The Demon God

The Demon God is an Eastern fantasy novel by the web author Wo Chou Dao Ling Hun Shen Chu ("I'm Ugly to the Depths of My Soul"). Serialized on Qidian from 2013 and completed in 2016, it runs about 2.94 million characters. The story begins with the transmigration of the youth Xiao Han into a world where humans and demons have long stood opposed. Low in status, he is first used by his sect as a live target for practice and may die at any moment. During a demon-subduing incident, the dying remnant soul of a demon enters his body, granting him recovery powers far beyond ordinary people and turning the drudgery of being beaten into a method of cultivation: by day he takes blows to temper his body, by night he practices the incomplete art The Divine Art of Taking a Beating, and through a mutation of his heart he awakens the Undying Golden Body, setting out on a path where he meets force with force and grows stronger with every setback. Starting as an outer disciple of the Yunyu Sect, he rises among his peers through foundations such as bone-bursting and body-refining, then hunts demons and refines demon-emperor crystals, breaking through realm after realm. He defeats strong opponents in succession at the demon-hero trials, and after entering the demon capital he moves among the various demon emperors as the Silver-Masked Demon Emperor, gradually uncovering a conspiracy to mass-produce demon emperors and endanger both worlds. The main thread is a lowly survivor's climb to the summit of power, while also bringing out the fated conflict between humans and demons and the choice of an ending. As an early representative of the "cultivation through being beaten" and "undying cockroach" strains of Eastern fantasy, it moves fast and delivers frequent catharsis, suited to readers who enjoy hot-blooded comebacks.