Ancestor of All Demons

Ancestor of All Demons is a long xianxia novel by the web author Lonely Drifter, serialized from about 2010 and completed in 2012, with a total length of more than four million characters. It is one of the representative early works of the reborn-as-a-demon and demon-clan-rising genre. The story opens with the protagonist, a human in his past life, reborn as a mutant black tiger in Tiger Mountain, commonly called Black Tiger by readers, struggling to survive under the law of the jungle. Because his mother and sister, both gifted tiger demons, are coveted by cultivators, the destruction of his family teaches him the sorrow of a demon clan born to be stepping stones. He then finds his way onto the path of demon cultivation, holding to the belief that demons are not meant to be slaughtered at will, and resolves to overturn the world in which demons are hunted and their cores taken. He cultivates the power of the seven emotions and six desires, forges the Tiger Soul Blade, wields the Zuiqin of Seven Sins, gathers scattered demons starting from a remote valley, divides human factions by strategy, and gradually assembles the remnants of the demon race, building a mobile divine city, opening a small world, training dao soldiers, and finally rebuilding the ancient demon court with demons at its core and all living beings as auxiliaries. He calls himself Ancestor of All Demons and stands as an equal to the human race. The world is vast, with cultivation systems running alongside the human race, the demon race and chaos gods and demons; treasures, forbidden lands, ancient tombs and divine cities are densely packed, and the later scenes are expansive. It is an old favorite often recommended to readers who enjoy nonhuman cultivation and faction-building narratives.