What!

Ji Wuxin had committed suicide!

Ji Wuxin was considered the most outstanding figure in the demonic path. He was just a rogue cultivator with no sect or school, yet he possessed tremendous strength. Alone, he owned more spirit stones and magic treasures than an entire major cultivation sect. Back then, all four great sects mobilized to capture him, but in the end, he still escaped. Not only did he escape, he even took a beautiful female cultivator from the righteous path with him, practically slapping those righteous cultivators in the face.

His reputation in the demonic path was something that even later figures like Qinghe and Su Zhuyi couldn’t match.

After all, besides being ruthless and strong, Ji Wuxin was also rich!

Compared to Ji Wuxin, Luo Ying’s disciple Qinghe and Su Zhuyi herself were as poor as beggars.

Yet, such a peak figure of the demonic path had committed suicide? And he claimed it was to atone for his sins and stop creating killing karma. Looking at that jade Chiwen, Su Zhuyi’s gaze held several degrees of contempt.

You could have dominated the world, yet you chose to commit suicide instead…

Just as Su Zhuyi was criticizing him in her heart, Ji Wuxin said again, “Little Baldy, you’ll understand once you see.”

As his words fell, a ray of light suddenly emerged from the Chiwen and entered Su Zhuyi’s brow. This was a simple soul-sharing technique that would let her see some scenes he wanted to show her. It wasn’t very dangerous.

Su Zhuyi recognized this technique and didn’t dodge, standing still in place.

The next moment, she saw a man and a woman. The man was handsome and elegant, wearing an azure robe that couldn’t conceal his noble bearing. The woman wore simple clothes and plain hairpins, with pure features and a sweet smile. When she spoke and acted, she carried an air of charming innocence.

They both wore mortal world clothing and looked like ordinary commoners. However, seeing their clear eyes with faint flowing light hidden within, and being able to sense a subtle soul pressure, Su Zhuyi knew these were two cultivators with considerable cultivation levels. For her primordial spirit to sense pressure from them, their cultivation was probably somewhat higher than hers.

So this was Ji Wuxin and the righteous path female cultivator he had abducted?

Looking at how affectionate the two seemed, the female cultivator wasn’t abducted but had willingly followed him.

Ji Wuxin had been wounded when attacked by the righteous path forces. That woman also wasn’t in good health. The two lived like ordinary mortals – the man hunted daily while the woman managed household affairs. They never used magic arts, even using flint to start fires. It was quite surprising to see.

The two settled in this barren Changning Village. A year later, they had a child.

Since the female cultivator was already in poor health, childbirth weakened her even more. After struggling all night, she finally circulated spiritual energy and gave birth with its assistance. But as soon as the male infant emerged, Su Zhuyi noticed something wrong.

The baby’s face was bluish-purple. Combined with the female cultivator’s previous symptoms, Su Zhuyi understood that the woman had been poisoned, specifically with One Day Soul-Severing Wandering Clear, known as the most terrifying poison in the cultivation world. Many fierce poisons in the cultivation world could cause excruciating pain worse than death, so logically, this shouldn’t be considered the most terrifying. However, it was recognized as such for good reason – after being poisoned, cultivators could no longer circulate spiritual energy.

Once they circulated spiritual energy, they would die within a day. After possessing power, being unable to use it anymore, with death as the consequence of any attempt, this feeling was truly worse than death. Despite having full cultivation, they could only live as mortals. Yet, spiritual energy usage was ubiquitous in the cultivation world. Even with constant vigilance and restraint, people would often accidentally use spiritual energy, with death as the natural result.

Just like now, to save her child, the female cultivator used spiritual energy. The result was that the child was saved, but she couldn’t be saved.

And this remaining child, due to the mother’s weakness and poisoning, was born constitutionally weak with signs of early death.

Seeing this, Ji Wuxin’s voice sounded again, “My wife forcibly activated spiritual energy to save the child. I couldn’t stop her in time.”

“My son’s body was too frail – he couldn’t even withstand a breeze. Even with miraculous elixirs to sustain him, he had to endure painful torment daily. But even so, he didn’t live past four years old.”

“I once considered myself the greatest in the world, yet such a me couldn’t even protect my wife and child, ultimately ending up separated by death.” He thought that the Heavenly Dao existed, that heavenly justice was clear, and retribution was inevitable.

Ji Wuxin suddenly laughed softly, “Wu’er always wanted to see the outside world. I want to fulfill his wish.”

“So I want to cultivate him into a mountain and river spirit.”

Before the child died, he performed soul extraction, sealing the child’s primordial spirit. Then he used formations to nurture mountain and river spirits. Those cultivated this way had no consciousness in the early stages. Since his child was still young with a pure and innocent heart, he remained sealed within the formation. After ten thousand years, he could become the consciousness of the mountain and river spirit. At that time, he would be able to fly freely and see the vast outside world with its magnificent scenery.

Ji Wuxin could have refined the child’s corpse into a living corpse – this was his specialty. But he didn’t want to do that. His child was so small and innocent; he didn’t want him to become a monster that everyone would hunt and fear. Most importantly, his primordial spirit was so weak that Ji Wuxin feared one careless moment might cause the child’s consciousness to dissipate.

Hearing this, Su Zhuyi’s heart was truly stirred by tremendous waves.

Su Zhuyi believed seventy to eighty percent of Ji Wuxin’s words. She just never expected that a great demon lord would have such devoted paternal love. To nurture mountain and river spirits, one couldn’t actively kill – no wonder he said he would no longer create killing karma. However, similarly, actively destroying the stone lotus platforms – actively trying to prevent the mountain and river spirits’ birth – would also bring punishment. So now Su Zhuyi couldn’t destroy the platforms and take things. Thus, she only had one path left: cooperating with Ji Wuxin.

He would provide treasures for her cultivation while she helped repair the Wuding Gourd and seal this place again. Since she couldn’t touch the nine stone lotus platforms of the Dragon-Slaying Formation anyway, she might as well take what was usable first.

“The spirit stones are below the coffin…” Ji Wuxin’s remnant soul had just begun speaking when suddenly there was another earth-shaking tremor. This time, the ground split open again, and a lightning bolt struck down, directly hitting the coffin.

Su Zhuyi was completely stunned. Could it be such a coincidence? The vermilion coffin lid split open in the middle, revealing the bones inside. Su Zhuyi saw three corpses lying within – male and female on the left and right sides, with a child lying in the middle.

After five thousand years, the bodies had all become white bones. The female skeleton lay flat, the child curled on his side, while the male skeleton extended his arms, embracing both wife and child.

That lightning bolt not only struck the coffin but also broke Ji Wuxin’s arm bones, shattering a round stone that had been pressing on the child’s body.

Seeing this, Su Zhuyi immediately had an ominous premonition.

At this moment, Ji Wuxin’s remnant soul let out an angry roar, crying, “Why, why, why is this happening?”

That round stone had sealed the child’s weak primordial spirit.

But now, with the seal shattered by lightning, the child’s primordial spirit naturally drifted out and instinctively returned to his bones…

Another thunderclap sounded. The stone lotus platforms shook continuously, the entire gourd cave trembled, and large amounts of icy rainwater poured into the cave. In an instant, water filled the bottom of the gourd. Su Zhuyi was short, and the rushing water almost completely submerged her. She quickly climbed onto the coffin, standing on the coffin lid.

“Why, why, why – Wu’er is innocent!”

Ji Wuxin’s remnant soul howled again. At the same time, the stone lotus platform violently shook, and the jade Chiwen on top shot into the air, hitting Su Zhuyi’s forehead with a bang. This single impact directly created a crater in her forehead, and blood flowed profusely. She was struck bloody, and the substitute straw doll tightly gripped in her hand shattered directly.

In other words, if this substitute straw doll hadn’t blocked this fatal blow, she would have been killed by that single strike!

The mighty female demon lord, reborn, almost died so inexplicably?

I almost fucking died just like that?

Her head dizzy and confused, Su Zhuyi touched her forehead and felt a handful of hot blood. Her head was somewhat dizzy, and she couldn’t stand steadily. Her feet unconsciously moved two steps, but she forgot that the coffin lid had been split open in the middle. So she carelessly rolled directly into the coffin, blood spattering along the way.

Su Zhuyi hurriedly tried to climb up, but she couldn’t move.

Her waist was tightly embraced by a pair of hands. In that instant, even Su Zhuyi, who was well-traveled and feared neither heaven nor earth, shuddered all over, feeling a chill rise from her feet and instantly penetrate her heart and lungs.

She looked down and saw exactly two thin arm bones gripping tightly around her waist.

A five-thousand-year-old skeleton, with its primordial spirit just returned to its body, having just been stained with human breath and blood, and positioned at the eye of the Dragon-Slaying Formation – this was the rhythm of a corpse revival producing a ghost king. Su Zhuyi’s hair stood on end. Despite struggling desperately, she couldn’t break free. Turning her head slightly, she saw two dark, hollow eye sockets.

She looked at the little skull.

The little skull also looked at her…

My life is over!

Everyone wanted to turn back time and be reborn, but truly being reborn, one discovered it wasn’t as smooth as imagined. She had returned to her weakest state. Before, her opponents were only people – now she had an additional malicious Damned Heaven.

Damn it, if she had known, she wouldn’t have come back. It would have been better to live peacefully with Qin Jianglan – at least she’d have food, clothing, and a handsome man by her side…

Facing death, the female demon lord’s lofty aspirations instantly collapsed. In the end, the reason she had survived all those years, especially in the early days, was partly because she was ruthless enough, but mainly because she was shameless enough…

Combined, it was ruthlessly shameless.

Others had asked her, “Where’s your integrity?”

She answered, “Fed it to the dogs.”

Between living and saving face, Su Zhuyi would choose the former.

A five-thousand-year-old monster’s corpse revival would have intelligence, not like Old Lady Lu, who only knew to consume blood like a low-level stupid creature. Thinking of this, Su Zhuyi said tremblingly, “Skeleton little brother, let’s talk nicely, okay?”