Chapter 246: Bewitchment

The laundry basin crashed toward the ground.

Lu Ye reacted swiftly, grabbing the basin and simultaneously closing the door.

Holding Chu Ling’s corpse, he laid her down on the bed.

He was contemplating.

Eight women were dead. He had no desires, no attachments. His Dao heart was clear and unclouded.

Perhaps he could attain Dao once more at the fastest possible speed.

Yes, that's exactly what he would do!

“Boom!”

The door was violently kicked open.

A hand reached out.

“Senior—”

Before the word “Brother” could come out, a crisp crack echoed as a neck snapped.

Yue Hongling’s corpse was also placed on the bed.

Bai Qiulan hadn’t yet succumbed to the Chaotic Yin Poison; she definitely wasn’t a threat right now. Time to leave!

Lu Ye's figure headed toward the Pill Pavilion. As he walked, his appearance morphed, transforming into the exact visage of Daoist Azurefire, down to the very aura.

Moving swiftly, he collected a portion of the pills.

Lu Ye immediately changed his appearance again and exited Grand Dao Sect.

“Lu Ye?”

Bai Qiulan’s figure appeared outside Lu Ye’s room, knocking on the door.

There was no response.

She knocked several more times. Finally, unable to hold back, she pushed the door open.

What met her eyes were the corpses of Chu Ling and Yue Hongling.

Bai Qiulan’s face twisted in horror.

Him!!!

Gradually, a rumor began to spread across the wastelands about a notorious thief.

This thief was extraordinarily rampant, targeting anyone and everyone, regardless of sect or strength. As long as your valuables weren’t with you, they could vanish without a trace.

And to this day, no one knew what the thief truly looked like. The only certainty was that he could mimic any appearance and ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) aura, making him impossible to guard against.

Before long, the Ancient Battlefield of Heaven’s Chosen opened.

Shangguan Huanling was chatting with Shangguan Wuchang.

“Who are you looking for?” Shangguan Wuchang asked.

“She’s looking for me!”

A guard suddenly spoke up.

A gleam of light flashed, and before Shangguan Huanling could even react, her head was already severed.

Lu Ye’s figure rushed toward the Ancient Battlefield of Heaven’s Chosen.

Zhuque? Kill her!

Bai Qiulan? Kill her!

Cultivate! Cultivate! Cultivate!

“System, I want you to assist me with all your power in my cultivation!”

“Ding ding ding, Host, don’t lose your mind...” The system’s chimes rang incessantly.

Lu Ye escaped from the present life tribulation.

“What’s wrong?”

“Ding, if you keep cultivating like this, your true body will trigger the real Holy Tribulation.”

Lu Ye smacked his lips. “Fine.”

Though he couldn’t go completely mad anymore, the brief frenzy he experienced during the present life tribulation had felt incredibly exhilarating. Unbelievably satisfying!

People needed to go mad sometimes.

After all, it was just a present life tribulation — everything was an illusion.

But if he started undergoing the Holy Tribulation within the present life tribulation, it might actually affect reality.

“Ding, Host, it seems the Source of Darkness has started to exert its influence. You need to be cautious moving forward.”

Lu Ye raised an eyebrow.

“How is it exerting influence?”

“Ding, I’m not sure, but in your previous life, you dragged the Source of Darkness into self-destruction. In this life, it will definitely find ways to kill you.”

Lu Ye fell into deep thought.

His aura continued to rise. The present life tribulation was over. One could say that his Dao heart was now completely whole.

From this moment onward, he was no longer that love-starved person.

Now, he needed to pursue his goals and fulfill the meaning of his life.

First, he would break through to the Unity Realm!

Lu Ye closed his eyes.

At that moment.

Chu Ling was in the midst of cultivation.

Silently, tendrils of black mist surrounded her.

Chu Ling’s expression grew somewhat dazed.

Fragments of memories kept surfacing.

“Ling’er, how can you be so willful?”

“Ling’er, that’s not how you wield a sword!”

“Chu Ling, if you keep betraying the alliance, don’t blame me for punishing you!”

“Ling’er, you’ve truly disappointed me.”

Reborn again, Lu Ye’s cold indifference echoed repeatedly in her mind, his killing intent toward her surfacing again and again.

She had been training so diligently, yet her cultivation speed couldn’t compare to Shangguan Huanling. Even Yue Hongling and Bai Qiulan had ascended faster than she had.

She had given her all, yet she still couldn’t catch up to Lu Ye’s pace.

And the gap between them was only growing wider.

Lu Ye was doing this on purpose.

He was deliberately pushing her to the brink of despair, making her struggle endlessly in her own regrets.

If not for Lu Ye’s repeated indulgence, how could she have developed the habit of backstabbing her allies?

The Chu Sword Manor incident — if Lu Ye hadn’t kept it to himself, how could she have been unaware that it was a den of demons?

If he had told her sooner, how could she have been so hell-bent on making him the target of the alliance’s scorn?

So, it was all Lu Ye’s fault!

It was all Lu Ye’s fault!

The reason he could make her suffer so much was because he was strong enough. If she became just as strong, she could make him regret not speaking up, regret not knowing how to love.

Loving someone didn’t mean indulging them without limits. Didn’t he understand that simple truth?

If he didn’t know how to love, then he shouldn’t love anyone at all!

If he chose to love, then he should take responsibility to the end. How could he just walk away after loving her into a useless wreck?

Chu Ling would not allow it!

She absolutely would not allow it to continue like this!

In an instant.

The black mist condensed into a sword.

A pitch-black, rune-covered longsword hovered before Chu Ling.

Within the sword surged an overwhelming sword intent.

Chu Ling opened her eyes.

She stared at the demonic sword.

She knew that if she grasped that demonic sword, she would plunge herself into a path of no return.

But now — wasn’t she already in a hopeless situation?

She was done with being endlessly hunted down.

She was done with being abandoned, with exhausting herself in futile attempts to catch up.

She wanted to become stronger!

She wanted to surpass Lu Ye!

She wanted to make Lu Ye apologize to her, to make him repent!

Chu Ling extended her hand, resolutely gripping the hilt of the demonic sword.

In an instant, the black mist surged madly into her body, and Chu Ling’s aura began to swell.

Lu Ye, Lu Ye, it’s all your fault. You’re the one who pushed me down this path.

It’s all your doing!

“Aaaahhhh...”

Heavenly Fate Realm, fifth layer, sixth layer, seventh layer...

Causality Realm, third layer, fourth layer, fifth layer...

The Great Slaughter Sword Sutra erupted in full force.

The dark sword was even more terrifying than Chu Ling had imagined, pushing her directly to the Third Life Realm.

If not for the tribulation of the Third Life Realm halting her progress, she would have become even stronger.

Chu Ling began her tribulation of the Third Life.

She was determined to make Lu Ye regret within the tribulation, to dominate him, to make him her slave!

But it wasn’t only Chu Ling experiencing unusual changes.

At that very moment, beside the corpses of Yue Hongling and Bai Qiulan, black mist also began to emerge.

Yue Hongling stared blankly at the mist.

Why couldn’t her senior brother be more of a man? Why did he always treat her like a little girl?

All he did was protect her, never letting her fight alongside him. If not for that, how could she be so weak?

“Hahaha, I’m starting again. I’m starting again. Hehehe, I want to be a bad woman. If I become a bad woman, Senior Brother can kill me. I want Senior Brother to kill me...”