Demon

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Demon; collectively, Demons
Original Name	异魔
Species/Race	Descendants of ancient otherworldly celestial demons; their ranks also include transformed humans 128 169 170.
Affiliation	Demon faction; supported by the Mandala Society 137 239.
Progenitor / Ruler	Hades, the Demon God and king of the Abyss 239.
Occupation/Role	Invaders of the human world and enemies of humanity 1 133.
First Appearance	Surround Qi Wu on the battlefield in his previous life 1.

Power Progression

The following milestones concern individual Demons and demonized humans, rather than a shared advancement timeline for the entire race.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Genuine Awakener — Xiao Jue	128	The Blind Swordsman is revealed as a true Awakener. Formerly a leading 749 Bureau swordsman, he became a Demon ten years earlier to pursue greater strength.
Demigod and complete demonization — Di Tian	238	Absorbs the Human Emperor’s immortal power. The Four Fiends Formation completes his transformation, producing black bone wings and scarlet eyes.
Peak-Awakening Deep-Sea Demon — Drake	242 243	The former Skyhawk Awakener retains his original abilities and gains demonic reinforcement, exceeding an ordinary peak-Awakening fighter in combat strength.
Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation — Di Tian	294	Manifests a dark-red colossal body incorporating Taotie, Qiongqi, Hundun, and Taowu. His attainment is tied to the sacrifice of hundreds of millions of people.

Background / History

Ancient Origins

During the Mythological Era, the Divine Land’s cultivators fought invading Outer Heavenly Demons for 300 years. They eventually sealed the passage and imprisoned surviving invaders, but the devastation ended the era. Modern Demons descend from those ancient enemies 169.

The renewed invasion continues a conflict dating back ten thousand years. As the old seals weaken, the descendants of the suppressed celestial demons return to threaten humanity 170.

Qi Wu’s Previous Timeline

In Qi Wu’s original timeline, the first great Demon Tide began humanity’s prolonged retreat. Border defenses were breached, Psychic forces suffered enormous casualties, and several border cities were devastated. Great Xia’s eighteen defensive lines subsequently fell over roughly a decade 1 133.

Qi Wu ultimately held off Demons to cover a routed force’s retreat. More than a hundred surrounded him before mysterious black lightning reduced him and his enemies to ash, preceding his return to the past 1.

Renewed Invasion

In the changed timeline, the Spiritual Energy Revival triggers enormous Demon Tides across every border, with three Northern Border outposts falling immediately. The Eight-Armed Celestial Corpse King commands one assault with support from the Mandala Society 132 137.

The invasion of the Imperial Capital combines Demon armies, teleportation cores, foreign military intervention, and internal betrayal. Giant Demons carry the Four Fiends’ remnant souls; defeating these hosts allows the souls to return to the formation, advancing the enemy’s summoning ritual 197 198 217 235 236.

Di Tian’s demonization and the Human Emperor’s death complete the vessel required by the scheme. Hades then manifests above the capital, forcing Qi Wu to evacuate its surviving population rather than continue an unwinnable confrontation 238 239 240. Later revelations establish that Hades’s full descent remains blocked by an incompletely opened gateway, with Blue Star serving as one of its keys 258.

Demonic Occupation and Counteroffensive

The occupied Imperial Capital becomes covered in flesh-like vines and organ-like streets. Demon legions transport corpses and feed the Four Fiends Formation, while Di Tian uses humanity’s slaughter to prepare Hades’s full arrival 273.

The Demons pursue the fleeing population with transformed Skyhawk troops, skeletal armies, and Di Tian’s own forces. Great Xia, the Northern Plains, and Europa unite against them; the Northern Expedition later breaches the capital’s outer defenses 242 244 246 280. The conflict eventually reaches a direct God-Level battle between Qi Wu and Hades at Kunlun 301 302.

Appearance

Demons have no single documented body type: their forms range from enormous animals to humanoids, ghosts, and shapeless mist 10 21 56 197 224.

• Animal forms: Examples include tiger-shaped and beastman Demons, the giant Shadow Lizard, and a bear-shaped Demon over ten meters tall 1 10 229.
• Humanoid features: The Yellow Weasel stands upright and wears a tattered Taoist robe; a flying birdman Demon wears a trench coat and carries a rifle 21 224.
• Unstable bodies: A black-mist Demon alternates between humanoid and serpentine shapes, with blood-red eyes visible within the mist 197.
• Colossal forms: The Three-Headed Demon Wolf resembles a moving hill, with dark-red fur, eerie markings, and six lava-like eyes 40.
• Ancient monstrosities: The Devouring Heaven Demon Beast bears human faces across its scales and an exposed heart containing a rune-covered scroll 166.

Abilities & Skills

Demonic Energy and Individual Techniques

Demons possess detectable spiritual or demonic energy, but their techniques differ substantially between individuals 10 196 302.

• Powers include flame, frost, lightning, curses, devouring, mental contamination, and spatial rupture 302.
• Demonization can preserve a human’s original abilities while strengthening them with demonic energy, as demonstrated by Drake’s Ocean Law 243.
• Concealed demonic energy can reveal infiltrators to sufficiently strong perception abilities, including Qi Wu’s Divine Six Eyes 196 197.

Regeneration and Survival

Several Demons exhibit rapid regeneration, though their healing is not universally unlimited 76 128 167 243.

• Shadow Lizards possess Last-Ditch Survival, increasing their combat power as they approach death 10.
• Drake restores a massive chest wound within seconds 243.
• The Thousand-Hand Buddha Mother’s apparently infinite regeneration depends on finite divine energy from Sacred Embryo remnants 76.
• Regeneration and multiple bodies cannot save the escaping prison Demons from Qi Wu’s all-consuming domain fire 128.

Awakening and Rule-Based Power

Awakening elevates an ability beyond an ordinary external force toward rules or concepts. Further development can approach the level of gods 76.

• False Awakeners have begun touching rule-based power; both humans and Demons of this level are imprisoned from the Abyssal Grand Prison’s thirteenth floor onward 115.
• Awakening-class Demons are also called Demon King-class Demons 137.
• Hopelessness wields despair-based power associated with victims—and even its companions—taking their own lives 119.
• The Eight-Armed Celestial Corpse King uses law-imbued weapons capable of injuring Qi Wu 139.

Devouring and Ability Acquisition

Devouring is especially significant to certain powerful Demons, but is not established as an identical ability possessed by every member.

• Xiao Jue claims Demons can grow without limit through devouring and killing; this is his justification for abandoning humanity 128.
• The Devouring Heaven Demon Beast immediately copies attacks it experiences, including Blue, Red, World-Cutting Slash, and the Destruction Law 167.
• Its copying and devouring originate from the divine scroll embedded in its chest. A combined attack exceeding its capacity ejects the scroll and destroys it 168.

Hades’s Authority

Hades can wield every Demon’s abilities because their power is part of him 301.

• He unleashes familiar Demon techniques at vastly greater strength and possesses nearly inexhaustible spiritual reserves 302.
• Endbringer imposes an ending on whatever it touches, rather than functioning as an ordinary technique or law 304.
• His Endbringer Demon Blade can erase portions of space and fragment into countless changing weapons 306.

Infrastructure and Containment

• Teleportation cores — Connect the human world to another world. Demons can continue arriving as long as a core remains intact 143.
• Four Fiends Formation — Uses the remnant souls of Taotie, Qiongqi, Hundun, and Taowu within the scheme to summon Hades; later receives power from human sacrifices 235 239 273.
• Ten Thousand Demons Return to the Void Formation — A defensive barrier supported by four guarded nodes, ultimately dismantled by Qi Wu’s allies 287 289 290.
• Abyssal Grand Prison — The 749 Bureau’s containment facility for powerful Demons. Its Demon cells occupy the Taboo Prison, separate from the human Forbidden Prison on each floor 4 115.
• Demon God Curse Mark — Jiang Qingyue’s mark confines and suppresses Demons, granting its bearer some abilities of successfully imprisoned targets 23 60.

Notable Demons

Demon	Distinguishing Features	Documented Outcome
Gluttony Lord	Fifth-tier Demon using tentacles and corrosive acid 2 3.	Killed by Qi Wu’s Blue 3.
Shadow Lizard	Giant lizard with Last-Ditch Survival 10.	Destroyed by Qi Wu’s teleportation-driven impact 10.
Yellow Weasel	Seeks a Sealing Blessing; uses disorienting mist and earth spikes 21 22.	Transformed into an animal-eared blonde girl and subdued for capture through Jiang Qingyue’s curse mark 23.
Three-Headed Demon Wolf / Hellhound	Eighth-rank divine servant 40 44.	Confined within Jiang Qingyue’s curse mark 44.
Red-Clothed Female Ghost	Eighth-rank aberrant Demon with mental contamination and ghost-domain abilities 51 60.	Permanently sealed within Jiang Qingyue’s curse mark 60.
Hopelessness	Despair-based Demon with a core born of despair 119 121.	Core shattered inside Malevolent Shrine 121.
Eight-Armed Celestial Corpse King	Demon King-class commander wielding eight different weapons 137.	Slain by Qi Wu 140.
Devouring Heaven Demon Beast	Copies and devours experienced abilities through a divine treasure 167 168.	Destroyed by Qi Wu and Mahoraga 168.
Drake	Demonized Skyhawk commander wielding Ocean Law 242 243.	Killed by Qi Wu’s divine Demon-Slaying strike 243.
Hades	Demon progenitor, Abyss ruler, and source of the race’s powers 239 301.	Fights Qi Wu directly at Kunlun 300 306 307.

Relationships

• Hades — Worshipped as the Demons’ god and identified as their progenitor 239.
• Mandala Society — Supports the invasion through intelligence, experiments, infiltration, and summoning rituals. Most members are human Psychics who willingly underwent Demon transformation 137 198 239.
• Qi Wu — Their principal human opponent and the prophesied Child of Destiny, expected to help humanity defeat them 179 257.
• Human Emperor — Resisted the Demons for ten thousand years and rejected surrender despite Di Tian’s arguments 179 213.
• Di Tian — Becomes a fully demonized vessel, submits to Hades, and commands forces pursuing humanity’s survivors 238 239 246.
• Anti-Demon Alliance — Great Xia, the Northern Plains, and Europa formally unite against the invasion 246.

Notable Quotes

“Their power. Was always part of me. So. What you face. Isn’t a single Demon. But all Demons.”
— Hades, explaining his command of the race’s abilities 301.