At the tender age of ten, he was burdened with a blood feud, followed by countless hopes and betrayals.
Her trusted friends coveted her special bloodline and wanted to skin her alive. Her respected master, in a moment of crisis, unhesitatingly offered her to the enemy and abandoned her. In the end, even her most trusted subordinate and her Daoist partner, with whom she had sworn brotherhood, was found to be one of the murderers in the massacre of her family.
No one knows how heartbroken the Demon Lord was when she killed her Daoist partner. All that is known is that after experiencing all of this, she eventually broke through the Tribulation Transcending stage, not only avenging herself but also becoming the only Demon Lord in the Western Continent.
But when all her past memories are painful, even though she is above everyone else, all she has to do is suffer endless nightmares.
So she ultimately chose to retire.
However, Shen Mo now says that the Demon Lord's experiences were all preordained destinies, and even the truth about the massacre that she believed to be the truth was just the truth that the mastermind wanted her to see.
The Demon Lord's figure suddenly disappeared before Qin Moyu's eyes.
Shen Mo took a step forward and set up an array that enveloped Qin Moyu and himself.
"boom--"
The continuous, enormous explosions startled Qin Moyu. The heavens and earth seemed to tremble with each roar. Surprisingly, the simple house survived. Shen Mo's formation blocked all the flying debris, suggesting that Shen Mo had anticipated this situation.
Qin Moyu put himself in the Demon Lord's shoes and thought that it was already remarkable that the Demon Lord could still retain his rationality and vent his emotions outside. If it were him, he would probably have collapsed.
After an unknown amount of time, the Demon Lord's voice finally drifted from afar.
This time, however, her voice was no longer calm; it was filled with unmistakable hatred.
She said, "Tell me the whole truth."
This truth refers not only to the person behind it, but also to all the causes and consequences.
Shen Mo wasn't surprised by the Demon Lord's words. He looked at Qin Moyu, and thinking of Qin Moyu's background, slowly spoke:
"That begins with the origins of the extremely cold lands."
The origin of everything was just like the dream Qin Moyu saw: a large number of living beings ascended and took away spiritual energy, causing the world's spiritual energy to become unbalanced and even begin to collapse.
But what Qin Moyu didn't tell him in his dream was that at this time, another version of Him was born.
—The consciousness of the Heavenly Way, born amidst the world's lamentations and the resentment of countless lives lost due to natural and man-made disasters.
Unable to bear the thought of being destroyed so soon after its birth, it continuously increased the difficulty of its ascension, but to no avail. In the end, it found Xiang Mei, who was eager to return home.
He said He could help Xiang Mei go back, on the condition that she help him seal the path to heaven.
It was impossible for Xiang Mei to seal the path to heaven by herself alone, so He told the powerful beings in the Tribulation Transcending stage about the world's plight and asked Xiang Mei to persuade them one by one to voluntarily become the cornerstone of the formation.
This is also why Xiang Mei travels around the world.
By virtue of his identity as an incarnation of the Heavenly Dao, He successfully gained the trust of beings in the Tribulation Transcending stage. Faced with the choice between living alone and sacrificing himself, they chose the latter.
Xiang Mei originally designed the formation to absorb the bodies of beings in the Tribulation Transcending stage as the foundation of the formation, and then let their souls enter the cycle of reincarnation, so that perhaps one day they could reach the peak again.
But He deceived them all.
59. Chapter Fifty-Nine: All the truth about Yihua, all of it…
He tampered with Xiang Mei's formation—they were trapped inside forever, forced to reassemble their bodies to guard the frigid land for Him. They lost all their memories, and when they awoke one by one, they faced endless wind and snow, and a long period of time.
The loneliness of the years led them to call themselves the Extreme Cold Clan, seeking solace in the ice and snow.
Besides the extremely cold clan who were completely exploited, even Xiang Mei was harmed by Him.
After killing Xiang Mei, perhaps inspired by Xiang Mei's soul, He began to try to "create" stories.
It is very simple for Him, who holds the authority of the Heavenly Dao, to grant someone extraordinary fortune. He only needs to guide His "protagonists" to meet their destined people at the right time, gradually incite hatred, and save them from danger time and time again.
Whether it was Fen Gong or the Demon Lord, their path to the top was always accompanied by endless pursuit and the destruction of countless families and sects. This was their ultimate goal.
—He wants to create as much bloodshed as possible, so that every time a living being dies, He can absorb more spiritual energy to grow.
The war across the four continents was so fierce that only He, the mastermind behind it all, ultimately emerged victorious.
How many deep-seated hatreds and blood feuds are involved in transforming from an intangible being into human form? No one can say for sure.
Before the Four Continents War, Shen Mo's father summoned all the powerful beings in the Tribulation Transcending stage. At that meeting, Fen Gong "casually" mentioned the Path to Heaven.
No one would be unwilling to break through to the next level, especially those who, after breaking through to the Tribulation Transcending stage, can only watch their lifespan run out helplessly, with no way out. This news is fatally attractive to them.
Tempted by the path to heaven, they put aside all past grudges and agreed to meet in the frigid land. There, they encountered the Frigid Clan, who also longed to leave, and became even more convinced of Fen Gong's message.
It was there that Shen Mo's father met Yu and promised to send the child out of the extreme cold while they were attacking the formation.
"He shouldn't be stuck here."
Yu gently stroked the face of the child in her arms, tears welling in her eyes, and placed a light kiss on his forehead.
"You are free, Mo Yu."
The higher a cultivator's cultivation level, the more difficult it is for them to have offspring, especially in such a harsh environment as the extreme cold. Qin Moyu's birth was a miracle of life from beginning to end.
Unlike the Yu clan, who were born from the formation, Qin Moyu is not cursed by the formation, which is why Yu felt at ease sending him away.
Shen Mo's father, unable to leave the frigid land to help break the great formation, sent his most trusted and strongest subordinate to bring Qin Moyu back to the Southern Kingdom's royal family.
But to everyone's surprise, there were two traitors among them.
Someone ambushed the Demon Lord and Shen Mo's father. The members of the Extreme Cold Clan didn't even have time to react before they were forced to become the energy driven by the formation.