When a Ruthless Daoist Meets a Paranoid Demon Lord

Everyone says Xun Ning was born emotionally detached, a perfect candidate for cultivating the Heartless Path.

And in fact, she lives up to that reputation. Three years after joining Tianyuan Sect, she forms her Golden Core; five years later, she reaches the Deity Transformation stage. Her cultivation speed is unprecedented.

Her senior fellow disciples place great hopes on her, looking forward to her stabilizing her cultivation in the Reincarnation Realm and then leading the younger generation of the sect in their duty to fight demons and uphold justice.

When Xun Ning enters the Reincarnation Realm, she remains completely undisturbed. She even saves a child inside.

Only after leaving the realm does she learn that the child she inadvertently rescued in the illusion was none other than Jing Jue, the future Demon Venerable, as a boy.

Had she not intervened, Jing Jue would have been consumed by his inner demon in the Reincarnation Realm, dying with his soul destroyed.

Xun Ning decides to undo her mistake and personally slay the Demon Venerable.

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The Demon Venerable Jing Jue is sinister, ruthless, and bloodthirsty. Even hearing his name is enough to make people shudder.

Yet no one knows that in his youth, he suffered a miserable past filled with torment and humiliation.

After becoming a demon, he personally slaughtered everyone who had ever hurt him. But the things he suffered as a child remained a scar in his heart.

When his Golden Core was destroyed and he entered the Reincarnation Realm, trapped in an illusion of his childhood, he thought he had no chance of surviving.

He never imagined that someone would pull him up from the mire, take his hand, and lead him down that long, narrow alley, away from the nightmare of his past.

He fell deeply in love with the hand that held his, and with its warmth.

So the moment he left the illusion, he headed straight for Tianyuan Sect.

He was willing to disguise himself as a righteous cultivator and stay by her side, accompanying her across the Endless Sea, through the Heavenly Demon Tribulation, and into a bloody battle against a hundred thousand spirits of the underworld...

Even though he knew she cultivated the Heartless Path, he believed that after all these years, he would become the exception.

Only when his identity was exposed and she mercilessly drove her sword into his lungs did he realize that she truly had no heart.

At last, he cast off his disguise and imprisoned her beneath the Sea of No Crossing, greedily demanding all the days and nights she had once denied him...

Theme: Pursue what you desire with courage.