Demon Emperor Who Destroys the World

Demon Emperor Who Destroys the World is a long fantasy web novel by the online author Silent Pastry, serialized on Qidian from February 17, 2016 to January 6, 2022, totaling 1,128 chapters and about 4.49 million characters. Set on a continent where human nations and demon clans coexist, it builds a two-track martial hierarchy: human "dragon warriors" and demon "sub-kings." The protagonist, Lan Ling, is a third-year art student at a key university on Earth. To confess his love to his adopted sister Lan Kou, who has sunk into depression after being disfigured, he is photographing a meteor shower when a meteor called the "Demon Star" strikes him and sends him to another world. Because he closely resembles Solen, the young lord of Tianshui City, he is rescued by a female warrior of the Suo family and agrees to impersonate him, taking on a tottering family, a territory of five hundred li, and astronomical debts. Bearing the Demon Star, Lan Ling can directly devour others' cultivation and make it his own, and the mission he carries in this other world turns out to be "destroying the world." The story revolves around the power struggle between the Central Empire and the four kingdoms of Dongli, Nulang, Xiliang, and Beifeng, interwoven with territorial contests, family revival, clashes among the Divine Dragon Temple and demon forces, and multiple romantic threads. Starting as a fake lord of Tianshui, Lan Ling passes through identities including the queen's husband and king of the wildlands, ultimately rising to "Demon Emperor Who Destroys the World" and "King of the World." Built on leveling up, face-slapping, and reshuffling of powers, the book moves at a brisk pace and is a typical male-oriented cultivation power-fantasy epic set in another world.