"The Heavenly Dao's desires were reincarnated as a demon embryo. He could have lived out his life in peace, but his mother's suffering and death awakened the baleful aura and demonic power within him. And so, he became a demon."
"He was a demon embryo to begin with, so becoming the Demon God was hardly surprising. Even then, we couldn't rashly act against him. But once he slaughtered a Mortal Emperor, he would be suppressed by the Heavenly Dao. Only by joining forces with that suppression was I able to subdue him."
As the Patriarch of the Mystic Sect spoke, he rose and floated around in a circle. Looking at his own body, he said, "He and I perished together. Otherwise, I wouldn't have ended up like this."
Looking back now, it had been quite thrilling.
If reality had not forced Shen Chuanlian to become a demon back then, perhaps the Heavenly Dao's desires would have been sent into reincarnation again and again. As long as each successive demon embryo lived out his life peacefully, those desires could never return to the Heavenly Dao and affect the greater course of the mortal world.
Yet, for some unknown reason, when everything had been going perfectly well, the entire population of Southern Yue had suddenly become filled with malice toward the demon embryo's mother in the year before he was conceived.
It was as though everyone in the world had turned wicked in an instant, especially the King of Southern Yue, who had drunkenly barged into the Princess's room that year.
The Patriarch of the Mystic Sect had originally known nothing of any of this.
When he first appeared, all he knew was that the Demon God was massacring a city. The Heavenly Dao had summoned him to uphold justice, and he