Villain Master, my disciples all want to backstab me

Twelve bone-piercing nails flew out of Xue Yuan's sleeves, and he swung the "Soul-Killing Sword" in his hand. In the blink of an eye, he was fighting with the opponent, and blood splattered everywhere.

Whether intentionally or not, during the fight, Blood Kite happened to throw a younger black-robed monk next to Qingluo. After the latter got up from the ground, he glanced around and then pounced fiercely at Qingluo.

The latter drew his sword in a panic. The short sword glowed green under the infusion of true energy and pointed at the wrist of the black-robed monk, but the latter dodged sideways and then stabbed Qingluo in the heart with another sword.

Although she had excellent talent and possessed the [Clear Heart Sword Bone], Qingluo was still young. Whenever the sword was about to draw blood, she would subtly turn her wrist a little. She was not as vicious and cruel as Xue Yuan taught her, so she soon found herself in danger.

crucial moment.

Xue Yuan shook off the monks in front of him and flew to Qingluo. While blocking a slash from the opposite side with his shoulder, the long sword in his hand also pointed at the opponent's throat.

A sword seals the throat.

puff-

The bright red blood gushed out like a fountain.

By the time the last enemy fell, Xue Yuan's hands were soaked in blood, and his body was covered in bruises. When Qing Luo panicked and tried to bandage the wound, she simply flicked the blood off her sword and said, "See? If you don't kill people, they will kill you."

"This world has always been run this way, so never show mercy to your enemies, or you will die without a burial place."

“…” Qingluo pursed her lips and remained silent.

"Let's go."

Xue Yuan glanced in the direction they came from. "These people are from the outer sect of the Blood Origin Sect. It seems that the man we killed last time in Longshan Town was quite powerful... Let's go. This matter is not over yet. We need to find a place to settle down and prepare before the next wave of pursuers arrives."

"……Yes."

That night in the cave.

Facing the bonfire, Qingluo repeatedly practiced the same move she'd used earlier that day, "Green Snake Spits Tongue." Her swordsmanship was already incredibly talented, and now, with each failure, she'd learned a lesson, and soon, she was practicing it to a decent standard.

Xue Yuan leaned against the rock wall, quietly watching the new disciple's training. The firelight gilded the girl's outline, and Qing Luo could be seen biting her lower lip unconsciously, looking extremely focused - a habit she had developed during the beating she received during her first year as a disciple.

Amidst the cold wind, a gust of snow blew, covering the figures of the master and disciple.

……

Next, memories began to flow faster.

Bai Yuan saw countless fragments flash by:

In the fishing town by the river, Xue Yuan taught Qing Luo how to wield a sword. The girl's eyes reddened slightly as she felt the pain, but she still held back her tears and continued to swing the sword.

On a dark and thundering day, Qingluo went into her master's bedroom, hugging her quilt, saying that she was afraid of thunder.

On Xue Yuan's birthday—or to be more precise, a date Xue Yuan had casually made up—Qing Luo used wildflowers to weave an exquisite sword tassel and quietly tied it to Master's sword.

There is also the experience of the master and disciple working together to fight against various characters including the Blood Source Sect and kill each other.

until……

That rainy night that seemed like fate.

Seventeen-year-old Qingluo stood in front of the mountain stream, covered in blood, holding a long sword. She looked at the people on the other side with an expression of disbelief, and her voice was faintly filled with panic:

"Master, have you gone astray? Wake up, I'm Qing'er!"

"..."

no respond.

In other words, what responded to Qingluo was a sword light as black as ink - the Soul-Slaying Sword, Level 7!

Qingluo raised her sword to block, but the seemingly indifferent sword light directly crushed her sword force. Then, the protective Qi that she had cultivated for over a decade was torn apart like paper. The remaining sword force came with the wind and directly split her body into pieces!

thump--!

Qingluo's body fell to the ground like a broken rag doll. She felt as if every bone in her body had been broken, and blood gushed out of every pore in her body. However serious the physical injuries were, they were far less intense than the psychological pain.

She opened her blood-stained eyes wide and looked across the stream. There, a familiar yet unfamiliar figure was slowly approaching, carrying a chilling murderous intent and murderous aura.

"Master..."

Qingluo also wanted to try calling the Blood Kite.

But the next moment, Xue Yuan's figure flashed and appeared in front of Qing Luo. With a flick of his fingertips, he picked up her body from the ground and then strangled her throat in mid-air.

"Squeak..."

Qingluo wanted to open her mouth, but she couldn't say anything. She could only watch helplessly as her former master slit open the collar of her shirt and then looked at her chest with a cold and terrifying look, as if looking at a piece of merchandise:

"After ten years... this Heart Purifying Sword Bone has finally matured."

"?!"

Qingluo's pupils suddenly shrank.

Of course, she knew what "Purifying Heart Sword Bone" was—as early as her first year as a disciple, Xue Yuan had told her that she possessed a sword-shaped spiritual bone within her body, a rare sword-cultivating prodigy, and that she would one day hopefully achieve enlightenment through swordsmanship and enter the realm of Return to the Void. But now...

The coldness and emptiness in her master's eyes reminded her of the wild wolf that had followed her all the way when she left her hometown in Nanyunzhou and fled for survival.

"Master, wake up quickly..."

Qingluo still wanted to make one last struggle.

However, Xue Yuan's next move ruthlessly shattered her fantasy.

With a "puff," Xue Yuan's right hand pierced her abdomen, and blood dripped down her fair arm. Qing Luo looked down in disbelief, seeing the hand groping inside her body, making a creepy, sticky sound.

More blood flowed out from the huge torn wound, dripping onto the ground, staining the green grass red.

"found it."

Xue Yuan pulled his hand away, revealing a small, pale golden bone between his fingers. Shaped like a sword, it shone like jade. After being thrown away, Qing Luo collapsed in a pool of blood, her every breath laced with blood foam.

Xue Yuan wiped the blood off the sword bone, glanced at Qing Luo, and seemed ready to leave, but when he turned around, he paused and said in a cold tone: "I told you a long time ago that this world has always been like this. The weak are not qualified to decide their own life and death.

"But considering that you are a diligent disciple, I will let you stay here and fend for yourself."

After saying that, Blood Yuan turned around and was about to leave.

Qingluo summoned her last bit of strength and grabbed the hem of her clothes. Xueyuan glanced back and saw a frightening fire burning in the dying girl's eyes: "Xueyuan... if I don't die today... I will make you pay with blood!"

"Oh?"

Xue Yuan smiled, his expression looking a little ferocious, and then he casually kicked her hand away: "Okay, then I'll wait for you to crawl out of hell and take revenge on me."

……

The memory picture ends here.

Bai Yuan withdrew his attention from the shattered starry sky, closed his eyes and calmed himself for a moment, then opened them again and looked at Gui Yuan, who was half-sitting up across from him. He took a deep breath and said, "Did your training really go awry at that time? Did you become possessed?"

Bai Yuan probably knew a little about the side effects of the Heart-Ronging Pill, but he wasn't sure how strong those effects would be.

Looking at the previous memories, Xue Yuan and Qing Luo did have a period of tenderness, which was completely different from his later attitude towards Jiang Rao and Ye Shuang as a child. However, in this situation, Xue Yuan chose to attack Qing Luo for the sake of "Clarifying Heart Sword Bone".

Although this makes sense from a motivational perspective, but...

It always gives people a subtle sense of disharmony.

"…Yes and no."

In response to Bai Yuan's question, Gui Yuan paused for a moment, then suddenly posed a rather abrupt question: "Do you think that the growth and decay of plants and trees, the cycle of cause and effect, in this world, is predetermined?"

"Ok?"

Bai Yuan raised his eyebrows.

Then Gui Yuan continued, "Those who cultivate the mind generally adhere to the Way of Heaven. If they go against Heaven's will, they will suffer disastrous consequences. But... whose will is this 'Heaven's will'? Is the fate of all living beings determined by themselves, or is it already written by it from the beginning?"

"You should have heard the stories told by storytellers in the mortal world, right?"

If we consider those stories as real little worlds, then the person who wrote them is undoubtedly the 'Way of Heaven' in that world. He controls the fate of all people and things, from the smallest details like the birth and death of a blade of grass or a tree to the grander details like the changing landscapes and the vicissitudes of life...

“Even if the people in the story realize something, they can only exist within the story. They can never jump out of the book and rebel against the writer of the story.”

"so……

"Is it possible that the real world we see, the past that was once real, and everything that will appear in the future, are also just a 'story' written by others?"

"??"

Bai Yuan thought to himself, what the hell.

I never thought that you, the murderous Demon Lord, were also a thoughtful philosopher who even began to ponder the existence of the world...

Chapter 200 I am reborn!

Say something.

From a God's perspective, Gui Yuan's speculation is indeed quite reasonable.

If this world truly emanated from Bai Yuan's previous life's work, "Asking the Immortal," then its broad framework was created by the "Asking the Immortal" development team. As "storytellers" and "upper-level narrators" from a higher dimension, they established some basic settings, established key nodes, and then began to evolve the story.

These "settings" can be applied to the entire world:

For example, there are the Four Sects of the Righteous Path, the Six Lords of the Demonic Path, and important events such as "The Extermination of the Jiang Family" and "The War to Eliminate Demons".

It can also be targeted at individuals:

As for the character "Blood Kite", she is positioned as the villain boss and the master of the three girls of destiny. She has an inexplicable grudge and entanglement with these three disciples.

And her ending, or "fate", is death.

"so……"

"You believe that everything you did to Qingluo was part of 'fate,' driven by 'divine will.' Even if you didn't intend to do so, all sorts of arrangements and coincidences would have led you to do such a heart-wrenching act against Qingluo?"

Bai Yuan looked at Gui Yuan.

Gui Yuan nodded: "I have no intention of defending myself, and I have long been prepared to pay back the blood debt for everything I have done over the years, but this is the fact."

"Perhaps it's because of my cultivation of the Way of Time that I've always been sensitive to these things. Back when I was still a disciple of Blood Refiner, I'd experienced this feeling before. I always felt as if my every move was being watched by some unknown being.

"But at that time, the feeling was still vague and harmless to me, so I didn't pay much attention to it."

"However, after killing Qingluo, it suddenly became clearer than ever before, and for the first time in my life, I felt a sense of fear."

“So I tried to find the answer.”

"I spent ten years traveling to many places, meeting all kinds of people and things, and personally killing many people—good people, bad people, old people, children... I observed their joys, sorrows, anger, and happiness, their seven emotions and six desires, as well as life and death, searching for proof of the existence of 'divine will'."

"The name 'Blood Kite Demon Lord' probably originated during that time."

"I've observed for a long, long time. The more I see, the more I realize that everything in this world seems to have a destiny. There's no true coincidence or chance. Everything is simply arranged and driven by Him. Every cause and effect, every sip and every bite, is predestined."

"But there is only one difference..."

"..."

These memories, of course, are not unique to the Ghost Kite, but belong to the "Blood Kite".

So, follow her story.

The same fragments of memory gradually emerged from the depths of Bai Yuan's mind as the "genuine blood kite". They were then pieced together and reproduced in the form of pictures in the broken starry sky around him.

As for the place that Gui Yuan mentioned...

Bai Yuan naturally thought of it immediately -

"That's right, it's the Cangwu Abyss, located at the junction of life and death!"

The corners of Gui Yuan's mouth curled up slightly, as if mocking him. "It's interesting to say that although 'Heaven's Way' is extremely powerful and omnipresent, able to manipulate everyone's fate, it doesn't seem to have mastered the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and therefore cannot truly control life and death."

"So, after making some preparations, I went to the [Cangwu Abyss]. I wanted to see with my own eyes the boundary between life and death, and the secrets of the [Path of Time], so that I could completely break free from the constraints of 'Heaven's Will' and take control of my own life."

Gui Yuan made a gesture of clenching his palms.

A thread that was originally a bit vague gradually became fuller in her narration.

It must be said that this Demonic Heavenly Monarch was indeed very ambitious. From the very beginning, he had set his sights on the existence of "Heaven's Will" rather than specific individuals like the Blood God Son.

Well, considering that the ghost kite is actually the white kite, so...

Hi, it’s worthy of being “me”!

Bai Yuan gave himself a thumbs up in his heart.

but……

While the goal of "breaking free from the constraints of fate" is ambitious, the path is clearly extremely difficult. Judging from the results, Gui Yuan's attempt to "take his own life into his own hands" has clearly failed...

"No, it didn't fail."

Gui Yuan shook his head. "If I hadn't gone to the Cangwu Abyss, then we wouldn't have met today. And you wouldn't be who you are now. You might have been killed by the Qingxuan Sect, Tianyuan Mountain, the Xueyuan Sect... or someone else. The fact that you and I are here is the result of a departure from our original destiny."