Huang Tian sat cross-legged in his room, his eyes gleaming as he quietly listened to the familiar voice in his mind:
``` [Causal data embedding... Your identity is being generated...]
[Diamond-Level Identity (refreshes every two months):
To outsiders, you were merely an unremarkable Eighth Stage being, a full member of the Civilization Temple, a Silver Medal councilor of the Star Alliance Council, and the undisputed leader of Azure Star civilization. In truth, you were a demon who had walked out of Purgatory!
One thousand three hundred and thirty-nine years ago, you were born in a place called Purgatory. Every moment, Purgatory brought beings called "demons" into existence. None had parents or kin, love or friendship. They knew only slaughter!
At birth, you were still ignorant and weak, so you hid wherever you could. Then you killed a demon weaker than yourself and absorbed some of its power. At last, you tasted the thrill and pleasure of slaughter!
From then on, you walked the path of proving your Dao through killing. You slaughtered madly, drawing power from other demons through their deaths, and grew strong with terrifying speed. In a few short centuries, you became one of the Twelve Demon Kings beneath Purgatory's Three Emperors.
As a rising power, you were full of defiance. You believed the Demon Emperors had merely been born before you. In your eyes, they were already dry bones in the grave!
But you knew you could not yet defeat any of the Three Emperors. You suppressed your contempt, obeyed them outwardly, gathered strength, and waited in secret for your chance.
At last, more than five hundred years passed, and you reached Seventh-Stage Perfection. By chance, you learned that one of the Three Emperors, the Fear Emperor, had suffered a grievous injury. You infiltrated the Fear Emperor's