These newly born Fire Elemental Spirits were picked up by the Ancient Demon God's subordinate generals. One of them obtained the vast majority of the Fire Elemental Spirits and, taking advantage of the Ancient Demon God's severe injuries, killed him and seized his throne.
But the Ancient Demon God had not died. At the peak of his power as a God King, he had captured a Phoenix transformed from a Fire Spirit. He devoured the Phoenix and gained immortality. No matter how many times he was killed, as long as the Phoenix soul he had hidden within the Demon God Temple was not devoured by an enemy, he would revive endlessly.
This Demon God Temple was Bandalsburg Prison. The phoenix Lu Yang had devoured was actually a Phoenix from another world. The Ancient Demon God had originally believed he could rely on the Phoenix to revive infinitely, but after his physical body was killed by the general, all his divine power was absorbed by that general.
The Ancient Demon God refused to accept this. He revived through the Phoenix's power, returned to the other world through Bandalsburg Prison, and frantically devoured other fire elements to recover his strength. Yet when he contacted his old subordinates, the general discovered him and killed him again.
The Ancient Demon God's means of recovery also earned him the label of demon. Seizing the chance, the general issued a God King's decree: kill the Ancient Demon God on sight. As the ages passed, tales of the Ancient Demon God spread from generation to generation among the various races, and he unexpectedly became the other world's most terrifying devouring demon, evil spirit, and fire ghost.
Legend said that he would emerge every few years to wreak havoc. The result of that legend was that whenever the