Bone Demon

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Bone Demon (骨魔)
Species/Race	Netherworld undead / exotic beast
Affiliation	Initially hostile dungeon creatures; later summoned and controlled by Chen Ming through the Bone Tower
Status	Extant
First Appearance	Chapter 51

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Level 8–9	51	Three Bone Demons emerge from massive kilns in the Bone Burial Ground; two are level 8 and one is level 9.
Resurrected level 8	53	A shattered level 8 Bone Demon revives in Netherfire with greater speed, defense, and attack power, but reduced mental energy.
Level 10	54 55	Level 10 Bone Demons join the dungeon horde; one is struck by Chen Ming’s extended-range slash.
Summoned levels 1–10	64 97	Chen Ming learns to summon Bone Demons through the Pitch-Black Tower, first producing a non-hostile level 1 unit and later demonstrating one summon of every level from 1 to 10.
Nearly five million level 7-and-below summons	64	Upon first establishing his connection to the Pitch-Black Tower at level 7, Chen Ming senses nearly five million Bone Demons within his available level range.
Hundreds of thousands deployed	104	Chen Ming sends several hundred thousand Bone Demons to sweep an Abyss region for mutated beasts and spiritual resources.
Wolf King Bone Demon, level 51	190 195 196	The remains of the Pale Moon Wolf King are transformed into a Bone Demon. As a creature personally killed by Chen Ming, it can be summoned despite ordinary level restrictions and can be mentally linked to earn Chen Ming experience from dungeon clears.
Golden Scale Flood Dragon Bone Demon, level 30	242	An Eternal Attribute creature transformed after death; unlike ordinary Bone Demons, it retains its former name and combat abilities.
Sea God Bone Demon, god-tier	269 270	Sea God Remnants, together with the Flood Dragon Bone Demon during the conversion process, are refined into a god-tier Bone Demon. The Bone Tower must intervene to strengthen Chen Ming’s control over it.
Soul Banner-fused Bone Demons	360 380	Bone Demons fused with mental bodies gain incomplete consciousness and can use abilities from their former lives; a complete Spirit Body can potentially grant full consciousness and abilities.
Five Saints Bone Demon, Saint Grade	458 459	Chen Ming fuses Five Saints’ Spirit Body into a Saint Grade Bone Demon. The resulting summon retains Five Saints’ complete consciousness and abilities while remaining under Chen Ming’s control.
Barbarian God Bone Demon, God Grade; former body of a level 91 Supreme God	514	The Black Bone Tower’s ninth level transforms the Barbarian God’s Remnant Body into a soulless God-Grade Bone Demon. Chen Ming cannot directly control it before level 91 because he did not personally kill the Barbarian God, but commands it indirectly through the Damaged Heaven-Splitting Axe. Its restored physical body and weapon should allow it to fight ordinary gods, though it does not possess the full power of a true level 91 god.

Background / History

Bone Demons first appear as the challenge-dungeon exotic beasts of the Bone Burial Ground. They emerge from massive kilns and approach the graveyard’s tombstones, where they consume valuable Sorrowful Bone Tears. Their bodies are exposed skeletons animated by clusters of ghostly green soulfire. 51

Chen Ming initially defeats several level 8 and 9 Bone Demons by shattering their skeletons, but receives no kill notification. He discovers that their Necrotic Rebirth allows them to reconstruct their bodies from their remains. Their resurrection increases their physical combat power while reducing the mental energy contained in their Netherfire. 52 53

Because Chen Ming’s attacks inflict mental damage even against scattered remains, he can exhaust the energy sustaining their rebirths. The Bone Demons consequently become reliable sources of Beast Cores and Spirit Rune Stones during the Bone Burial Ground battle. 53 56

After obtaining the Nether Eye, Chen Ming discovers that its internal Pitch-Black Tower can summon Bone Demons. He later learns that the Bone Tower can absorb the remains of creatures and convert them into additional Bone Demons, building an army under his command. 64 189

The Bone Tower’s conversion ability applies to the remains of both Class Changers and exotic beasts. Chen Ming begins treating the conversion of personally defeated creatures as a regular post-battle practice, particularly after discovering that his personal kills can bypass the normal summoning-level restriction. 189 190 242

During the Phantom Sea beast tide, Chen Ming further develops the army’s role as a self-replenishing force: Bone Demons carry slain sea beasts back to the Bone Tower Space, where their remains can later be converted into replacements or new members of the legion. 254

Chen Ming later discovers that the Soul Banner’s absorbed Spirit Bodies can be fused into Bone Demons. This permits the creation of conscious units capable of retaining their former-life abilities, culminating in the Saint Grade Five Saints Bone Demon, which retains a complete consciousness and serves Chen Ming. 360 458 459

While exploring the Ruined Divine Kingdom, Chen Ming compares the Blood Race’s remotely possessed corpses to inferior versions of his Bone Demons. He considers using the Black Bone Tower to take control of the corpses, but refrains from testing this possibility because revealing the tower could attract the attention of both Blood Race Soul Devourers and observing Human Race deities. 494

After using the Barbarian God’s Remnant Body and Heaven-Splitting Axe to destroy the Ruined Divine Kingdom, Chen Ming claims both the body and the damaged weapon. He transfers the body into Bone Tower Space and successfully transforms it into a God-Grade Bone Demon. Unlike the Sea God, the Barbarian God has no surviving consciousness, leaving only a powerful divine body rather than a conscious resurrected god. Chen Ming nevertheless makes the summon useful by controlling it through its original axe. 509 511 514

Appearance

Bone Demons are skeletal undead animated by green spirit fire or Netherfire.

• Exposed, ghastly white bones form their bodies. 51
• A cluster of ghostly green soulfire burns within their frames. 51
• Their skeletal shapes can reflect different creatures, including tiger-like, canine-like, wolf, flood dragon, and Sea God forms. 52 53 190 242 269
• Resurrected individuals may become wrapped in Netherfire across their entire bodies. 53
• Their size varies greatly; a summoned level 10 Bone Demon stands approximately five to six meters tall. 97
• Exceptional transformed summons can be colossal; the Wolf King Bone Demon is described as a roughly hundred-meter-tall skeleton. 196
• The Barbarian God Bone Demon is created from the headless Barbarian God’s Remnant Body, which receives a degree of restoration during the transformation. 492 514

Abilities & Skills

Necrotic Rebirth

Bone Demons can regenerate their shattered skeletons through the spirit fire or Netherfire sustaining them.

• Destruction of the physical skeleton alone does not necessarily kill them. 52 53
• After reviving, their speed, defense, and attack power increase. 53
• Each rebirth weakens the mental-energy fluctuations of the Netherfire sustaining them. 53
• Mental damage can still be inflicted upon their remains, enabling their resurrection energy to be depleted. 53 56
• Bone Demons killed by powerful enemies may fail to revive if the force destroying them also eliminates the energy supporting their Netherfire. 98

Netherfire Animation

Spirit fire is the basis of a Bone Demon’s undead existence.

• Bone Demons are described as netherworld undead revived after receiving Spirit Fire. 51 97
• The Pitch-Black Tower ordinarily suppresses a Bone Demon’s Netherfire within the Bone Tower Space, releasing its fire of life when the unit is summoned. 190
• Netherfire can suppress mental power, including the Sea God’s Eternal Mental Power. 269
• Ordinary Bone Demons gradually lose independent consciousness after transformation. 269
• Even self-aware god-tier Bone Demons remain unable to harbor harmful intent toward Chen Ming as the Bone Tower’s master. 458
• Divine transformation does not necessarily restore the former owner’s consciousness. If no trace of that consciousness survives, the result is a soulless God-Grade Bone Demon, as demonstrated by the Barbarian God. 514

Bone Tower Summoning and Conversion

The Pitch-Black Bone Tower within Chen Ming’s Nether Eye can summon and create Bone Demons.

• Chen Ming can summon standard Bone Demons ranging from level 1 to level 10. 64 97
• Releasing the Tower’s restrictions allows a massive Bone Demon army to pour through Nether Gates. 97
• The remains of living creatures, including Class Changers and exotic beasts, can be absorbed and converted into Bone Demons. 189
• Ordinary summoned Bone Demons scale with Chen Ming’s level; creatures personally killed by him can be summoned without that level restriction. 190
• The controlled army had reached roughly twenty million members by Chen Ming’s level 24. 190
• Bone Demon kills ordinarily do not grant Chen Ming experience, as the Bone Tower rather than Chen Ming’s own mental power functions as the source of their summoning. 97 196
• Chen Ming can attach his mental power to an individual Bone Demon for precise summoner-style control, allowing its kills to grant him experience at the cost of mental power. 196
• The level 51 Wolf King Bone Demon is powerful enough to lead Chen Ming’s team through dungeon challenges and farm experience on his behalf. 196
• A Spirit Body from an enemy personally killed by Chen Ming can be fused into a higher-level Bone Demon despite Chen Ming’s ordinary level-based control restrictions. 458
• Conversion requires surviving remains; creatures that disappear completely upon death cannot be transformed. 242
• Ordinary tower-based summoning does not consume Chen Ming’s mental power, allowing him to deploy armies that would be impossible to sustain through conventional summoner control. 196
• The Black Bone Tower’s ninth level activates for the Barbarian God’s God-Grade transformation. 514
• Because Chen Ming did not personally kill the Barbarian God and the resulting Bone Demon lacks consciousness, he cannot directly command it through ordinary control before reaching level 91. His origin connection with the Damaged Heaven-Splitting Axe provides an alternative means of making it move and fight. 514

Retained Abilities and Consciousness

Exceptional Bone Demons may preserve traits beyond basic undead combat.

• Ordinary transformed Bone Demons lose the abilities they possessed in life, including the level 51 Wolf King Bone Demon, which relies on its level and basic physical combat power instead. 190 195
• The Golden Scale Flood Dragon Bone Demon retains Dragon Breath, Sea-Overturning Dragon Tail, and Space-Rending Golden Scale Claw, apparently due to its Eternal Attribute. 242
• The Sea God Bone Demon retains self-awareness for limited periods and can alternate between awakened and dormant states. 269
• Chen Ming can use the Bone Tower to force a god-tier Bone Demon into awakening or dormancy, and can briefly impose direct control through Eternal Mental Power. 270
• Fusion with mental bodies through the Soul Banner can create conscious Bone Demons capable of using abilities possessed in life. 360
• A soulless Bone Demon without a fused Spirit Body has neither consciousness nor abilities and can only perform basic combat. 380
• Incomplete Spirit Bodies grant incomplete consciousness and flawed versions of former-life abilities. 360
• Complete Spirit Bodies can allow a Bone Demon to retain genuine self-awareness and fully access abilities from its former life. 360 380
• Five Saints’ complete Spirit Body successfully grants a Saint Grade Bone Demon its former owner’s consciousness and mental abilities. 458 459
• Chen Ming estimates that his 1,397 Eternal Mental Power at the time would allow him to completely control an unwilling God-Grade Bone Demon for roughly ten minutes. A cooperative, self-aware summon such as the Sea God can instead fight independently when summoned. 270
• A surviving trace of a god’s Eternal Mental Power can potentially allow the transformed God-Grade Bone Demon to regain consciousness. The Barbarian God’s transformation fails to achieve this because his consciousness has already vanished completely. 514
• The Barbarian God Bone Demon cannot use its former owner’s abilities, but retains god-grade physical power because the Barbarian God followed a physical-body path. Chen Ming judges that, with the Damaged Heaven-Splitting Axe, it should be able to fight ordinary gods despite lacking the full strength of a true level 91 god. 514

Comparison with Blood Race Corpse Animation

The Blood Race’s Soul Devourers animate dead bodies through remotely projected mental power, a method Chen Ming regards as an inferior imitation of Bone Demon creation. 493 494

• The possessed corpses can display their former physical strength but cannot use their former abilities. Unlike Bone Demons, they also lack a comparable repeated-revival mechanism. 494
• Chen Ming understands each Soul Devourer to occupy a single corpse, whereas he can command an entire legion through the Black Bone Tower. 494
• Spirit Bodies held in the Human Emperor Banner can grant Bone Demons Spirit Source power and abilities, further distinguishing them from ordinary Soul Devourer-controlled corpses. 494
• Chen Ming believes the Black Bone Tower might seize control of the Blood Race corpses in the Ruined Divine Kingdom, but does not test this possibility. 494
• He later encounters a Blood Race Saint whose regeneration restores flesh over exposed bones and brings about a more complete resurrection than ordinary corpse possession, prompting another comparison with Bone Demons. 497

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Bone Demon-Beast Core — Dropped by permanently killed Bone Demons. 54 56
• Spirit Rune Stone — Drops from Bone Demons with a 100% drop rate, regardless of level. 56
• Pitch-Black Bone Tower — The structure within the Nether Eye that summons, stores, converts, and controls Bone Demons. 64 189 269
• Soul Banner — Can fuse absorbed mental bodies with Bone Demons to grant consciousness and inherited abilities. 360
• Damaged Heaven-Splitting Axe — The Barbarian God Bone Demon’s weapon and Chen Ming’s means of indirectly controlling it. Its remaining Origin Astral Force can supplement the summon’s combat power and can potentially be replenished by killing god-grade enemies. 514

Relationships

• Chen Ming — Initially their enemy in the Bone Burial Ground; later their summoner, creator, and controller through the Bone Tower. 52 64 189
• Pale Moon Wolf King Bone Demon — A level 51 transformed summon that submits to Chen Ming, serves as a potential commander of the Bone Demon army, and is used to lead dungeon-clearing teams. 190 195 196
• Golden Scale Flood Dragon Bone Demon — An Eternal Bone Demon under Chen Ming’s control that retains its former dragon abilities. 242
• Sea God Bone Demon — A god-tier Bone Demon refined from Sea God Remnants; retains consciousness but remains restrained by the Bone Tower and Chen Ming’s control. 269 270
• Soul Banner — Its absorbed mental bodies can be fused with Bone Demons, supplying them with consciousness and inherited abilities. 360
• Five Saints Bone Demon — A Saint Grade Bone Demon fused with Five Saints’ complete Spirit Body. It retains Five Saints’ consciousness and abilities while serving Chen Ming and revealing information concerning the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and God-Locking Chain. 458 459
• Barbarian God Bone Demon — A soulless God-Grade summon created from the remnant body of the former level 91 Supreme God. Chen Ming controls it through the Damaged Heaven-Splitting Axe and regards it as a potential god-grade general. 514
• Blood Race Soul Devourers — Their remote corpse-possession method resembles Bone Demon animation but lacks the legion-scale control, inherited abilities, and repeated revival available to Chen Ming. He conceals the Black Bone Tower to avoid attracting their attention. 494

Story Role / Major Arcs

Bone Burial Ground

Bone Demons serve as the primary hostile exotic beasts in the Bone Burial Ground’s Demon Cave challenge. Their ability to resurrect turns the battle into a test of mental-energy depletion rather than simple physical destruction. 51 53

Chen Ming exploits their weakness to persistent mental damage, repeatedly shattering them on revival and harvesting their guaranteed Spirit Rune Stone drops. 56

Qin Zhixue also permanently kills a level 9 Bone Demon, but must defeat it more than ten times before exhausting its revival power. The contrast demonstrates how troublesome the creatures remain for fighters without Chen Ming’s continuous mental-damage attacks. 56

Bone Tower Army

After clearing the dungeon, Chen Ming gains access to the Pitch-Black Tower’s Bone Demon summoning function. He eventually deploys a vast Bone Demon army through Nether Gates against Abyssal beasts. 64 97

The army’s numbers and ability to revive let it overwhelm stronger opponents through attrition and sheer volume. It also serves as an efficient resource-harvesting force, returning collected materials and enemy corpses to Chen Ming. 98 104 199

Chen Ming later discovers that, by establishing a mental link with a Bone Demon, he can make its kills count toward his own experience. He uses the Wolf King Bone Demon to farm dungeons while he personally explores the Abyss. 196

The Wolf King Bone Demon also performs noncombat labor. In the Illusion Sea Temple dungeon, Chen Ming uses it to mine reef crystals, helping increase his Recovery attribute and complete the unlock progress that makes his Bronze Scale Armor a genuine equipment item. 215

Special Transformations

Chen Ming expands the army by converting powerful enemies he personally kills, including the Pale Moon Wolf King and Golden Scale Flood Dragon. The latter establishes that Eternal Attribute creatures can retain their abilities after becoming Bone Demons. 190 242

During the Phantom Sea beast tide, the Bone Demon army recovers and expands its numbers by collecting the corpses of slain sea beasts for subsequent conversion rituals. 254

Chen Ming also transforms the skeletal remains of a Miasma Beast after discovering Withered Spirit Fire beside its corpse. Although the combination of bones and flame initially reminds him of Bone Demons, the Withered Spirit Fire does not animate the remains, and the subsequently created Bone Demon displays no abnormalities. 283

God Bone Demon and Soul Banner Experiments

The Bone Tower converts Sea God Remnants into a god-tier Sea God Bone Demon, demonstrating that even divine remains can be refined and controlled. 269

Although Chen Ming cannot ordinarily control the Sea God Bone Demon across its level gap, the Bone Tower grants him the ability to force its awakening or dormancy and briefly impose direct control with Eternal Mental Power. 270

Later, Chen Ming discovers that the Soul Banner can provide Bone Demons with mental bodies, enabling consciousness and the use of former-life abilities. 360

Chen Ming subsequently applies this combination to Five Saints’ Spirit Body, creating a fully self-aware Saint Grade Bone Demon with its former owner’s abilities and knowledge. 458 459

Barbarian God Bone Demon

Chen Ming initially considers transforming the preserved Barbarian God into another God Bone Demon, but recognizes that the Heaven-Splitting Axe already controls the corpse. He later imagines pairing the transformed level 91 Supreme God’s body with its original weapon to obtain a powerful guardian. 492 493

After the destruction of the Ruined Divine Kingdom and the remnant body’s collapse, Chen Ming claims the body and the Damaged Heaven-Splitting Axe. The Black Bone Tower’s ninth level completes the transformation without the overwhelming divine pressure that accompanied the Sea God’s revival. Chen Ming discovers that this silence reflects the complete disappearance of the Barbarian God’s consciousness: the resulting summon retains a divine body but no soul or former-life abilities. 511 514

The summon initially appears impractical because Chen Ming did not kill the Barbarian God himself and cannot directly control the soulless body before level 91. He resolves this by returning the Damaged Heaven-Splitting Axe to its hand and using his origin connection with the weapon to make the Bone Demon move. 514

Chen Ming estimates that the resulting force can fight ordinary gods, though it cannot reproduce the full strength of the living level 91 Barbarian God. He also recognizes that killing god-grade enemies could replenish the axe’s Origin Astral Force, potentially strengthening the weapon and Bone Demon into a formidable god-grade general. 514

Trivia

• Bone Demons in the Bone Burial Ground are physically weaker than normal exotic beasts of comparable level, despite their resurrection ability. 52
• Chen Ming’s mental-damage basic attacks make him a direct counter to their Necrotic Rebirth. 53
• The first Bone Demon Chen Ming summons from the Pitch-Black Tower is level 1 and immediately stands beside him without hostility. 64
• Chen Ming cannot inspect the true nature or full information of the Pitch-Black Bone Tower even with Eternal Mental Power. 196 256
• Chen Ming initially considers the preserved corpse of the Barbarian God as a potential future God Bone Demon, though the Heaven-Splitting Axe’s control over the corpse presents an obstacle. He later completes the transformation and uses that same weapon as his means of controlling the summon. 492 514
• Chen Ming’s Shadowless clone cannot reproduce the Pitch-Black Bone Tower or its Bone Demon army, despite inheriting many of his other abilities. 187
• The Nether Shadows encountered during the underground Soul Suppression trial are distinct from Bone Demons; their appearance initially causes Chen Ming to fear that the entire Bone Land might animate into a skeletal army. 59
• After experimenting with Spirit Body fusion, Chen Ming observes that his creations possess bones, souls, and abilities, leaving flesh and blood as the missing components for fully reshaping life. 360
• Chen Ming hypothesizes that the Black Bone Tower is a race-level supreme treasure forged from the eternal energy of a Unique Physique. He regards its ability to create an army of Bone Demons as an example of such power benefiting an entire race rather than only one individual; the tower’s origin remains his deduction rather than a confirmed identification. 514

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