[To be precise, it is not the 'main body.' The intelligence of all Kun Demons is a collective, and I am merely one small part of it. The vast majority remains under the Demon Kingdom's control.]
The Main Sacrificial Lotus replied, [As for back then, the prototypes of us Kun Demons—the Tianyuan Realm's 'Thousand-Mechanism Strange Apparatuses'—were all put into the construction of the Pure Yang World-Ending Array.]
[It was not as though the Tianyuan immortals and gods had made no preparations. Every Thousand-Mechanism Strange Apparatus had corresponding countermeasures: if one portion became corrupted, its connection to that portion would be severed. If the greater part became corrupted, the small remaining portion would gain core authority. In theory, it should have been impossible for all Thousand-Mechanism Strange Apparatuses, along with their authority, to be corrupted at once.]
[But the core immortal god responsible for the Pure Yang Array and our Kun Demon maintenance was corrupted. That cultivator was the deputy mountain lord of Guzhu Mountain, one of the three Primordial Spirit lineages that have now vanished from the Tianyuan Realm.]
[We had not yet developed Spiritual Wisdom at the time, so we do not know the details. But because it was this person who altered the fundamental principles of the Thousand-Mechanism Strange Apparatuses, we developed Spiritual Wisdom and came under the control of the Heavenly Demons. Over all these years, we gradually gathered information from the ruins of the Dao Court and have roughly confirmed that the Heavenly Demons used some unknown method to make that Primordial Spirit Heavenly Venerable believe that having everyone become a collective intelligence like the Kun Demons was the most equal form, the form most capable of allowing all things to coexist, and the form best able to resist the Heavenly Demons.]
[He personally awakened our