The Trigger for the War Between the Two Clans: The Egg-Swapping Incident

On Cuiwei Peak, the powerhouses of the Five Regions gathered.

The Eight Pillars of the Five Regions, martial arts families, the Li imperial family, the experts of the Northern Frontier, the Empress of the Southern Border, and the immortal artifacts of the Spiritual Artifact Nation.

But at this moment, the one representing the Five Regions to respond to the Azure Dragon was you, a mere Spirit Condensation Realm martial artist who couldn't even fly.

For no other reason than your incredibly strong connections.

"Azure Dragon! We have told you many times that the human race has no intention of exterminating the demon race. Yet, you still insist on war, plunging the people into misery and suffering! It is easy to return your Demon King—order your troops to retreat and never invade the Five Regions again!!"

The Azure Dragon sneered repeatedly. His voice echoed across the sky, naturally carrying a reverberating and stereoscopic sound.

"No intention of exterminating the demon race? The egg-swapping incident—such vicious intentions and despicable actions! Does that not prove you want our demon race to die out without descendants?!"

Here, the catalyst of this war must be mentioned.

Having stayed in the allied army of the Five Regions for so long, you had already figured out the whole story.

Humans and demons were sworn enemies.

Speaking of the distant past, the Great War between the two realms resulted in both sides losing their legacies, reducing them from top-tier worlds in the Void Realm to total obscurity.

But this event happened thirty thousand years ago. Nowadays, unless someone had researched ancient history or held an exceptionally high status and cultivation realm, they would have no idea about the Great Realm War.

Some even thought that the demon race had been living and multiplying in the Human Realm from the very beginning.

Speaking of the recent past.

Demons ate humans to increase their cultivation, while humans hunted demons to harvest materials.

The two sides killed each other back and forth, accumulating grievances over a long time.

However, since ancient times, the two races had established an agreement.

No matter how the lower-level members slaughtered each other, those above the Martial King realm were not allowed to intervene without reason.

This agreement was bound to be made.

Because it was born after the Realm War thirty thousand years ago.

At that time, both sides were very weak. Not all powerhouses above the Martial King realm were wiped out; a small number still remained.

If there were no such agreement, one side would inevitably have been slaughtered to near extinction.

Therefore, regardless of the distant or recent past, hatred was just hatred. Over the long years, conflicts and bloody wars of this scale had never erupted.

The catalyst this time was the Egg-Swapping Incident.

About sixty years ago, in the Five Regions, someone somehow obtained a pill recipe called the Demon Essence Pill.

As everyone knew, demons were oviparous.

The Demon Essence Pill used demon eggs as the main ingredient. After the pill was formed and consumed, it could extend one's lifespan by up to a year!

The exact amount depended on how high the bloodline of the demon egg used for refinement was.

A maximum of one year doesn't sound like much, right?

Here comes the important part.

All currently known life-extending methods of the human race were non-reusable.

Even if one ate the Holy Pill of the Five Regions, eating it a second time would not extend their lifespan again.

But the Demon Essence Pill could!

As long as one obtained enough demon eggs, they could continuously refine Demon Essence Pills and continuously extend their lifespan!

This thrilled the few people who obtained the recipe.

At first, they acted covertly, only stealing demon eggs in the Eastern Wasteland.

Later, their ambitions grew. Disliking the impure bloodlines of the Eastern Wasteland demons, they began stealing eggs from the Great Wasteland demons.

The secret of the Demon Essence Pill gradually became impossible to hide. More martial artists learned of its existence and eventually got their hands on the recipe.

Eventually, it basically became an unspoken secret among the major martial arts forces.

Which family didn't have an ancestor nearing the end of their lifespan?

These ancestors usually had very high cultivation realms. Wouldn't it be a pity if they died?

Continuously extending their lifespan so they could forever guard the sect—wasn't that a perpetual motion machine?

Thus, more and more martial artists went to the Eastern Wasteland to steal eggs.

But everyone quickly realized a problem.

Doing this so blatantly would inevitably lead the demons to discover the secret, angrily start a war, and cut off this wonderful life-extending method.

It was truly draining the pond to catch the fish.

Moreover, the Demon Essence Pill was only meaningful if taken long-term.

So, an idea king came up with a wicked plan.

There was another creature in the Human Realm called mutant beasts.

Mutant beasts had limited intelligence, but they also possessed the bloodlines of ancient divine beasts and were similarly oviparous.

The human race had the Dao of Beast Taming and could tame mutant beasts for their own use. For example, the Beast Taming Sect, one of the Eight Pillars of the Five Regions, was particularly skilled in this area.

The eggs of mutant beasts were extremely similar to demon eggs; even a demon mother would find it hard to tell them apart!

Furthermore, demons could not hatch mutant beast eggs.

Additionally, demons inherently had a failure rate when incubating their own eggs.

Stacking these factors together.

The result was.

After the martial artists of the Five Regions stole a demon egg, they would place a similar mutant beast egg in the demon nest.

The demons would think they had simply laid a bad egg, abandon the unhatchable egg, and continue to breed the next offspring.

Those refining the Demon Essence Pill could then obtain demon eggs on a long-term basis!

Shockingly, this matter was only completely discovered by the demons a little over ten years ago, and they found out it was done by the martial artists of the Five Regions.

Before this, the demons were at most suspicious, never imagining that the human race would use such methods against them.

Therefore, the four great Demon Ancestors decided to wage war against the Five Regions, swearing to exterminate the entire human race there to vent their species' hatred!

So this is the reason the Great Wasteland demons went to war against the Five Regions...

Chen Yi remembered that during this simulation, when the Sword Master and he were reading lips in the air, the Azure Dragon had also mentioned it.

The Shen family and the Three Great Holy Lands would not come to support the Five Regions, choosing to stand on the side of the demons.

Indeed.

Either you bring your army to the border and fight the demons head-on, wiping them all out, which would show you have guts.

Stealing their eggs and replacing them with mutant beast eggs, making them waste their efforts and even risking the extinction of their bloodline, was simply too wicked.

The Holy Lands and the Shen family probably felt that the Five Regions were truly in the wrong on this matter.

But they weren't supporting the demons; they just let both sides settle their own grudges, refusing to help either side.

It was just unknown that the demons' so-called settling of private grudges meant wiping out the entire Five Regions.

In this simulation, the Sword Master should have clearly investigated who was directly involved and where the Demon Essence Pill originally came from.

Next simulation, I can directly cut off this source, avoid the war between the two races, prevent mutual depletion, and avoid repeating the tragedy of the Demon Realm's destruction...

Chen Yi always felt that all of this was inextricably linked to the Dragonman race.

Out of nowhere, how did a Demon Essence Pill recipe just pop up?

Why wasn't there one before?

It was highly likely released by the Dragonman race.

As long as it was something the Dragonman race wanted to achieve, going against them was definitely the right move.

What made you feel sorrowful was.

When you asked the Sword Master exactly who was refining the Demon Essence Pill and whether handing them over to the demons for punishment could appease their anger and end the war.

The Sword Master merely sighed and told you.

"There are too many."

"Have you also taken the Demon Essence Pill?"

"No, from top to bottom in the Limitless Sword Sect, absolutely no one is involved! But within the Five Regions, nearly half of all the factions you can name are implicated. At most, some of them are just unaware."

It is not hard to understand why the Demon race is so furious, refusing to rest until they have wiped out all the humans of the Five Domains.

From within the crowd, someone shouted back at Azure Dragon.

"You complain about 'egg swapping' cutting off the Demon race's bloodline, but hasn't your Demon race eaten more than enough of us humans!"