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Chun Hajin, the strongest assassin of the Orthodox Murim’s Righteous Heavenly Alliance. Hajin loses his life as he tries to escape to find freedom. And then… ‘The divine cult is immortal, may all demons submit. Congratulations on your recovery, third young master!’ He was reincarnated into the body of Murim’s public enemy, the third young master of the Demonic Cult?! The conquest of the Demonic Murim by Chun Hajin, the strongest secret weapon of the Orthodox Murim, begins now.
by codezero•Art by POS STUDIO
Chun Hajin, the strongest assassin of the Orthodox Murim’s Righteous Heavenly Alliance. Hajin loses his life as he tries to escape to find freedom. And then… ‘The divine cult is immortal, may all demons submit. Congratulations on your recovery, third young master!’ He was reincarnated into the body of Murim’s public enemy, the third young master of the Demonic Cult?! The conquest of the Demonic Murim by Chun Hajin, the strongest secret weapon of the Orthodox Murim, begins now.
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The world of Chronicles Of The Demon Faction is a brutal wuxia landscape divided between the orthodox sects of the Central Plains (Zhongyuan), the unorthodox factions, and the sovereign power of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult. Governing this martial sphere is the eternal conflict between the Righteous Heavenly Alliance - an ostensibly virtuous confederation concealing deep-seated rot and espionage - and the Demonic Cult, a meritocratic hierarchy established on absolute strength, iron discipline, and obedience to the reigning Demon Lord. Martial power centers upon internal energy (qi) cultivation, categorized through standard tiers extending from Third-rate to Peak Realm, before ascending into the transcendent Master, Demonic, and Ultimate Demonic Realms. Cultivators who pierce the absolute pinnacle unlock Demonic Emperor Qi, a lethal, sovereign energy capable of crushing lesser martial artists beneath pure conceptual pressure. Alongside orthodox blade and fist forms, the world features lethal specialized disciplines: stealth assassination arts, bloodline sorcery, forbidden body-refining methods, and insidious blood parasites used to covertly enslave high-ranking sect masters. Geopolitically, the fringes of the Central Plains are held by regional hegemony clans, including the venom-wielding Sichuan Tang Clan, the wild beasts of the Southern Savage Beast Palace, and the isolationist Northern Sea Ice Palace. Within the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult itself, politics are vicious; heirs survive grueling selection rites where fraternal slaughter is tacitly sanctioned. Under the absolute authority of the Demon Lord, only the practitioner capable of unifying peerless martial prowess with merciless political cunning can command the cult’s armies and shatter the balance of power across Zhongyuan.
Formerly the world's deadliest assassin king, Chun Hajin was betrayed and murdered before reincarnating into the body of Seoryang, the frail, despised Third Young Lord of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult. Prudent, ruthlessly pragmatic, and highly analytical, Hajin abandons his past passivity to conquer his destiny, utilizing deep psychological warfare and lethal precision to dismantle rivals and rebuild his fragile host body into an apex predator. Powers: Master of the Boundless Technique; seamlessly combines apex assassination footwork and shadow strikes with high-grade demonic cultivation, eventually mastering Demonic Emperor Qi. Expert in poison manipulation, meridian reconstruction, and dual orthodox-demonic combat forms.
Chapter 1The supreme ruler of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult. Possessing near-godlike martial strength and an inscrutable mind, he governs the cult through pure terror and calculated balance. While indifferent to ordinary familial affection, he recognizes Hajin’s transcendent instincts and subjects him to lethal crucibles, testing whether the youth possesses the resolve to lead the cult into total war. Powers: Pinnacle Divine Demon Realm martial artist. Wields unbridled Demonic Emperor Qi capable of warping reality, devastating landscapes, and paralyzing master-tier martial artists with mere aura release.
Chapter 3An elder-ranked martial powerhouse who initially observes the Third Young Lord with skepticism. After surviving grueling battles alongside Hajin and witnessing his master's inhuman tactical genius, Dongpil becomes unconditionally loyal. Known for his straightforward demeanor, indomitable grit, and devotion to protecting Hajin's flank in open warfare. Powers: Heavy broadsword specialist who later awakens the ancestral power of the Black Blood Demon Sword. Boasts immense physical resilience, advanced defensive qi, and relentless offensive pressure.
Chapter 8The fiery, battle-hardened commander of the Berserk Demon Squad. Deeply proud and loyal only to proven strength, she initially clashes with Hajin during internal cult politics. After Hajin demonstrates his peerless combat superiority and saves her squad from political ruin, she commits her elite unit entirely to his banner. Powers: Berserker blade arts, aggressive fire-aligned demonic qi, high mobility shock-assault commander.
Chapter 22The Great Young Lord of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult. Egotistical, entitled, and consumed by succession ambition, he spent years in secluded cultivation to secure the throne. Unable to accept Hajin's rapid ascent, his desperation drives him to commit high treason by conspiring with external forces to undermine the cult's hierarchy. Powers: Advanced demonic cultivation, refined cult sword forms, high-tier internal energy reserves.
Chapter 21The First Elder of the Righteous Heavenly Alliance and the primary architect behind Chun Hajin's assassination in his previous life. Hiding vicious sadism and political greed beneath the veneer of an orthodox elder, he seeks to expand the Alliance's borders by orchestrating covert border provocations. Powers: High Master-tier orthodox sword techniques, piercing wind qi, advanced defensive barriers.
Chapter 38The calculating, sociopathic leader of the Righteous Heavenly Alliance. Viewing all martial artists as pawns in his bid for absolute continental dominion, he secretly engineers conflicts between the Orthodox sects and the Demonic Cult while deploying insidious blood parasites to subvert rival elders from within. Powers: Peak orthodox internal cultivation, political manipulation, forbidden biological sorcery, and mastery of parasite commanding arts.
Chapter 112A depraved, peerless martial artist directly involved in Chun Hajin’s previous life and execution. Wielding dark sorcery and body-altering techniques, she terrorizes the Shandong region, harvesting the lifeforces of martial clans to sustain her youth and power before Hajin hunts her down for retribution. Powers: High-tier demonic sorcery, illusion arts, death qi manipulation, and life-drain martial techniques.
Chapter 163A legendary Shaolin recluse who earned the moniker Arhat Fist God. Disillusioned by orthodox factionalism and the insidious rot overtaking Shaolin, he lives in semi-seclusion until Seoryang approaches him to expose Dam Sayoung's blood parasite conspiracy. Powers: Legendary master of Buddhist diamond body arts, divine golden light qi, devastating earth-shattering fist techniques.
Chapter 154Ch. 1 - 35
Reincarnation and Bamboo Grove Isolation (Chapters 1 - 20): Assassin king Chun Hajin is murdered through betrayal and awakens inside the frail, bedridden form of Seoryang, the disgraced Third Young Lord of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult. Using his past life’s Boundless Technique, Hajin repairs his shattered meridians in secret. Deemed useless by his father, Demon Lord Lee Cheonsang, he is exiled to the lethal Solitary Bamboo Grove. Hajin survives relentless assaults from savage spiritual beasts, tames the spiritual beast Goldy, and ascends rapidly through cultivation stages while forging an unbreakable martial foundation. Capital Return & Fall of the Fourth Young Lord (Chapters 21 - 35): Hajin returns to the cult capital as an unreadable enigma. When the arrogant Fourth Young Lord attempts to poison Hajin's personal maid to reassert dominance, Hajin demands a public duel. In an arena exhibition that shocks the cult's elders, Hajin effortlessly parries his brother's assaults, permanently shatters his energy core, and executes a political sweep that forces the elite Berserk Demon Squad, commanded by Eui Hongryeon, under his authority.
Ch. 36 - 90
Escort Convoy & Past-Life Retribution (Chapters 36 - 45): Disguising himself as a low-profile guard within a cult resource delivery convoy, Hajin ventures into the borderlands to survey external political unrest. During an ambush, he encounters Jung Ilryong, the Righteous Heavenly Alliance First Elder who engineered his past death. Concealing his signature arts behind demonic strikes, Hajin overwhelms the veteran orthodox elder, severing Jung Ilryong's leg and leaving his former killer broken and humiliated. Special Inspector General & The Seven Families (Chapters 46 - 71): Appointed as Special Inspector General by the Demon Lord, Hajin launches an auditing campaign across the cult's tributary clans. He purges corruption within the Jeoksa and Geogyeong families, executes traitorous clan leaders, and orchestrates a lethal counter-ambush against an invading squad from the external Sword Palace. During these campaigns, Hajin's cultivation pierces through to the Ultimate Demonic Realm. Southern Wilderness Expedition & Beast Palace War (Chapters 72 - 90): Entering a pact with envoys from the Northern Sea Ice Palace, Hajin heads an expedition deep into the Ailao Mountains to rescue an abducted high-ranking asset. Navigating the hostile terrain, he subjugates the poison masters of the Sichuan Tang Clan and wages open warfare against the Southern Savage Beast Palace, culminated by Hajin personally beheading the Beast Palace Master in single combat.
Ch. 91 - 144
The Succession Trial & Exposure of Treason (Chapters 91 - 114): Demon Lord Lee Cheonsang announces the formal trials for the succession throne. The returned Great Young Lord, Jin Gwangyong, aligns with corrupt elders to assassinate Hajin. Anticipting every stratagem, Hajin exposes their treasonous external alliances directly before the gathered cult army, resulting in Jin Gwangyong's disgrace and arrest. Officially crowned the Young Leader, Hajin undergoes secret training under Lee Cheonsang to master Demonic Emperor Qi. Shadow Operations & The Ghost of Yama (Chapters 115 - 134): Infiltrating Zhongyuan undercover under the alias "Yama," Hajin masquerades alongside an Ice Palace envoy to map Orthodox military preparations. He targets the Steel Blood Fortress, abducts vital enemy operatives, and humiliates the Zhongnan Sect Leader in direct combat. In the shadows, he corners and executes Song Geumbaek, another key conspirator from his previous life. Mad Wood Forest Investigation (Chapters 135 - 144): Hajin's cadre enters the Mad Wood Forest to investigate anomalies connected to the Heavenly Dragon Palace. They confront forbidden corpse sorcery and necrotic qi. Hajin engages in a high-level philosophical blade duel with Sword King Namgoong Un, refining his dual balance of internal orthodox principles and demonic techniques before stepping openly onto the main stage of the Central Plains.
Ch. 145 - 186
Central Heaven Assembly & Shaolin Blood Parasites (Chapters 145 - 162): Hajin makes a seismic public debut, crippling corrupt regional tyrants before crashing the Central Heaven Assembly. When orthodox heirs challenge his demonic origins, Hajin subdues their finest champions using their own sects' refined martial concepts. Moving onward to Shaolin, he allies with the legendary Arhat Fist God Jeok Song. Together, they expose Dam Sayoung's bio-sorcery, systematically purging the mind-controlling blood parasites embedded within Shaolin's senior leadership and shifting the orthodox narrative against the Righteous Alliance. Shandong Campaign & Death of the Secret Demon Queen (Chapters 163 - 173): Hajin marches his vanguard into Shandong, cornering Kwak Sokyo, the Secret Demon Queen responsible for his past-life demise. Across a ruined battlefield, Hajin sheds his cover, proclaiming his identity as the resurrected Chun Hajin. In a ferocious duel of sorcery and shadow arts, Hajin eviscerates the Demon Queen, securing long-awaited closure for his past existence while enduring severe psychological strain from the confrontation. Revelation & The March of the Demon Lord (Chapters 174 - 186): After recovering from his vendetta, Seoryang gathers his innermost cadre - including Ma Dongpil and Eui Hongryeon - revealing his true identity as Chun Hajin. With absolute loyalty reaffirmed, preparations for total continental conquest begin. Alarmed by the Righteous Heavenly Alliance's mobilization of all nine orthodox sects, Demon Lord Lee Cheonsang personally departs the holy mountain, entering the Central Plains at the head of the cult's grand army to crush the Orthodox forces once and for all.
