If you were to ask which novel is currently the most popular, the answer would undoubtedly be "The Supreme God and Demon".
The novel creates a magnificent world, continuing the usual formula of cultivation novels, but with some differences. Let's start with a brief synopsis—
Demons cultivate by relying on resentment, while gods cultivate by relying on spiritual energy. Resentment can corrode and devour, signifying depravity; while spiritual energy is sacred and pure, capable of redeeming people's hearts.
Those who walk different paths cannot make plans together. The two races used the Wangdu Sea as the boundary, dividing the God and Demon Continent in two, and standing on equal footing.
For millennia, the two races have developed independently, resulting in numerous factions. The Demon Race is led by the Demon Sect, while the God Race is led by the Divine Realm.
Cultivators in the God and Demon Continent are divided into ten realms, each further divided into initial, intermediate, and advanced stages. The higher the realm, the stronger the cultivator.
Not everyone has the talent for cultivation; there are also ordinary people in this world.
Of course, there are definitely cultivators among the common people; even commoners without talent can give birth to talented children.
Talented children are sent to their respective gangs for training, and if they are lucky, they can become famous overnight and soar to great heights.
Therefore, ordinary people all hoped that their children would have high talent and be chosen by gang members to take on important responsibilities, so that when one person achieves success, even their chickens and dogs can rise to prominence.
This story begins in the civilian district of a remote demon clan.
The incident began when the current head of the Demonic Sect and the head of the Divine Realm secretly pledged their lives to each other, leaving behind a child with the physiques of both the divine and demonic races before disappearing.
The protagonist of the story is this child.
Because the gods and demons have always been enemies, and apart from fighting, they never interact with each other, no one expected that the child born from the union of the two races would have such a constitution, being half god and half demon.
The "half and half" mentioned here does not mean splitting the male protagonist in two, but rather that a normal human body has only one "container" for spiritual energy or resentment, which is commonly known as the dantian, and its upper limit is 100%.
The male protagonist has two forms: one containing spiritual energy and the other containing resentment. Each form has a maximum capacity of 50%, and theoretically, the male protagonist can cultivate both forms of true energy simultaneously.
That's what they say on the surface, but compared to a normal person with 100% of other attributes, the difference between 50% of a billion and 100% of a ten million is probably like the difference between 50% of a billion and 100% of a ten million.
After all, it's the protagonist's halo. The real magic happens later when the male lead merges the two types of true energy; it might turn from hundreds of billions to billions...
Ahem, I've digressed. Let's get back to the previous topic. Although no one expected that people with this kind of constitution would exist, we can't say for sure that they don't.
After all, it's impossible that the only couple in the God and Demon Continent over the millennia was the male protagonist's parents, a pair of gods and demons. The only thing that can be definitively concluded is that children with such a constitution have already died.
Why am I so certain? Because—as mentioned earlier, the idea that the male protagonist can theoretically cultivate both types of true energy simultaneously is only theoretical.
The truth is that spiritual energy and resentment cannot coexist in the same human body.
They are inherently mutually reinforcing and mutually restraining; once they meet, they will collide and unleash a destructive force comparable to a nuclear explosion.
Even the Grand Elder of the Demonic Sect, a mid-level expert of the Ninth Realm, had to expend 70% of his resentment and supplement it with the rare Thousand-Year Demonic Spirit Fruit to barely suppress this destructive force, seal the male protagonist's spiritual energy dantian, and save his life.
Putting aside the Millennium Demon Spirit Fruit for now, who is the Grand Elder of the Demon Sect? If there were a power ranking in the God and Demon Continent, he would be among the top ten.
If even the Grand Elder is like this, then what about others?
Therefore, unless someone has ulterior motives, no one will spend too much effort to save a child with this constitution.
Take our male lead, for example.
The reason why the Grand Elder was willing to become this unjust child is not exactly a conspiracy theory—the Demon Sect values bloodlines the most. Although the male protagonist is half-god and half-demon, since he has the blood of the sect leader flowing in his veins, he is the young master of the Demon Sect.
The sect leader has disappeared, and the only bloodline he left behind is naturally the rightful heir.
However, the spiritual energy dantian within the male body remains a deep-seated concern for the members of the Demonic Sect.
After deliberation, the six elders of the Demonic Sect decided to activate the Demonic Sect's heaven-defying magic, causing the male protagonist, Lingyao, to reincarnate nine times among commoners, enduring countless hardships and accumulating resentment. Only then could the resentment within him be condensed to purity, the sealed spiritual energy be removed, and the rightful heir be established.
In the novel, the male protagonist suffers humiliation under the deliberate suppression of the demon race in each of his reincarnations, and dies young.
The ninth incarnation of the male protagonist finally accumulated endless resentment and died in extreme hatred. He was then reborn from the ashes, transforming back into his true demon form and undergoing a complete metamorphosis.
The accumulation of the previous nine lives led to the power of the tenth life, and because of the experiences of the previous nine lives, the male protagonist also became both righteous and evil.
He was unstoppable, killing gods and Buddhas alike, his morality shifting entirely according to his mood. He even subdued a mutated demonic beast, released the seal on his spiritual energy, and perfectly fused the spiritual energy and resentment within him, causing his cultivation to skyrocket and making him the supreme ruler of the world.
But the novel is still ongoing, with one Warcraft boss after another appearing, and the protagonist constantly fighting monsters. Finally, someone couldn't take it anymore and complained in the comments section about when they would finally reach the final boss...
The author simply stopped updating.
Readers are threatening to send the author razor blades; is the author really that sensitive? Is this considered a bad ending? At least give us a proper conclusion!
Yin Ming couldn't care less about that now, and even regretted staying up all night to read this novel that had no ending.
Looking at the handsome young man next to him, who was a head shorter than him but had an exceptionally cold gaze, and at this cultivation world filled with ancient Chinese style, he just wanted to beat his chest and stamp his feet in frustration.
Why did he end up in this book?! He shouldn't be the one being punished, right? He wasn't being criticized as harshly as the people in the comments section!
He simply shared his opinion, and in the end, he expressed sympathy for the young male lead who was forced to perform at such a young age, and criticized it as child abuse.
As a result, the charging cable connected to his phone sparked, his vision went black, and he lost consciousness. When he woke up again, he was in this situation...
And if I'm going to be transmigrated into a book, fine; if I'm going to be a villain, fine; but why this particular villain?!
This villain can be considered a key figure, because he was the one who delivered the final blow to the protagonist, the last straw that broke him!
The first person the male lead kills after his rebirth is him! Yin Ming feels that he was born in the prime of his life, how could he have transmigrated into this short-lived villain! The heavens are jealous of talent! Truly, the heavens are jealous of talent!
Strangely, Yin Ming couldn't remember the villain's name, and the male lead also called him Yin Ming. Could it be that he directly took on this role when he transmigrated into the book?
"Yin Ming, what's wrong with you lately?" The young male protagonist raised his head slightly, his eyes extremely cold.
Yin Ming looked down at him, and his heart skipped a beat.
This face is so beautiful. Although it looks a little youthful, the features are delicate and it doesn't look effeminate at all.
Words like "handsome beyond compare," "elegant and refined," and "gentle as jade"—all used to describe a handsome man—seem so pale and powerless at this moment.
The male lead is still a minor. What will happen when he grows up? How many girls will he ruin with that face? Even he, a grown man, almost couldn't resist.
However, the male protagonist in the original work has no romantic storyline.
In fact, the male protagonist also encountered an incredibly beautiful girl in his ninth life, and they had some ambiguous scenes together.
In the original story, after being heartbroken by Yin Ming, the male protagonist was able to retain his spiritual energy attribute because of the glimmer of light left by this girl in his dark world.
However, the author stated that he is a straight man and has never been in a relationship, having absolutely no romantic experience.
He admitted that he really couldn't write such mushy, sentimental stories, so the romance scenes were left unfinished.
This has become a point of criticism for the novel.
How could a male protagonist who is so handsome, rich, powerful, and strong not have a woman silently supporting him behind the scenes?
Let alone one, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that she had a harem of three thousand beauties.
However, the author simply doesn't write it, leaving readers to rely on their own imagination, which has led to a considerable number of fanfiction works.
They all describe how the male protagonist encounters various girls on his journey, experiences different things together, and eventually adds them to his harem.
The writing style imitates the original author, which satisfies readers who want to see romance, so this flaw isn't too big of a problem.
Yin Ming was lost in thought, and Ling Yao frowned slightly when she saw his indifferent attitude towards her.
Feeling the unusually sharp gaze, Yin Ming snapped back to reality, his expression extremely awkward. Ling Yao's eyes flashed with surprise, then her face turned cold, and she walked forward on her own.
Yin Ming belatedly scratched his head, wondering, "What did the male lead just ask?"
Oh, it seems like they were asking him what was wrong.
What happened to him? What else could have happened to him?! Could he say that this body was taken by someone else, that he was no longer the original Yin Ming? Would the male lead believe that?!
Recalling the male lead's gaze just now, shouldn't he take advantage of the male lead's impending rebirth to properly plan his own future?
Looking at the thin figure walking ahead, Yin Ming crossed his arms and frantically searched his mind for plot points related to the villain in the original work.
In the original story, Yin Ming came to the male protagonist's side when he was reincarnated for the ninth time...
The author only briefly touched on the male protagonist's first eight lives, but after reading about his ninth life, one can roughly guess how he had lived through those previous lives—it was truly a miserable existence.
The male protagonist in the ninth life was cursed to have his parents die at birth—actually, it was the people of the Demon Sect who killed them, leaving only his elderly grandmother to take care of him.
When he was three years old, his only relative passed away, leaving him all alone.
Some villagers, seeing that he had become an orphan at such a young age, felt sorry for him and occasionally helped him. However, all those who were kind to him ended up in tragic circumstances, so he began to be ostracized by the other villagers and was eventually driven out of the village.
Then the male protagonist began his aimless wandering.
In every town he visited, all sorts of charges would be falsely accused of him.
Everyone who sees him shows him the utmost malice; it's common for him to be pelted with rotten food, leftovers, and rotten eggs while walking down the street.
Sometimes, when you walk to the entrance of the inn, the waiter will splash you with a whole bucket of swill.
The male protagonist had been treated this way since he could remember. After getting used to it, he didn't have any extreme reactions. When he was hungry, he would even take the fresh vegetable leaves that were thrown on him and nibble on them.
The demonic sect's secret guards, who had been secretly sabotaging him, thought, "Damn, how can they hold back like this? This is their last life, and they can't afford to falter at this crucial moment. They have to take drastic measures."
It just so happens that the male protagonist of the ninth life has extremely high cultivation talent, so the elder sent Yin Ming over.
While she verbally told Yin Ming to take good care of the male lead and teach him cultivation, she actually wanted to make things difficult for him as much as possible.
In the original work, Yin Ming was actually a very remarkable person.
The Demonic Sect is divided into two major branches. One branch is the direct lineage, whose members inherit the legitimate bloodline of the Demonic Sect's ancestors and take Ling as their surname.
The other branch is a collateral branch, surnamed Yin, which is said to be the lineage of the sister's husband of the demon ancestor.
However, after so long, these two branches have long lost their blood relation and are more like royalty and court officials within the sect.
Yin Ming was a member of a collateral branch, and his talent was the highest among his peers. He reached the seventh realm at the age of twenty.
The flattery from those around him and the attention he received from the elders naturally made him arrogant.
Therefore, he felt it was beneath him to be sent to "protect" someone like Lingyao, whose bloodline was impure.
Furthermore, Lingyao is clearly inferior to him, yet because his father is the sect leader of the Demonic Sect, the entire sect spares no effort to help him succeed, compared to himself who can only rely on tireless effort to get to where he is now...
Even in cultivation novels, one's father's influence matters. The villain in the original story thought to himself, "If I had been born into a direct lineage and received the best resources from the sect, how could my achievements have stopped here?"
Influenced by this ideology, the villain became insanely jealous, and the elder conveniently gave him the opportunity to vent his anger. What good could the protagonist possibly do?
When Yin Ming read this part of the novel, he felt that the villain's death was inevitable. After all, this male ant was so talented and was at odds with the male protagonist. If things continued to develop, he would definitely become the male protagonist's formidable enemy.
As the author, who is also the male protagonist's biological father, how could he allow such a thing to happen?
They used him to stir up the male protagonist's resentment, and once they achieved their goal, they decisively took him offline.
Yin Ming's thoughts while reading the novel: It's a bit of a pity that such a talented person died. Keeping him as a subordinate wouldn't be bad. But who told him to hate the male lead and make him unhappy? Hmm, I can understand.
My thoughts now that I'm in the situation—Waaaaah, I think I can still be saved, God, please don't give up on me!
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