The Century-Long Pact Is Broken: Using Japanese Devils to Refine the Soul Banner

A hundred years ago, the Seventy-Two Immortal Sects, the Eight Clans of Daxia, the Sixteen Kingdoms, and the Dragon Clan jointly forged a pact for a century. From then on, the world laid down its arms, and nonhumans went into hiding. Plants, trees, birds, and beasts could not gain sentience, while ghosts, demons, and cultivators could not appear in the mortal realm.

Human civilization surged ahead in peace, yet no one knew that behind this tranquility lay the blood, tears, and silence of countless other beings sealed away.

The century-long pact began to crumble ahead of schedule because humans repeatedly crossed its boundaries and violated its taboos.

Gu Changqing, the leader of the Demon Cult, was also one of those who had forged the pact.

For a hundred years, he had lived hidden among ordinary people, building the trillion-dollar New God Group with his own hands. On the surface, he was the king of a business empire. In secret, he watched coldly as the pact slowly rotted away.

On the eve of the pact's dissolution, a Transcendent elder from Bureau 749 came to see him in the dead of night, hoping to persuade him to join forces, forge a new pact, and bind heaven and earth once more.

Gu Changqing only smiled faintly.

"Forge another pact for a hundred years? Why?"

"For this entire century, this is the day we have been waiting for."

"When the pact is dissolved..."

"I will head east, and with the billions of souls of the ghostly dead... make the day I offer them up anew to this Ancestral Demon Soul-Refining Banner, silent for a hundred years, a reality."

When the Dragon Clan tore up the century-long pact once and for all, heaven and earth underwent a great upheaval. Demons and monsters emerged, the oceans churned in fury, and endless sea demons rose and sank beneath the waves.

An age of cultivation, a brutal age, had begun.

(The setting of this book is entirely fictional.)