Di Jun

Biodata

Power Progression

Appearance

• Build and features: Tall and straight-backed, with golden pupils and slender fingers 232 245.
• Court attire: Sun, Moon, and Stars robes with a purple-gold crown; later appearances also describe a Golden Crow crown and the Heavenly Emperor’s crown 104 256 302.
• Battle attire: Sun-Dazzling Golden Armor during the final Witch–Demon war 304.
• Manifested presence: Golden Crow Divine Fire flickers beneath his sleeves when enraged; a Fusang Divine Tree phantom appears behind him during his final war address 245 302.

Personality

Di Jun is ambitious, calculating, and determined to rule rather than live beneath another’s authority. His patience can be strategic: he allowed the Immortal Court’s hidden waterway network to develop while investigating it, intending eventually to seize the completed infrastructure. He also accepts negotiated gains when they secure his objectives more efficiently than continued war, as in his settlement with Ziwei 91 121 148.

His leadership combines genuine ingenuity with ruthless prioritization of the Demon Clan. Imperial Flowing Sap wins the loyalty of countless newly awakened beings, but his pursuit of weapons against the Witch Clan leads him to permit covert human hunting. Threats to the Heavenly Court’s prestige can override his caution; Zhenyuanzi’s refusal to submit becomes, in his eyes, a challenge that must be crushed to preserve imperial authority 103 232 245.

Jiang Yun’s overwhelming strength exposes the limits of that pride. Di Jun initially seeks the Saints’ protection, then rejects helpless supplication when they remain silent. His awakening brings greater composure and a willingness to learn from his former enemy. By the final war, preserving his family and a surviving Demon Clan remnant matters more to him than proving the Dao through conquest 255 257 267 300.

Abilities & Skills

Solar and Golden Crow Fire

Di Jun draws upon his solar origin and Golden Crow bloodline to wield True Sun Fire 61 289.

• Manifests Golden Crow Divine Fire and Golden Crow Imperial True Flame; his rage at the Human Clan’s oath transforms his surrounding fire into Sky-Burning Golden Flame 245 250.
• Wraps his fists in crimson-gold fire for direct combat with Dijiang 289.
• Combines feather-like blades of True Sun Fire with sword attacks to restrict an opponent’s escape 304.

Golden Crow Transforming into Rainbow Technique

A movement technique ranked among the Primordial Desolation’s foremost speed arts 304.

• Allows Di Jun to keep pace with Dijiang during their final duel.
• Supports sudden killing thrusts with the Witch Slaying Sword.
• Does not by itself prevent Dijiang from traversing space; Di Jun supplements it with formation-based confinement 304.

Divination and Formation Calculation

Through the River Diagram and Luo Shu, Di Jun calculates Heavenly Numbers, attack trajectories, and changes in the stars 73 276.

• Deduces an enemy’s responses during combat and progressively narrows their available movements 304.
• Attempts to uncover threats to the Golden Crow princes through stellar hexagrams and Heavenly Secrets 276 287.
• His divination is not absolute: outside interference conceals the tampering at Tanggu, and he reaches his sons only after breaking through a Heavenly Secrets lockdown 289 290.

Primordial Chaos River Luo Great Array

A formation established with the River Diagram and Luo Shu as its core 73.

• Creates defensive barriers, predicts incoming attacks, and searches for openings.
• Uses numerical and trigram transformations to immobilize or redirect enemy techniques.
• Produces a limitless vortex that returns Eight Trigrams power toward the state before the Two Forms divided.
• Its clash with the opposing formation destroys both arrays and inflicts backlash on their participants 73.

Heavenly Cycle Stars Great Formation

Di Jun commands the Demon Clan’s principal stellar battle formation through the River Diagram and Luo Shu 204 308.

• Combines the strength of Demon Gods, Stellar Gods, star banners, and the Circulating Stars 205 302.
• Channels concentrated stellar power through Taiyi and the Chaos Bell 246.
• Creates a separate Star Domain Battlefield and directs Four Symbols power against the Witch Clan 304.
• Can seal a region of space, restricting even Dijiang’s mobility 304.
• Previously enabled Di Jun and Taiyi to fight Tongtian to a draw, but proves unable to withstand Jiang Yun’s Hunyuan power 251 255.

Imperial Flowing Sap

Di Jun creates Imperial Flowing Sap by developing a fragment of the Lesser Heavenly Cycle Star Formation and combining solar, lunar, and stellar power with Heavenly Dao merit 97.

• Awakens spiritual intelligence in beasts and plants.
• Improves the forms, foundations, and aptitudes of existing demons.
• Can be distributed across the Primordial World as a rain of golden and silver sap.
• Provides the Demon Clan with a continuing source of new members and greatly increases its popular support and fortune 97 103 104.

Imperial Dao

Di Jun’s Imperial Dao advances when he abandons begging for rescue and calls upon the Demon Clan to face destruction with dignity 257.

• His surviving followers gather around him in a pillar of Blood Fiend.
• Jiang Yun recognizes the awakening as a genuine opening toward Hunyuan.
• This insight does not eliminate the cultivation damage inflicted during their confrontation 257 260.

Sacrificial Stellar Methods

Di Jun employs increasingly costly methods to sustain the Demon Clan’s formation during its final war 307 308.

• Blood Sacrifice: Bolsters the formation but heavily depletes his origin 307 308.
• Star Sacrifice: Consumes Star Lords’ bodies, souls, origins, and Star Cores to draw additional power from the stars 308.
• Circulating Stars Dharma Form: Condensed through the power of the stars and the Demon Clan’s undying souls 308.
• Final attack: Concentrates the formation’s power into a World-Destroying Divine Fist against the Witch Clan’s Sky-Opening Axe phantom 310 311.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• River Diagram and Luo Shu: Supreme-grade companion spiritual treasures. Serve as formation cores, divination instruments, and aids to combat prediction. Nuwa takes them after Di Jun’s death 73 276 313.
• Witch Slaying Sword: Scarlet longsword bearing dark-red runes, forged specifically to counter the Witch Clan’s powerful bodies. Its wounds resist recovery; Di Jun uses it to mortally wound Zhujiuyin. Laozi’s Taiji Diagram claims it after the final battle 304 313.
• Monster Summoning Gourd: Holds imprints of the Star Lords’ True Spirits. Di Jun states that these could permit their return if the starry sky endures, even after Star Sacrifice 308.
• Lesser Heavenly Cycle Star Formation fragment: Obtained through the Western Teachings settlement; becomes the basis for his development of Imperial Flowing Sap 91 97.
• Chaos Star Chart: Jiang Yun’s gift provides coordinates and a practical route for the Demon Clan’s expansion into Chaos 269 270.
• Stars Banners: Refined and deployed as part of the Demon Court’s stellar formation system 126 302.
• Sun Star Origin: Chosen as the intended vessel for his Three Corpses 64.

History

Early Activities and the Rise of the Demon Court

Di Jun appears alongside Taiyi, Fuxi, and Nuwa when the Innate Gourd Vine emerges on Buzhou Mountain. Taiyi receives one of its seven gourds. After the Purple Sky Palace teachings, Di Jun chooses the Sun Star Origin as the intended vessel for his Three Corpses 21 64.

His expansion into the starry sky brings the Demon Clan into conflict with Ziwei’s Stellar Gods. Through Jieyin and Zhunti’s mediation, Di Jun accepts their withdrawal, requires Ziwei to swear not to interfere with Demon Clan rule, and agrees to cooperation involving the Lesser Heavenly Cycle Star Formation and restoration of the Western Region 91.

Di Jun and Taiyi subsequently establish the Sun Star above the other stars. Di Jun develops Imperial Flowing Sap and distributes it throughout the world before founding the Demon Court. The ceremony brings the Heavenly Emperor Seal, great merit, and enough fortune for him to sever his Two Corpses 97 103 104.

Alliances and the Contest for Fortune

After Nuwa exposes the dangers of Hongjun’s Three Corpses Method and warns of his alleged plan to devour the Heavenly Dao, Di Jun rallies the Demon Clan to resist. He and the assembled leaders swear a Great Dao Oath and join the Hongmen Alliance Covenant 126 127.

He later sends Taiyi and Kunpeng to negotiate an alliance with the Witch Clan against the Immortal Court’s provocations. Separately, his replacement of Ziwei with the Sun Star causes excessive Yang Qi and recurring stellar disorder. Fuxi and Nuwa identify a union between the Sun and Moon Star Lords as a potential remedy 147 148 158.

When Taiyi obtains the Fierce Beast Clan’s Karma-Virtue Attainment method, Di Jun views competition for fortune as unavoidable. Fuxi and Nuwa oppose reliance on the dangerous method, while Kunpeng supports it. Di Jun recognizes that conquest alone is insufficient: a clan must possess a stable structure capable of retaining the fortune it acquires 179 180.

War and the Persecution of Humans

The struggle over Hongmeng Purple Qi brings Di Jun into direct battle with the Witch Clan. Although the Demon Clan completes its Heavenly Cycle Stars Great Formation, the Ancestral Witches’ Pangu Phantom inflicts heavy losses. Di Jun’s subsequent council considers disrupting the Witch formation and finding weapons capable of overcoming Ancestral Witch bodies 204 205 210.

As human consumption and soul-refining spread among the demons, Di Jun investigates the Saints’ positions. He interprets Nuwa’s nonintervention and the Three Pure Ones’ insistence that the Human Clan’s Dao tradition survive as permission for limited exploitation. He prohibits large-scale slaughter and human livestock keeping while tacitly allowing covert hunting and Human Soul Weapon research 232.

This interpretation is later identified as selective: Nuwa had also warned that those killing humans would bear the karmic consequences. Di Jun disregarded those warnings and allowed the claim that humans were created as demon food to circulate 260.

Defeat at Longevity Mountain

Zhenyuanzi’s protection of human refugees brings the Demon Court to Wuzhuang Temple. Unable to break its earth-vein defenses through ordinary force, Di Jun treats resistance as an affront to the Heavenly Court and orders the Heavenly Cycle Stars Great Formation deployed 245 246.

Jiang Yun intervenes after returning from Chaos. Di Jun initially believes the stellar formation and Chaos Bell can withstand him, but Jiang Yun’s first punch nearly destroys the Demon Clan’s assembled strength. When the Saints ignore his appeals, Di Jun rejects supplication, rallies the survivors, and awakens his Imperial Dao 250 251 255 257.

Saintly intervention and mediation prevent the confrontation from ending in the Demon Clan’s complete destruction. Di Jun survives gravely damaged, acknowledging that his fixation on Karma-Virtue Attainment had blinded him to Jiang Yun’s proposed Fetal Membrane Plan 258 259 260.

The Search for a Route into Chaos

Di Jun subsequently attends Jiang Yun’s public Hunyuan lecture without concealing himself or demanding special treatment. He respects Jiang Yun’s willingness to teach all beings equally and sincerely thanks him for the Chaos Star Chart 267 269.

Returning to court, he halts attacks on humans, suspends the Witch Slaying Sword project, and avoids major engagements with the Witch Clan. Taiyi establishes a Chaos outpost, but a barrier restrains natives from freely leaving the Primordial Desolation. Di Jun and Taiyi conclude that the clan must repay its debt to the world before it can depart without restriction 270.

Di Jun supports renewed construction of the Chaos Fetal Membrane Plan, appointing Taiyi to lead and Kunpeng to assist. He presents the project as a passage through which the world’s countless spirits might seek transcendence 275 282.

The Golden Crow Disaster

Spirit Gourd warns Di Jun that a Saint may be manipulating the Sun Star to provoke renewed war. Di Jun orders stronger patrols, sends Fuxi to protect the princes, and keeps the ten Golden Crows confined. These precautions initially frustrate a plot by the Three Pure Ones 276.

The princes later escape after Tanggu’s defenses and guards are covertly neutralized. Nine are killed during the Ten Suns disaster. Di Jun arrives too late to save them, kills Da Yi in retaliation, and fights Dijiang while protecting his surviving sixth son 289 290.

Fuxi’s investigation confirms outside interference. Anticipating that the Demon Clan may become a sacrificial piece in the coming tribulation, Di Jun prepares a hidden refuge for his family. He also seeks to exploit Gonggong and Zhurong’s feud, obtaining Nuwa’s agreement to conceal the Demon Clan’s actions without directly intervening 290 293.

Final War and Death

Before the final battle, Di Jun abandons hopes of proving the Dao through fortune and concentrates on preserving a remnant. He entrusts Xihe and Changxi with the children, tens of thousands of young demons, the clan’s remaining treasures and teachings, and a Moon Star teleportation route to the Chaos stronghold 300.

Outside the Southern Heavenly Gate, Di Jun wounds Dijiang with the completed Witch Slaying Sword. As the opposing formations devastate one another, he invokes Blood Sacrifice and Star Sacrifice before committing the Heavenly Cycle Stars Great Formation to its final attack 304 308 311.

After the formations collapse, Di Jun orders Ghost Car to evacuate the survivors to the Moon Star. He then fights Dijiang and Zhujiuyin at close quarters. His sword mortally wounds Zhujiuyin, who traps his arm long enough for Dijiang to seize his heart. Di Jun restrains Dijiang and detonates his Primordial Spirit, killing them both and ending the Tribulation Cycle 312 313.

His attempt to send his treasures to his descendants fails: Nuwa obtains the River Diagram and Luo Shu, while Laozi takes the Witch Slaying Sword. His evacuation preparations nevertheless succeed, allowing Xihe, Changxi, and the surviving Demon Clan to escape into Chaos 313.

Relationships

• Taiyi — Younger brother, closest military partner, and fellow architect of Demon Clan rule. Leads the Chaos expedition and later the revived Fetal Membrane Plan 91 97 270 282.
• Xihe and Changxi — Dao Companions entrusted with protecting the children and the Demon Clan’s future in Chaos 290 300.
• Golden Crow sons — Ten sons kept under restraint because they cannot contain their True Sun Fire. Nine perish in the Ten Suns disaster; the sixth survives and is later identified as Lu Ya 289 300.
• Twelve jade rabbits — Children included in his Moon Star evacuation arrangements 300.
• Fuxi — Senior adviser, diviner, and trusted emissary. Investigates Tanggu’s sabotage and carries Di Jun’s proposals to Nuwa 158 290 293.
• Kunpeng — Demon Master and senior strategist. Supports the contest for fortune and assists Taiyi in the Chaos Fetal Membrane Plan 179 282.
• Bai Ze — Strategist whose counsel Di Jun values, particularly on countering the Witch Clan’s formation and managing the court 210 232.
• Nuwa — Demon Clan Saint, adviser, and intermediary. Their relationship is strained by Di Jun’s selective interpretation of her warnings about human persecution 127 232 260 293.
• Jiang Yun — An admired junior who becomes a devastating enemy, then a respected teacher and source of an alternative future for the Demon Clan 91 257 267 269.
• Ziwei Star Lord — Former rival for stellar authority. Di Jun accepts his peaceful withdrawal in exchange for noninterference and negotiated benefits 91.
• Dijiang — Principal rival among the Ancestral Witches. Their temporary cooperation gives way to renewed war, and they ultimately die together 147 289 313.
• Jieyin and Zhunti — Negotiating partners in the Ziwei settlement; later mediate after Jiang Yun’s defeat of the Demon Court 91 260.

Notable Quotes

“Better to rely on ourselves than beg others.” 127

“As long as you live, there is hope.” 300

“This tribulation... I'm tired of fighting too... next time, why not come with me... to see the truth... beyond this Primordial Desolation World... our destination... should have been... the sea of stars...” 313