Eternal Heroes

## Description

Eternal Heroes are a group of powerhouses of the Ninth Step who lived when the demons first came to Shengmo Dalu and died while fighting against the demons and protecting the humanity.

Later due to the immense pressure from the demons they were transformed into Undead using a Supra Forbidden Spell made by Elux.

The existence of the Eternal Heroes was definitely the greatest secret of the temple alliance.

They finally emerged from their slumber during the second Holy War to fight against the demons and fulfill their last objectives.

## Cultivation

Xiao Huo and Shu Yongxiao are at the seventh rank of the ninth step, with sixteen at the fifth rank or higher. The rest was all beyond the third rank.

Sixty-three powerhouses beyond the third rank of the ninth step. Even the entire union might not have been able to gather that! Not to mention, sixteen of them were beyond the fifth rank and there were two at the seventh rank. This force could nullify the threat of the strongest demons, the devil dragons, at the very least.

Among the sixty-three Eternal Heroes, a third of them were knights.

## Reason Humans have not gone Extinct

Space ripped open and the seventy-two Demon God Pillars descended, bringing a terrifying pestilence to Shengmo Dalu. Back then, the humans had just finished their war against the Slumbering Calamity Elux two centuries prior. Due to how terrifying the undead was, over a quarter of the continent was occupied by undead, which were gradually being cleaned up by humans, so the continent would be complete once more. Back then, not only were the humans nowhere close to recovering from the war, two countries were making a scramble for territory as well.

The seventy-two Demon God Pillars only descended in one of the countries, without reaching the other country. Due to Elux, the Glorious Church had been greatly weakened. As a result, the continent lacked a unified voice. It must be said that this was one of the disasters Elux had caused for mankind. Out of the three empires, he completely destroyed one, crippled another and almost destroyed the Glorious Church. That was why the demons had their chance!

The seventy-two Demon God Pillars had descended in the country that was almost perfectly fine. Although they had also been affected by the Slumbering Calamity, their strength was still mostly unaffected. At that time, this country attacked the crippled country out of wild ambition, in attempt to conquer it and thus unite the continent. Under these circumstances, the weaker country even believed the descent of the seventy-two Demon God Pillars was a blessing from heaven for them.

Even the stronger country where the Demon God Pillars had descended in did not take these pillars seriously at the very beginning. Only when the pestilence spread at a terrifying rate with various races rapidly demonifying, attacking and claiming cities, did they realise something was off, but it was too late. By then, the terrifying powers of the seventy-two Demon God Pillars were completely unleashed. Coupled with the weaker country adding insult to injury, they took advantage of this situation and fought back with full force. In other words, humans basically destroyed itself. Faced with attacks from both inside and out, the most powerful human empire at that time was forcefully destroyed. By the time the weaker country had discovered the horror of the demons, it was all too late. The demons had already grown in power, not only claiming all of the territory of the stronger empire, but also launching attacks against the weaker country.

And at such an important time, a fissure appeared in the weaker country, with two factions blaming each other for matters, causing the country to split in such a crucial time. Under the attacks of the demons, the countries gradually declined and suffered deaths. It was only at this time did one of them become alarmed, gathering all of the existing powerhouses of humanity to unite against the outsiders, separating themselves from the prejudice based off country. They were able to dodge the influence of a desire of authority, forming the six temples against the demons.

There were two reasons why the demons spared the humans in the end. Firstly, the pestilence brought on by the seventy-two Demon God Pillars could not be sustained, failing to infect even more races and turning into demons. As a result, the demons’ total force was limited, which also made the Demon God Emperor realise that if they kept fighting, the population of demons would rapidly decline. The other reason, which was also the reason why the demons did not continue attacking humans with their full force despite clearly possessing an absolute advantage, was because of the demons’ natural inability for production.

Basically every clan among the demons is a born warrior. They are born with great battle prowess. However, they aren’t skilled in producing food or tools. This was the factor that determined that while they could possess an upper hand in war, once the battle ended and the humans were rendered extinct, the demons would gradually die off on the Shengmo Dalu as well. The demon population that would be able to survive would be very small and they would have to rely on nature to provide them food.

As a wise ruler, would the Demon God Emperor do something like cutting off the reason for their survival. They actually let humans survive to rear them, and then plunder them through small-scale conflict, or even engage in trade, while also developing themselves and finding a way to survive on this continent. That was the reason why humans were able to survive.

## History

Over six thousand years ago when the demons descended and attacked, the Shengmo Dalu was plunged into misery and suffering. The humans who had originally ruled over the place experienced a sudden drop in population. For a time, corpses were strewn everywhere as the demons burned, killed and pillaged. They committed all kinds of sins.

For the sake of survival, the capable people could only choose to flee. Under the constant pressuring of the demons, they gathered in the territory the Temple Union currently controls and formed the six temples, fighting back against the demons with full force.

After several decades of war, they finally stabilised their footing. Using the predecessors of the six forts currently occupied by the six temples, they finally stopped the demons’ attacks. However, the demons were still powerful back then and they engaged in a decisive battle against the temple alliance of the time.

In that battle, the demons lost half of their seventy-two demon gods. Many of them had died because the Knight Temple had obtained the Divine Throne of Eternity and Creation. As for humans, almost a **hundred powerhouses of the ninth step died in that battle**. With both sides suffering heavy losses and the demons unclear about the origins of the Divine Throne of Eternity and Creation, they ended up retreating. When the dark era began, humans finally gained the opportunity to rest and heal.

Just when the war had ended, over sixty recovered corpses out of the dead ninth step powerhouses were still rather complete. They were seniors, or even ancestors of humans of the Temple Union and they had laid their lives down for the survival of humanity. If it were not for the efforts of these ancestors, humans would not exist today. Back then, the alliance had only been founded recently and it was nowhere as stable as right now. However, at the same time, there were many pieces of powerful equipment and magic tools that had been passed down since ancient times. The Knight Temple possesses a scroll that has been passed down since then.

The scroll is called a ***Scroll of Spiritual*** ***Transformation***. It sounds nothing special, but the magic recorded in the scroll is a forbidden spell and under certain circumstances, it can even be regarded as a **supra forbidden spell**.

However, this supra forbidden spell is **death** **magic**. The effects of this death magic supra forbidden spell is to transform the dead into undead. The reason why it is a supra forbidden spell is because when it turns the dead into undead, it can reconstruct the souls of the deceased from twenty-four hours before they had died as souls of powerhouses. At the same time, they would possess the same intelligence as when they were alive. This spell has a range of a hundred square meters.

Back then, the leaders of the six temples refused to use this scroll. Death magic has left humans with some agonising memories. It’s possible to say that if it were not great disaster before the dark era, the demons would not be able to force humans into considering something like that. Even the Glorious Church was destroyed under the attacks of the demons. From a certain perspective, the Glorious Church is the predecessors of the Knight Temple.

A fierce debate arose in that time. Some people supported the use of this scroll. Although they would turn these powerhouses of the ninth step into undead, they would just be living through a different method at the end of the day! As long as they could live, it would be equivalent to recovering more than half of the strength the temple alliance had lost. Even if the demons attacked once more, they could stop them with greater ease.

Another group of people believed that using the scroll was blasphemy to these deceased seniors, preventing their souls from resting. And, once they became undead, who could be certain enough that their personalities and memories would remain the same. Just in case something happened, wouldn’t it plunge humans into an absolute disaster! They would not even be able to maintain the newly-established Temple Alliance.

There was great conflict between these two opinions. In the end, the final decision was made depending on how far the demons had retreated. Back then, the demons had not retreat completely. Instead, they stopped two hundred and fifty kilometers away from the alliance. After the remaining powerhouses of the seventy-two demon gods had retreated, they left their Demon God Pillars at the boundary, and it seemed like they could return at any time. Under such circumstances and the support of some of the deceased’s families, they used the supra forbidden spell scroll in the end.

The Scroll of Spiritual Transformation succeeded. A total of **sixty-three powerhouses of the ninth step became undead** and condensed their own souls of powerhouses. Although their bodies were still damaged, their strength did not drop by much through their souls of powerhouses, and they possessed certain powers of undead. They had witnessed the might of the supra forbidden spell. Back then, basically all of the revived powerhouses were unable to accept this matter. They had fallen in battle as humans, a true humans, but now they had become undead.

Fortunately, before the scroll was used, the six temples back then had already reached an agreement and had announced the temples’ recognition of these people, bestowing them the title of **Eternal Heroes**. And, they had agreed to specially create a place for them to stay and move about in. All they needed to do was assist the alliance when the demons attacked and the alliance was unable to hold them back.

Faced with the persuasion of the six temple heads and some of their family, the Eternal Heroes finally began to accept this reality. To their families, being able to hear them speak and see them live as undead was also a form of happiness. As a result, the sixty-three Eternal Heroes were arranged to stay in a secret location, so they could rest. This place is the **interior of the Knights’ Sacred Mountain**.

After making arrangements for the sixty-three Eternal Heroes, the six temple heads passed strict order to contain the information. At the same time, they decided that only future temple heads would know about this secret. And, if the alliance was not facing absolute doom, they would be forbidden to use the power of the Eternal Heroes, so they can slumber in the Knights’ Sacred Mountain.

Soon afterwards, the demon army really did retreat and the Eternal Heroes never appeared on the battlefield ever again. The news of their existence has always been passed down to successive temple heads, until now.

## Dwelling Place

Within the cavern where the sixty-three Eternal Heroes slumbered were sixty-three coffins made of rock. Aside from that, there was nothing else really. A vague aura radiated from below.

This isn’t just a cavern beneath the Knights’ Sacred Mountain, but also a place above the mouth of a frost spring. They need to use the coldness here to prevent their bodies from rotting. Every coffin has a small hole connected to the mouth of the spring, which will draw in the coldness. Otherwise, what one will be seeing wouldn’t be zombies, but skeletons.

However, they then discovered that the coldness of the frost spring could let their powers grow and stabilise thier soulfires, to prevent it from being extinguished so easily. That’s why they were able to survive until now.

## Notable Individual

* Xiao Huo
* Shu Yongxiao
* Wind Elemental Mage
* Ye Sanmi
* Earth Elemental Warrior
* Fire Elemental Warrior