So how should one understand this race? Either break the common sense accumulated over decades and fully accept the common sense of the Demon Race, or retain one’s own common sense and regard the Demon Race as an anomaly outside of it.

Celestial Divine Sword is the person who understands the Demon Race the most on the Jiuzhou Continent, but even Celestial Divine Sword can only regard the Demon Race as an anomaly. The logic of the Demon Race doesn’t work for Celestial Divine Sword, so when Wang Jiu wants to directly create the Demon Race with Creation Divine Techniques, it is nearly a fantasy.

The only thing he can do is mechanically replicate what he has seen and heard, and this replication is an irreversible consumption; everything that is projected consumes Wang Jiu’s memories.

After having traversed the battlefield for years during the Immortal Demon War, Wang Jiu retained too many memories about the Demon Race. However, he does not truly understand the Demon Race, so when he wants to use the core empathic network of the Demon Race to forge the Demon-Pointing Sword, there is only one precious fragment among countless memories that can be used.

That is a rare resource that cannot be retrieved again once consumed. Once it is used up, it is impossible to make up for it through logical deduction from other fragments.

And when the Demon Race went extinct, it became even more impossible for the memory to reappear.

Once used, it is gone forever.

After Wang Jiu forged the second Demon-Pointing Sword, the memory of this sword in his mind vanished, and any related fragments disappeared along with it. It was only until just now that he finally realized this truth.

From now on, there will be no more Demon-Pointing Sword.

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"So... you never told us before." Zhao Chenlu sighed regretfully, "It’s fine not to tell the Shang Girl, but why did you hide it even from me?"

Wang Jiu said, "Creating tangible items from memory is a divine technique I comprehended during the decisive battle. Before that, everything in the Sword World was crafted from material elements."

"Indeed, the first Demon-Pointing Sword was made from the single horn of the Golden Demon, which you killed with the Three-Pointed Sword. At the time, you were already the Celestial Divine Sword, a force strong enough to rival the Demon Emperor, but you did not have the Creation Divine Techniques back then... But as you said, in today’s extinction of the Demon Race, this Demon-Pointing Sword is now a one-of-a-kind relic, why would you... use it up?"

Using it and using it up are clearly two different modes of use.

Since Wang Jiu has been so obsessed with the existence of the Demon Race, suspecting that the war back then had not achieved a complete victory—in fact, many remnants of the Demon Race did survive, and even a former Demon General awakened on Cyan Cloud Peak—why would he resolutely consume the Demon-Pointing Sword?

Wang Jiu pondered for a long time and said, "After creating the Demon-Pointing Sword, I used the power of the Cyan Cloud Li Family to conduct a comprehensive scan of this continent. The results at that time showed that outside of a few Demon Essences, there were no Demons on Xiangzhou."

Zhao Chenlu said, "The current Demon Essences also can’t evolve into the Demon Race."

"Even in the Chaos Space adjacent to Xiangzhou, there are only some powerful demonized creatures, but there is still an unbridgeable gulf from true Demons."

Zhao Chenlu shrugged, "If demonization easily turned into the Demon Race, the traitors who attempted to defect to the Demon Race back then wouldn’t have been so hopeless."

"They were hopeless because you and Shang Lanfei impersonated the Demon Race, deceived them of their generational accumulated wealth, and then sent them to the frontlines as cannon fodder, right?"

"...Your memory is indeed good." Zhao Chenlu smirked, "So, why do you still suspect that the Demon Race isn’t extinct?"

"Because there is indeed such an intuition, not from the Demon-Pointing Sword, but from my own intuition," Wang Jiu said, "Even without the Demon-Pointing Sword, I’m still the most keen perceiver of the Demon Race. My birth was for the purpose of slaying the Demon Race, this is an instinct and nature engraved in my Sword Body. It’s for this reason that I can never truly comprehend the Demon Race, because even if I can delve into its roots, this understanding would instantly be erased by my instincts."

After a pause, Wang Jiu continued, "But subsequent explorations yielded no results. The Demon-Pointing Sword hinted, but ultimately stopped at hints. Even in this region of the Nether Sea, I couldn’t perceive any trace of the Demon Race with it... If that’s the case, what value does its existence have?"

Hearing this, Zhao Chenlu immediately understood, "So it is, indeed, if the Demon-Pointing Sword could never produce results, then it was useless to have it."

Given the sharpness of the Demon-Pointing Sword, any clues related to the Demon Race, even if based on intangible causal links, would be keenly perceived—at the Primordial Ruins Golden Cloud Peak, Wang Jiu found the two founders of the Saint Sect, deducing their deaths to the hands of the Demon Race.

But now, on the Xiangzhou Continent, the Demon-Pointing Sword could no longer point out any location of the Demon Race, this proud Treasure Sword had completely lost its intended function.

The possibilities are nothing more than the following.

The biggest possibility: the Demon Race is indeed extinct, with only remnants in Xiangzhou being mere shadows, like skin that has been sunburned. Wang Jiu’s reaction is just the pain left over on the skin.

Secondly, a possibility: after ten thousand years, the Demon Race has undergone a fundamental transformation, their existence has become vastly different from before, and the empathic network no longer exists. The Demon-Pointing Sword, made specifically for the Demon Race of the past, can no longer adapt to this change, so its guiding function has failed.