"Sword Fiend was once a disciple of the True Martial Great Emperor. Beguiled by the Demon Abyss, his disposition changed drastically, and slaughter became his nature."
"When he broke through to the Transformation Realm, he drew Otherworldly Heavenly Demons that filled the sky to welcome him."
"Many Archives from the time of the Five Emperors recorded that several Demon Abysses declared that, so long as Sword Fiend agreed to submit, they would each offer him the most powerful Demon Seed in their respective Demon Abyss."
"And open their Blood Pools for his use."
"There were even rumors that Sword Fiend, a natural-born Demon Seed of the mortal world, would become a Demon Emperor in three years after entering the demonic path, and a Demon Emperor in thirty."
"After three hundred years, he would share life and prosperity with the Primordial Lord of the Demon Abyss he belonged to."
"And so a saying circulated at the time: the day Sword Fiend enters the demonic path would be the day the Human Race of the Shangqing Realm was utterly destroyed."
On the Sword Platform, Guangling Pavilion's Pavilion Master, Mu Zhixing, explained this to Mu Yun and Mu Yuchen beside him with an extremely grave expression after getting a clear look at the figure that had just appeared beneath the Demon Mother’s Edict.
Not far away, the Mysterious Female True Lord also spoke with a dark expression:
"Now it seems those rumors back then were no exaggeration on the Demon Abyss's part."
And just as he spoke-
Beneath the edict, the Demon Emperor Sword Fiend merely shook his sleeves slightly, and it was as though a Fierce Beast that had slumbered for a thousand years had awakened. Violent fluctuations of aura surged from his entire body like a towering tidal wave, instantly engulfing