Heart Demon [Reborn]

Shen Fu had cultivated the Path of Ruthlessness for a hundred years, and his cultivation had always progressed smoothly. But when he suddenly hit a bottleneck, he decided to go big.

He failed his tribulation, and the lightning gave rise to a heart demon.

This heart demon, whose origins were unknown and whose face he couldn't make out, disrupted his cultivation. Whenever it appeared in his sea of consciousness, it spoke frivolously and got handsy at the slightest opportunity, behaving like a lecher.

Heart Demon: "Immortal Lord, what's so good about cultivating the Path of Ruthlessness? Why not spend every day making love with me and lose ourselves in passion?"

Shen Fu: "...How dare you!"

Shen Fu fought the heart demon for three hundred rounds, but still couldn't destroy it.

He decided this couldn't go on.

After guarding the desolate north for a hundred years, the foremost figure of the immortal sect, just one step away from ascension, decided to descend the mountain and seek experience.

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Everyone said that Immortal Lord Liuchen was cold-hearted and would never soften or fall for anyone. Wenren Yu refused to believe it. He pursued Shen Fu for half his life, even offering his own life as a torch, but couldn't melt the ice around his heart.

Atop the immortal mountain in the desolate north, the former fellow disciples, now one the leader of the righteous path and the other the Supreme of the Demon Clan, stood on opposing sides and had no choice but to fight each other to the death.

Wenren Yu was slain by Shen Fu's sword. He should have been utterly annihilated, but instead he returned to the time before he went to the desolate north, just after crawling out of the Demon Realm's forbidden grounds, where every step had meant life or death.

Reborn, he had no desire to return to the immortal mountain in the desolate north and suffer that heart-searing pain again. He only wanted to be a free and carefree wandering cultivator.

Yet when they met again in a secret realm, Shen Fu was consumed by desire, his senses clouded, while the phantom of a heart demon held his chin and whispered seductively to him.

Wenren Yu was overcome with rage, so jealous he was nearly driven mad.

Until later, when Shen Fu's foundation was shattered and a single thought turned him demonic, making him a target for everyone to kill.

Only then did the heart demon hidden deep within his soul finally reveal its true form. As he held the fallen leader of the immortal sect, the demon's face, brimming with demonic energy, was exactly the same as Wenren Yu's.

Wenren Yu: My love rival is actually myself?

Content warnings:

1. Both are reborn, both have lost their memories, and the gong is split into fragments.

2. A whole pot of xianxia cultivation melodrama (?).

3. One-on-one, both are each other's only partners, happy ending.

Theme: Facing the wind head-on