After nine lifetimes of reincarnation, the yandere villainous heroine descends.

"I don't want to study!"

"What child wouldn't want to learn?"

"Then... after reading these words, can I hear a story?"

"nature."

"Then I want to hear the story of the little fox."

The child's words, as clear as shattered jade, seeped out from the thick, inky black mist around them, lingering in their ears.

In an instant, the black mist receded like the tide, revealing the small courtyard of Purple Smoke City, etched with the marks of time.

That period was so quiet you could hear the scent of ink wafting through the air. The little girl sat at the table, her cheeks puffed out, her fingers poking at the words on the pages, reluctantly reading along.

But as he kept reciting, he would always secretly raise his eyes and steal glances at the figure lying on the rocking chair under the veranda in the courtyard.

"Slacking off again?"

Before she finished speaking, Shen Shuchou in the picture slowly sat up, a gentle smile on his face, his gaze steadily fixed on her.

"Lord Dao..."

Tantai Chi Gu lowered his head and was surprised to find that he had turned back into that small figure.

In an instant, all the dust settled away, leaving only the outstretched arms of the person before me, as if to embrace all the tenderness in the world.

But just as she was about to take a step forward, a thunderous command suddenly resounded in her heart: "Stop!"

Su Chacha's consciousness suddenly cried out in alarm, because the scene in Tantai Chigu's eyes was completely illusory to her.

All she could see was the dust-covered abyss stretching before her and the cold sword piercing her chest.

The sword's edge was only inches from his heart, yet it was firmly imprisoned by the forbidden power surging within him. No matter how hard Gu Jian tried to channel his spiritual energy, the cold blade remained completely still.

The shout was like a thunderclap breaking through the clouds, instantly pulling Tantai Chigu back from his dazed illusion.

When she opened her eyes, Shen Shuchou was still in the same spot, standing still like a pine tree, his fingertips slightly raised, as if patiently waiting for her to approach step by step.

Looking at that face, at that figure so familiar it was etched into her very bones, Tantai Chi's footsteps, which had been suspended in mid-air, finally came to a halt.

"Master, Father, Chi Gu will take you out soon."

Even though Su Chacha had already pointed out that the person in front of her was nothing more than an illusion formed by black mist, her voice was still as gentle as a handful of fragile moonlight.

After all, this illusion not only replicated Shen Shuchou's facial features, but what made her nose tremble slightly was that a faint, ethereal aura drifted from that illusory light and shadow.

As soon as he finished speaking, the fierce light in Gu Jian's eyes intensified, and the power in his palm surged once more.

Just as he was about to pour all his killing intent into the sword and break through that forbidden barrier,

He suddenly realized that a cold gaze pierced through the swirling black mist before him, locking onto him as if it were a tangible object.

There was no warmth in that gaze, only an all-knowing indifference that sent chills down his spine.

Gu Jian subconsciously looked up and met Tantai Chigu's gaze. The purple vortex deep in Tantai Chigu's pupils was slowly turning.

One glance was enough to shake him to his core, even disrupting the rhythm of his movements.

The next second, before he could even react, the forbidden power surrounding Tantai Chigu suddenly went out of control!

The force was no longer the restrained barrier it had been before, but transformed into a raging torrent, sweeping outwards from her center.

The black mist surged like boiling ink, twisting and tearing the air wherever it passed, emitting a sharp "hissing" sound. The terrifying pressure caused the entire abyss to tremble slightly.

Gu Jian's expression changed drastically, and his body almost instinctively retreated frantically, even holding his sword horizontally in front of him to desperately defend himself.

Even so, the aftershocks of that fierce force still caused him a dull pain in his chest and a trickle of blood to escape from the corner of his mouth.

But Tantai Chigu completely ignored Gu Jian, who had been forced back, and stared intently at the churning mist around her.

Immediately afterwards, her body began to tremble uncontrollably, her fingertips turned white, and her face gradually paled.

The screech hidden deep within the black mist was now piercing through layers of fog, rushing wildly into her ears.

The voice was sharp and shrill, yet it carried a familiar quality that made her heart ache.

The increasingly clear sound in the fog, like fine needles, pierced through the last layer of mist.

Tantai Chigu's heart jolted. Those surging cries were the wails of Shen Shuchou's torn and forcibly reassembled soul.

Each sharp tremor was a agonizing pain that tore his soul apart; each feeble struggle was a desperate attempt to sink into nothingness.

Tantai Chigu's eyes instantly filled with tears, and within those tears surged a deep, bone-chilling pain and rage.

The next second, the forbidden power within her body suddenly awakened like a sleeping beast. It was no longer a raging torrent, but transformed into a world-destroying tidal wave, surging and surging out from her limbs and bones!

Black energy ripples spread outwards from her center, even causing the surrounding thick, inky black mist to surge and recede from this overwhelming force.

"I want you dead!"

Tantai Chi Gu suddenly raised his head.

Inside the pavilion shrouded in black mist, blood-red light, like silk threads, entwined around Su Jue Luo's fingertips.

She heard the hatred piercing through the mist, yet she smiled, a smile that spread across her blood-stained lips, carrying a touch of madness and allure.

"Shen Shuchou..." She touched her chest, where a wisp of her soul was trembling. Her voice was as soft as a sigh, yet every word was clear. "Listen, she's calling you."

With a slight lift of her fingertips, the blood and souls of the surrounding corpses transformed into dark red wisps, which rustled into her chest.

She gazed into the void, her eyes as deep and unfathomable as a still pool: "But she can't save you..."

Before she could finish speaking, Su Jueluo suddenly pulled out the longsword that had pierced the chest of the cultivator in front of her. The sharp blade brought up a spray of hot blood, which splattered on her pale cheeks, but she didn't even flinch.

Immediately afterwards, she slowly raised her sleeve, and the surging black mist around her suddenly boiled like rolling ink, with countless strange runes emerging from the mist.

The runes, etched with twisted, ancient patterns, resembled living venomous snakes, writhing and hissing in the black mist as they rapidly converged towards her palm.

Finally, they all burrowed into the fingertips she was clutching her heart, forcibly merging into Shen Shuchou's soul.

The moment the rune entered his body, Su Jue Luo's pupils instantly turned into bottomless black, unable to be penetrated by even a sliver of light.

At the same time, she completely took control of the entire formation that enveloped the Purple Smoke Cloud Pavilion.

Terrifying energy surged around her like a tidal wave, merging with her, and the black mist surrounding her churned violently.

At this moment, she is the ruler of this abyss.

The next second, the blood-stained figure turned into a blur in the mist and vanished into thin air.

Within the abyss, Tantai Chigu was enduring the howling, pulling pain from the black mist, the intense agony making her almost unable to stand.

But just then, the black mist in front of them suddenly solidified, and a figure shrouded in a strong aura of blood and death suddenly emerged from the mist.

Su Jue Luo was already standing steadily in front of her, his dark, ink-black pupils reflecting her disheveled appearance, and the smile on his lips was full of cruelty.