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

But she could no longer accept it, nor could she think about it in this situation. Therefore, tormented by her ego, she was slowly... losing herself!

……

After a period of time.

At this moment, Gu Qici was numb. No matter how she moved, she would appear next to those sailors, and those sailors would die the moment they touched her!

Her heart had completely collapsed, but that wasn't all. When the blood of those people splattered on her, she had a strange feeling. It was this feeling that caused her broken heart to undergo some special changes. And relying on this heart that was slowly being changed, her eyes gradually turned red!

It was a feeling of bloodlust, a heart that craved blood, a twisted soul. Finally, when a sailor attacked her again, the red light in her eyes suddenly intensified, and she actually killed the attacking sailor. This startled her, and her face showed great disbelief!

Yet this killing caused her heart to skip a beat, as if a kind of excitement made her want to smile. Gu Qici immediately suppressed this emotion. Her expression was complicated and helpless. Seeing the sailors in front of her continuing to attack her, she really wanted to go on a killing spree and kill to her heart's content!

No longer caring about her feelings for humans, no longer caring about the weak lives of humans, she just wanted to kill, to let blood satisfy her hands, her heart, and her soul. There was nothing but killing. Suddenly, her gaze fell once again on the sailors in front of her who were showing murderous intent towards her!

"But why?!" Suddenly, a dark thought flashed through Gu Qici's mind. She suddenly muttered to herself, "Why should I kill them? No, no, it can't be. These people, these people, these people, they all deserve to die! They deserve to die! Kill them!"

At that moment, her thinking completely changed!

Suddenly, a terrifying killing intent erupted from Gu Qici's body, like an exploding volcano, threatening to devour everyone around her, leaving no survivors. In Gu Qici's heart, only one death remained—kill!

Passive and active are different. In front of Gu Qici, they were all ordinary people. Before Gu Qici's mind was changed, they would not be harmed as long as they did not get close to Gu Qici's body. But now, Gu Qici has changed and become cruel. No matter whether they get close to her or not, she will kill them!

In an instant, a sailor who approached her was instantly torn to pieces by countless ice blocks, and even the blood on his body was frozen. But the people following behind continued to charge at Gu Qici. Gu Qici's eyes turned red as she manipulated the power in her hands, freezing a portion of the surrounding sea. Those people whose ships she had previously destroyed and who had fallen to the bottom of the sea were also turned into ice sculptures in that instant!

Then, she revealed a sinister smile, waved her hands, and countless ice blocks flew from the sea below. They were like ice arrows, immediately striking the intact ships. In just a few blinks, many sailors around her were all killed by the ice arrows!

Blood stained the sea red, but Gu Qici's slaughter had only just begun. After killing the sailors on this ship, she moved swiftly to another ship and began her killing spree!

Suddenly, screams, cries of fear, and cries of pain filled the air, but Gu Qici remained oblivious. She twisted the neck of a girl who had no ability to resist, amidst her fear. At this moment, she had completely lost herself. In pursuit of that thrill and satisfaction, she would kill anyone!

At the same moment she was killing, the people on the other intact ships all moved towards this side. The sailors on their respective ships seemed to have lost their minds and rushed towards Gu Qici without fear of death. In an instant, countless limbs and severed arms flew into the sky under Gu Qici's absolute strength!

She slaughtered one ship, then another, unleashing her spiritual power, leaving countless dead. Her madness grew stronger and stronger. She possessed the power of Yin, so if she reached an extreme in something, she would follow that extreme until she was exhausted and died. Therefore, she was no longer helpless, no longer complicated, no longer had anything like before; she was simply killing! Killing! Killing!

Blood continued to flow, and Gu Qici continued to kill. She forgot about time, forgot to speak, forgot her original intention. She didn't know how long she had been killing, how many people she had killed, or why she was killing. She was simply enjoying the intense pleasure that the torture brought her. In other words, this pleasure had numbed her!

She continued killing until she had finished killing everyone in front of her and arrived at the last ship, where she began her slaughter again. However, there was only one person on this ship, a little girl, a very beautiful little girl, who was trembling and curled up, staring at Gu Qici with great fear in her eyes as she approached!

Without hesitation, Gu Qici's eyes flashed red the moment she saw the little girl, and she immediately pounced on her as if she wanted to tear her in two. But just as she was about to touch the little girl, her hand suddenly stopped, her expression changed, and a slight clarity appeared in her mind. The reason was that she actually recognized the little girl!

That was the only playmate I knew when I was a child.

"No! Don't!" Gu Qici said intermittently, a hint of tenderness appearing in her eyes, but her face was still contorted and her hands were still trembling, showing that she was resisting the bloodlust in her heart!

The little girl didn't respond to Gu Qici's words. The moment Gu Qici stopped, the little girl, crying, quickly left Gu Qici's side. But Gu Qici had already killed so many people, and the murderous intent in her heart had long surpassed her will. Therefore, the moment the little girl ran away, Gu Qici could no longer regain her senses, and one of her hands immediately pierced through the little girl's chest.

Blood stained Gu Qici's hands again, but this time the blood was different from the previous blood. The moment it touched Gu Qici's body, her body suddenly trembled, and she slowly woke up in a strange way. But the world she saw at this moment had undergone a huge change!

Chapter 165 Confusion

This was a black swamp, and the sky was still that icy expanse. She still stood in the air, but at this moment, her mind was in turmoil, as if she were suffering from extremely intense torment. However, because of her clarity of mind, the feeling was somewhat lessened, but that last scene was like a seed, deeply planted in her heart.

"Ahhh..." Gu Qici roared to the sky, but before she could catch her breath, a faint pulling force spread over her body, as if to slowly pull her down.

Although Gu Qici did not touch the swamp below, the pulling force was slowly getting stronger, forcing her to reconsider her thoughts and face the current situation.

But before Gu Qici could figure out any details of this world, something incredible suddenly happened.

She felt dizzy and everything seemed to have undergone a tremendous change, but she felt nothing. She only knew that her mind was stunned, and her whole body was suddenly surrounded by countless bits of mud.

She was completely buried in the mud of the swamp.

Once she regained her senses, she was so overwhelmed by the situation that she almost broke down. Fortunately, her willpower was extraordinary, and she quickly calmed her wildly beating heart. Moreover, she was astonished to find that she could actually breathe in the swamp, and even breathe.

This is simply unbelievable, but now it has actually happened to Gu Qici, just like this place is no different from the outside world.

That's true, but who would want to stay in such a strange swamp forever? The answer is obvious: no one.

Gu Qici was no exception. However, just as Gu Qici was thinking of leaving this place, a withered hand suddenly grabbed her right foot, which was rising, with a hellish aura. Gu Qici was stunned and turned her head. Her expression changed drastically because she found that in the depths of this swamp, there were countless corpses with red eyes that were looking at her.

Even with Gu Qici's courage, she couldn't say she was unaffected by this scene. What she didn't expect was that these people were the very ones she had just killed, and the one who grabbed her corpse was none other than the little girl—her childhood playmate.

Gu Qici could hardly hide her emotions; her expression was complicated because the playmate in front of her was so real that she couldn't quite distinguish between truth and falsehood.

Despite not being able to distinguish between them, and despite believing them to be true, Gu Qici immediately suppressed all her thoughts and regarded the playmate in front of her as an illusion. All she could do was try her best to break free from this swamp.

She had a feeling that if she could get out of here, she might be able to leave this world completely. So, thinking of this, Gu Qici took a deep look at her withered playmate and a hint of ruthlessness flashed in her heart: "I'm sorry."

After saying these words, Gu Qici's ice power immediately activated, and an ice bow and an ice arrow instantly materialized in her hands. In that instant, she also aimed the tip of the ice arrow at her withered playmate.

Without further hesitation, Gu Qici channeled her spiritual energy into the bow and arrow, then released the ice arrow.

The ice arrow was extremely powerful, and because it was so close to its target, only a flash of brown light could be seen before it struck the body of the withered corpse companion.

But after the brown light disappeared, Gu Qici's expression changed repeatedly, because her ice bow and arrow had no effect on this playmate she thought was an illusion, as if she had not launched an attack at all.

Although this situation surprised Gu Qici, she wasn't too astonished. After all, this place was strange, and it was normal for unexpected things to happen. So, gritting her teeth and in pain, she shot another ice arrow.

However, the result was exactly the same as before. The withered companion still showed no reaction or harm, and continued to hold onto Gu Qici's foot tightly, trying to drag her into the abyss of hell. This gave Gu Qici a bad feeling, and her face turned extremely ugly.

Just as she finally calmed herself down and prepared to launch another attack, her withered companion's eyes flickered, and she suddenly uttered, "Are you going to kill me?"

Suddenly, Gu Qici's fingers, which were drawing the bow and arrow, paused abruptly. A wave of reminiscence surged into the depths of her soul, causing some of the few beautiful scenes from her childhood to flash before her eyes.

"Me." Gu Qici's mind was in turmoil. She saw the past, her promise, and her most beautiful playmate, but she didn't realize that her body had been dragged down a little further by this withered playmate.

But the moment Gu Qici was pulled down, she was jolted awake, as if from a dream. In her confusion and doubt, she relied on her iron will to regain her consciousness.

"No..." Gu Qici roared, as if she wanted to escape from this place, as if she wanted to break free from her playmate's hand.

At the same time, the rotting corpses behind her playmates gathered together in a mournful manner, one after another, and actually helped her playmates grab Gu Qici's left foot, making it even more difficult for Gu Qici to break free.

Gu Qici's resistance was naturally futile. She really didn't want to attack her playmate, because each attack would cause her more pain and rekindle her memories. But at that moment, she suppressed her emotions, drew back the ice bow and arrow, and aimed it downwards.

This time, however, she wasn't aiming at her playmate, but at the seemingly endless corpses behind her. A cold glint flashed in her eyes, and she lowered the bowstring without hesitation.

"Although I can't bring myself to attack my friends, I will have no qualms about attacking you dead corpses who should have died anyway."

At that moment, a loud boom resounded, and with the power of the ice arrow echoing, countless shrill cries immediately reverberated through the swamp. The power used by Gu Qici in this attack far exceeded that of her attack on her playmate. Although it was somewhat of a venting of anger, it still blossomed into a dazzling spark in the dark swamp.

But what happened next shocked Gu Qici's heart once again. When the sparks disappeared, the countless withered corpses were completely unharmed. Moreover, in that instant, the faces of those withered corpses all turned into the faces of her playmates, and they uttered the same words: "...Are you going to kill me?"

In the blink of an eye, the voices, like a death knell, began to repeat endlessly in Gu Qici's ears. They varied in tone, timbre, and even volume, but it was precisely these variations that caused a crack to appear in Gu Qici's mind in an instant.

"Ah..." A scream of extreme agony immediately escaped Gu Qici's lips. She clutched her head with both hands, her face contorted, and her body thrashed about. It seemed that even with her strong willpower, she still couldn't resist the thousands upon thousands of stimuli. These stimuli were like an immense amount of information, forcefully crammed into her mind, causing her head to become chaotic and instantly producing a sharp pain.

The withered corpses below paid no heed to Gu Qici's pain. Starting with the first withered corpse, which seemed like a playmate, a connecting force pulled Gu Qici's body down a little, and then, due to Gu Qici's pain, pulled it down a little more. In this way, little by little, Gu Qici's body was already just a hair's breadth away from the lowest point of the swamp.

But Gu Qici was indeed a cultivator at the ninth level of the Sky Gazing Realm. At this critical moment, a glimmer of light flashed in her eyes. In the midst of that endless pain, she managed to maintain a sliver of consciousness. And in this desperate situation, she decisively mobilized her spiritual power, which then formed a powerful burst of energy.

Suddenly, a powerful explosion of spiritual energy erupted below her left leg.

And it was through this pain that she managed to maintain her last vestiges of consciousness. It was through this action that she finally managed to escape the corpse. However, she had no time to care about her injuries. She gritted her teeth, endured the pain, and began to swim frantically, hoping to return to the air as soon as possible.

But despair had only just begun. Just as she swam to the center, another withered corpse grabbed her other leg and pulled her back to the abyss. Gu Qici was shocked. She had no choice. She had already swum this far and could not give up. So, she hardened her expression and detonated her right leg as well.

Having lost both legs, her pain was extreme, but she paid no heed and continued swimming upstream. Just as she was about to reach the surface of the swamp, her right hand was suddenly grabbed by a withered corpse at the last moment. Seeing that she was about to escape, she had no choice but to give up and not let her previous efforts go to waste.

So, at the peak of her heart, her spiritual power circulated once again. She gave up her right hand, and with this sacrifice, her broken body finally left the swamp. Fortunately, she was strong enough that, despite the pain of losing both legs and an arm, she still managed to fly into the air.

But this time, she really gave up.

Because the moment she took to the air, the entire world in her eyes underwent an incredible reversal; her soaring into the air was equivalent to her falling to the lowest point of the swamp.

When she finally came to her senses, countless withered corpses bearing the images of her playmates had already buried her. She didn't know what had happened; she had lost everything, only to be met with death.

This kind of despair is beyond human comprehension.

Just when everything seemed to have settled down, the world Gu Qici lived in suddenly changed again.

……

This is a forest filled with tall black trees. The forest is so large that it is somewhat frightening. However, Gu Qici is no longer in the swamp, but has reappeared in mid-air.

To Gu Qici's own surprise, her body, which had been shattered, completely recovered at this moment, as if the scenes just now were just a dream, blurring the lines between reality and illusion.

"A dream...a dream?" Gu Qici gasped for breath, her confusion tinged with pain.

"No. It wasn't a dream, that feeling... was real..." As she murmured to herself, Gu Qici's eyes grew brighter, as if she had gained some basic understanding of this series of events.

"Could it be... this is..." Gu Qici murmured softly.

But at that very moment, a sense of danger similar to that of the previous three worlds enveloped her, causing her to frown and suddenly become alert.

However, just as she was about to land in the forest and explore it thoroughly, her mood plummeted. Her body suddenly began to fall, as if she had lost the ability to fly, leaving her helpless.

Fortunately, having experienced the previous three worlds, her heart had undergone some changes, so she remained relatively calm and did not panic or overthink. She simply took a deep breath after falling into the forest.

"Forget it, there's no point in thinking about it. Since it's for my sake, I can only keep going." With that thought, Gu Qici looked into the interior of the black forest, then lifted her foot and began to move.

However, even though she was heading towards the interior of the forest, she returned to where she started a little while later.

as……

"Lost? No, this forest is impossible to escape from." Gu Qici thought to herself, a thought forming in her mind: "If that's the case? Then..."

With another thought, Gu Qici moved, her expression hardening. As her spiritual energy circulated within her body, a white light containing a burning sensation silently emerged from the ground, instantly blasting a large tree into dust. However, the shattered tree quickly grew back, its black trunk seemingly even taller than before.

To Gu Qici's surprise, in the instant the black wood turned to dust, she seemed to hear a person's lament, and in that lament, there seemed to be a hint of relief.

Gu Qici didn't hear very clearly, so she thought for a while and used the white light again to shatter a tree. Black wood chips flew in the air, and Gu Qici immediately put her ear to listen. This time, she did hear a sound, but this sound was not the sad sound she had initially thought of, but a kind of shrill roar.

"What's going on?" Gu Qici was extremely puzzled; she simply couldn't understand it.

But her confusion didn't last long; she found the answer in the subsequent strange changes.

Chapter 166 The Wooden Man

The Black Forest World.

About half an hour later, Gu Qici's body was covered in wounds, and she was in a very sorry state. During that time, the moment she heard that shrill sound, four wooden figures that looked like real people immediately appeared in front of her and attacked her.

In response, Gu Qici naturally began to fight back. However, after this battle, Gu Qici's strength was severely depleted, yet her opponents remained completely unscathed. This made Gu Qici wonder, were they really wooden figures?

But these wooden figures are quite peculiar. Not only are they flexible in their dissection, but each wooden figure also has a different expression on its face, such as joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, just like a mask.

At the same time, just as Gu Qici was pondering a solution, four more wooden figures appeared in front of her. They were all different, tall, short, fat, and thin.

Just when Gu Qici thought the eight wooden figures would attack together, something strange happened. The figures that had been attacking Gu Qici suddenly disappeared without a trace.

This startled Gu Qici. Although the number of enemies had decreased, she felt no joy. She felt that trouble was approaching.

In this world, there is only one thing: Gu Qici's battles. After fighting the four wooden figures of joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, she fought the four wooden figures of tall, short, fat, and thin. But after the tall, short, fat, and thin ones were defeated, the twelve wooden figures of men, women, old, and young began a wheel battle, constantly consuming Gu Qici's spiritual power and physical strength.