Those Years as a Stand-In for the Abusive Demon Lord

Yin Zaiyue, the only graduate of the Supreme Dao of Emotionlessness.

As Yin Zaiyue and her companions are hunted down by the Four Sects, Eight Schools, and the demons, all calling them monsters, and are left barely clinging to life,

she looks up and decides to strike down the immortals.

With the Celestial River frozen and the mortal world suffering, she decisively slaughters three thousand immortals, setting the river flowing again and achieving the Dao.

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After Shen Xi learns that Yin Zaiyue cultivates the Dao of Emotionlessness, his heart breaks piece by piece.

He accompanies Yin Zaiyue as she purges the demonic energy, becomes a sword spirit to slay evil immortals, and outlives the scheming senior brother and the Demon Lord.

And Yin Zaiyue still forgets him again and again.

For a while, he suspects he has fallen into a secret realm of tribulation of love.

Yin Zaiyue lies quietly in his arms as she sleeps, holding his arm.

Well, he doesn't mind that.

Immortal-Slaying Theater:

Yin Zaiyue stands atop a bolt of white lightning. Her sword cleaves it back into the sky, blinding the God of Thunder.

The immortals of the Third Heaven are all on edge, and the auspicious clouds beneath their feet shake violently.

Some of the new immortal soldiers even fall like dumplings into Ganyuan, where Junior Sister watches over them.

Some disciples from the sects even manage to ascend.

The lightning coiled around her hand winds around it as docilely as a little snake, while the black dragon before her attacks without pause.

She gets Heimu to hand over the list of immortals.

"I'll send you all back to the Great Dao right now."

The immortals fall from the sky like dumplings. Some turn into fertile soil, freed from the torment of being bound to the earth.

Others become mountains and rivers, making the frozen, dried-up waterways flow again.

Shen Xi, the foremost disciple of his sect and master of the Xihe Sword, encounters a flower spirit with no cultivation. The Xihe Sword stops working, reminding him of the ancient legend about the sword changing hands.

His fate, bound to Yin Zaiyue's by one death and one life, is decided from that moment on. Unfortunately, he doesn't believe it.

Demons invade during the sect tournament, and Yin Zaiyue kills the senior brother.

Shen Xi fails to finish her off and pursues her relentlessly.

But later, everything changes.

A true villain who kills his master and fellow disciples and seeks to destroy the world, a Demon Lord & a heartless, soul-devouring flower spirit -- the leader of the righteous path (a rotten man with a genuine heart; the Demon Lord is not the male lead)

Chu Qiongyan, the senior brother of the sect, kills his mentor, extracts his spiritual consciousness, murders his fellow disciples, practices forbidden arts, and conspires with the Demon Lord.

He commits every evil under the sun within his sect, pretending to be righteous while remaining hypocritical and sinister.

To him, there are only two kinds of people: those he can use and the dead. That is, until he uses a flower spirit to heal his wounds, lets her bind him with her body, and forges the Xuanyin Blade into a bracelet for her, convinced he's treating her well.

When he sacrifices the entire sect, she betrays him without hesitation, leaving him with just one reason: he's not a good person.

Chu Qiongyan falls into a coma, and only one of his souls drifts into the mortal world.

When he sees that flower spirit again, she ventures alone into the demon realm to avenge her dead lover, and once more turns her blade against him.

Lover. Chu Qiongyan repeats the word countless times in his heart. If that thing can be called love, then what does that make him?

Short Scene:

In the soft rain over the lotus pond, the lotuses drift quietly through his dream. Yin Zaiyue appears in his mind, her hand clasped tightly with He Sheng's. Their hearts beat together, throbbing like water coming to a boil. In the water, the two of them seem to be surrounded by fire. That tingling sensation spreads from their hearts through every limb.

Chu Qiongyan grips the pavilion pillar. His fingertips slowly turn from red to white, and his hand gouges a hole in the wood. His anger makes his heart ache. He looks up at the lotuses in the distance.

"Lianzhen, burn every one of these flowers."

"What?"

Before Lianzhen can act, Chu Qiongyan draws the sword at his waist and swings. More than a dozen lotuses are chopped down, falling into the water.

Lianzhen stares, dumbfounded, unable to react.

Consumed by hatred, Chu Qiongyan even wades into the pond and keeps cutting.

Lianzhen rushes over to stop him. "My lord, you're not fully recovered. Please rest. I'll burn them all right now."

Chu Qiongyan's lips are pale. He braces himself against the pond's edge with his sword, but his eyes seem to hold a hidden flame.

"Burn this pond dry."

Lianzhen thinks to himself, How long is that going to take?

The cultivation system in this story has five levels: Nascent Soul, Valley Spirit, Sitting in Oblivion, Seeing the Unique, and Untroubled Ease.

Theme: Perseverance