Zhou Le transmigrates into the book The Demon Dao as the villainous fifth junior sister.
In the book, the heroine, sixth junior sister Su Yaoxue, is born into a cultivation family. Gifted beyond compare, she is everyone's darling. The original character, by contrast, is an unremarkable and disliked foil to the heroine.
The original character's ending in the book is to become completely corrupted by jealousy and resentment toward the heroine, then be pushed off a cliff by her and have her soul scattered.
Just after transmigrating into the book, Zhou Le is shoved without hesitation into the Abyss of Ten Thousand Desolations by Su Yaoxue!
But unlike what the book says, Zhou Le's soul doesn't scatter. She returns to Wuchen Sect completely unharmed.
To survive in this chaotic era, where monsters run rampant, Zhou Le begins to train diligently.
She pushes past her limits again and again, and the people who once looked down on her gradually begin to see her in a new light.
First, she is forced to take on a Class A mission: capture a thousand-year-old great demon within three days and restore peace to the royal capital.
Then she ventures alone into the Soul Moon Dream-Eating Tower, cutting down a ten-thousand-year-old fiend who once slaughtered an entire city and rescuing a thousand civilians.
Finally, in a demon-hunting secret realm, she runs Su Yaoxue through with her sword, proves her Dao through killing, ascends to the Divine God Realm, and saves countless cultivators.
From then on, she becomes the goddess admired by every disciple of Wuchen Sect, yet forever beyond their reach.
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What no one knows is that Zhou Le can do all this not only because she works hard, but also because a malicious ghost behind her forces her to!
In fact, from the day she fell into the Abyss of Ten Thousand Desolations, she was possessed by an unknown malicious ghost.
His cultivation is unfathomably deep. Whether great demons or vengeful ghosts, they all bow before him and do his bidding.
Under his coercion, Zhou Le has to recite spells even while eating, and hunt monsters even in her dreams...
How could she not improve?
It's not that Zhou Le doesn't want to get rid of the malicious ghost. It's just that no one in all of Wuchen Sect can save her.
Zhou Le: Has the malicious ghost still not left today? Please, can someone save me?
Zhou Le: Wait, why can a ghost be this handsome... Ugh.
At first, she feared and revered him. Later, she pitied and admired him.
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Shen Wunian once plunged the mortal world into decades of bloodshed through his own power, leaving thousands of miles of scorched earth and corpses strewn like ants.
Even after dying and becoming a malicious ghost, the hatred in his heart never faded.
He never imagined that one day he would be able to leave the Abyss of Ten Thousand Desolations.
But now that he was out, he would still walk that dark, hopeless path.
This time, though, on that pitch-black road, he found the only glimmer of light in either of his two lives. Her name was Zhou Le.
Theme: Love is sunlight and warmth. It melts ice frozen for ten thousand years and illuminates endless darkness