[A person's spirit can be extinguished; the more intelligent a creature is, the easier it is to tame it before it crosses a certain threshold.]

When one realizes they can never escape this fate, and that family, friends, status, and honor have all drifted away, many deep-seated racial hatreds naturally fade away.

[They might not have thought this way at first: Even if I'm trapped here and die in battle, even if I'm tortured to death on the Heavenly Ladder, I won't exchange a single word with you demons!]

[Two hundred years later: "Brother Jia Li, go ahead and kill! Kill his horse! And Brother Mang Shan, you made a mistake this time. Look, if you had taken this step, and then that step, wouldn't you have checkmated him?"]

Rather than spending the last few centuries fighting to the death, it's better to live a peaceful life and enjoy the tranquility of old age.

There are four or five similar camps in the Innate/Celestial realm. Fighting is strictly prohibited in the residential areas, otherwise a group of elderly Celestials from various races will intervene.

Those of my own kind might intervene, or at most, they'd just watch: you're merely a stranger from my own clan, do you expect me to stand in the way of my demonic friend of three hundred years?

[You think this place is still quite harmonious? Some people, even those born with a sealed sense of pain, cut off their own flesh to sell, and the buyers are bloodthirsty demons and other creatures. Sometimes they will even exchange their demonic blood for it.]

[Yes, pain can be blocked, so similarly, innate-level martial artists can also use Yuan energy to stimulate their bodies and enjoy a feeling of ascension. Some innate-level martial artists even become addicted to it, living a life of debauchery.]

But you feel that's a soulless pleasure, and when it comes to something with a soul... you take a stroll around this campsite.

"Wind Spirits are great too." You've made quite a few more Spirit Clan friends.

Unfortunately... look at those other shops, like "Snakes Never Stop," "Woof Woof Valley," and "Authentic Fat Pig Breeding Base." There are quite a few demons there, but they can't transform into humanoid forms.

Snake girls and dog girls are dreamlike creatures; as for fat pigs, forget about them.

Having spent five years in the outside world under immense pressure, you've decided to relax at this camp and let Yu Wenyun and the other person continue their adventures.

The trio has now split up, and the couple is now without a third wheel, potentially leading to a closer relationship.

Even without fighting monsters, your cultivation speed is already eight or nine times that of a normal innate cultivator. Now that you're in the mid-innate stage, your combat power can increase three to four times a year, and after the amplification, it would be over thirty times.

[As your cultivation level increases, the rewards you get from killing late-stage and perfect Innate Realm cultivators will plummet. You estimate that killing a perfect Innate Realm cultivator now will only give you about half a dozen units of concentrated Yuan Qi to increase your base Grandmaster combat power.]

One reason is the reduced rewards for skipping levels, and another is that it becomes increasingly difficult as you progress.

[In 3217, the seventh year since you entered the Battlefield of a Hundred Races, you reached the late stage of the Innate Realm. Relying entirely on your own cultivation, sometimes the surrounding spiritual energy concentration was insufficient, so you would fire one shot and move to another location.]

[All your martial arts techniques have become ineffective, and their benefits are no longer as great as your current "perfect body." At the same time, your internal energy has completely transformed into elemental energy.]

You are now at the level of innate perfection, more than four times the normal level.

[At the same time, you begin learning "Elemental Power Techniques".]

The Yuan Power of an Innate Martial Artist is attribute-free; it is pure Yuan Power. Therefore, various changes can be displayed by adjusting the group structure and other methods.

[Similar to editing code, it displays particle effects such as diffusion and convergence.]

More efficient elemental techniques will unleash stronger output, and also have different effects such as "shock," "rebound," and "defense," which Gang Jin cannot achieve.

[There are also elemental skills with ice, fire, and lightning attributes. These are more complicated and cannot be mastered by simply hiding in a corner alone. They require various materials to create a "converter" within the body.]

The specific names for these converters are "Elemental Cores," "Lava Elemental Cores," and "Hurricane Elemental Cores," etc. Their function is to slowly transform the elemental energy within your body into "Lava Elemental Energy" or "Hurricane Elemental Energy," which is more suitable for performing certain elemental energy techniques.

A typical innate martial artist has 1-2 elemental cores within their body, allowing them to use dual-attribute elemental power techniques such as "ice and wind" or "fire and lightning." Having more than that would cause the elemental power attributes to become chaotic, leading to conflicts and damage to the individual.

In the early to mid-stages of the Innate Realm, demons possess exceptional physical strength, actually surpassing human counterparts of the same level, while monsters are characterized by their large size and abundant strength.

[Upon reaching the late stage of the Innate Realm, with the emergence of Yuan Power Techniques and even Yuan Cores, the human race's strength finally reached parity with the Demon and Monster races.]

[After thinking about it, you decided to get yourself a wind-elemental elemental core, so you can burst down enemies and escape easily.]

[In 3218, you saw Qing Gou riding his slave Xue Mang at the camp, followed by twenty innate demon race members—and more, one of its followers broke through and became a Celestial-level Great Demon!]

It was the snake that used bloodline projection but failed to bite you.

"Boiling Lion, at least you managed to slap my face back then, but now you're no match for that little snake who's so much slower than you. The snake's already a celestial being!"

Wait a minute, you suddenly realize you can't blame the lion either.

[Because it pawed at your face and then you killed it, how can a dead lion surpass a living, ever-moving red serpent?]

[Red Serpent: Brother Lion, I'm improving, how about you?]

You rubbed your face, lowering your looks from Daniel Wu to Wang Baoqiang.

You were following this group of demons when a passing demon spotted you and asked with ill intent, "Are you trying to target Prince Qing? Should I shout it out now?"

The thorn-like demon, its body covered in fine thorns, rubbed its fingers together: "Give me this number."

[Because you have Baoqiang's face, you don't care about your image at all: "I heard that Prince Qing likes to eat human excrement, so I specially spent three days preparing a big one to exchange for some martial arts resources."]

[You shake the small pouch at your waist (which is actually the essence of the Gale Core after purification).]

"Would you like to try some? It's free." you recommend.

The Thorn Demon apologized to you and left, going very, very far away, as if fleeing some terrifying being.

[You remained unperturbed. Once the group of demons led by the Green Dog had left the camp some distance, you silently followed them, deliberately allowing yourself to be discovered: "Prince Green, I'm here to sell my body."]

[The Green Dog nodded with great satisfaction and instructed his demon subordinates to give you a secret elixir (for demon beasts) that could enhance your physical strength.]

The subordinate reluctantly handed it to you, saying, "Human, you've hit the jackpot! This medicine is called 'Powerful Dragon,' and it can make your body as strong and powerful as a dragon's!"

"...Are there nine types of this medicine?"