Demon
"I can answer your questions about demons.
However... the matter of Chains and Chain Workers involves Imperial Court secrets.
It is also something I have wanted to investigate ever since coming down to the Demon Domain, yet I still have not found an answer."
Frozen Dead Bone—Luo Gaocheng—wore an equally grave expression when speaking of this matter.
He had naturally not been idle during his time down here. Aside from cultivating "Corpse Collection: Auxiliary—Jiang Limb," he had also been secretly investigating the truth of this world.
"Demons were actually a side effect of the Corpse Transformation Order.
According to certain folk records, when the Corpse Transformation Order was issued, dense miasma rose above the imperial capital and even formed faint phantoms of vicious corpses... From that time onward, the world slowly began to change.
Several decades passed.
Once the miasma in the air reached a certain concentration, corpses could revive quite 'naturally' without relying on corpse oil or corpse refining techniques.
As long as an individual had absorbed enough miasma while alive, was buried in a designated graveyard after death, and underwent a certain period of incubation, they could crawl out of their own coffin and resume living as a corpse.
By then, the prototype of the Corpse Nation had essentially taken shape.
Likewise.
Nonhuman life across the world was also breathing. After plants and animals absorbed the air, their bodies underwent an uncontrollable transformation into demons... Many creatures died in the process, while another portion successfully became demons.
Their consciousness took shape, and they gained the opportunity to cultivate.
It was just that...
Demons lacked the unity of corpses, and they had nothing like the 'Corpse Collection' through which to share experience. Their cultivation speed was more than twice as slow as that of corpses.
However, their numbers