[Chu Zhizun paused for a moment: "Very well, you are now qualified to know about this matter."]
[You finally understand what kind of being the Human Race's Century King truly was.]
[It's completely overdrawn!]
Aside from the Holy War, the demon race only has the opportunity to give birth to a Demon King during its most prosperous period, and the birth of that Demon King signifies... the great devastation that prosperous period will come to an end!
[Nine out of ten demons will perish; over 90% of the demon race will become flesh and blood stepping stones for that demon king's ascension!]
[As for the demon race and the human race, they don't possess the devouring abilities of the demon race. They rarely even encounter a Heavenly Sovereign, let alone a True King.]
However, both the human and demon races possess destiny!
[They can overdraw on the clan's fortune of over a thousand years to forcibly create a true king whose condition is unstable, whose breakthrough method is incorrect, and who may fall back to a lower realm at any time, but who does indeed possess corresponding combat power!]
[This kind of True King has extremely limited limitations. It is achieved by using the ethereal and intangible concept of luck, and by brute force building up a massive amount of it. Every time it moves or attacks, it consumes a large amount of luck.]
The depletion of the race's collective fortune means that the difficulty for a new human overlord to emerge in the next thousand years will increase significantly, leading to a long-term racial decline and fragmentation.
But... this "True King of Destiny" power is real.
[The human race's century-long king's sacred body is also enhanced by luck, reaching the level of a fifteen-year or eighteen-year fully-fledged battle physique. Even excluding additional functions, its pure stats are more than ten times that of other beings of the same level.]
[After all, the goal is definitely to empower the Supreme Being, who possesses high Holy Body stats and high combat power, to become a True King.]
[And the demon race goes without saying; with the bloodline of divine beasts, which one doesn't possess a combat power multiplier of ten or twenty times greater? This is even stronger than the human race's century-old king!]
As for the more free-spirited Demon King... he actually can't defeat the King of the Century.
[In the fifth realm, demons may also develop additional abilities similar to those of a holy body or divine beast bloodline, but their strength is mostly very low!]
For example, the Thorn Demon True King who ascended to the rank of True King nearly eight thousand years ago has abilities recorded among humans.
It's invisible.
The human race named it "Demon Invisibility."
[Hmm, it's a fairly ordinary invisibility effect. It can conceal the color of the body and blood, and also has a slight effect of hiding one's aura.]
However, it cannot hide its true nature.
[When fighting against someone of the same realm, the True King's Yuan Power can be projected hundreds of thousands of miles outwards; its presence can be sensed upon contact.]
[Moreover, this invisibility doesn't provide any combat power boost; the user only possesses a fraction of the strength of the Human Race's Century King and the Demon King.]
[Thanks to the fact that as one progresses through different realms, the increase in vitality and physical strength becomes more significant. In the fifth realm, a difference of more than ten times in output power is no longer enough to kill the opponent in one blow.]
[A single blow from the King of the Century would have the same destructive power as a dozen or so blows from the Demon King.]
Of course... you could also chase them down and beat them up.
However, the Demon Kings' advantage lies in their freedom. They can act at will without worrying about falling in cultivation level or depleting their luck. Their only expenditure is physical strength, requiring a terrifying amount of nourishment after each attack!
Currently, the demon, human, and monster races each maintain a normal number of True Kings: three, two, and one.
[Fill in the gaps one by one.]
Yun Shou was deep in thought.
Okay, the fifth realm of the Azure Domain is a bit abstract.
The human and demon races did not have the strength to naturally generate the fifth realm; it was a pseudo-fifth realm that was artificially created to restrict the Demon King.
After all, although the Demon King is carefree, he is indeed no match for the King of the Century or the Demon King!
Therefore, during the five realms' clash in the Holy War, it was only at the most intense moment that the King of the Century would expend his luck to attack, injuring and repelling the Demon King.
And the Demon King won't repeatedly jump around and launch sneak attacks—because they can't defeat the King of the Century. After driving the human race mad, the King of the Century will go berserk regardless of the cost and could really kill it on the spot!
Then, due to the massive depletion of their fortune, they would fall from their current realm, or cause a great loss to the fortune of the human race.
Then, it was the demon race's turn to have fun.
A strange balance was thus formed among the three major races.
The number of true kings of the demon race has remained around three for most years. The current three are the Thorn Demon King from eight thousand years ago, the Feather Demon King from five thousand years ago, and the Savage Demon King from two thousand years ago.
The number of human kings of the century has remained around two, with the race's accumulated fortune of over a thousand years being exhausted on average every six thousand years to force out a new king.
Furthermore, keeping them in a state of prolonged slumber, as nuclear weapons, means they should not be used unless absolutely necessary, because even their normal actions, breathing, and speaking would significantly deplete the Qi (energy/energy).
On average, they can only wake up once every few hundred years. Sleeping doesn't significantly extend the lifespan of a true king, so after being chosen by humans to become a true king...
Those who ascended to the supreme realm at the age of several hundred possessed powerful holy bodies and were young and exceptionally talented. Yet, instead of enjoying ten thousand years of glory after becoming kings, they were sealed away, their awakening lasting from time to time, ranging from a few days to a month.
[Each time he opened his eyes, he aged hundreds of years. After becoming king, he only had a few years or so of lucidity accumulated intermittently. Every moment of those two years was spent either waiting for battle or being in battle, and then he entered his twilight years.]
In the final years of their lives, these kings of the century were finally able to move freely, leisurely passing their last years before their successors appeared and they closed their eyes.
Yun Shou: "..."
He felt that these kings of the century were truly pitiful.
Young prodigies may become overlords within a hundred years of age, and supreme beings within three or four hundred years. With the lifespan of a supreme being and their potential, they will have another four or five thousand years of glory ahead of them, and may even be able to advance to the Heavenly Supreme!
What a magnificent sight!
Then the Supreme Hall asked them, "Are you willing to become our race's nuclear bomb?"
They nodded in agreement.
Thus they enjoyed glory in the outside world, but they themselves were unaware of anything, and all they had left were a short one or two years of fighting and a few years of retirement.
Ten thousand years later, nothing remained, not a single person was left, only the human race, protected to this day, remained.
[The demon race normally has one demon king, but in reality there are two.]
Because of the strange system that "the difficulty of breaking through to a higher level is actually higher for those with divine beast bloodlines below a certain limit than for those without bloodlines," the difficulty for the demon race to create a true king through sheer luck far exceeds that of the human race!
[This means that on average, they can only create one Demon King every ten thousand years. Since the lifespan of a Fifth Realm cultivator is around ten thousand years, this means that only one Demon King can exist at a time. One must die before they have the opportunity to create a second one!]
[If two demon kings appear simultaneously, even if the second demon king dies in the next second, it will still devastate the demon race's fortune. Without the human and demon races needing to intervene, the demon race will cripple itself, becoming as weak as the sea race or even a level lower.]
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