I Became the One He Longed for After I Died

[Reason for entering the competition: This story follows an infamous villainess, once betrayed and left for dead, whom everyone despises. Reborn in the body of a useless girl, she cultivates her way back to power, hunts down the people who plotted her death, and eventually ascends to godhood, her sword pointing to the heavens.] Mu Jiangling cultivates the ghost path and is reviled by the world as a villainess. She had been ordered to suppress bandits by Emperor Xuanyuan and returned victorious, only to be sent to the Spirit Execution Platform. Several bolts of lightning struck her, but she remained unmoved. "I wiped out a whole city's worth of bandits for the empire. What crime have I committed?" "The people you slaughtered were the city's entire population." Mu Jiangling couldn't believe that Emperor Xuanyuan had really ordered the massacre. She was about to explain, but all she got in reply was, "Immortality requires a sacrifice of the living." Then her benefactor, Emperor Xuanyuan, personally killed her on the Spirit Execution Platform. She had practiced forbidden ghost arts, helping him ascend to the throne step by step. Now he was using her to obtain an immortal body and eternal life. Thirty years later, Sang Yun, the legitimate daughter of the Sang family in Saint Spirit Village on the border of the Xuanyuan Empire, kneels in the Sang family ancestral hall. Her slender wrists are covered in shocking scars, and fresh blood drips down. "I beg Mu Jiangling to possess my body." After a long pause, the girl's lips curve into a faint smile. She raises her eyes. "I, Mu Jiangling, have returned." Later, unable to win her love, Xuanyuan Che gouges out one of his eyes and becomes immortal and indestructible. He watches over her corpse for thirty years, and after all that time, she runs him through the heart with a single sword strike. No one ever imagined that the very Mu Jiangling they once despised would one day have them kneeling before her and calling her a god. Warnings: 1. The heroine's golden finger is extremely powerful, and she has many other advantages. The worldbuilding is entirely author-created. 2. Xuanyuan Che is not the male lead. He's the ashes scattered at the cremation ground. 3. Cultivation levels: Spirit User, Spirit Saint, Spirit Master, Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, the Nine Paths of the Heavenly Gods (Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren), Heavenly Emperor, God Set in a fictional world, with extensive author-created details. Theme: My fate is mine to command, not Heaven's