demons and monsters have been completely slain.

Of course, some have managed to slip through and hide.

After all, the Spirit Ruins Realm is vast and boundless. If these demons deliberately hide in a certain place, it is still very difficult to wipe them out completely.

But even so, the threat of the demons in the Spirit Ruins Realm has effectively been thoroughly eradicated.

Unless a massive invasion by external demons occurs, the Spirit Ruins Realm remains as stable as Mount Tai.

However, for both the Demon Race and the Human Race, more importantly, it’s about purifying regions in the Spirit Ruins Realm.

Because these regions have been eroded by demonic power for hundreds of millions of years, they have long turned into a Demon Realm.

Turning these Demon Realms into places suitable for living beings requires an extremely long time.

But even so, they still need to strive to restore these regions.

Otherwise, these places will eventually become a scourge and a breeding ground for demons.

At this moment, on a plain.

A city has risen from the ground.

It is Linglong City, the Pioneer City built by Ye Linglong.

This is the Human Race’s pioneering decree, sending countless cultivators to the Demon Realm to transform it.

And because of this, countless human cultivators ventured into unknown territories to build one city after another.

Over long years, these places will fully be restored to areas suitable for human habitation.

Linglong City stands in the center of the boundless Qinghe Plain, not relying on mountains or water, yet has manually created the most majestic skyline on the plain.

The city walls soar over a hundred meters, completely built from composite giant bricks of deep blue sedimentary rock and cold iron, with wall foundations fifty meters thick, like a sleeping Profound Turtle, stabilizing the three intersecting Tier Three Spirit Veins below.

The wall surface is not smooth, but densely covered with layers upon layers of arrays and runes—there are crimson-gold primary patterns of the "Vajra Protection Array," silver-blue auxiliary patterns of the "Gathering Spirit Lock Element Array," and faint purple warning runes of "All Arts Void Restriction" and "Exorcism and Demon Breaking." These patterns range as fine as hair to as thick as a giant python, glistening with flowing light in the sunlight, and emanate a gentle spiritual glow at night, making the entire city appear as if the Star Sea is falling upon the plain.

All four main city gates are made of a thousand-year-old black iron encased in deep-sea cold jade, with fierce dragon, phoenix, and Taotie reliefs cast upon them. Runes are also embedded in the gaps of the reliefs.

Outside the city gates stand nine-meter-high Guardian Stone Men, with lower grade Spirit Stones embedded in their foreheads. Once outlaws invade, they automatically activate, interfacing with the grand arrays on the city walls.

From afar, Linglong City looks like a dark jade treasure seal embedded on a green carpet; standing at the city’s forefront, looking up at the city walls feels as if half the sky is covered, with the flowing runes’ aura pressing one’s breath to slow down a pace.

There are restrictions in the air; cultivators below Divinity Transformation are not allowed to casually ride artifacts in flight and must land via designated rainbow bridges or city entrances. Hence, on the square outside the city gates, various flying mounts and magical artifacts (Flying Ships, Cloud Carriages, Void Shuttles) come and go, forming queues of cultivators from Foundation Establishment to Nascent Soul, with vibrant voices mixed with the neighs of spirit beasts.

From this, it can be imagined how much effort Ye Linglong has expended to build this city accommodating billions of cultivators.

"I really didn’t expect Ms. Linglong to become the lord of a city and be dispatched here."

"This is inevitable; although Ms. Linglong is a Princess, she still has to follow the Human Race’s orders. In fact, it’s not just Ms. Linglong; basically every princess and prince has been sent out by the royal family, with the objective of transforming the Demon Realm. Otherwise, the Demon Realm will always be a major threat to the Human Race."

"That’s indeed the case. After five hundred years, the transformation can be considered fruitful. Some areas are now suitable for human habitation, and this relies entirely on the special Heaven and Earth Spirit Plants; I certainly didn’t expect these Heaven and Earth Spirit Plants could purify the Demon Realm—indeed, there’s always something to counter something."

"Without these Heaven and Earth Spirit Plants, relying solely on our human cultivators’ means, regardless of how much effort is spent, it would not succeed—the consumption is just too great."

"That’s right. Now we just need to cultivate these Heaven and Earth Spirit Plants, let them quickly grow, and then the areas they influence will naturally be purified by the power of the Spirit Plants, turning them into places suitable for human habitation."

"Moreover, the purified areas possess extremely pure and dense Spiritual Qi, becoming places akin to a Grotto Heaven Blessed Land, attracting countless cultivators to reside.

"Initially, pioneering the Demon Realm was a grueling task many cultivators avoided as much as possible, but once its effects came to fruition, it became highly sought after, attracting countless cultivators in droves."

"Haha, just a bunch of self-serving opportunists, but this is also the goal of the Human Race’s upper echelons—after all, only in this way will it attract countless cultivators to come, rapidly transforming the Demon Realm completely. If relying only on such a small number of cultivators, who knows how long it would take to succeed."

"But in any case, this indeed contains immense benefits for us, because these Pioneer Cities are truly our own cities. Aside from paying a small portion of taxes to the Great Xuan Dynasty, all other benefits belong to us. Without these benefits, there is no way we could advance to Refining Void so quickly."