The Shadow Devil King was a notorious legendary monster. For many years, it had haunted the northwest of the main plane, using the "Green Mist Forest" in the southern reaches of Ash Forest as its base, venturing out from time to time to attack and wreak havoc.
This fellow mainly did two things. One was attacking villages, slaughtering the common folk and transforming them into its own shadow soldiers. The other was accepting the sacrifices of evildoers and granting them poisoned weapons imbued with shadow magic.
Obviously, both were bad things.
As for the good things it had done... sorry, but not even the most learned scholars knew of any.
Thus, the title "Devil King" might have slightly exaggerated its power, but when it came to its evil, it fit perfectly, without the slightest falsehood.
The masses had sharp eyes. Names might be wrongly given, but nicknames were never wrongly earned.
However, over these past few decades, the Shadow Devil King had not caused trouble in the mortal world. Neither those it had once harmed, who never forgot their desire for revenge, nor those who had benefited from its power and wished to seek its aid again, had seen it.
Naturally, that was because after foolishly provoking Sui Xiong back then, it had been struck half-dead by a single Tathagata Palm from him. It had basically lost the ability to move and could only remain in this abandoned palace, unable to go anywhere.
This "half-dead" was neither metaphor nor exaggeration, but literal fact. Through that palm strike, Sui Xiong had poured immense life force into the Shadow Devil King—enough to grant this undead creature a small measure of life. It truly was half-dead and half-alive.
Life force was good stuff. It could grant ordinary creatures health and longevity, and could