I died, but I was also reborn.

Xie Zhuo’s body offered no resistance to my soul.

But when I merged with his body, the sensation was different from borrowing any other person’s body.

I still remember that after merging into others’ bodies, I would first feel my soul sink into their limbs and meridians, then feel the heaviness of the limbs constraining my soul.

But these sensations, when I entered Xie Zhuo’s body… were absent…

I was like a grain of sand, drifting into a desert.

In Xie Zhuo’s body, there was a vast, cloud-filled space where I could stay.

I couldn’t feel Xie Zhuo’s meridians, and I didn’t know how to control his body in this state.

Let alone kill him…

I anxiously drifted in the cloudy space, constantly worried that outside, by nightfall, Xie Zhuo would take Pangu Fu and split open time and space.

I didn’t have much time left.

I darted around in the cloudy space, searching.

As a soul, I was staying in this space, so what about Xie Zhuo’s soul? Would it also be staying in this space?

If I couldn’t control Xie Zhuo’s body to truly kill him, then perhaps I could find Xie Zhuo’s soul, awaken it, and tell it everything I knew. That would also indirectly achieve my goal!

I searched continuously, when suddenly, I felt the space begin to tremble slightly. The surrounding clouds shifted, and in the distance, a mass of black energy surged upward.

Where there’s movement, there’s a target.

I immediately flew in that direction!

Sure enough, Xie Zhuo’s soul was there!

His soul, like mine, was also a round mass, except this soul was half white, half black, chaotically intertwined, like a yin-yang fish, constantly spinning and dancing in the air.

I looked closely and, in a daze, seemed to see the struggling Xie Zhuo, holding his head, desperately struggling, crashing around in the air.

“Xie Zhuo!”

I called his name and rushed forward: “The divorce doesn’t matter! Don’t be deluded! I have a way to kill the evil deity now! He comes from Mingjing Forest! You should make him return to Mingjing Forest, gather all the evil energy in the world, and return it to the mountains and rivers! Xie Zhuo…”

Before Xie Zhuo could regain clarity from my call, I was suddenly entangled by black energy, then violently thrown far away.

I controlled my soul, stopping myself in mid-air. I looked ahead, and standing before Xie Zhuo’s chaotic soul, blocking me, was a pitch-black evil deity soul.

It’s…

The evil deity…

He had evil energy in Xie Zhuo’s body, and he had been entangled with Xie Zhuo in dreams for hundreds of years. So, at this moment, his presence in Xie Zhuo’s soul space was normal.

More likely, this space was where he and Xie Zhuo had been fighting for hundreds of years.

Looking at that black flame-like soul, I could hardly suppress the hatred and anger in my heart.

The flames transformed into Zhu Lian’s appearance before me, staring at me sinisterly:

“You even know about this?” He smiled, “It seems that the main deities have been hiding quite a lot from me.” His tone changed, and then like black lightning, he attacked me directly: “Then I can’t let you live!”

He moved so fast that when he came at me, I involuntarily felt afraid. And the moment I felt fear, his soul’s black energy intensified! I immediately stopped myself mentally.

Don’t be afraid!

Just as Xie Zhuo had constantly told me when he stood by my side in the City of the Unmoving Dead.

Don’t be afraid, don’t fear, face him directly!

I am also a soul that has experienced thousands of years. Now, what’s in Xie Zhuo’s body is just a tiny bit formed from the evil energy that the evil deity passed to Xie Zhuo.

He’s not the true evil deity; he can only be considered a branch of the evil deity. He only possesses a portion of the evil deity’s power.

Xie Zhuo could fight him for hundreds of years, so why couldn’t I fight him?!

As long as I didn’t feel fear in my heart, I could also face the most terrifying deity.

I stared at him, and in the instant before he struck, I drew upon the soul power in Xie Zhuo’s space that belonged to him. I met the evil deity head-on, shooting out a beam of silver light that directly pierced through the black soul charging toward me!

The evil deity’s soul immediately dispersed into black mist before me.

He was not invincible.

Xie Zhuo had once defeated him, but that time, Xie Zhuo had sacrificed himself, and the fruits of victory weren’t preserved…

And I was here precisely to avoid repeating that mistake.

Looking at the defeated evil deity’s soul, I composed myself and immediately rushed toward Xie Zhuo. I didn’t use silver light to pierce his soul; if there was another way in the end, it would be best not to kill him…

My soul crashed hard into that chaotic soul, trying to awaken Xie Zhuo:

“Wake up, damn it! Stop wallowing in the pain of divorce! Don’t go back five hundred years to cut karma! Cut the evil deity! Cut the evil deity, Xie Zhuo!”

But when my soul collided with Xie Zhuo’s, it just bounced away like a ball, flying chaotically back and forth in space.

Looking at this round, black-and-white soul, I was momentarily speechless.

At a time like this, perhaps because I truly loved him, I even found his soul somewhat adorably soft…

Just like when he was little, with his fluffy ears and fluffy big tail.

My emotions softened, and when Xie Zhuo bounced back, my soul extended short tentacles to catch his chaotic soul.

It was like holding hands, or perhaps an embrace.

And in that moment when I felt a bit of warmth, I vaguely sensed a familiar, heavy feeling, like the sensation of connected meridians…

Just then, the nightmare-like voice appeared behind me again: “All the gods and Buddhas can’t kill me, do you think you can?”

The black energy from Xie Zhuo’s soul continuously surged toward my back. Finally, it once again coalesced into that black flame form.

At the same time, I also saw that the black chaos in Xie Zhuo’s soul had decreased.

Was this evil deity borrowing power from Xie Zhuo?

I carefully examined the soul before me.

Although chaotic within the soul, the white parts were more than the black evil energy.

Xie Zhuo was on the edge of madness, but the reason he hadn’t yet gone mad must be because he was still holding onto his bottom line.

If that was the case.

If the evil deity could borrow Xie Zhuo’s power, why couldn’t I borrow Xie Zhuo’s power to completely drive him out of Xie Zhuo’s body?

Although… when the two of us fought, we’d be draining Xie Zhuo’s power, but…

Wasn’t that good?

Drain him completely, and then there’d be no need to kill him.

Would he still have the strength to take the axe and split the sky tonight?

With this thought, I embraced Xie Zhuo’s soul and immediately began mobilizing all the power in his body.

Seeing this, the evil deity made no move.

But I still used Xie Zhuo’s soul power to clear all the evil energy in the air that I could in one sweep.

In this space, the only place where black remained was on Xie Zhuo’s soul.

I didn’t dare to truly attack Xie Zhuo’s soul, so I could only listen to the evil deity’s voice emerging from Xie Zhuo’s soul.

“You think clearing this bit of evil energy can save him? As long as the chaos in his soul isn’t removed, I will always be with him. There’s plenty more evil energy outside.”

Yes, now I could only clear the evil energy in Xie Zhuo’s body, but the true evil deity was still outside.

I still needed to rely on Xie Zhuo.

I looked at the soul before me.

On the round soul, black and white intertwined like turbulent waters. Xie Zhuo… he must be in great pain right now.

He must also be struggling; he doesn’t want to be like this…

My tentacles gently stroked his soul again, and with this gentle touch.

In a daze, I suddenly felt the connection of meridians.

In the next moment, the feeling of heavy limbs came over me. I blinked.

My eyes were now Xie Zhuo’s eyes. I had… completely merged with Xie Zhuo’s body.

So it turned out… to merge with Xie Zhuo’s body required not only his current despair, unwillingness, and struggle—that was just the “entry ticket”—but to truly merge souls with him, I also needed to empathize with the gentleness and compassion at the deepest part of his heart.

He…

I looked at “my” palm, a rough hand covered in calluses, but beneath the hard shell, the palm was always warm and soft.

Just like the person himself.

“Well…” I murmured, “Let’s start by breaking this arm.”

I wasn’t crazy.

At the moment I obtained this body, I knew I definitely couldn’t bring myself to kill, to commit suicide.

But I couldn’t take this body and do anything either.

I reasoned logically.

I didn’t know if in other timelines, there were many other soul versions of Fu Jiuxia who had reached this point like me.

Perhaps many of them had been killed by the evil deity at earlier points. My ability to reach this point and have choices was partly due to my own decisions, partly due to fate.

Like stroking Xie Zhuo’s soul, then being completely accepted by Xie Zhuo’s body, taking control of his body.

I also didn’t know what other soul versions of Fu Jiuxia would choose if they reached this point, nor did I know which path would lead to success and which would fail.

The only thing I knew was what had happened to me before.

What I knew was a verified wrong path.

Namely—

“I” and Xie Zhuo divorced at the Yue Lao Temple, cutting the red thread, then “I” went to Meng Meng’s residence and slept in the same bed with her.

Then, at night, there was a huge noise outside. “I” went out to see and saw a black hole appear at the peak of Kunlun, seemingly swallowing the moon and stars.

Then a group of immortals rushed there urgently. Only then did “I” learn that Xie Zhuo had gone mad and taken Pangu Fu.

“I” hurried to the peak of Kunlun, walked alone into Xie Zhuo’s barrier, and then saw Xie Zhuo playfully tossing Kunlun’s divine weapon, Pangu Fu.

Finally, he split open space and time. “I” tried to grab the axe and ended up traveling back five hundred years with him.

I didn’t know what path other versions of “me” had taken, or if it was right or wrong, but I knew for certain that “my” path was wrong.

So, if I did anything that didn’t match my memory of the “wrong path,” I would open up a new possibility.

And this “possibility” was the turning point I was seeking now.

For instance, that night, Xie Zhuo used his right hand to play with Pangu Fu, and it was also with his right hand that he split open time and space.

So here, I would dislocate one of his arms.

Break it, not cut it off.

In case we succeed this time, it could heal properly in the future.

I looked at the sky; the time was already approaching dusk.

I didn’t delay at all, and let my left hand grip his right arm. I took a deep breath, steeled my resolve, gritted my teeth, and with a “crack.”

After the initial numbness, intense pain came.

I gritted my teeth and endured, letting cold sweat drip down my forehead.

The only thing I could be grateful for now was that at least it wasn’t Xie Zhuo feeling this pain.

After breaking the arm, I didn’t bandage it.

I looked at the sky again. In the distance, strands of evil energy began to rise in the air.

It was the evil deity…

He was controlling all the evil energy in Kunlun to come toward me.

He wanted to take control of this body from me.

I probably couldn’t stay in this body for long, and for me now, one turning point was not enough; these turning points, preferably, should be as many as possible!

That night, after Xie Zhuo took Pangu Fu, the immortals of Kunlun went to find him. Those people weren’t enough to defeat Xie Zhuo. But Xi Wang Mu could at least hold Xie Zhuo off for a while!

I needed to deliver Xie Zhuo’s body to Xi Wang Mu!

I immediately mounted a cloud and rose, but looked at the evil energy pursuing me from a distance.

Afraid they would delay me on the way and cause an accident, I immediately bit my finger, took off my outer robe, and while flying, wrote with blood on Xie Zhuo’s clothes a line of characters that everyone could see—Mingjing Forest gathers evil energy, returns it to mountains and rivers, can eliminate the evil deity!

I looked at the outer robe, which I had written on like a couplet, nodded with satisfaction, then put it back on.

In my memory, Xie Zhuo’s clothes certainly didn’t have blood writing on them!

Another turning point!

And just as I was flying from the Yue Lao Temple toward Xi Wang Mu’s main hall, the evil energy from behind had caught up with me.

I felt Xie Zhuo’s body starting to feel strange.

The evil energy remaining in his soul was resonating with the evil energy outside.

I looked at the still-distant main hall. With determination, I decided to first cause an alarm in Kunlun right here!

I aimed at the sky, mobilized all the power in my body, and unleashed a fierce attack at the pursuing evil energy.

This disturbance far exceeded the soul power needed to deal with those strands of evil energy.

A huge explosion immediately erupted in Kunlun’s high sky.

This explosion was enough to attract plenty of people!

I thought I had killed two birds with one stone and was about to continue rushing forward when suddenly, a twisting pain shot through my chest.

I slightly opened the robe, looked inside, and saw that at the scar where Xie Zhuo had been pierced through the heart by the spider demon, evil energy had begun to emerge.

At the same time, a huge black tentacle suddenly extended from the sky. That tentacle was like a giant snake, frantically attacking Kunlun’s barrier from outside.

The evil deity knew I had written on the clothes; now he was desperately trying to stop me!

He was still sealed in Zhu Lian’s body, and creating such a disturbance now must have drained all his reserves!

Looking at that evil energy, I didn’t know whether to cry or laugh.

These disturbances were enough to attract the attention of everyone in Kunlun!

“I,” Xi Wang Mu! All would be drawn to this!

These, in my memory, never happened!

In this timeline, the story of me and Xie Zhuo had truly been rewritten by me, taken to another chapter!

Just as my heart barely had time to rejoice, I suddenly saw a black stream of evil energy shoot up from the ground below!

The energy entwined around my ankle and violently dragged me down from the sky.

I was slammed to the ground, landing directly in the snow bamboo forest.

In the height of summer, there was no snow in the bamboo forest, and I got a face full of dirt from the fall. The evil energy quickly tore Xie Zhuo’s upper garments to shreds.

And that right arm that had already been broken now sent waves of excruciating pain.

I gritted my teeth and endured, but kept apologizing and comforting: “I’m sorry! Just bear with it! The beating at this time is for a better future!”

Before I finished speaking, the evil energy on the ground seemed to resonate with my body from inside and out. The evil energy suddenly poured into the heart of Xie Zhuo’s body.

I felt my consciousness blacken, and in the next moment, I was forcibly ejected from Xie Zhuo’s body.

Xie Zhuo’s body lay on the ground.

At this moment, with a broken arm and a bruised face, it was a pitiful sight.

I tried to enter Xie Zhuo’s body again, but the evil energy seemed to be able to see me! It began to attack my soul!

Without Xie Zhuo’s soul power to borrow, relying solely on my soul to mobilize the soul power around the body was certainly not enough to contend with such powerful evil energy!

I had to abandon Xie Zhuo’s body and begin frantically fleeing.

The evil deity couldn’t kill Xie Zhuo, I believed that!

Now things had been completely disrupted by me!

In the sky and on the ground, everything was in chaos, completely dissimilar to my memories!

The people of Kunlun, seeing such fierce evil energy outside, immediately panicked. Kunlun’s defense forces immediately rushed to the various formation points of the barrier, holding down the formation.

“I” was prominently among them!

“I” stood in the sky above Kunlun’s barrier. Inside the barrier, “I” mobilized the barrier’s power, continuously attacking the evil energy outside.

In Kunlun’s marketplace, everyone was frantically fleeing.

The evil energy chasing me led my panicked self to the front of Kunlun’s marketplace. Seeing the panicked crowd, I immediately turned and ran toward a place without people.

And in the moment I turned my head, I saw a somewhat familiar face.

A female fox demon.

A female fox demon who had almost gotten involved in my relationship with Xie Zhuo.

I watched her frantically fleeing in the crowd.

At that moment, a thought rushed into my mind.

I looked at “me” in the sky, then at the fleeing fox demon.

Then, “using an old trick,” taking advantage of her terror and panic as she fled, I crashed into her body.

At the same time, I also felt that my soul inside her body had developed a bit of evil energy.

But that didn’t matter.

I looked up at the sky, at myself who was resisting the evil energy.

I also looked at the formation in all directions.

I was extremely familiar with Kunlun’s formation.

Now, the outside evil’s assault could be sustained for three to four hours even without “me.”

I immediately mounted the wind and flew into the sky.

I stopped beside “me.”

“I” was focused on the evil energy outside. Seeing a female fox demon approach, “I” quickly scanned the demon’s attire and frowned in rebuke: “People from Cuihu Platform should return to Cuihu Platform. This is not a place for you!”

“I just came to see what abilities the ex-wife of Young Master Xie Zhuo has,” I stared at “my” face with a challenging look: “And now I see, not only is your beauty inferior to mine, but even your talent for commanding troops is merely this. No wonder Young Master Xie Zhuo finally came to his senses, divorced you, and our hundreds of years of affection. Now, we finally have a result. I’ll send you an invitation to our wedding banquet, sister.”

I watched “my” expression change from focused on countering the outside evil energy, to slowly shifting my gaze to the fox demon’s face, then successively showing shock, disbelief, and finally furious silence.

I thought to myself:

Sorry, my self, besides being able to madly step on each other’s landmines as an old married couple.

I, myself, can also do it!

“You… Cuihu Platform…”

I didn’t wait for myself to say more, immediately made a desperate move, and jumped out of the fox demon’s body.

The fox demon immediately fell from the sky; in mid-air, she came to her senses, screaming, casting a spell to land steadily on the ground.

And “I” still stood in the sky.

Teeth clenched, lips pale, but eyes crimson red, anger, humiliation, all emotions, I instantly empathized with them all!

Riding this wave of humiliation, I crashed into my body!

A burst of white light almost scorched my soul.

Hello, Fu Jiuxia.

I looked at my pure white soul before me. My emotions were somewhat turbulent.

This soul, pure and flawless.

In the five hundred years of marriage to Xie Zhuo, though tormented emotionally, this soul had still been protected, kept spotlessly clean.

But now, looking at myself.

After wandering through the world for thousands of years, my soul was mottled, damaged. Mixed with specks of evil energy, tinged with gray. Covered in dust.

If compared to a woman’s skin.

My former self was delicate and fair, while my current self was like Xie Zhuo’s hand, callused and weathered.

But, in the moment of meeting, this pure and flawless soul. In an instant, it dissipated into nothingness.

I died…

But I was also reborn.