Demon Emperor

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Demon Emperor
Original Name	妖皇
Type	Sovereign title
Documented Holder	Daochen 223
Affiliation	Demon Race; later exercises supreme authority across the Primordial World 223 1066
Occupation/Role	Leader of the Demon Race, military commander, and protector of the Primordial World 223 976 1176
Recognition	Acclaimed by Bai Ze and the Greater Demons; recognized by the Heavenly Dao 223
Seat	Demon Emperor Palace in the Demon Realm 1201 1913
Status	Retained by Daochen throughout the supplied accounts; no successor is documented 1914
First Appearance	Discussed as a prospective role for Daochen 131; formally established with his accession 223

Power Progression

The title is distinct from a cultivation realm. This table records the documented advancement of its holder, Daochen.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Accession-linked cultivation breakthrough	223	The demons’ allegiance supplies a surge of worldly fortune, allowing Daochen to merge his Self Corpse and Evil Corpse and completely refine primordial purple qi. The Heavenly Dao recognizes him as Demon Emperor.
Peak Quasi-Saint	224	Confirmed immediately after his unwilling accession; his increased cultivation and fortune alarm rival powers.
Saint Realm, Eighth Heaven	1012	A previous breakthrough is recalled. His unusually solid foundations make advancing one heaven dozens of times harder than for others.
Saint Realm, Ninth Heaven	1066	Hongjun and the Lord of Fate congratulate him on reaching the ninth heaven.
Peak Saint Realm, Ninth Heaven	1130	Explicitly identified as his cultivation level; his aura reveals a widening gap between him and Hongjun or Fate.
Bloodline power enhancement	1171	Uses worms within his acupoints while fighting, rapidly strengthening his bloodline and bringing stamina recovery toward balance with expenditure. The worms could devour him if control fails.
Technological knowledge integration	1186	Completes a year of studying the Mechanical Universe. The text credits this knowledge with increasing his overall combat strength by far more than a thousandfold.
Approaching Ultimate Powerhouse	1329	Gains a substantial increase in strength while forging. Attendant 99 identifies him as one step away from becoming an Ultimate Powerhouse.
Ultimate Powerhouse breakthrough attempt	1365	A forging insight breaks his bottleneck and begins his push toward the realm. He moves into Chaos to keep the breakthrough’s tremors from damaging the Primordial World.
Invincible Momentum strengthened	1409	Repeatedly experiences the World Soul’s war memories, developing a more unyielding will through its Grand Momentum.
Heavenly Dao Realm, confirmed attained	1469	Uses Heavenly Dao Realm laws and will while attempting to forge an exclusive weapon. The supplied passages do not give the chapter of his initial entry.
Heavenly Dao Realm, Great Accomplishment	1514	Explicitly confirmed; he repairs his cells while glimpsing the path toward Perfection.
Weapon-independent understanding of Slash	1616	Immediately grasps that perfected Slash is not restricted to swords, sabers, or even weapons, and demonstrates the insight.
Heavenly Dao Realm, Perfection	1656	Compresses and reshapes the Six-Star Water Kingdom inside an acupoint. Its returning world power strengthens his body and transforms his spiritual, sage, and Heavenly Dao powers into world power.
Overlord combat classification	1708 1709	Applies for recognition after demonstrating strength far beyond his apparent Perfection Realm cultivation. Overlord measures combat strength, not cultivation.
Further world-power accumulation	1718 1751	Incorporates four additional Six-Star Worlds, then spends a century absorbing and compressing three Eight-Star Worlds.
Hongmeng Realm	1755	Absorbs thirty more Six-Star Worlds over a month, then completes and stabilizes his breakthrough in half a day. His body produces an endless stream of Hongmeng power.
Primordial God	1913 1914	Revealed to have broken through before returning to battle; afterward repairs his injuries and stabilizes the new realm.

Background / History

Hongjun’s Proposal

Hongjun initially presents the Demon Emperor’s position as a possible solution to Daochen’s difficult cultivation path. Leading the Demon Race would give him access to its fortune and an opportunity to attain the Dao. Hongjun’s underlying purpose is to place Daochen opposite the Witch Clan in the struggle for heaven and earth’s fortune 131.

Daochen openly fears dying in the coming Kalpa and says he does not want to lead the Demon Race or compete for dominion. He accepts Hongjun’s Azure Lotus Banner and primordial purple qi without committing to the proposed role 131.

Unwilling Accession

Bai Ze leads the surviving Greater Demons to the Sun Star, where they kneel and urge Daochen to become their emperor. Daochen initially ignores them and continues cultivating, but their allegiance produces the fortune surge that completes his breakthrough. The Heavenly Dao’s recognition makes the position effectively unavoidable 223.

The demons celebrate; Daochen responds with fury. He curses them and threatens them with the Heaven Measuring Ruler, driving them away. Dijun and Taiyi also avoid him because they know he never wanted the throne 224.

Consolidating the Demon Race

Early appointments include principal commanders, eastern and western emperors, and a Demon Master. These appointments meet no objection, but a subsequent declaration causes an uproar among the Greater Demons in the Hall of Ascending Heaven. Bai Ze and Fuxi are also startled by its sweeping effect; the supplied excerpt does not specify the declaration’s full terms 253.

By a later account, the entire Demon Race depends on Daochen, who has also nurtured Taiyi and Dijun. His followers consider him normally approachable and reasonable, yet obey even an unusually forceful arrangement whose purpose they do not understand 649.

Neglected Administration

Daochen eventually reduces his direct involvement in Demon Race affairs. When he discovers that a High Priest has reorganized the remaining population into an army, he realizes how little he knows about its newer leaders 877.

The Nine-Headed Serpent explains that, after the main army departed, the territory lacked top-level fighters and suffered harassment from other races. Daochen acknowledges that the vulnerable population had united to survive and privately judges himself an inadequate Demon Emperor 877.

Authority Beyond the Demon Race

Daochen’s military power gradually turns the title into a source of authority throughout the Primordial World. After his effortless defeat of powerful Saint Realm enemies, even Heavenly Dao Hongjun becomes cautious about acting without his permission 1066.

His responsibilities expand to moving and protecting the Six Realms. He severs the Netherworld Office’s connection to the Primordial World, with Hongjun assisting and Houtu attempting to restrain the Earthly Dao. He later brings the realms out of his Mustard Seed Space and plans a Hexagonal Star Formation using their origins to stabilize them in Chaos 1136 1176.

Authority & Governance

Sources of Legitimacy

• Demon Race allegiance: Bai Ze and the Greater Demons acclaim Daochen because they believe he can unite their scattered race and resist the Witch Clan 223.
• Heavenly Dao recognition: His accession receives recognition independent of his willingness to accept it 223.
• Racial fortune: Collective allegiance directly benefits his cultivation during accession 223.
• Personal supremacy: Later obedience rests heavily on Daochen’s own strength. No member of the Demon Race can contend with him, and his influence eventually extends beyond racial leadership 649 1066.

Rules and Policies

Policy	Terms and implementation
Protection of descendants	Powerful beings may compete, but must not target one another’s descendants or commit atrocities against their families. Daochen promises a fight to the death against anyone who attacks his own descendants; Hongjun pledges Heavenly Dao enforcement 1066.
Primordial World unity	Orders that the Primordial World’s interests come first and that threats to its unity may be eradicated 1160.
Six-Person Council supremacy	Requires the council to acknowledge the Demon Emperor and the Primordial World as supreme. The Primordial World receives half the resources and may requisition forces from member races 1536.
Withdrawal from the council	Accepts Dragon Demon’s refusal to remain and leaves the vacant seat open to approved races with strong potential 1537.
Military trials	Establishes weekly nonlethal trials against three captured Three-Star Worlds. Success brings status and opportunities; those who withdraw are still expected to support the Primordial World 1546.
Advancement through service	Makes promotion quotas contingent on military trials and rewards commanders according to captured origins. Campaigns beyond the Giant Hills are permitted, but provoking Five-Star Worlds is forbidden 1551.
Contribution points	Rewards submitted combat arts, formations, special items, and enemy kills 1628.
World-soul recognition	Swears that those recognized by the Primordial World’s soul may become its people and gain access to its core secrets 1914.

Cultivation and Military Development

• Saint army: Enhances 635 demons into Saint Realm experts, divides them into three balanced groups, and drills them against Resentment Aggregates. He conceals his intention to use their collected resentment cores for his own cultivation 976.
• Sage instruction: Guidance from the Demon Emperor helps the Sages reach the fifth heaven of the Saint Realm, with Laozi reaching the sixth 1093.
• Long-term potential: Rejects a quick-breakthrough method that could damage recruits’ future growth, distributing Chaos Demon God bloodline potions instead 1289.
• Shared energy: Releases his Energy Blocks and builds energy-concentrating formations, helping all two thousand trainees reach the Heavenly Dao Realm by the ninth year 1469.
• Personal Weapons: Distributes world origins and forges customized weapons to strengthen promising fighters, though production cannot keep pace with the number of experts 1546 1641.
• Technology: Purchases a Combat Core Brain production line and later invests in super-soldier and armored-machine production for inhabitants of the worlds within his body 1581 1811.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Witch–Demon Conflict

• Hongjun intends the office to draw Daochen into opposition against the Witch Clan 131.
• Daochen’s accession strengthens the Demon Race and alarms Xuanming, who fears that he will become its champion against the witches 223 224.
• Xuanming directly challenges him over whether his new position means he will avenge the Greater Demons she has killed 224.

Defense and Migration of the Primordial World

• Fate identifies Daochen as the Primordial World’s strongest being and plans to provoke him through the Human Race and other people he values 888.
• Daochen cooperates with Hongjun and Fate against Heavenly Dao Kun and Coolwater Fish, recognizing that their cultivation futures depend on the world’s survival 1012.
• He prioritizes survival despite the energy cost of a grand defensive formation, relocates the Six Realms, and later stages an attack to test Fuxi’s defenses 1176 1197.
• During a later invasion, he refuses to let danger enter the Primordial World and confronts the Barbarian Emperor outside its barrier 1563.

Contestants and the Black-Robed Armies

• Attendant 99 reveals that fusion offers power at the possible cost of identity and freedom. Daochen begins questioning an advancement system that could make him another being’s servant 1281.
• He commands collective hunts, promises future point shares, and uses the campaign to train Quasi-Saint recruits 1288.
• The Primordial World’s fighters gather a billion points to obtain a Heavenly Dao-Class Weapon for him, treating his combat strength as essential to their survival 1313.
• He later uses the Kindling-bearing army and his weapons to seize points and Replication Crystals, even at the expense of relations with Pan King Zhou 1346 1347.

Interworld Expansion

• Establishes the Six-Person Council and brings Three-Star Worlds under protection-and-tribute arrangements 1536 1537.
• Forms a lasting military partnership with the Heavenly Dao Saint King, assisting the Sacred Light Clan and negotiating resources and Sacred Light Blessings in return 1535 1550.
• Captures weakened Five-Star Worlds and preserves them as resource worlds rather than merely taking their origins 1585.
• Becomes the first ruler of a Five-Star World publicly recognized as an Overlord, according to Qingpingzi’s announcement 1721.

Shadows and the Eternals

• Learns that the Soul Devourers are controlled victims rather than the ultimate enemy. His world power can destroy shadow particles, but doing so consumes that power 1692.
• Leaves a doppelganger to cleanse shadow contamination while pursuing higher-level battlefield opportunities 1707.
• Conceals his ability to kill Super Overlords while coordinating evacuation and defense with Qingpingzi 1729.
• After imprisonment and torture by three Eternals, breaks free of a Nine-Star World’s suppression, kills Enge, and returns toward the Primordial World 1743 1744.

Imperial Pressure and Independence

• Treats the Angel and Abyss Empires as eventual threats to the Primordial World’s autonomy, preferring alliances that do not permit its absorption 1789.
• Rejects Angel Empire vassalage after learning it would demand 80 percent of annual resources while offering little meaningful protection 1804.
• Considers an independent coalition with races such as the Wisdom, Ant, and Xenomorph Races, while requiring old allies to make their loyalties clear 1804.
• Returns as a newly advanced Primordial God when the Primordial World’s spirit borrows his body to confront Angel Chief Allen. The borrowed power exceeds that of a Grand Ancestor God, but consumes more than half the world’s origin and injures Daochen 1913.

Relationships

• Bai Ze — Leads the Greater Demons’ petition for Daochen’s accession; later becomes the first demon in the reported group to reach Perfection 223 1641.
• Hongjun — Promotes the original proposal, welcomes the accession, and later supports Daochen’s world-wide rules and realm-separation plans 131 223 1066 1136.
• Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi — Nurtured by Daochen and dependent on his leadership; initially avoid his anger after the unwanted accession 224 649.
• Human Sovereign Fuxi — Brother-in-law, formation specialist, and principal defensive commander. Helps rescue Daochen during the Thunder Overlord battle and leads preparations for the Primordial World’s defense 1176 1333 1334 1571.
• Lord of Fate — Rival and manipulator who uses Daochen’s family and responsibilities as leverage; later accepts his rules and cooperates in defending the world 888 965 1012 1066.
• Little Demon Emperor / Attendant 99 — A separate being who serves as Daochen’s attendant, adviser, and partner in seeking freedom from higher control; not a documented successor to the title 1281 1334.
• Heavenly Dao Saint King — Combat ally and practical adviser; supports Daochen in battles, resource management, and negotiations 1535 1550 1584 1585.
• Fire Barbarian King — Develops into a firmly committed ally whose clear loyalty contrasts with the later ambiguity of the Fortune Clan and Clearwater Way 1721 1751 1804.

Notable Quotes

“I have my own principles for how to act as Demon Emperor. I don't need you to teach me.” 877

“The entire Primordial World must be one unified whole. Anyone who poses a threat may be eradicated.” 1160

“I won't let danger enter my world.” 1563

“I would rather fall on the road forward than give up halfway.” 1585