The Great Demon King Is Back

[No angst, not a tragedy. The shou is the master, the gong never hurt him, and the shou never wiped out the gong. There are no misunderstandings between them, and their feelings are mutual.] Pei Jin listens to someone tell a story from three hundred years ago, a story about events that took place three hundred years ago. In it, Shen Wei, the young master of Pengshan Island, returns from his training with two orphans, whom he takes in as disciples. Both are exceptionally gifted. Later, one grows into an upright sword cultivator who stands tall for the righteous path, while the other willingly falls into depravity, descends into the Demon Realm, and becomes a great demon. The great demon joins forces with the demon race to destroy their sect, stabs his senior brother He Gu, who had treated him like a younger brother, and cripples his master's cultivation. He imprisons Shen Wei in the Demon Realm, where demonic creatures are left to gnaw on his spiritual bones and marrow for three years... The storyteller condemns the great demon for betraying his master and ancestors, calling him worse than an animal. Fortunately, the great demon is wiped out by the righteous cultivators led by his master and senior brother. He is reduced to ashes, not even a scrap left behind. Oh, right. That great demon is also named Pei Jin. It's a fascinating story, but Pei Jin feels uneasy. If his memories are right, he might just be the great demon the storyteller says everyone should kill. He clearly died, yet somehow he's back, in the Shen family, which was rebuilt thirty years ago. Now he's a naturally dim-witted little boy with no spiritual awareness. His once-gentle, refined senior brother has become Lord Qingling, a taciturn man who can cleave him into scraps with a single sword strike. And the master whose cultivation he crippled and left to be gnawed on by demonic creatures for three years has become an awe-inspiring figure whom everyone reveres. The reborn great demon Pei Jin is in an awkward position. Maybe he should sneak away and hide for a while? But before Pei Jin can escape, Shen Wei, freshly emerged from seclusion, points at him from afar and makes him his disciple once more. Pei Jin: "..." After becoming Shen Wei's personal disciple, Pei Jin finds the storyteller and tells him the story is wrong. The storyteller asks what part is wrong. Pei Jin thinks it over. Probably all of it. For example, Shen Wei never ground his bones to dust, and he never let demonic creatures gnaw on Shen Wei. He did the gnawing himself, with his own mouth. He has no idea why later generations made it sound like that. Theme: Even when you're hurt, keep reaching for the light