Five-Faced Beast Deity

The Five-Faced Beast Deity is a universe-born predator from a previous aeon. It began in Avacaniya Realm, grew by devouring cultivators, and became nearly unbeatable before Arid Triad destroyed its body and scattered its soul. Later worshipers summon incomplete shadows, while Su Ming eventually gathers the lingering resentment and fragments into a far more genuine reconstructed existence.

Biography

Arid Triad and the dying aeon

The deity is first summoned through a blood-red figure who inherited its religion and gathered most of its scattered soul. Its five-headed shadow attacks Su Ming with five intersecting Avacaniya-level pressures, but Su uses the End of Wills Sword to cut away the heads and dismisses the manifestation. This encounter gives him a model for a later Curse while showing that even an exceptional religious summoning remains below the original being. (Chapter 1298)

Inside Old Man Extermination's tomb, Su forms a five-headed doll through the Arid Curse. He gathers the original deity's resentment and soul fragments, builds a body with threads of will, and offers it another chance to escape the Arid Triad who defeated it. Unlike the religion's thought-driven shadows, this version contains the former deity's own will. It refuses submission, sacrifices four heads and half its body to withstand Arid Triad's hand, and escapes the tomb with its remaining boy's head. (Chapters 1328–1330)

Guided by the Curse, it tears across Expanse Cosmoses and enters Fei Hua as black threads. The form cannot directly kill living targets, but it transmits Su Ming's backlash through the connections among Fei Hua, Xiao Song, and Xuan Jiu, draining their lives and cultivation. Its successful escape and delivery distract Arid Triad long enough for Su's own attack to land, forcing Arid Triad to admit he miscalculated the creature's resistance. (Chapters 1330–1332)

A later remnant appears within an old woman affected by Su's Curse. After breaking the Curse and restoring her cultivation, Su draws the ferocious figure from her brow and takes it into his palm. The dossier does not show a subsequent independent life for the reconstructed deity, so its final active state remains bound to Su's custody rather than restored freedom. (Chapter 1349)

Appearance and personality

The full deity has a nearly one-hundred-thousand-foot humanoid body and five heads: python, tiger, wolf, dark dragon, and a contorted boy at the center. Its breath carries rot, and its presence is malicious. Proud, ravenous, and violently independent, it refuses Arid Triad even after one annihilation. That refusal becomes loyalty to no master; its temporary alignment with Su comes from shared enmity and the second life his Curse provides.

Abilities and cultivation

Born at Avacaniya Realm, the deity grows stronger by devouring lives and eventually approaches the limit of middle Avacaniya Realm. Each head exerts Avacaniya-equivalent pressure; together they reach a qualitatively higher might. It naturally tears space, crosses nearly one hundred Expanse Cosmoses within breaths, produces rot, and sustains itself through extraordinary will. (Chapters 1298, 1330, 1332)

Its states must be distinguished. Religious shadows depend on worshipers and normally form only three heads. Su's Curse-form is neither fully physical nor illusory; it carries authentic will and can travel, but cannot directly kill. Instead it delivers Curse backlash through preexisting connections. Arid Triad can shatter most of that reconstructed body, and its escape requires self-detonating four heads, showing that even its peak resentment does not equal the will that destroyed it.

Relationships

• Arid Triad: Original destroyer and eternal enemy; the deity's refusal to lose twice powers its reconstructed escape.
• Su Ming: First defeats a summoned shadow, then recreates the real will through his Curse and later recovers its remnant.
• Yr Morkh's blood-red self: Religious prodigy who gathered most soul fragments and summons the five-headed shadow.
• Fei Hua, Xiao Song, and Xuan Jiu: Saint Defier Lords struck indirectly through the Curse-form's backlash.

Items

The five-headed doll is the focus Su Ming creates for the Arid Curse, not an item owned by the deity. Statues used by the religion permit weaker shadow summonings, but no personal weapon is attributed to the original beast.