My Demonic Cult's Holy Maiden

The Longevity Sect brought together former demonic forces and remnants of righteous forces, making it the largest sect.

The political landscape on the mainland has changed from a landscape of numerous warlords to one of north-south division.

With the Moon River as the boundary, the Changsheng Sect is to the south and the Great Zhou Kingdom is to the north.

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South of the Moon River, in the heart of the continent, an academy rose from the ruins of the former Lin City.

This academy is the Taiyin Academy, a top-tier institution of learning on the mainland, built with significant investment by Qi Yu.

This place gathers the most comprehensive collection of martial arts techniques, military strategy books, and strange tales from across the continent.

These books were all collected by Qi Yu. The most complete library on the mainland is located in the Taiyin Academy.

The academy also has its own colleges, but these colleges are too heavily branded, making it difficult for other forces to enter.

The Taiyin Academy, however, is different. It is purely an academy, and as long as one can pass the entrance exam, one's background and origin are not important.

Qi Yu's famous saying that brought about the celestial phenomena was inscribed on a stone tablet in front of the Taiyin Academy.

To establish a moral compass for Heaven and Earth, to secure a destiny for the people, to continue the lost learning of the sages, and to usher in an era of peace for all generations!

The Yunyu Academy, which Qi Yu founded, also had this saying, but later, due to the invasion of the Li royal family, Qi Yu lost air superiority.

Yunyu Academy also became an aristocratic academy, and only the extremely wealthy and powerful could enroll.

Therefore, below this stone tablet, there is another small stone tablet, which contains the motto of the Taiyin Academy.

Simply put, it can be summed up in four words: education for all.

Many people come here hoping to join the Taiyin Academy, but the academy's master, Mo Wen, does not accept just anyone.

Only those who pass the entrance exam can enter the Taiyin Academy.

Mo Wen also compiled the Mo family's mechanical arts into a book and included it in the Taiyin Academy.

Ouyang Ruoxue also joined the Taiyin Academy and became an instructor there.

With Ouyang Ruoxue, a near-sage, presiding over the Taiyin Academy, its status has changed dramatically.

In addition to its existing relationship with Qi Yu, Taiyin Academy has surpassed Qingyun Academy to become the number one academy in everyone's mind.

The Taiyin Academy, founded by Qi Yu, also began to get on the right track.

However, no one knew that in the distant, endless sea, Lin Ruoxi was also preparing for something big.

After nearly two years of preparation, Lin Ruoxi was determined to imprison Qi Yu's soul, and now everything was ready.

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Chapter 146 The Cruel Truth

Qi Yu was trapped in his dream, one layer after another. Even when the dream ended, he would not wake up, but would fall into the next dream.

He didn't know how many layers of dreams he had experienced, nor was he sure whether the layer he had fallen into was reality or a dream.

He had no way of knowing; he could only find out if it was a dream after he died and entered the next level.

Each layer felt incredibly realistic, and his memories began to become fragmented.

If each layer of a dream is a life, and falling into the next layer of a dream is reincarnation, then he may have reincarnated no less than a thousand times.

This made him wonder if what he perceived as reality was also a dream.

Was his meeting, falling in love, and getting married with Su Yue just a dream?

Disordered memories and constantly being filled with new ones collide and converge in Qi Yu's mind, making it impossible for him to distinguish between reality and dreams.

Chaos leads to madness.

Qi Yu began involuntarily slaughtering everyone he encountered in his dream!

Sometimes he would go berserk and be killed by others, and on several occasions, it was Su Yue who was responsible.

On several occasions, wherever Qi Yu went, the land was scorched and turned into a wasteland.

At this time, he would enter the next layer of the dream, experiencing worlds that seemed the same but had subtle differences.

The only subtle difference is that the people who killed him and the people he killed have changed.

Sometimes, Qi Yu even forgets his own name and can only be named by people in his dreams.

This time, his name is Ye Ling.

In this dream, Qi Yu arrived at a place that was similar to the mainland, yet different.

The people on this continent are still in a primitive society, bullied by monsters. The strongest humans are at least at the ninth rank.

When Qi Yu was conscious, he taught these people martial arts secrets and unusual techniques.

In this dream, he encountered Su Yue again, but unlike the real Su Yue, she was a sacrifice offered to him.

Qi Yu was revered as the 'Immortal Ancestor' by these backward humans.

Su Yue married him and they had a child named Ye Xuan.

During one of his outings, Qi Yu encountered an injured silver fox and brought it back to Su Yue.

In this dream world, Qi Yu is simply imparting knowledge and educating these primitive people.

Time flies, and Qi Yu has been in this dream for almost two hundred years, yet he remains young. Apart from his hair turning a little gray, he shows no signs of aging.

He successfully ascended to the Sacred Realm, and then reached its peak, where he came into contact with the legendary realm of 'immortals'.

Then he died!

He died at the hands of his wife, a man who looked remarkably like Su Yue.

His memories were spied on, and he eventually began a new round of dreams.

In this dream, he was targeted by a force called Guigu, who relentlessly pursued him.

Each time a dream begins, his strength and memories are modified or reset to some extent.

He was killed, then his memories were spied on again, and finally he entered the next layer of the dream.

He went around in circles several times, and each time he encountered people from Guigu Valley, he died at their hands.

It wasn't until Qi Yu's memories and powers were reset and changed that he was able to survive against Gui Gu.

In this dream, he became a great Confucian scholar and married the woman who had saved his life.

This woman looked very similar to Lin Ruoxi, but she died before Qi Yu. Qi Yu never remarried until he became a saint.

He also touched upon the 'immortal' in this layer of the dream, but still failed at the last moment.

The reason for his failure was that a woman like Su Yue delivered the final blow, causing him to fall short of his goal.

It seems that before this time, this person who looks very much like Su Yue will come out and kill him.

It was as if it were destined that he would never be able to touch the realm of immortals.

Qi Yu was killed and fell into the next layer of the dream.

This dream was exactly the same as the one Qi Yu knew.

He married Su Yue in Jiangzhou City and lived with her for a year before meeting Li Ming and getting caught up in the turmoil of the Dayun Dynasty.

The plot is basically the same as in reality, but there is one change.

He didn't die; she was captured by Lin Ruoxi.

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"Young Master Qi, we meet again?"

Qi Yu was sealed in an ice coffin, looking at Lin Ruoxi standing in front of him through the transparent ice.

"Is this... reality? Or a dream?" Qi Yu asked hoarsely.

Lin Ruoxi smiled, captivating all who beheld her. She was indeed very beautiful, and her temperament shifted between dignified and alluring in a way that was quite enigmatic.

"That depends on how Young Master Qi interprets it! Life is inherently a dream, so it's not wrong for you to call it a dream!"

Qi Yu fell silent, his mind still filled with dreams that kept revolving within him, making it difficult for him to distinguish between reality and dreams.

"Why am I here?" Qi Yu asked.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Ruoxi smiled and said, "According to the agreement, I shouldn't tell you, but I still want to tell you."

"You're here because Su Yue entrusted you to me!"

"In other words, it was Su Yue who handed you over to me!"

Qi Yu frowned, his first reaction being that Lin Ruoxi was lying. But if this was a dream, it was very likely that Su Yue had given herself to Lin Ruoxi.

In the previous dream, Su Yue killed herself more than 90% of the time.

So are we still in a dream?

But it doesn't seem like it at all!

"Are you Jiang Yan? Or Mo Lin? Or perhaps Mu Qing?" Qi Yu asked.

Lin Ruoxi looked bewildered and asked, "Young Master Qi, what are you talking about? I am Lin Ruoxi!"

Qi Yu's mind was still somewhat confused, and he couldn't distinguish between reality and dreams.

His intuition told him that this seemed to be reality, but he couldn't be sure.

"Why did Su Yue entrust me to you?" Qi Yu asked.

Lin Ruoxi laughed and said, "Don't you remember what you did, Immortal Ancestor?"

An Immortal Ancestor?!

Yourself?

How could I possibly be an immortal ancestor?

Lin Ruoxi's smile faded, and she said calmly, "You appear once every five hundred years. Even if you are a destroyer, you are also a creator!"

"Have you forgotten what you did in the last era?"

"You slaughtered the entire continent!"