The sword seller, dressed in red, deserves applause for the prankster.

With Mingye dead, Chi Miao also fulfilled his promise, using his spiritual power to collect all the blood he left on the Demon God Pillar and condense it into a giant blood sphere.

She turned to look at the gates of the Holy Palace: "The foreplay is over. I will open the gates of the Holy Palace and offer the blood of the Night as a sacrifice to the statue."

She stepped down from the throne and walked step by step toward the gate of the Holy Palace, with Ying Wuhuo and the other three carrying her skirts as they followed.

The gates of the Holy Palace are guarded by the strongest demon king, Tokiomi.

Before Chi Miao personally killed Ming Ye, he had never given Chi Miao a second glance, but now that she had shown the ability to kill the chicken to scare the monkey, he was able to barely acknowledge this "demon mother".

Decisiveness, boldness, ability, talent, and intellect... This second-generation Demon Mother showed him the infinite possibilities for the future of the Demon Clan.

If Chi Miao hadn't revealed all of this on the spot today, he would never have opened the door for her. Now... he was willing.

The Demon King placed his right hand on his left chest, feeling the beating of his heart, and bowed slightly in sincere respect: "I respectfully invite the Demon Mother to the Holy Palace."

As soon as he finished speaking, he deactivated the array and mechanisms left at the entrance of the Holy Palace, and the palace gates slowly opened.

Just as Chi Miao was about to go in, the Heavenly Demon King called out to her again: "Demon Mother."

Chi Miao stopped and waited quietly for the Heavenly Demon King to say what he was going to say next.

The Heavenly Demon King seemed to know something, and his gaze towards Chi Miao became more serious: "Whatever you see inside the Holy Palace, please be sure to remain calm."

Chi Miao was taken aback, but at the same time became serious: "I will."

She did not ask the Demon King for details, because she was about to personally set foot inside the Demon Palace.

Based on the Demon King's words, she was almost certain that a huge secret was hidden within the Holy Palace.

This secret might hold the answer she's looking for.

Chi Miao entered the Holy Palace.

The interior of the Holy Palace is circular and consists of ninety-nine floors. The walls of each floor are covered with countless murals that depict the story of the Demon Mother creating the Demon Race.

In the center, a huge statue stands ten meters tall, with a woman dressed in an extremely wild outfit adorned with mysterious runes, revealing her slender waist.

She has a pair of long, perfect legs, and she stands on tiptoe, showing a beautiful curve. She holds a huge lotus flower in her hands, and in the center of the lotus flower, a small demon with horns crawls out and lies on the lotus petals, gazing longingly at its "mother".

Chi Miao has now broken through to the Nascent Soul stage and has the ability to tread on the void. Even without the aid of sword control or other means, he can easily fly.

Looking down, she saw the lotus flower's entire form, which shocked Chi Miao: "This...this is?!"

Within the lotus flower lies a small world, and within this small world, tens of millions, even hundreds of millions, of demons kneel before the statue in a worshipful manner.

"It's unbelievable."

Then I turned to look at the mural.

Despite having learned countless languages, Chi Miao still found the text on it obscure and difficult to understand. Looking at the picture alone, she could only make out one thing: the Demon Mother created the Demon Race.

What's even more surprising is that the Demon Mother has no trace of "demon" on her body, nor is she human; she is more like a chimera of all races in the world.

In the murals, the Demon Mother appears in different forms each time, with the only distinguishing feature being the "lotus" element.

Chi Miao touched the lotus mark on his forehead, filled with doubt.

The Demon Mother's "previous life" was neither human nor demon.

Or perhaps... the Demon Mother wasn't her previous incarnation?

But if the Demon Mother wasn't her past life, how could she have ended up like this?

Chi Miao pursed her lips, lost in a mental whirlwind, but just then, a voice appeared in her mind:

"You've finally come. Come... come closer to me."

I will tell you everything.

You will get all the answers.

Chi Miao was stunned. After scanning the entire Holy Palace, he suddenly realized that the voice came from the Demon Mother statue!

"Could it be another remnant of a soul?" Chi Miao wondered, but it didn't seem quite right. After hesitating for a moment, she decided to walk towards the statue of the Demon Mother.

Standing before the statue, she asked, "What should I do next?"

The demon mother statue responded to her as expected: "Drip your blood onto the base of the statue."

Chi Miao did as she was told, almost as if possessed.

The moment her blood fell on the Demon Mother statue, the statue in front of her instantly "came to life".

Her figure shrank rapidly, revealing a face that was exactly like Chi Miao's, with a harmonious and beautiful smile on her face.

But Chi Miao had an inexplicable sense of unease, because the other person's aura not only did not make her feel familiar or close, but even... gave her a feeling of repulsion.

This feeling was so strong that Chi Miao subconsciously wanted to communicate with the Gou Shi system.

"Was this also my past life?"

The Gou Shi system didn't respond at all, as if it were dead... or more accurately, it was hiding from the existence in front of it?

Chi Miao couldn't discern the other party's strength, or rather, the other party seemed like an ordinary person with no cultivation whatsoever. Such an aura could be found anywhere in Miaohua Continent, utterly unremarkable.

But how could the Demon Mother herself be so ordinary?

Why did this history system fail at such a crucial moment?!

Low-quality goods! Cheap goods! You get what you pay for! And free things are often the most expensive!

Chi Miao took a deep breath, looked at the woman in front of him, and asked directly, "You... are I my past life?"

The woman smiled, nodded, and then shook her head.

Yes, no.

Chi Miao then asked, "Do you know the answer I want to know?"

The woman nodded: "I know everything that happened to you, everything that confuses you."

"You can ask me three questions, and you can only ask me three questions. You can think carefully before you ask, and I will tell you everything."

"I know everything."

The other person remained aloof, their gaze never leaving Chi Miao, as if they were very interested in her.

Chi Miao quickly asked her first question: "Why did you create the demon race? And then restrict their food supply, forcing them to... only be able to eat people."

The woman tilted her head in confusion: "Is this something so hard to understand?"

Chi Miao held her breath and asked, "You want the demons to wipe out humanity?"

The woman laughed: "Of course not... I don't want the demons to exterminate humanity, but rather I want the demons to exterminate... a specific person."

"This person will be reincarnated life after life, and will become a calamity for the world time and time again, causing endless turmoil, collapse and reconstruction."

"And this person—in every lifetime, can only be a human."

"In order to stop this person's growth, I mobilized all the Dao in the world, used the Dao to forge his body, made the Great Dao incomplete, and caused the Immortal Path to collapse."

"This is the mission of the demon race: to maintain peace in the world, and to stop one person—."

Chi Miao immediately felt a chill run down his spine, his pupils suddenly contracted, and countless questions turned to ashes and smoke at that moment.

The "person" the woman in front of me was referring to was none other than herself! She was Chi Miao, and all her countless reincarnations!

This truth led her to ask a fierce question:

"The Curse of Yama...was it planted by you?!"