Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me
Chapter 1021 - 743 Fierce Beasts! (Request for monthly tickets)

Chapter 1021: 743 Fierce Beasts! (Request for monthly tickets)

Why King Yu sealed those demons instead of killing them is unknown, only he himself knows.

However, even though Jiang Chen didn’t know, he could guess it on his own. He believed that it was a deeply strategic and far-sighted move for King Yu not to kill these demons. King Yu had foreseen that, after countless years, the Human Race would inevitably decline.

Thus, by leaving these demons alive and not killing them, he hoped that one day, his descendants could refine these demons to rebuild the glory of the Human Race during its decline.

These demons were the wealth left by King Yu for future generations, to bolster the foundation of the Human Race.

One who doesn’t plan for the entirety cannot plan for the moment. King Yu, with deep and strategic foresight, had already been laying out plans for the future during the Ancient Times, leaving unimaginable wealth for later generations.

The kings of the ancients not only planned for the present but also focused on the future, so that even if they fell, their legacies would enrich future generations.

Being able to stand out from countless paragons and become the king of the people, governing the rise and fall of the Human Race, the significance of a Human King is obvious. Each Human King had a presence that dazzled through the ages, not to mention that King Yu was also outstanding among them.

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Whether King Yu really thought this way is no longer known, as King Yu had already fallen.

Therefore, there’s no issue with Jiang Chen interpreting King Yu’s actions this way, as King Yu is not around to refute him.

Whether Jiang Chen might have misconstrued King Yu’s actions is not important, what is important is that those demons sealed by King Yu are indeed very useful to the Human Race.

As long as it benefits the Human Race, even if Jiang Chen did misinterpret King Yu’s intentions, King Yu wouldn’t mind. The vision of the ancient Human Kings is incomparable to that of later emperors.

For the sake of the Human Race, they were truly willing to sacrifice everything.

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"To secure peace within, one must first eliminate external threats!"

"Let me first clear away all these unstable elements within the Nine States."

Since Jiang Chen thought of these demons, he couldn’t possibly do nothing in preparation.

The demons sealed by King Yu couldn’t break their seals, but those sealed by other Ancient and archaic powerhouses had the potential to break theirs, and these beings were unstable elements within the current Nine States.

Instead of waiting for them to break their seals and wreak havoc, it would be better to refine them now while they are still sealed, avoiding future troubles.

While he had the time now, Jiang Chen decided to act against them.

With the Nine Tripods, it wasn’t difficult for Jiang Chen to locate the demons sealed by the Ancient strong beings.

The Nine Tripods, connected to the origin of the Nine States, could clearly reflect everything within the Nine States. Just by following the clues, he could find the whereabouts of those sealed demons.

Such demons, at their peak, didn’t frighten Jiang Chen, let alone now when they have been sealed for endless years, their power having plummeted to rock bottom, a mere fraction of what it once was. Jiang Chen dealing with them was just a matter of reaching out and taking them.

"Just refining them might be a waste; once there, I’ll study them carefully to see if they can be refined into Innate Spiritual Treasures."

"The Human Race ultimately has a shallow foundation and needs some Innate Spiritual Treasures to enhance it."

Innate Dao Sovereigns are the best materials for refining Innate Spiritual Treasures, even a beginning-level Innate Dao Sovereign could be refined into a Low-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.

If it’s a Dao Sovereign at their peak, it is possible to refine a Mid-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure at its peak.

When it comes to a Quasi-Saint, at least a High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure can be refined. A Great Divine Transcendent can be refined into a top-tier Innate Spiritual Treasure.

Jiang Chen is not very clear about the number of Dao Sovereigns sealed by the Human Race powerhouses, but there are at least several hundred. It would be somewhat wasteful to completely refine these strong beings—it would be better to refine them into Innate Spiritual Treasures.

The strength of a race mainly lies in three aspects. The first, and most important, is having a sufficient number of strong individuals. The second is having a powerful Innate Spirit Root. The third is possessing a large number of Innate Spiritual Tools.

Top-tier Innate Spirit Roots and Innate Treasures generally have the ability to suppress fate.

Besides, while Innate Spirit Roots do not have powerful force, they can automatically gather the mechanisms of Heaven and Earth. Even if the location only starts as an ordinary Spiritual Land, in the end, it will evolve into a top-tier Cave Heaven Blessed Land.

And Innate Spiritual Treasures, their role is even greater. In fact, people misunderstand; the most important aspect of Innate Spiritual Treasures is not their power, but the Innate Dao patterns they carry, which are interpretations of the Heavenly Earthly Origin.

It can be said that each Innate Spiritual Treasure records a part of the Innate Dao scriptures, directly pointing to the Heavenly Earthly Origin. A Dao Monarch who possesses an Innate Spiritual Treasure has at least a 30% higher possibility of becoming true to the Dao compared to a Dao Monarch who doesn’t possess an Innate Spiritual Treasure.

When the Demon Clan was at its peak, it fulfilled these three conditions, possessing not only a large number of experts but also countless Innate Spiritual Treasures and three top-tier Innate Spirit Roots: the Innate Fusang Tree, the Innate Laurel Tree, and the Innate Kun Mu.

Compared to the Demon Clan, the Human Race still falls far short and needs to strive hard.

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In the depths of the earth, before the Nine Tripods, Jiang Chen looked at the nine tripods in front of him, silently counting the light spots emerging on the bodies of the tripods.

These light spots represented the demonic creatures sealed by the ancient powerhouses. Among them, the light spots the size of a grain of rice represented the weakest Innate Dao Monarchs sealed within.

The light spots the size of a green bean represented Innate Dao Sovereigns, while those the size of a soybean represented Quasi-Saints. At the center of the Nine Tripods, a crimson light spot the size of a peanut naturally represented a primeval Fierce Beast of the Great Divine Transcendent level that had been sealed.

"Two hundred thirty-one Innate Dao Sovereigns, are there really so many?"

Before the Nine Tripods, Jiang Chen carefully counted and discovered that the ancient powerhouses had sealed two hundred thirty-one Innate Dao Sovereigns, more than a hundred of which had been sealed by King Yu himself.

Besides the Innate Dao Sovereigns, there were fewer sealed Quasi-Saint level demonic creatures, only thirteen, and even fewer Great Divine Transcendents, just one.

"Of these two hundred forty-five formidable entities, at least eighty percent are Fierce Beasts, and only twenty percent are calamitous demons. That’s more like it."

This finding resolved one of Jiang Chen’s doubts. He had always found it strange that after the era of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the prestige of the Human Race had reached its peak, and no one should have dared to provoke them.

However, during King Yu’s period, one strong figure after another emerged, causing chaos in the world from time to time, which was clearly abnormal.

If the prestige of the Human Race really had reached its peak, how could those powerhouses dare to offend the Human Race? Wouldn’t that be contradictory?

Now, having seen those sealed powerhouses, Jiang Chen finally understood the reason. Those who caused trouble during King Yu’s period were mostly Fierce Beasts. Only a few powerhouses with unclear minds dared to challenge King Yu.

With the floods spreading and the earth in imminent danger, it was the most active time for Fierce Beasts. Under the call of that Great Divine Transcendent level primeval Fierce Beast, Fierce Beasts in various places stirred up trouble, fueling the momentum of the floods.

Throughout his journey, King Yu controlled the floods and suppressed all the troublesome Fierce Beasts.

Initially, the word spread throughout Heaven and Earth was surely that King Yu had sealed a great Fierce Beast. But as the years passed, the rumors gradually changed, turning into stories of King Yu suppressing many formidable beings.

Though Fierce Beasts are strong, they lack spiritual intelligence and cannot truly be called formidable beings.

"Let’s first check on that Great Divine Transcendent level primeval Fierce Beast, and I truly hope it has already perished completely."

Having confirmed the origins and locations of those sealed entities, Jiang Chen finally started to take action.

His first target was that Great Divine Transcendent level primeval Fierce Beast. He wanted to see, after countless years, what the situation of this primeval Fierce Beast was, and whether it had fallen by now.

Time is the most terrifying weapon in the world; even a Great Divine Transcendent, sealed for countless years and deprived of replenishment, would have its power diminished and might even have perished.

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Primeval Fierce Beasts are transformed from the essence blood of Chaos Demigods, hailed as a child of the Demon God, each possessing a potential not inferior to Innate Saints. And that primeval Fierce Beast sealed by King Yu had reached the realm of a Great Divine Transcendent, tremendously powerful.

Normally, if it were one-on-one, King Yu might not have been able to defeat that primeval Fierce Beast.

However, because it had destroyed the Heavenly River, it had been severely injured by the then Heavenly Emperor, Cut down to a tenth of its strength, which led to its defeat at King Yu’s hands and subsequent sealing.

During King Yu’s period, the then Heavenly Emperor was the last of the Five Elements Heavenly Emperors, the Black Emperor Zhuan Xu.

First a Human Emperor, then ascended as an emperor, with the support of the fate of heaven and man, the strength of Emperor Zhuan Xu was comparable to a Daluo Jinxian of the Primordial, yet even he was able to only severely injure the primeval Fierce Beast, not kill it, demonstrating its formidable strength.

Fierce Beasts, born from the resentment of Chaos Demigods and taking the destruction of the Prehistoric World as their mission, possess a terrifying existence. Even a benevolent King Yu had the intent to kill it and did not wish to spare it.

However, that primeval Fierce Beast was too powerful; not even the Heavenly Emperor could kill it, much less King Yu. Thus, King Yu had no choice but to try everything to seal it.

To seal that primeval Fierce Beast, King Yu first used the fate of the Human Race as chains to bind its limbs, rendering it incapable of moving. He then transformed the Original Source of Nine States into nine great tripods, placed in its Sea of Consciousness to seal its True Spirit, depriving it of thought.

Finally, King Yu channeled the power of Heaven and Earth into a cosmic millstone, aiming to gradually diminish its power and refine it.

King Yu truly wanted it to die, to rid Heaven and Earth of this great peril. Unfortunately, before King Yu could erode the Fierce Beast, he himself had perished first.

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At the core of Nine States, this is where the Earth Veins converge, where countless spiritual engines gather, giving rise to strands of the essence of creation, each flowing towards the Nine States.

This is the essence of creation of Heaven and Earth; if merged with the Earth Vein, it can turn into a Spiritual Vein.

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