After the Ruthless Daoist Immortal Venerable Refined My Core

[Gentle and aloof heaven's favored daughter × Tsundere Demon Lord who falls for her on his own]

Everyone under heaven knew that the Immortal Realm had a jinx of a god. She ranked at the very bottom of the celestial ranks, yet harbored grand ambitions.

She was a god everyone loved to hate. The Three Realms kept their distance from her, and after she failed her tribulation for the ninth time, everyone felt relieved. After all, if she failed ten tribulations, her soul would scatter, and she would never be reborn.

She thought the tenth time would be no different. Bai Qiu fell into the mortal world, endured countless hardships, and ultimately met a miserable end.

But on a snowy night, an Immortal Venerable saved her. He stroked her head and gently said, "Don't be afraid." Bai Qiu began to doubt her resolve to undergo the tribulation.

Just as Bai Qiu decided she would rather never enter the cycle of reincarnation again, and spend the rest of her life in this place, she discovered that the Immortal Venerable was not as he appeared.

Dressed in red wedding robes, she sat beneath the red candlelight and gauze curtains, waiting, only for someone to take her golden core.

The Immortal Venerable's gaze was pained, but his eyes were ice-cold. "Bai Qiu, do you regret it?"

Even her usually gentle and modest senior brother showed his true colors. "Thank you for your golden core. It helped me reach the Nascent Soul stage."

Only then did Bai Qiu understand that their companionship, their affection, had all been no more than bubbles in the air.

She closed her eyes and fell into the endless abyss, dying amid boundless spiritual energy.

At some point afterward, the Demon Realm gained a guardian who was even colder and more ruthless than the Demon Lord.

She upheld justice among mortals, yet loathed the cultivators.

No matter what path she cultivated, she advanced at an astonishing pace. Before long, her cultivation surpassed that of the feared demon who had once terrorized everyone. She could send her foes fleeing in disarray without even relying on magical artifacts.

Everyone in the Demon Realm respected and supported her.

The cultivators hated her deeply, yet could do nothing to her.

Though the common people knew she was a demon, they still built shrines in her honor.

When the Three Realms descended into chaos and the Demon Realm attacked the cultivation world, she appeared in white, the blade in her hand gleaming coldly as she pointed it straight at the Immortal Venerable.

Bai Qiu threw his own words back at him. "Yuan Qing, do you regret it?"

Later, Bai Qiu sacrificed herself to save the world and countless lives, bringing the turmoil among the Three Realms to an end.

At last, she reached the Divine Transformation stage and ascended. After completing her tribulation, she returned to protect all living beings.

But on that day, the Demon Lord had leaped into the Ten-Thousand-Demon Cavern with her, leaving behind only a wisp of his soul.

Afterward, the immortals saw a little white cloud spirit always following the High Goddess Bai Qiu around. He loved telling everyone that she was his immortal partner. His voice was babyish, but his temper was anything but.

Bai Qiu paid him no mind. She remembered that night in the Demon Realm, when Haoyue, his eyes red, had firmly told her beside the frozen river that he was going to be stuck on her forever.

This was his tribulation of love. She owed him.

Theme: Good and evil are repaid in kind, and karma comes full circle.