Demon Clan

Biodata

Power Progression

Membership and Leadership

Membership

• Broad admission: Di Jun’s founding declaration welcomed plant and tree spirits, birds, beasts, scaled and armored beings, moisture-born and egg-born creatures, and beings born from innate energy—provided they accepted the clan’s ideals and chose to follow its path 58.
• Tribal organization: Constituent tribes retained their identities and received territories within the Thirty-Three Layered Heavens 58.
• Varied forms: Members could possess original beast or plant forms, while some appeared in half-human, half-demon shapes 58.
• Awakened intelligence: Intelligent demons could access bloodline inheritances and systematically temper their bodies and souls, distinguishing them from unawakened Demon Beasts 233.
• Recruitment incentives: The clan offered cultivation methods, spiritual materials, and protection against the Witch Clan to secure smaller tribes’ allegiance 181.

Leadership Hierarchy

Territory and Strongholds

Abilities and Military Resources

Heavenly Cycle Stars Great Formation

The clan’s principal large-scale formation drew on the stars to combine its armies’ strength 205 246.

• Structure: In the final war, 365 Demon Gods controlled the main star banners, supported by countless soldiers and generals 305.
• Power source: The attack on Wuzhuang Temple gathered power from 365 main stars and 14,800 auxiliary stars, with Taiyi using the Chaos Bell to guide the strike 246.
• Applications: Created a Sea of Stars domain, projected stellar attacks, and allowed the clan to confront opponents far beyond its individual fighters 205 305.
• Deployment limits: Required billions of soldiers and generals; preparation was complicated and operation sluggish 303.
• Power limits: An all-out strike only matched one ordinary attack from Tongtian. Di Jun recognized that the clan could exchange a few moves with a Saint, not fight one on equal terms 206.
• Known defeats: The Witch Clan’s Pangu Phantom inflicted heavy losses on its operators, while Jiang Yun shattered it with his first punch 205 255.

Supporting Formations

Imperial Flowing Sap

Di Jun derived Imperial Flowing Sap from a fragment of the Lesser Heavenly Cycle Star Formation, using Sun and Moon power, the 365 main stars, and Heavenly Dao merit 97.

• Awakened spiritual intelligence in beasts and plants 97 103.
• Improved lesser demons’ forms, aptitudes, and cultivation foundations 97.
• Offered a means of continually producing new demons without relying solely on existing bloodlines 103.
• Its refinement was not effortless; Jiang Yun cautioned that this could limit the speed of expansion 103.

Demonic Cultivation and Armies

• Cultivation: Demon Cultivators could study the Primordial Spirit Dharma Idol to temper powerful Demon Beast bodies 20.
• Population advantage: Vast numbers and strong reproductive capacity allowed recovery from losses more quickly than the Witch Clan’s blood-pool-based reproduction 76.
• Regular troops: Armies employed poisonous demonic flames, ice blades, wind auras, empowered treasures, and Heavenly Immortal and True Immortal Demon Generals 236.
• Individual disadvantage: The clan generally could not match the Witch Clan’s physical combat power at equivalent cultivation levels, making collective formations especially important 57 76 205.

Human Soul Weapons

Weapons refined from human souls and resentment became a means of attacking the Witch Clan’s formidable bodies 231 234.

• Human Soul Rod: Gray Claw transformed his Bone Crushing Rod after discovering that human souls and resentment strengthened it 231.
• Myriad Sins Witch-Piercing Thorn: Used by the Soul Devouring Ancestor at Broken Spine Gorge; its filthy, resentful aura suppressed Witch blood qi 234.
• Witch Slaying Sword: A major project backed by Di Jun and the upper ranks, forged specifically to target Witch bodies and later wielded against Dijiang 240 304.
• Handling limits: Grievance and malice could corrode spiritual treasures, requiring specially made Grievance Gathering Cauldrons for transport 240.
• Cost: Harvesting human lives and souls brought enormous killing karma upon the clan 236 255.

Star Sacrifice

• Consumed Star Lords’ bodies, souls, origins, and Star Cores to draw greater power from the Primordial Desolation Stars 308.
• Restored the damaged stellar formation before increasing its power further 308.
• Di Jun revealed that the Monster Summoning Gourd held the Star Lords’ True Spirit imprints, which could permit their return if the starry sky endured 308.

Major Treasures

• Chaos Bell / Eastern Emperor Bell — Taiyi’s principal treasure; protected the leadership against the Myriad Immortals Formation, anchored secrecy formations, and guided stellar attacks 73 127 246.
• River Diagram and Luo Shu — Di Jun’s deduction treasures, used to assess the tribes’ united fortune and develop clan formations; taken by Nuwa after his death 58 76 275 313.
• Heavenly Emperor Seal — Granted by the Heavenly Dao when the Demon Court received its mandate 104.
• Monster Summoning Gourd — Held Star Lords’ True Spirit imprints and accompanied the expedition into Chaos, preserving an important hope for the clan’s future 287 308.
• Star banners — Instruments through which Demon Gods, soldiers, and generals operated the stellar formation 300 305.
• Witch Slaying Sword — Anti-Witch weapon used by Di Jun in the final war; claimed by Laozi’s Taiji Diagram after his death 304 313.

History

Origins and Migration to Heaven

The clan began as an alliance of Spirit Tribe groups unable to withstand Witch invasions. Over tens of thousands of years, Di Jun, Taiyi, Nuwa, and Fuxi united these groups into an organization calling itself the Demon Tribe 57.

Discovery of the Thirty-Three Layered Heavens gave the alliance a defensible refuge. Di Jun moved vulnerable members first, while its fighters covered the migration. After more than ten thousand years of war and heavy casualties, the tribes secured the heavenly gateways, divided the heavens into tribal territories, and began rebuilding 57 58.

Once their fortunes had fully converged, Di Jun formally established the Demon Clan before heaven and earth. Heavenly merit descended, and its collective fortune rose to rival that of the three ancient clans 58.

Contest for Heavenly Authority

The leadership challenged the emerging Immortal Court at its founding ceremony. Taiyi disputed East King Duke’s right to govern the immortals, and Di Jun declared that Taiyi spoke for the entire demon race 69.

The Immortal Court’s Myriad Immortals Formation exposed the limits of relying on individual power. After returning home, Di Jun and Fuxi gathered formation specialists to develop a comparable clan-protecting array. The leadership also made control of the starry sky its immediate goal, postponing a counterattack against Witch-held earth 73 76.

After prolonged conflict with the Ziwei lineage, peace talks mediated by Jieyin and Zhunti enabled a gradual takeover of the stars. Di Jun then created Imperial Flowing Sap and established the Demon Court, receiving the Heavenly Dao’s mandate 90 91 97 104.

Alliance Against Hongjun

At a secret meeting, Nuwa warned that the Three Corpses Method required vessels of the same origin for unification. She also presented the suspicion that Hongjun was a possessing Chaos Demon God seeking to devour the Heavenly Dao. Di Jun and the assembled demons swore a Great Dao Oath and joined the Hongmen Alliance Covenant 127.

This common threat produced an alliance with the Witch Clan. Their agreement required restraint by senior combatants; Dijiang subsequently barred forces above the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal level and Great Witches from the battlefields. Immortal Court agents attempted to undermine the agreement by impersonating Kunpeng’s followers, but the deception was exposed 145 147.

Cooperation remained possible despite continuing rivalry. Taiyi and Kunpeng later fought alongside three Ancestral Witches to exhaust and seal Taotie in the Starry Sky Ruins 176.

Expansion and Renewed Witch Conflict

The Demon Clan expanded by offering protection, cultivation methods, and spiritual resources to smaller races. Nuwa and Fuxi recruited the Spiritual Deer Clan, while Kunpeng secured the Flood Dragon Clan’s surrender 181.

Following the Immortal Court’s destruction, the Witch and Demon Clans divided its fortune and plundered Penglai, while honoring their agreement with the Queen Mother of the West to spare its remaining cultivators 185.

Their rivalry later erupted over Hongmeng Purple Qi. The Demon Clan completed its stellar formation with Xihe and Changxi’s reinforcements, but the Witch Clan’s Pangu Phantom battered the formation and killed or injured hundreds of Demon Gods 205.

Human Massacres and Defeat by Jiang Yun

Relations with humanity were initially peaceful. Respect for Nuwa’s creations encouraged goodwill, and Bi Fang even protected a human settlement and offered the possibility of alliance 230.

This changed after Yu Xiao discovered that eating humans increased demonic power. Massacres spread, followed by the discovery of human souls’ value in weapon refinement. Di Jun ordered investigation and punishment for unjustified attacks, but later enforcement mainly suppressed conspicuous slaughter. Covert killing and infant abduction continued with widespread tacit acceptance among the higher ranks 231 233.

The conflict escalated into organized harvesting for the Witch Slaying Sword. Humans retaliated by hunting man-eating demons and refining their remains into medicines, while Witch forces destroyed demon transport and processing nodes 233 240 241 242.

The Demon Court then sent its forces against Wuzhuang Temple to demonstrate its authority. Jiang Yun’s intervention devastated the army: his first punch shattered the Heavenly Cycle Stars Great Formation, killed countless demons, and gravely wounded Taiyi and Kunpeng. Di Jun’s appeals for Saint intervention went unanswered, leading him to recognize that the clan was being used to test Jiang Yun 246 255 256.

Turning Toward Chaos

After the defeat, Di Jun ordered all attacks on humanity halted, contracted the defensive lines, and indefinitely suspended the Witch Slaying Sword project. He redirected resources toward Chaos exploration, seeking a path to Hunyuan beyond the Primordial World’s political struggle 270.

The proposed vanguard included Taiyi, Fuxi, Jiu Ying, Bai Ze, and thirty thousand elite Primordial Unity Golden Immortals. The Heavenly Dao Barrier nevertheless posed a further obstacle: Di Jun concluded that the clan needed to contribute to the world rather than merely remove its resources and living beings 270.

The renewed Chaos Fetal Membrane Plan attracted outside support and materials, while Fuxi improved its formation. Taiyi ultimately commanded the expedition with Kunpeng assisting. Their departure carried away elite forces, part of the clan’s fortune, and the Monster Summoning Gourd 274 275 282 287.

Final War and Withdrawal

The Ten Suns calamity renewed the feud and devastated the Demon Court’s fortune. With Taiyi and Kunpeng still in Chaos, Di Jun judged the remaining clan too weak to face the Witches directly. He sought to exploit Gonggong and Zhurong’s feud, gaining Nuwa’s agreement to conceal his actions and covert support from the Three Pure Ones 290 293.

Before the decisive war, Di Jun entrusted selected young descendants to Xihe and Changxi, while Fuxi secured Nuwa’s promise to protect Lu Ya, the twelve jade rabbits, and other descendants hidden in Chaos. The clan also participated in a purge of third-party powers, targeting humanity’s high-level fighters to prevent a postwar challenge 300 301 302.

Both armies assembled at the heavenly gates. As the fighting devastated the Demon Clan’s formation, Di Jun invoked Star Sacrifice. The final clashes ruined both great arrays; Di Jun fatally wounded Zhujiuyin and then detonated his Primordial Spirit while Dijiang seized his heart, killing himself and Dijiang and ending the Tribulation Cycle 302 308 312 313.

Changxi and Xihe activated the Moon Star’s formation and led the surviving demons into Chaos after Nuwa persuaded the Three Pure Ones not to interfere. The Heavenly Court was subsequently re-established under Haotian and Yaochi. Fuxi’s remnant soul later reincarnated among humans, and he ultimately affirmed his human identity 313 317 320.

Relationships

• Witch Clan — Founding enemy and principal rival; temporarily allied against Hongjun and cooperated against shared threats, but ultimately fought a mutually devastating war 57 147 176 313.
• Immortal Court — Rival claimant to heavenly authority. Its agents tried to provoke Witch–Demon conflict; the two clans later divided its fortune after its destruction 69 147 185.
• Ziwei Star Lord and Stellar Gods — Opposed the clan’s stellar expansion before negotiating a settlement that enabled its takeover of the starry sky 90 91 97.
• Human Clan — Initially treated with goodwill because of Nuwa, then subjected to predation, soul harvesting, and military campaigns; humans retaliated by hunting demons and using their remains for cultivation 230 231 233 301.
• Jiang Yun — Defended humanity and crushed the Demon Court’s forces; his example also helped inspire Di Jun’s turn toward Chaos and independent attainment of Hunyuan 255 270 274.
• Western Teachings — Mediated the Ziwei settlement, participated in the anti-Hongjun alliance, and expressed conditional willingness to support the renewed Chaos plan 90 91 127 274.
• Spirit Bamboo Mountain — Promised support for the Chaos Fetal Membrane Plan; Spirit Gourd Daoist contributed formation ideas and Hunyuan insights 274 275.
• Hongjun — Target of the clan’s Great Dao Oath after Nuwa warned that he might be a Chaos Demon God seeking control of the world 127.

Notable Quotes

“From this day onward, all spirits of plants and trees, all spirits of birds and beasts, those covered in scales or clad in armor, those born from moisture or hatched from eggs, and gods and demons born from innate energy—so long as they acknowledge the ideals of my Demon clan and are willing to walk the same path, they shall all be members of the Demon clan!”
— Di Jun’s founding declaration 58

“Better to rely on ourselves than beg others.”
— Di Jun, during the Demon Clan alliance meeting 127