Having the genes of a demon king, I never intended to be a kept man.

Bai Xueling, who was standing next to her, also recognized the pattern on the mural and was slightly taken aback: "Why is the Ye family crest painted here?"

Ye Ge did not respond, gazing thoughtfully at the pattern of the demon king's head.

Judging from the clothing of the woman in the mural, it should be the attire of a woman from the southern border region during the old feudal era, at least 100,000 years ago.

At that time, the human race was truly a newly emerging race among all races, and the development of civilization had just begun. The entire human continent was divided into tens of thousands of large and small kingdoms, and the land was filled with war and slaughter day and night, with mutual conquest, plunder and invasion.

However, during that period, the human continent had very few extraordinary resources—or rather, virtually none. There was no spiritual energy of heaven and earth on this continent, making cultivation impossible, and no extraordinary individuals emerged among the humans.

Therefore, all races considered these upright apes to be ordinary animals, not extraordinary beings, and thus did not pay any attention to this race or this continent. This also meant that early humans had not yet fallen to the point of becoming subordinate races to other powerful races.

As for that demon king...

Ye Ge looked at the demon king, trying hard to recall every demon character she had seen in the game in her previous life, but none of them matched the image.

There should be no official backstory for the game.

The second picture on the mural shows the demon king and the woman's child learning to walk.

The child exhibited characteristics of a demon and quickly mastered the control of magic.

"So, this is the origin of the Ye family's ancestors?..." Ye Ge murmured to himself thoughtfully.

"Hehehe, yes..." A weathered, old voice slowly drifted over.

Ye Ge suddenly turned around.

But there was no one around.

Jiang Xue, Bai Xue Ling, and A Xiu were all taken aback, wondering who was speaking.

Ye Ge narrowed his eyes, finally fixing his gaze on a ruined wall covered with some kind of ancient green vine that should have been extinct.

The ancient green vine slowly climbed down from the dilapidated wall, coiling and solidifying, eventually transforming into the shape of a frail old man.

"A spirit of green vines?"

Ye Ge was surprised to find that there were still people in this place.

[Character]: Old Monster Qing Teng

Age: 100 million years old

[Race]: Spirit

[Level]: Demigod Realm

[Life (HP)]: 10e10/e

[Spiritual Power (MP)]: 300e/300e

[Four-Dimensional Attributes]: Strength 3, Agility 1, Spirit 10e, Stamina 4

Other attributes: ......

Night Song was surprised.

He's actually a demigod-level old monster?!

However, his attributes are truly absurd. His spiritual power and mental strength are terrifyingly powerful, and his life force is at the level of a normal demigod, but his other attributes are almost those of an ordinary person...

Ashu, the Darkborn sword demon, sensed the powerful spiritual energy emanating from the strange old man and immediately drew his dark greatsword from behind.

Ye Ge raised her hand to stop him.

The old man, a spirit, walked slowly, leaning on a scepter formed of intertwined vines. His long, messy hair, eyebrows, and beard were all made of lush green vines, almost completely obscuring his eyes. "I never thought that after all these years, someone would still come here. Hehehe... This old man hasn't seen a living person in ages..."

Night Song: "Who are you?...?"

"Just an old man who lives here, nothing important." The old man with the spirit chuckled and waved his hand. "I wasn't planning on coming out, but when I heard that someone actually recognized the person in this mural, I couldn't help but come out to see who it was."

Then, the old man looked at Ye Ge with great interest: "Young man, I see that you are surrounded by demonic energy, yet you have the aura of a human being. You must be a member of the Ye family?"

Ye Ge paused for a moment, then said, "Yes."

"The Ye family members aren't all dead yet?"

"..."

"presumptuous!"

With a clang, the Darkin Blademaster drew his greatsword once more: "How dare you disrespect our lord!"

Night Song raised her hand again, signaling Ash to step back.

The crow said speechlessly, "You old man, you're too good at talking."

"Hehe, little ones, don't get excited, I was just expressing my feelings."

The old man stroked his beard, as if muttering to himself, "How strange, the Ye family wasn't wiped out. Could it be that the prophecy failed?"

Night Song, of course, knew what the prophecy was.

I also know why this prophecy failed.

"May I ask, sir, do you know the figures depicted in this mural?" Ye Ge asked.

“Of course.” The old spirit said slowly, “Just as you said, the son born to that demon king and that woman is the ancestor of your Ye family.”

Ye Ge recalled what Bao Bingqing had told him when they were in Dark City. He had carefully analyzed and studied the Ye family's genes and finally discovered that the Ye family's gene chain itself carried a portion of the recessive genes of the ancient demon race. This was evidence that some of the Ye family's ancestors were human-demon hybrids.

This is also the real reason why the Ye family members, after being corrupted by demons, did not go insane or become indescribable monsters, but instead became the only humans who could control the power of demonization.

"Your ancestors were the result of a 'bloodline breakthrough' after the genes of humans and demons were combined and hybridized."

The old spirit looked at the child in the mural: "Back then, in that era, humanity seemed to be a race that had failed to evolve, had weak genes, and was incapable of cultivation."

"But after this child appeared, the Demon King discovered that a very small percentage of humans, after mixing with demons, had a chance to unleash the power of the extremely small amount of ancient demon bloodline genes within their demon bloodline... As for the reason, the Demon King didn't figure it out at the time."

"So very quickly, this child displayed extraordinary magical talent, and his magical energy was extremely pure, almost infinitely close to that of the ancient demonic descendants from hundreds of millions of years ago."

"This discovery both delighted and worried the Demon King, because there was no doubt that if the gods found out about this, not only would the child and his wife die, but the human race, which had just developed civilization at that time, would also be doomed to be annihilated by the gods. Although the gods had already left the map of all races at that time and had not appeared for a long time."

Jiangxue asked curiously, "Why is that?"

"Hehe..." The old spirit slowly turned around: "Little girl, you should know that in the ancient war of all races millions of years ago, the ancient demons were the greatest enemies who fought against the gods. Later, the gods finally managed to exterminate them all. Now, suddenly, you tell the gods that the ancient demons may be resurrected. Do you think the gods can still sit still?"

Night Song said, "So, the gods didn't know about this later?"