After the Devil Race failed in the Heaven-Slaying Campaign, the Heavenly Court joined forces with the Ten Thousand Clans to deal them another devastating blow. With their leader, the Heavenly Demon Beast, slain, they fractured into scattered factions.
The devils were a host without a head!
Some, like Dream Demon, had sought refuge with Gungun. Others, like Bright Demon Beast, hid away, not daring to show their faces. Then there were those like Bali of Free Heaven, who clearly belonged to the Asura Race but called themselves devil kings because Asura doctrine had inherited the teachings of the Demon Teaching. In short, there were all sorts of devils, and their organization was utterly chaotic.
Among them, three devils possessed exceptionally formidable strength and were universally acknowledged as the "Three Great Giants of the Demon Realm": Dream Demon, Blood Demon, formed from Gungun's divided soul, and Dragon Demon, formed from Ao Yue's divided soul.
All three possessed cultivation comparable to a one-corpse quasi-saint. And because the Demon Dao was vicious and its practitioners struck without mercy, they generally proved somewhat stronger than ordinary one-corpse quasi-saints in an actual fight.
The beings of the Primordial World generally believed that, among the current followers of the Demon Dao, Bright Demon Beast was stronger than the Three Great Giants, while the Three Great Giants were stronger than the Asura Religion's Four Devil Kings. But since the Asura Religion was also known as the Lesser Vehicle Demon Teaching, the most powerful devil in the Primordial World was currently the Minghe Sect Leader!
River Styx did not belong to the Devil Race, but calling him the most powerful devil hardly did him an injustice.
And now, with the Asura Religion grievously weakened by this defeat, the time had come for the giants of the Demon Realm