Negative plane,
Primordial universe.
This is a vast and boundless continent. On this ancient land, a brilliant and powerful demon civilization has emerged.
At the beginning of this universe's birth, the Four Supreme Deities established the rules for this world.
Time, space, matter, and energy.
Everything in the world can be categorized into these four types.
The deity of space was the most immense, bringing the infinite expanse of the negative plane and providing a place for life to be born.
The deity of matter was the most benevolent, with billions of materials forming this world and giving rise to life.
The deity of energy was the most powerful, its existence allowing life to continue and grow stronger.
The deity of time was the most profound. No matter how hard, it could not withstand the erosion of time, and no matter how powerful, life could not escape its passage. It made people stronger, but also caused them to age and die.
The Four Deities laid the fundamental rules of this world.
However, the Deities had no consciousness or emotions. They were like tireless machines, controlling everything in the world.
The Four Deities were further subdivided into many forms.
Time was mysterious, and very few could comprehend the Great Dao of Time to this day.
The laws of space were utilized by demons in many Taoist methods.
Matter itself could be divided into billions of forms.
The deity of energy was simpler, divided into seven types.
Gold, wood, water, fire, earth, lightning, and wind.
When the first life appeared, the first humanoid creature was born, and the world became a little different.
They multiplied and thrived on this continent, their numbers growing, and they became increasingly powerful. They began to cultivate, creating various methods of cultivation.
Later, to distinguish themselves from other species, these humanoid creatures created a title for themselves and invented the first character.
Demon.
Unlike the positive plane, demons had their own way of cultivation.
The positive plane cultivated Qi, while the negative plane cultivated the body.
The positive plane comprehended the Great Dao, while the negative plane cultivated inner demons.
Everywhere, the cultivation world was a dark law of the fittest, survival of the fittest.
In the positive plane, there were constant incidents of murder and robbery, the seizure of cultivation resources, or the annexation of one faction by another.
But these laws were even more brutal in the negative plane.
Cannibalism was not a mere saying here. From the moment demons were born, they had a tradition of the victors eating the vanquished after tribal wars.
Eating the flesh of their own kind could enhance their physical strength and allow them to break through realms and become more powerful.
Later, the demons gradually developed civilization, their tribes evolving into families and nations, but the tradition of the victors consuming the vanquished remained eternal.
This cultivated the race's disposition of being brave, fearless, and extremely cruel.
Later, many powerful beings gradually emerged among the demons.
They began to question the existence of the gods they worshipped.
Finally, the first and most powerful demon appeared. He was incredibly strong, invincible, and arrogant. He disdained everything, including the gods.
He believed that as the most powerful demon, he should be the true god.
Finally, he found his inner demon and his own attribute within the supreme laws.
He was the demon of pride, a powerful being of the earth attribute.
He found the supreme divinity.
It was then that he realized that in this world, there were space, time, matter, and energy.
And among energy, there were seven great categories.
These were all authorities, all rules. In the common language of demons, they were the gods they worshipped and revered.
On that day, this demon learned that the so-called gods were merely entities without consciousness, mere wills that manipulated everything in the world without emotion. They were like stones on the ground, like the earth in the fields, like the gales that swept through.
Without any emotion or thought.
So these were the things they had always revered.
On that day, this demon laughed for an entire day.
He laughed at himself and at the ignorant demons.
After laughing, his ambition also began to swell. Since the gods had no thoughts, could I not become a god and replace them?
This thought, like his inner demon of pride, occupied his mind.
He began to try one by one, attempting to seize divinity and become a god.
He tried to seize time, but failed.
He tried to seize space, but also failed.
He attempted to seize the will of matter, but still failed.
Finally, he tried to seize the will of the deity of energy, only to find that he only resonated with the earth attribute.
Thus, he became the first sentient and conscious god of the negative plane demons. He possessed the divinity of the earth attribute and created a supreme realm for the demons.
Demon Venerable.
The Demon Venerable of Pride.
Where there is one, there are two. Other powerful demons, seeing the success of Pride, also followed suit, wanting to become new gods.
Like the attributes of energy, the inner demons cultivated by demons were also divided into seven types, corresponding to the Seven Deadly Sins.
Pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust.
A demon who cultivated the inner demon of wrath, that short-tempered fellow, the most ill-tempered demon, that powerhouse of the fire attribute, seized the divinity of fire and became the Demon Venerable of Wrath.
The Demon Venerable of Pride did not stop these events.
He was the most powerful and the most arrogant. His pride made him unafraid of others becoming powerful, as even if they became Demon Venerables, they would still not be as strong as him.
Later, the third Demon Venerable, the Demon Venerable of Sloth of the wood attribute, appeared.
No one knew how that lazy, fat fellow managed to become a god.
Many years later, the fourth Demon Venerable, the Demon Venerable of Greed of the water attribute, also appeared.
This fellow was the most greedy, possessed the strongest possessiveness, and harbored the greatest ambition. He cultivated to the Demon Emperor realm with resources he plundered, then seized the divinity of the water attribute, comprehended the inner demon of greed, and became the Demon Venerable of Greed.
After the appearance of the Demon Venerable of Greed, his possessiveness and ambition did not diminish at all. He was not satisfied with the status quo and began to wage war.
He fought with other Demon Venerables, and his subordinates plundered the subordinates of other Demon Venerables.
When there were originally only three Demon Venerables, everything was fine.
The Demon Venerable of Pride was arrogant and looked down on others, naturally not plundering them, content to mind his own business.
The Demon Venerable of Wrath was ill-tempered and often flew into a rage over disputes among his subordinates, but these were all minor scuffles, and his ambitions were not great.
The Demon Venerable of Sloth... needless to say, it was difficult to even get him to move.
In a world of Demon Venerables that was originally very serene, the Demon Venerable of Greed suddenly appeared.