I tried to kill the heroines of destiny, but they ended up chasing after me.

Furthermore, the middle-aged woman who watched the girl run away did not stop her, and still wore a mysterious smile.

But just as the girl was about to pass the figure, she uttered a single word.

"combine."

As soon as the word was uttered, the array where the girl was originally located and the array where the figure was located lit up at the same time, and the girl's eyes were instantly covered by the light emitted by the array.

"What's going on?" The girl was startled, but she didn't have time to think, and her speed subconsciously increased again.

However, in that instant, the seated figure moved.

In an instant, the figure stretched out its left hand and pulled the girl in mid-air. The girl's body had no power to resist and was pulled in front of it.

This wouldn't have been a big deal in itself, at most it would have made the girl even more panicked. But what the girl saw next was something she couldn't accept at all, it even made her eyes widen, tears stream down her face, and she even showed signs of mental breakdown.

Because he saw that the figure was a mangled corpse, and he also saw his own body merging with the corpse in the blinding white light!

In reality, "fusion" is just a nice adjective; if we want to accurately express the current situation, the word "devour" would be more appropriate.

"Ah!! Help! Help!! Someone save me!!" the girl screamed in despair.

Unfortunately... no matter how the girl cried out, it was all in vain, until she and the corpse were completely "fused".

Chapter 157 The Dream of the Past Life Continues

As consciousness fades, the dream begins to shatter.

After the dream shatters, a new world begins.

A remote village nestled against mountains and forests.

On a large, thick tree, a pale-faced girl sat quietly, her gaze fixed on a group of children about her age playing together in the distance. Watching them laugh and run, her eyes held a hint of envy.

The girl is seven years old. Although she is still in her childhood, she is very sensible and always helps with housework, which makes her very popular with her parents.

However, none of the children or adults in the village disliked her. The children didn't want to be around her, ignored her, and often bullied her, throwing stones at her.

The girl would always run home feeling wronged and tell her mother about her grievances. Only after her mother patiently persuaded her could the girl calm down.

The reason she was ostracized was simple: her body constantly emitted a deep blue chill that affected those around her.

Furthermore, as the girl grew older, the cold air became increasingly biting, to the point that even her parents found it hard to bear, and they seemed to have grown increasingly distant from her without realizing it.

Until this year, on this day, a series of events occurred.

The girl's mother is pregnant.

In fact, the girl was not their biological daughter, but someone they had found in the forest to the south seven years ago. They themselves had been married for ten years without children, so they adopted the girl seven years ago and treated her as their own daughter.

As a result, there is a clear difference in treatment between biological and adopted children.

Because the wife was pregnant and frail, she couldn't tolerate the cold air around the girl's body, so the girl naturally couldn't live at home. But where could the little girl live? The villagers all rejected her, let alone let her stay at their place of lodging.

So the girl's father came up with a solution: he chiseled a hole in a big tree not far from the village, put some cotton wool inside for heating, installed a door and a vent in the tree, and made a simple little house.

But when they did these things, they didn't understand the little girl's feelings. They didn't know that their strange actions had already left a special mark on the girl's heart.

Every day, the girl would go into the forest to pick some medicinal herbs and edible wild fruits, and then go home to help her father chop firewood, start a fire, fetch water, and cook.

And so, the days passed by, and a new life was born in the girl's father and his wife's home.

The mother held the baby in her arms, speechless with joy. Recalling the feeling of holding the girl in her arms before, she felt a little annoyed. The warmth of her own body was also the warmth of the little body. This feeling of holding her own child was something that a girl with a physical problem could not experience.

Perhaps that's why the girl's father wanted to take care of his wife and child every day, and always wanted to hold his son. During his wife's postpartum period, he even handed over all the daily housework to the girl.

The girl saw all this and envied her younger brother in her mother's arms. However, she was unaware that the real changes were just beginning.

……

On this day, as usual, after finishing her housework, the girl sat down to rest on the big tree where she usually sat.

However, what she was thinking about was the cold attitude her parents had shown her since the birth of the baby. Even a few days ago, when she was bullied by the children in the village and went home to tell her mother, her mother only said a few indifferent words, which made her feel a little sad.

Perhaps she was too exhausted, she leaned against the tree and fell asleep while thinking.

Unbeknownst to her, several children her age were watching her the whole time.

"Xiao Xiao, how about we go beat that girl up? She's still asleep."

A girl dressed in plain clothes pointed to a girl resting in a tree and spoke to another girl in bright clothes next to her.

"Sure! But that guy's body is too weird, so let's just throw stones at her!" The girl named Xiao Xiao said with a smirk, as if she had found some fun.

She was the village bully because her father was the village chief, the ultimate bully! So she was incredibly domineering in the village and always bullied the other children, and the girl was one of the children she frequently bullied.

Soon enough, the two picked up some stones and walked to the tree where the girl was.

"Hey! Monster, get down here!" Xiao Xiao shouted, then threw the stone in his hand.

The girl was in a light sleep when she vaguely heard some shouts. She woke up after feeling a pain in her arm and saw the two girls below. However, when her gaze fell on the stones in their hands, she couldn't help but feel angry.

"A monster! A monster that was picked up from the forest, no wonder it's so..."

In the past, the girl would not have been angry or paid attention to such words. Although she knew that she was different from others and that her body exuded coldness, which was very strange, she would forget what they said with her mother's comfort.

But ever since her mother gave birth to her younger brother, she had never experienced that kind of love again, so when she heard the word 'monster', she was immediately very angry.

The girl heard all this and felt a pang of pain in her heart. Just then, another stone slammed into her head with a 'bang'.

This ignited the girl's fury. She looked at Xiao Xiao and the girl beside her, a fierce glint appearing in her eyes.

Seeing the girl, who never fought back, looking at them with that kind of gaze, the two men felt a surge of anger. Xiao Xiao, the village chief's son, even said, "I haven't beaten you up for a few days, and you dare to look at me like that!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a rock slammed into the girl, who said with increasing anger, "What, come and beat me up? Come on!"

"Haha, ha... She wouldn't dare. If she beats you up, you can have your father kick this bastard out of the village, haha," the girl next to Xiao mocked.

The girl had reached her breaking point; her constant use of the words "monster" and "bastard" finally caused her to explode.

The girl decisively jumped down from the tree, clenched her fists, looked at Xiao in front of her, and then approached him step by step.

Xiao Xiao clearly felt the girl's cold aura and instinctively took a step back. But before she could react, the girl's fist struck Xiao Xiao's face.

Xiao Xiao lost two teeth in the blow, and the intense pain made her cry out loud. As the village chief's son, she had never experienced such a blow before. Even her father had never laid a hand on her, yet today she was beaten to tears by someone she often bullied. It was simply unimaginable.

The other child had never seen anything like this before. She and Xiao Xiao always bullied others together, but at this moment, seeing Xiao Xiao sitting on the ground crying with blood all over his mouth after being beaten by the girl, with two teeth knocked out, she was too scared to utter a sound.

But after hitting Xiao Xiao, the girl regretted it because she knew very well what it meant. She was filled with fear and ran back to the tree hole in terror. She curled up on the bed and trembled with fear.

"What should I do now?!" the girl thought to herself, crying.

……

The village chief was no ordinary person, but a cultivator at the mid-stage of the Transcendent Realm. However, his cultivation was not for the purpose of achieving immortality, but simply to protect the safety of the village.

After all, there are always bandits and robbers lurking in the surrounding mountains and forests. If he didn't have a skill, his village would probably have been wiped out long ago.

Besides protecting the village, he sometimes goes into the mountains to hunt wild animals. For example, today he had a great harvest in the mountains.

"Hahaha! Now I can go to town and have some fun again..." A rugged-looking man, carrying a large sack of prey on his back, walked along a path back to the village and thought to himself.

But just as he was dragging his goods back to the village, humming a tune, he suddenly heard a sobbing sound. And the voice sounded so familiar. This made him feel uneasy.

Slowly, he walked over and saw a girl sitting on the ground crying bitterly, while another child stood to the side as if frightened. But after he looked closely, he was shocked to find that the girl crying was his own daughter!

The village chief was utterly shocked. His daughter had been bullied and even had two teeth knocked out. In this village, this was an even bigger deal than anything else.

"Who hit my daughter! Who?!" The village chief roared furiously, veins bulging.

The roar drew the attention of almost everyone in the village, and many villagers dropped what they were doing and rushed to the scene of the incident.

Before long, a group of villagers had gathered around. When they saw a girl sitting on the ground, sobbing uncontrollably with blood all over her mouth, they felt some sympathy. The girl's face was swollen from being hit, and blood was flowing from her mouth onto her body; it was indeed quite frightening.

"Who did this?" the village chief roared.

Surrounded by the village chief and many villagers, the girl next to Xiao Xiao was very nervous, seemingly frightened by the village chief's loud voice.

"Yes, it was that monster who did it." The girl swallowed hard and said in great fear.

"A monster? You mean that girl?" the village chief asked.

"Um... um..." the girl replied slowly, her voice tinged with fear.

The villagers were wondering who had failed to discipline their child and refused to admit it after the child had been hit, but when they heard it was that 'monster,' their surprise was no longer surprising.

"Is that so?" Upon hearing this, the village chief ignored the timid girl, grabbed his own daughter, stared intently at her, and asked loudly.

"Yes...yes," Xiao Xiao sobbed.

"Useless! You're just crying when you're bullied. Don't you know how to fight back? Humph! Don't worry! She beat you so badly, I definitely won't let her get away with it." The village chief's eyes flickered as he spoke.

The first sentence sounds like he's scolding his daughter, but the second sentence reveals his protectiveness towards her.

……

The sky gradually darkened.

After sending his daughter back home and giving her a scolding, the village chief stormed angrily toward the girl's father and wife's house.

The girl's mother was lying in bed, holding her beloved baby and singing softly, gently rocking her in her arms, feeling the warmth of her child's body, and was very happy.

The girl's father sat to the side watching his wife and child, feeling a sense of happiness and fulfillment in their life.

"Zhang San! Li Lan! Get out here!" the village chief shouted.

Just then, the two people who were enjoying their happiness were startled by the sudden shout. When they heard that it was the village chief's voice, which sounded like he had a grudge against them, they were shocked.

After a moment's pause, the girl's father, Zhang San, slowly walked out, because he felt that he hadn't provoked the village chief recently, so he wasn't afraid of any problems.

Upon seeing the village chief, Zhang San asked with some reverence, "Is there anything I can help you with?"

"What is it? How dare you ask me what is it? Your bastard injured my daughter, didn't you know?" the village chief roared.

"What?!" Upon hearing this, Zhang San's expression changed drastically.

……

On the other hand, after staying inside the tree for a while, the girl had the idea of ​​returning home, since in her opinion, this home was her safe haven.

However, as soon as she arrived, she saw the village chief talking to her parents, and upon hearing the village chief's roar, she dared not go back. Instead, she hid by a small tree not far from her home, quietly listening to the village chief and her parents' conversation.

"Hmph! This matter cannot be resolved with words!" the village chief said domineeringly.

"Then what do you suggest we do?" Zhang San asked, his eyes darting around, looking very troubled.

"Hmph, what can we do? I don't want my daughter to see that guy again, you know what I mean!" the village chief said imposingly.