I Really Didn't Mean to Destroy the World

[Preorder for my upcoming novel, Beg Me to Become an Immortal. Please add it to your favorites!] In the Fourteen Provinces, there is a world-ending demon who slaughters her own kin, drives her elder brother to his death, wipes out entire families, and runs rampant across the land, guilty of every conceivable evil. She is so crazed that she wants to devour every living thing in the world. Everyone wants her dead. Yet for a full century, the cultivators of the Fourteen Provinces have faced off against the world-ending demon without a single victory. Every battle has ended in crushing defeat. At the critical moment, a divine miracle appears, summoning the promising talents of the Fourteen Provinces to travel back in time. Their mission is to eliminate the still-weak world-ending demon a hundred years in the past and restore peace to the world. A host of heaven-blessed prodigies answer the call. They travel back in time, eager for a fight and impatient to find the young world-ending demon and kill her as soon as possible. They bear a sacred mission. Nothing could possibly stand in their way. When Zhuoguang wakes from a dream one day, she has become the target of the whole world's pursuit. Her senior brother plots against her in secret, her senior sister hates her to the bone, old friends turn against her, and countless strangers are bent on killing her. They all say the same thing: a hundred years from now, she will destroy the world and become the world-ending demon everyone fears. Zhuoguang can only run for her life. No one expects that every time she is hunted, her cultivation grows another level. Every time she is cornered, she becomes a little stronger. Until, at last, she grows so powerful that no one can hope to match her. The heaven-blessed prodigies pursuing her suddenly realize that the person they have used every scheme, trick, and assassination tactic to hunt down has been driven and pushed by them toward the summit of the world, and she will reach it again in less than a hundred years. They are the ones who have returned her to the altar with their own hands, making her once more the shadow in their hearts and the storm cloud hanging over their heads. That day, they see Zhuoguang storm toward them, murderous aura blazing around her. Just as they think their time has come and peace will never again return to the world, Zhuoguang finally snaps and says: "Who said I was going to destroy the world?!" Many years later, Zhuoguang, who has claimed the highest seat of power in the world, looks back on her life. She is a woman defied by heaven's laws. She has shed blood and tears, crossed seas of blades, climbed perilous peaks, and struggled through mortal danger until she reached the summit. If you asked what path she followed in life, it was nothing more than this: fighting fate to the death. "After years of struggling against myself, I would rather be myself." [Reading Guide] 1. This is not traditional cultivation fantasy. It leans toward Eastern fantasy, and the worldbuilding is entirely original. 2. There are no narcissistic romances or girls' love relationships in this story. 3. The heroine grows stronger over time. She is not as powerful at the beginning as the blurb makes her sound. 4. The heroine is no saint. 5. Cultivation stages: Nine Mountains at Dawn; Thirteen Heavens by Moonlight; Four Watches at Midnight; Entering the World; Sage Theme: The people are the makers of history