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Demon Country
The Nine-Rank Immortal Path
Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Demon Country (妖国) |
| Alias(es) | Southern Demon Country |
| Species/Race | Demon Race state |
| Affiliation | Demon Race; True Spirit Heavenly Court |
| Occupation/Role | Demon Race polity and long-standing rival of the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty |
| Status | Fallen; its territories, resources, treasures, and demon beasts were divided among Immortal Dynasty factions 1312 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 677 |
Background
The Demon Country occupied the southern lands and had stood against the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty for several thousand years. Its conflict with the dynasty was a struggle over survival as much as enmity: the expanding reach of Human Way Destiny and national destiny continually reduced the Demon Race's living space. 687
The Demon Emperor unified the land-based demon clans and established the Demon Country, though many sea-demon tribes remained outside his direct control; the Dragon Turtle King, for example, cooperated with the country rather than being fully subordinated to it. 896
The Demon Country destroyed the Beast Taming Sect in the past. By the later war, both sides sought the sect's Myriad Demon Mystic Realm records: the Demon Country wanted methods to improve demon-beast bloodlines, while the Immortal Dynasty sought methods that could restrain the Demon Emperor's bloodline. 733 757
True Spirit Order
The country was organized around True Spirit Altars, which governed local regions and connected its territory to the True Spirit Heavenly Court. Over thousands of years, the Demon Country, the Demon Race, and demonic nature became deeply fused with its land, spiritual energy, and skies. 915
Its True Spirit Heavenly Court could manifest as a Great Sun Starry Sky. As the Human Way Heavenly Court suppressed it, falling stars reflected the Demon Country's weakening national power. 1016
Military Organization and Methods
- Enlightenment Art — Awakened the intelligence of wild beasts and enabled incomplete early transformation into demon form, allowing the Demon Country to rapidly organize and train demon armies. 687
- Demon Race battle formations — Semi-transformed demon troops operated inherited formations, including the four-headed, eight-armed Giant Monster Battle Formation used by fish demons. 687
- Demon formations and restrictions — Demon armies fortified islands, seas, forests, and demon cities with specialized formations developed through centuries of war against Immortal Dynasty forces. 685 1020
- Demon plants and vines — Demon vegetation was deployed as a battlefield weapon and obstacle. The Pearl Island Chain's occupied islands were densely planted with demon plants and vines, while blood-red vines could consume battlefield remains. 687 910
- Demon cities and True Spirit Altars — Demon cities served as defensive nodes. Their formations could draw upon starlight and earth veins, repair damage, create maze-like internal worlds, and in some cases borrow power from the True Spirit Heavenly Court. 907 1247 1252
- Demon slaves — The Demon Country used corrupted human cultivators as hidden agents. These infiltrators could conceal their demonic nature, operate within Immortal Dynasty territory, and later guarded True Spirit Altars used to guide the descending Demon Realm. 921 1307
Relationship to the Demonic Path
The Demon Country and the demonic path were distinct powers. Demon and immortal cultivation both refined this world's power and laws, while devil cultivators cultivated the origin of another world and acted as channels for its corruption. 960
As its military position deteriorated, the Demon Country allied with Devil Masters. A fourth-rank Demon King and a fourth-rank Devil Master jointly operated altars in the Chi Dragon Clan's Dragon Tomb secret realm, attempting to activate the Dragon Gate and flood Liu Province. 992
This cooperation allowed the Demon Realm Underworld to support the Demon Country's failing True Spirit Heavenly Court. During the final war, the Demon Emperor summoned the Demon Realm's origin power to descend and merge with the remaining Demon Country territory, severely suppressing Immortal Dynasty cultivators within it. 1016 1307
Major Campaigns
| Campaign | Chapters | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| East Sea expansion | 677 | The Azure Roc King subdued East Sea demon beasts, organized new demon armies, and prepared a new front against Ying Province and the East Sea islands. 677 |
| Occupation of the Pearl Island Chain | 685–687 | Demon forces slaughtered or expelled local sects and cultivators, linked nearby islands into larger landmasses, and established fortified air and sea garrisons under the Azure Roc King, Dragon Turtle King, and One-Horned Python Demon King. 685 |
| Battle for the Pearl Island Chain | 685–714 | An Immortal Dynasty decapitation strike against the Azure Roc King failed when the Dragon Turtle King and One-Horned Python Demon King intervened. The resulting war escalated into a large-scale clash across the island chain and New Sea Commandery. 685 714 |
| Myriad Demon Mystic Realm conflict | 731–766 | The Demon Country contested entrances to the Beast Taming Sect's mystic realm and sought its demon-beast bloodline research. Within the realm, it became one of three major powers alongside the Immortal Dynasty and the native Demon Kings. 733 765 |
| Liu Peninsula defense | 907–915 | Demon clans established ten successive defensive lines through the Leopard Hills, with demon cities as fortified nodes. As the Immortal Dynasty advanced, the clans abandoned the layered defense and concentrated around Leopard Demon City. 907 |
| Collapse of the northern front | 1016–1028 | The True Spirit Heavenly Court began collapsing under the Human Way Heavenly Court. As Demon Race forces retreated, projections of the Demon Realm Underworld merged with the northern territory, producing Bone Mountains, seas of blood, corpse forests, and Ghost Domains. 1016 1027 |
| War of national destiny | 1294–1312 | The Demon Country launched a desperate national defense, using Demon Race and demonic-path methods, but the Human Emperor's campaign culminated in the country's fall and the partition of its remaining assets. 1294 1295 1312 |
Relationships
- Demon Emperor — Supreme ruler and central power of the Demon Country; unified its land-based demon clans and led its final struggle against the Human Emperor. 896 1307
- Azure Roc King — Commander of the East Sea invasion force and architect of the Pearl Island Chain garrison. 677 685
- Dragon Turtle King — Demon King who helped prevent the Azure Roc King's assassination; his relationship with the Demon Country was primarily cooperative. 685 896
- One-Horned Python Demon King — Sea-demon commander stationed in the waters around the Pearl Island Chain. 685
- Great Jin Immortal Dynasty — Irreconcilable enemy whose Human Way Destiny and territorial expansion threatened the Demon Country's continued existence. 687
- Demonic Path / Demon Realm Underworld — Separate but later allied force that supported the Demon Country's resistance and enabled the Demon Realm's descent during the final war. 992 1016 1307
- Beast Taming Sect — Historical enemy destroyed by the Demon Country; its surviving records remained strategically valuable for improving or restraining demon-beast bloodlines. 733 757