A year passed in the blink of an eye.
In this year, Mo Fan’s main body was not idle either. Working with the avatar, he successfully pirated the entire library pavilion of Tianlu Holy Land.
“Tianlu Derived Spirit Art” was a method for cultivating divine sense, so there were no special requirements needing spiritual power to cultivate. Therefore, almost all the king realm great demons in Black Wind Mountain practised this technique.
This made the group of demon kings beam with joy. It meant they had another trump card.
The most powerful aspect of Tianlu Derived Spirit Art lay not in tempering the spirit and divine sense, but in possessing true methods of spiritual attack. Once cultivated to great completion, one could slay enemies invisibly.
In just a short year, the entire demon horde on Black Wind Mountain underwent earth-shaking changes.
Now, the demon horde of Black Wind Mountain had long exceeded twenty thousand in number. Among them, those who had reached king realm cultivation, including Mo Fan, totalled ten. If counting Wolf Fierce with king realm combat power, there were eleven.
The king realm great demons were: Mo Fan, Bai Yaoyao, Yingying Monster, Black Clothes, White Clothes, Wolf Fierce, Fire Spirit, Sun Bai, You Er, Hu Jingjing, Iron Armour Demon King.
Among them, Sun Bai broke through in the half year after Mo Fan left. Actually, during this period, it was not only Sun Bai who underwent tribulation. There were also two peak demon general great demons who faced tribulation, but they lacked Sun Bai’s deep foundation and his good luck. In the end, they all died under the thunder tribulation.
This made Mo Fan quite regretful. Those two great demons became the first batch in Black Wind Mountain to die under thunder tribulation.
In addition, Mo Fan’s true trump cards were the three ancestor realm ghost cultivators subdued at White Sacred Mountain. This meant Black Wind Mountain no longer feared some weaker ancestor realm great demons.
However, regarding the three ghost ancestors, only the demon kings in the entire Black Wind Mountain knew.
The reason Mo Fan did not tell the subordinate little demons about this was that he felt it unnecessary. At the same time, he worried that after these little demons learned of ancestor realm cultivators’ protection, they would slack off.
Not only that, even the fact that You Er, Hu Jingjing, and Iron Armour were already demon kings, Mo Fan had not announced it.
To the demons, they only knew that this time their Toad Great King went to White Sacred Mountain and brought back two demon cultivators. One was a fox spirit, the other was the unicorn beetle used by the great king as a mount. That was all.
The reason Mo Fan did this was to create a positive and upward atmosphere for the little demons of Black Wind Mountain. He wanted to use Sun Bai’s breakthrough to king realm to motivate the demons.
At the same time, he controlled the visible strength of Black Wind Mountain within a certain range, letting the little demons understand that although Black Wind Mountain was now stronger, it had not reached a point of true peace and security.
According to their Toad Great King’s trouble-making ability, if they could not become strong quickly, any enemy coming to their door might randomly eliminate a batch of demons.
Although the little demons were muddled, they still cared about their own lives. None wanted to die before others.
If they did not want to die, they had to cultivate diligently.
Mo Fan’s ambition was great. In the future, he aimed to reform the entire demon race and would inevitably clash with some demon race holy lands. So it was necessary to build his own foundation even stronger.
It was worth mentioning that besides the demon kings of Black Wind Mountain becoming stronger, the demon generals also increased from over fifty to over eighty in this year and more.
However, among the over eighty demon generals, the vast majority were in early and mid demon general stages. Those in late and peak demon general realms were still few, after all, demon race cultivation was inherently difficult.
The reason the demons of Black Wind Mountain could achieve such huge improvements in such a short time, besides the vast cultivation resources Mo Fan brought back, was mainly due to the Demon Academy.
Many demon cultivators seemed to have transformed into demons, but in reality, their intelligence could not compare to normal humans, and their thinking was muddled and narrow.
However, after listening to Fang Ru’s lectures at the Demon Academy, these demon cultivators’ intelligence gradually grew substantially. With some wisdom roots, understanding cultivation issues became much easier, and cultivation naturally sped up a lot.
Not only that, under Mo Fan’s intentional promotion, the entire culture of Black Wind Mountain now formed its own system, with demon race script unique to Black Wind Mountain.
To promote literacy among the demons, Mo Fan specially held a literacy contest. Whoever could write the most demon race characters in the contest would receive a generous reward.
Precisely because of this, in this short year, the literacy work in Black Wind Mountain made great progress. Even Red Eyes and Cha Cha, those who resisted learning characters, began to participate actively.
Especially Red Eyes, this fellow, due to liking gambling, simply invented a gambling character game, where two demons competed on who knew more characters.
This game was something Red Eyes figured out from Mo Fan’s literacy contest. As soon as it appeared, it swept through the entire Black Wind Mountain. The key was that although this gambling character game was gambling, it was not restricted. Even their Toad Great King sometimes participated actively.
Some demons with large character knowledge would have “Demon Talent” added after their names by other demons. For example, Pig Mister was now Pig Demon Talent, respected by little demons wherever he went.
Because so far, Pig Mister was the demon with the most known characters on the surface. Almost every few days, little demons would see Pig Mister’s figure at the Demon Academy.
Because Pig Mister loved learning characters, even the pig demons in his Fierce Pig Squad all became “Demon Race Talents”.
Regarding this, some little demons curiously interviewed some pig demons in the Fierce Pig Squad. The interviewees burst into tears, saying they actually did not want to learn characters, but their leader forced them, saying he wanted to make the Fierce Pig Squad the most cultured talent squad in the entire Black Wind Mountain.
During this period, some pig demons even directly reported this to the enforcement squad leader Red Eyes, saying Pig Mister oppressed them. The next day, Red Eyes sold those guys out.
The always kind-hearted Pig Mister directly dragged those disloyal guys out and vividly performed a “pig slaughter” art.
It was called pig slaughter, but actually it was just skinning and tendon drawing, not really killing them.
Although the punishment was old and lacked novelty, its deterrent effect was full. After other leaders heard, they immediately organised their subordinate demons to watch the punishment.
Listening to those scalp-tingling pig screams, the demons resisting character learning all became obedient.
Precisely because of this incident, Mo Fan’s demon race script promotion plan proceeded smoothly in Black Wind Mountain.
It was unknown if it was because of creating the demon race script, but one morning, auspicious scenes suddenly appeared in the sky above Black Wind Mountain, attracting countless little demons’ attention and making many great demons feel as if facing a great enemy, thinking enemies had come.
When Mo Fan sensed this, he immediately walked out of his cave mansion, looked up at the sky, and discovered that countless golden clouds gathered in the sky, actually forming an ancient auspicious beast.
Phoenixes circled high in the sky, qilins manifested in the heavens, even divine dragons reflected out, with scenes of mythical beasts treading clouds appearing one after another.
As if sensing this heavenly phenomenon, countless birds and beasts rushed from afar, surrounding Black Wind Mountain, making Mo Fan greatly surprised.
“Great King, auspicious omen!”
“A great auspicious omen!!”
Just then, a burly figure suddenly flew from afar, shouting excitedly with a face full of thrill.
