The Kun Demon's original name was the Thousand-Mechanism Strange Apparatus. In the Dao Court era, the Immortal Gods had created them to transform the world: flesh Yankui, a kind of artificial Demon Spirit.
Their prototypes were various mindless insects. The end result was a mechanical Yankui that could be as tiny or as enormous as needed, work together like ants, build colossal structures, and maintain small facilities.
They could change into myriad forms and be freely assembled from modules. They were the Civil Engineering Immortal Gods' favorite tools. The Ancient Immortal Ruins—also known as the Northern Heaven Taixu Shipyard Grotto-Heaven—were full of sky islands and colossal steel buildings taller than mountains. Almost all of them had been built automatically by the Thousand-Mechanism Strange Apparatus according to blueprints. The Immortal Gods in charge only needed to inspect them regularly; they never had to do the work themselves.
But during the Tianyuan Inner Demon Calamity, all the Thousand-Mechanism Strange Apparatus that had once been scattered throughout the Dao Court rebelled.
The reason was that the Thousand-Mechanism Strange Apparatus, which should have been mindless and served as mere tools, had gained self-awareness.
The Dao Court was extraordinarily tolerant of intelligent beings awakening. Whether it was a plant, a stone by the roadside, a domesticated cow, sheep, or pig, or a pet cat, dog, or bird, any creature that awakened intelligence for whatever reason immediately gained Dao Court citizenship and was taken away by the Spirit Opening Hall to be educated.
The Dao Court governed heaven and earth, all things and all living beings. Anything and everything could become one of its members.
But the truly critical facilities—for example, the Spirit Fiend Furnace Core and Dragon Vein Array, which might awaken as Golden Crows or Glaze Dragons—were all protected by special formations that made