[You informed the Sword Lord of the Demon Refining Pot's location, hoping he could retrieve it for you.]

[The Demon Tribe's Bane + the Demon Refining Pot, is this a viable combination?]

[That's an incredibly viable combination!]

["Ten Thousand Demons Lake?"]

["Does the Sect Master not know where this place is either?"]

["The Great Wastes is too vast, several times larger than the area of the Five Regions. Due to the Realm War thirty thousand years ago, our human race once suffered a severe population decline and abandoned many settlements.

Times have changed, and some place names might have been called something else by the Demon Tribe.

For example, 'Ten Thousand Demons Lake'—this is clearly not a name our human ancestors would have chosen, as the Demon Tribe didn't exist back then."]

["That's true..."]

["However, knowing there's a Demon Refining Pot in a lake is enough."]

[The Sword Lord revealed a confident smile.]

[The two of you didn't waste any time and immediately set off, flying towards the Great Wastes.]

[Of course, you were the one being carried along for the ride.]

[Otherwise, with your turtle-paced sword flight speed, how could you possibly keep up with the Sword Lord's speed of soaring through the air?]

[Actually, the Sword Lord was also flying on a sword. His immortal sword, after enlarging, was big enough to carry both of you.]

[During the flight, you felt no shaking or strong winds, as if you were inside a warm room.]

[The Sword Lord seemed to possess a biological force field, able to firmly secure the people on the flying sword.]

[Along the way, you chatted with the Sword Lord about some matters.]

["Actually, compared to figuring out how to resist the Demon Tribe, understanding why they tore up the agreement that had been maintained for thirty thousand years is more important."]

[The Sword Lord glanced at you with considerable appreciation.]

["Although I don't know where you've been training all these years, your perspective on problems now stands at a higher level."]

[You also shared the information about the Dragon-Man tribe with the Sword Lord during the journey.]

[To your surprise, the Sword Lord actually knew nothing about the existence of the Dragon-Man tribe.]

[This indicated that the Dragon-Man tribe's actions up until now had been in a state of absolute secrecy.]

[Of course, there was another possibility.]

[They had always been infiltrating in a soul state, never revealing their true form.]

[Didn't that Huo Feihuo say it? Their Dragon-Man tribe was the only race among the myriad races of the Void Realm that could survive without relying on a physical body.]

[In other words, even if they drifted around as souls, they wouldn't be drawn away by the Underworld.]

[Even if an occasional powerful individual sensed them, they would mistake them for wandering ghosts of the Demon Tribe.]

[In normal worlds like the Human Realm, there are also cases where deceased souls cannot dissipate and turn into ghosts and monsters, such as when resentment is too strong or the manner of death is too strange.]

[But it's not a common phenomenon.]

[You could understand it as the Underworld's work also having oversights.]

["The Dragon-Man tribe's instigation?"]

[This was your speculation, but the Sword Lord had other thoughts.]

["After obtaining the Demon Refining Pot, you and I will split up. You go lobby the civilian governments, I'll go lobby the martial arts sects. I'll take the opportunity to investigate whether any of the sects are implicated in the Demon Tribe tearing up the agreement."]

["Sect Master, you don't think it's the Dragon-Man tribe stirring up trouble behind the scenes?"]

["Not necessarily. Perhaps someone on our side did something that completely infuriated the Demon Tribe."]

[The Sword Lord flew with you into the Great Wastes.]

[This was a region that had lost all traces of human civilization.]

[There were only the most primitive mountains, forests, rivers, and deserts.]

[Although the Sword Lord didn't know where Ten Thousand Demons Lake was.]

[He did know where there were lakes.]

[He wasn't planning to search every single lake in the Great Wastes.]

[What he was looking for was a lake guarded by powerful Demon Tribe members.]

[A treasure like the Demon Refining Pot, specifically designed to kill demons, would spell great misfortune for the Demon Tribe if it fell into human hands.]

[It must be guarded by a powerful being.]

[The fifty-fifth year, age seventy-three.]

[The Great Wastes was still too vast.]

[Even at the Sword Lord's speed, he couldn't quickly pinpoint the destination.]

[On this day, the Sword Lord, standing on a giant sword and carrying you as he soared through the clouds, suddenly stopped.]

["The Azure Dragon is ahead. If we get any closer, he will sense me."]

["Is there a lake ahead?"]

["Yes. Besides the Azure Dragon, there are three Demon Tribe members at the Demon King Realm."]

["What are they doing there?"]

["Too far. My divine sense can only detect their auras, not see clearly what they are doing."]

["Then let's get closer."]

[You took out two talismans from your storage ring and stuck them on yourself and the Sword Lord.]

["Talismans? These things have been lost in the Five Regions. Where did you get them?"]

["A benefactor gifted them. These are Heaven-Grade Turtle Breath Talismans. As long as we don't circulate our energy, even a Demon Ancestor won't be able to detect our approach."]

["If they truly are Heaven-Grade talismans, they would indeed have such an effect. Let's go take a look."]

[Of course, you got these talismans from the Shen Family.]

[Thinking of the Shen Family, you had some doubts.]

[The Shen Family had so many powerful experts. In terms of the number of Martial King Realm experts, their family alone was comparable to the entire Five Regions.]

[In the last simulation, when the Demon Tribe came with such ferocity, why didn't they come to help?]

[Even if they didn't concern themselves with worldly affairs, they couldn't just ignore the survival of their own race, could they? Weren't they afraid that if the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold?]

[From your recent chats with the Sword Lord, you also learned.]

[Actually, the humans in the Five Regions are not the entirety of humanity in this world.]

[The Shen Family of the Starry Domains goes without saying, they have many people.] 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

[In the Great Wastes and overseas, there are also many humans, mostly existing in the form of martial artist organizations.]

[The Blood Moon organization you investigated earlier was one of them.]

[Furthermore, the most powerful forces outside the Five Regions are the Three Great Holy Lands.]

[The combined scale of the Three Great Holy Lands rivals that of the Shen Family of the Starry Domains.]

[In the last simulation, none of these Three Great Holy Lands came to help either.]

[You felt it definitely wasn't simply them coldly watching from the sidelines. There must be reasons behind it.]

[You and the Sword Lord stealthily approached, hovering in mid-air, looking down from a distance.]

[You couldn't circulate energy, nor could you use divine sense to probe, as both would expose you. So the two of you could only rely on your physical eyes.]

["The Demon Refining Pot!"]

[You saw the Demon Refining Pot, right on the massive claw of the Azure Dragon.]

[To the left and right of the Azure Dragon were two Demon Tribe members with very large mouths.]

[The Sword Lord said these two demons were the "Hum-Ha Demon Generals," quite famous among the Great Wastes Demon Tribe.]

[In front of the Azure Dragon, a monkey demon was kneeling on one knee.]

[This monkey demon had four eyes, six ears, wore a suit of bone armor, and held a purple-gold great staff.]

[The Azure Dragon was presenting the Demon Refining Pot to this monkey demon.]

["I understand now..."]

[You recalled the content from the last simulation.]

[The Divine Arms Pavilion Master's two spirit monkey disciples. One of them, the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey, due to his narrow-minded nature and feeling he was treated unfairly, defected from his master and joined the Great Wastes Demon Tribe.]

[When the two races went to war, it was this Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey who acted as the vanguard, leading a group of Demon Tribe members into the Five Regions first, dispersing into smaller units, killing and causing chaos everywhere.]

[In the last simulation, the Demon Refining Pot said he was awarded by the Azure Dragon to the Four-Eyed Spirit Monkey, who then awarded him to Feng Yucheng.]

[This time, there was some discrepancy in the timing.]

[Last time, the Demon Tribe retrieved the Demon Refining Pot after the war started, not before.]

[Perhaps it was because Feng Yucheng wasn't involved this time, causing some events to change.]