I Pledged Allegiance to Evil and Ascended to Heaven

Guan Fengyue is a lowly clam spirit, bullied and mistreated.

She thought Pei Ziyu, who had taken her away from the slave market, was her savior, so she willingly followed him back to his sect. She swallowed crushed stones and turned them into pearls, crafting a spiritual artifact as a birthday gift for him.

Who could have known that before long, the artifact would be on the wrist of the mermaid princess from the South Sea whom he had brought back? When she asked why, he only said, "Jiaojiao is frail." Then he asked if she could lend her shell to make a warm bed for the mermaid.

And so her protective shell was taken from her and became the bed where the two of them cuddled together.

Guan Fengyue: ???

The sect was covered in frost and snow all year round, and she soon fell ill. Meanwhile, she heard that the mermaid was gradually recovering.

As she lay in bed, her consciousness growing hazy, Pei Ziyu came to see her just once. He said, "Jiaojiao's medicine is still missing one ingredient: clam meat. You..."

He took out a knife and carved the flesh from her, cutting out her heart. Struggling was useless. It was too late. She was a fish on the chopping block, at their mercy, and doomed to die.

Blood tears streamed from her eyes as resentment surged through her in a thick, churning tide.

At that moment, an ancient evil being seized the opportunity to enter her. It offered her a deal, promising her the chance to live again.

The evil being's voice was low and cold, like a demon from hell, yet it was also the last lifeline she had.

[Contract established.]

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A billion years ago, the Heavenly Dao was reshaped and the Six Realms were formed. The ancient wild beasts fell one after another.

The last descendant of the ancient Candle Dragon was sheltered within the body of the King of Jiaotu, along with the corpses of his people, and survived by sheer luck. When the Heavenly Dao sensed his existence, it sealed him with the Six Realms Lock. No one within the Six Realms could perceive him, making his existence no different from death.

That was until he met Guan Fengyue and calculated that she was the only variable that could break his seal.

At first, Zhu Ye couldn't understand how this little clam spirit, with her meager spiritual power, could help him break the seal. She wasn't any of the Six Realms Lock's "keys." Only later did he understand: she wasn't a key, but every key came from her.

Reason for entering the competition:

In her previous life, Guan Fengyue was sold into a slave market by her stepfather and used as a medicinal ingredient by the man she thought had saved her. She was powerless to fight back.

Reborn, she no longer relies on anyone and strives to rise. She will make sure the scheming of her executioners from her previous life fails, and she will carve out a peaceful, harmonious land without discrimination for lowly demon slaves like herself.

In the end, she rises against the odds to become the ruler of the demon world, holding up a great umbrella to shelter the weak and fragile spirits.

[Reader's guide]

1. The female lead is reborn at the beginning, but loses her memories after being reborn. She gets them back in Chapter 22.

Theme: A daughter must stand on her own feet