The Demon Gods Scripture was itself the equivalent of a Magic Treasure, refined by its original master through an extraordinarily powerful art of the Demonic Path.
Its contents taught cultivators to refine their primordial Gods into life-bound Gods-demons—in other words, to cultivate themselves into beings akin to celestial demons. This was the orthodox Demonic Path.
But whenever someone perfected his life-bound god-demon and slaughtered foes on all sides, he would be drawn into the scripture. Its previous master would gain a replacement to preside over the Demon Scripture in his stead, freeing himself to ascend to the Demon Domain in another world.
Yet the Demon Scripture had tribulations of its own. The Demon Head within it was the previous generation's practitioner. Sensing that someone would destroy the Demon Scripture several decades later, and that its destruction would scatter his soul as well, he brought Wu Lingzhu under his control, sealed his primordial spirit, and forced him to work for him.
Wu Lingzhu had always followed an evil, demonic path himself. He had already suspected that a Gods-demon presided within the Demon Scripture, and that cultivating it would make him one of the demon Sons and grandsons, enslaved for eternity. When he first encountered it, he had not dared practice it.
But his own tribulation was upon him. Unless he cultivated the Demon Scripture, his body and spirit would be annihilated immediately. He could only steel himself and return to practice it, becoming the Demon Scripture's slave.
The god-demon within the scripture told him to find two more cultivators with powerful magic to practice alongside him. They would first cultivate the Demon Scripture's arts and perfect their life-bound god-demons, then jointly refine the three Mystic-Demon Shuttles.
The All-Heavens Star Mystic-Demon Seven-Jue Black Shuttle was the foremost nuclear-grade Magic Treasure in the