Looking at the content in Qing Yun's notes, Zhou Bai's face showed a look of shock. He never imagined he would come across such content.

"Homo sapiens... evolved from demons?"

"How is it possible? Could it truly be this way?"

Zhou Bai's face displayed a complex expression: "Humans nowadays indeed share similarities with Homo sapiens, but their aptitude for the Dao is different."

Zhou Bai let out a bitter smile, suddenly thinking that most Homo sapiens lacked the aptitude for the Dao. Does this mean it's due to the demon bloodline they contain? Hence, like demons, they found it difficult to cultivate Dao arts.

But the current 'humans', such as those in the five major cities, aren't they hybrid of humans and demons as well? How then do they possess an aptitude for the Dao? Also, how do these demons like Xiang Tiandi disguise themselves as deities, and master the power of Dao arts, even able to raise their Dao transformation, possessing the Luotian Realm...

Zhou Bai suddenly felt that there were multiple layers of secrets hidden within the second human-demon war that ended over five hundred years ago, even the eventual disappearance of most demons, their disguises as deities, and the complete hybridization of humans as part demon.

'Turning this era's humans into hybrids was definitely not done on a whim by the demons; they must have some unspeakable purpose. It might even relate to them becoming one of the four deities.'

The contents of the book sped through Zhou Bai's mind, and he thought of many things at once.

Shaking his head, Zhou Bai bowed his head again, continuing to look into the contents of the Miscellaneous Discussions of the Four Seas.

Unfortunately, Qing Yun's notes come to an end here.

Why Qing Yun wanted to study the demon bloodline, how he joined the demons, how he later created the Three Pure Dao Sect, and where he went after the great shift in heaven and earth and the decline of spiritual energy... Zhou Bai still knows nothing about all these questions.

It seems that when compiling this Miscellaneous Discussions of the Four Seas, Dr. Zhuang could only obtain one of Qing Yun's notes.

The subsequent content in the book is all commentary by Dr. Zhuang.

...

Noticing Qing Yun's uniqueness, perceiving the distinctiveness of his bloodline, I began to trace the marks of Qing Yun's bloodline everywhere.

The most obvious starting point is likely the Three Pure Dao Sect, which Qing Yun founded. I suspect he hid his bloodline within the sect.

Unfortunately, Qing Yun lived in an era too far in the past from ours, and all history is shrouded in layers of fog.

But a notable feature of his bloodline is the extraordinary aptitude for controlling the power of the void, which is hard to hide.

Thus, I set my sights on the five Divine Skills, these Supreme Divine Powers of the Three Pure Dao Sect, though termed Dao arts, they make the most use of void power.

I began to travel all over the world, collecting records of those who successfully cultivated the five Divine Skills throughout history, studying their family background, origin, bloodline, and inheritance.

...

Zhou Bai glanced over the subsequent records and found that they were collected by Dr. Zhuang, including the dossiers of numerous people who historically achieved the five Divine Skills.

The last line of the records lists the current elder of the Three Pure Dao Sect, Jiaojiao.

Zhou Bai remarked: "How long did it take Dr. Zhuang to collect this data? He must have also visited many human relics in the Heavenly Demon occupied zones to search."

Zhou Bai rushed through the recorded data and directly looked at Dr. Zhuang's conclusions.

...

According to the data I collected, those who have historically achieved the five Divine Skills have almost no commonality.

They belong to different families, different countries, different regions, different classes.

There are geniuses from cultivator families and commoners born in humble circumstances, almost a variety of backgrounds, without any discernible common features.

But although their birth has no particular features, their succession holds a huge anomaly.

Almost ninety percent of those who achieved the five Divine Skills, their descendants could always produce a new practitioner of the five Divine Skills, with the least being one, and up to three. However, in subsequent generations, no one succeeded in practicing the five Divine Skills.

It's as if their blood burst out with some potential suddenly, but disappeared after a few generations.

Hence, I suddenly realized a point, Qing Yun was a half-human half-demon, and his research on demon blood had reached a peak level.

Maybe he didn't pass on his bloodline through ordinary reproduction but hid his bloodline power like a demon in the bodies of countless mortals, transferring it through reproduction, and making it resurface and awaken in different eras following some special rule.

To verify my speculation, I began collecting the genealogies of several families among practitioners of the five Divine Skills over the last few centuries.

I visited their hometowns, searching for traces in their bloodlines.

I tried to collect samples from their corpses and attempted to clone part of them.

The Heavenly Court has already noticed my actions; maybe I should find some excuse to reduce their attention on me.

The Heavenly Court might have also discovered Qing Yun's secret.

Looking at the many different era and region practitioners of the five Divine Skills in front of me, I seem to see a massive hidden network within the bloodlines and inheritances, hiding the Qing Yun family, lurking behind human history, constantly influencing the development of human civilization.

...

Turning over a page, a large network diagram appeared in front of Zhou Bai, with families and names connected by lines, weaving a massive web that ties the whole world together.

Seeing this web diagram, countless thoughts emerged in Zhou Bai's mind as he looked at the handwriting left by Dr. Zhuang, feeling the same thought rise in his heart.

"What does Qing Yun truly want to achieve?"

Zhou Bai shook his head, turning to the next page, expecting Dr. Zhuang might find out Qing Yun's purpose.

He remembered Dr. Zhuang mentioning wanting to destroy Qing Yun's vestige and kill all his descendants.

Moreover, there was no mention of the whereabouts of the Primordial Dao Canon 08.

But upon turning to the next page, Zhou Bai was slightly taken aback.

"There's nothing after this?"

He continued flipping through the pages, but even after reaching the end of the original Miscellaneous Discussions of the Four Seas, there was no further content.

"No, according to Dr. Zhuang, there should definitely be additional content here."

But upon careful inspection, the entire Miscellaneous Discussions of the Four Seas had no new content at either end. There were no signs of damage or rupture either.

Zhou Bai wondered: "Could someone have read this book before me? Secretly erased the later content?"

His first thought was Jiaojiao, but on second thought, if it were Jiaojiao, the entire Miscellaneous Discussions of the Four Seas should disappear, so why only erase the latter part?

Suddenly, Zhou Bai's eyes lit up: 'Perhaps I can check the borrowing records. Who actually borrowed this book in Dao School?'

After thinking, Zhou Bai resealed the Miscellaneous Discussions of the Four Seas, brought it to the library entrance, and with his level-seven permissions, he not only successfully borrowed the book but also checked who borrowed it before him.

"Zuo Dao?"