After the Villainess Awakens

“The fourth time, you actually chose to help them,” The Heavenly Demon’s voice was like a death knell hanging over everyone’s heads. “I don’t mind letting you see again how miserably they will die before you.”

As soon as these malicious words fell, the army of demons and monsters rushed towards the cultivators.

The fierce wind was like a knife, and the screams and cries completely tore apart the sky. There were cultivators and demons, both sides as if they had an irreconcilable hatred, using the last bit of their life force, determined to let the other party dye the earth with blood.

Flesh and blood splattered everywhere, the smell of blood rushed into people's noses, blocking their breath and penetrating their eyes. This side of the human border completely turned into a purgatory on earth, only a short distance from the human race.

Leng Mushi's awe-inspiring spiritual power and the Heavenly Demon's scarlet demonic energy collided repeatedly, each protecting the two armies covered by their respective spiritual and demonic energy. The vitality from all directions surged continuously. It was originally the season for the first birth of plants and trees in the world, but because the vitality was being extracted, the withered yellow and dead air continued to spread to farther places.

Leng Mushi frowned. Although the Heavenly Demon's demonic energy was retreating inch by inch, he was smiling.

Leng Mushi couldn't let this desolate death spread across the human border, so she had to temporarily cut off the source of vitality absorption. However, when she looked down at the earth, the cultivators of the cultivation world were about to be unable to hold on.

The huge number of blood demons was enough to make these cultivators overwhelmed, not to mention the three ferocious demon generals. The hairy ape swept his long arm, instantly sweeping away a group of cultivators, including Ni Hanyan, who was holding a beast bone whip and summoning lightning.

She was hit so hard that her internal organs were shattered. After falling to the ground, she was as limp as a water-filled leather bag, twisted out of shape. Her once charming and agile eyebrows overflowed with thick black blood.

Bu Jin, who was holding the Lightning Formation Map, was also swept away by the hairy ape's arm. He landed right next to Ni Hanyan's corpse. Looking at her body piled up like a piece of rotten meat, he got up and for the first time reached out to touch the "mortal world" he had always avoided. He chanted the scriptures of transcendence while arranging Ni Hanyan's corpse into a human shape.

Except for the headmaster who formed the formation, all the disciples of his sect had died. The Buddhist sect was already declining, and Bu Jin did not expect that the one who cooperated with him most tacitly in the end was actually the cultivator of the Huanxi Sect whom he had always avoided the most.

Ni Hanyan, whose beautiful face had turned into a "skeleton", finally made Bu Jin let go of his prejudice and personally transcended her.

Then he grabbed Ni Hanyan's half-broken beast bone whip, unfurled the Lightning Formation Map with one hand, drew down the thunder from the sky, and held the whip with the other hand to guide the thunder, whipping it straight towards the hairy ape's back.

It's a pity that the whip, which was carrying the rolling thunder, didn't hit the hairy ape's back. Instead, it was caught in mid-air by the Suque, which spread its wings and grabbed it with its sharp claws. Then Bu Jin was directly carried away. The Suque released him in the high air. Before Bu Jin could mobilize his spiritual power to prevent himself from falling to death, he was caught by the hairy ape.

Bu Jin's body in the hairy ape's hand was like a human doll in his palm. As the hairy ape exerted force, he instantly let out a scream, and the bones all over his body were shattered.

Disciples from other sects rushed to besiege the hairy ape, trying to save Bu Jin.

The hairy ape roared up to the sky, and every inch of hair on its body was like the hardest sword. With a shake, the hair on its body turned into sharp weapons and shot out towards the surroundings. The disciples who rushed up were directly nailed to the ground in various shapes by these sharp thorns like steel knives.

The blood-stained Lightning Formation Map, along with a pile of rotten flesh and bone mud, fell from the hairy ape's hand. At this time, Yin Yi had already led the Shadow Sect cultivators who had not been nailed to death and landed on top of the hairy ape's head.

His subordinates were divided into two groups. The Flood Dragon Whip shot out in an instant, binding the hairy ape's two arms. Yin Yi sacrificed his long sword, threw it in the air, and activated his ultimate skill - Jade Void Phantom!

Then the thrown long sword differentiated into countless phantoms in mid-air, wrapped in fierce wind and exploding spiritual light, stabbing towards the hairy ape's face like a violent storm.

"Roar—"

The roar of the hairy ape shook the low-level cultivators present, causing them to vomit a mouthful of blood. Yin Yi, standing on top of its head, bore the brunt and was instantly shaken off. The hairy ape was blinded and went completely berserk. The Shadow Sect cultivators who were binding the hairy ape's arms were instantly thrown away, but before they could land, their figures flashed and disappeared from mid-air.

Only the hairy ape's arms were left with several Flood Dragon Whips, frantically covering its eyes, and then sweeping around madly.

But soon, the hairy ape tripped over itself. It was at this time that the Shadow Sect cultivators threw out the Spirit Sealing Pill. Amidst the booming explosions, the hairy ape was blown into a bloody gourd. Both its arms and legs were blown off, leaving only four bloody limbs, rolling on the ground like a worm.

At the same time, the Third Elder Zhou Lan, Fenlian who had transformed into a painted skin demon, and Xiao Mei were entangled in a life-and-death struggle with Chi Yu.

Half of the Third Elder's body was of peacock blood. After his transformation, he looked like a pheasant demon. However, such a body had the upper hand against Chi Yu's snake-like body for a while. With the assistance of Fenlian and Xiao Mei, Chi Yu was tightly entangled by them.

But soon, Leng Mushi saw Chi Yu break free from the control of the three. A phantom of Chi Yu appeared in mid-air, and the three of them fought fiercely with this phantom.

This was a mirage. The descendants of the mirage dragon were the best at creating illusions. Even an elder with such cultivation as the Third Elder could not tell the difference. When he came back to his senses in horror, Chi Yu's tail had already pierced through his lower back. Xiao Mei and Fenlian also realized something was wrong, but as soon as they turned around, they fell into another illusion.

Seeing this, Leng Mushi activated the mount contract with Fenlian in her body and transmitted her barrier-breaking power to her. Fenlian instantly carried Xiao Mei on her shoulder and fought with Chi Yu.

However, she was just a great demon after all. Xiao Mei was swept to the ground by Chi Yu's tail from Fenlian's shoulder. In order to support Fenlian in battle, he had consumed too much demon power, and soon half of his body turned into a dead tree, unable to even stand up on the ground.

His skin was rapidly withering into bark, but his eyes never left Fenlian's direction for a moment.

Fenlian lost Xiao Mei's demon power support, swayed, looked back at him, and instantly the whole painted skin went crazy. Soon, she continued to be entangled with Chi Yu.

She completely turned herself into a huge human skin, wrapped around Chi Yu's body, wrapped his entire snake body inside, and then melted his steel-like snake skin with flesh and blood.

No matter how Chi Yu rolled and struggled, he couldn't shake off Fenlian, who had been scratched like a rag by his scales. Fenlian took a breath and cursed through gritted teeth.

"Damn you, I finally found someone to skin you!"

Chi Yu rolled the small area into a deep pit, and finally, corroded to the point of being bloody and fleshy, he stopped moving.

Fenlian was dying. She had exhausted all her demon blood, leaving only a piece of ugly skin crawling towards the dying Xiao Mei.

Xiao Mei had completely turned into a dead branch growing abruptly on the ground. Only on the trunk could a little human outline be seen in the pile of dead bark. Fenlian climbed onto his branch and, with her last drop of demon blood, bloomed a blood-red plum blossom on his branch.

They finally merged into one, even though the red plum soon withered, it was still softly wrapped around the plum branch, dying with fragrance.

By this time, the cultivation world could no longer hold on. The elders who had been struggling to maintain the barrier had all exhausted their spiritual power, and the protective shields were shattered one after another under the constant impact of the demons and beasts.

Leng Mushi had been fighting against the Heavenly Demon's demonic energy. She could no longer draw on the vitality of this world, and she could not save anyone. She saw that Tian Xunzi and the Sixth Elder's protective shields were shattered by the Suque's dive, and both elders vomited a mouthful of blood at the same time, but immediately got up and raised their swords.

And You Zishu, who only had one arm left, seemed to have completely learned how to get along with his one arm. He was so embarrassed that he didn't look like himself at all, but his always lifeless eyes were stained with a little starlight, shining brightly.

When the Suque broke through the protective shield and was about to crash into the great formation protecting the human race in the abyss, Xue Ling swept fiercely in the air, sweeping away the Suque's feathers.

He jumped down the abyss without hesitation, and then stepped on the edge of Xue Ling's sword and landed on the Suque's back.

When had the Suque ever been stepped on by anyone? It immediately began to turn around at a tricky angle, turning its head to peck at You Zishu with its huge beak.

Tian Xunzi and the Sixth Elder had quickly re-formed the formation during this period, blocking the other blood demons who wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to break through the barrier and fly towards the abyss.

You Zishu pinned himself to the Suque's back with Xue Ling and was almost thrown into the abyss by its rapid rotation, but he still held Xue Ling's hilt firmly with his one arm.

But in fact, the bones in his arm had been shattered by the strong rotation and fierce wind. The reason why he was still holding Xue Ling was that he had directly connected his arm to Xue Ling with a formation. Unless his arm was broken, they could not be separated.

His arm was about to break. He only had this one arm left. If he lost it again, he would have no fighting ability at all. He looked back at his fellow disciples and other sects who were struggling to hold on to the border, gritted his teeth, circulated his spiritual power, and turned over to climb onto the Suque's back.

Seeing that the Suque was about to crash into the human race's great formation, You Zishu suddenly poured spiritual power into his whole body, and then slammed into Xue Ling with all his might.

He was not made of copper and iron. He used all his strength to push Xue Ling deeper, while he himself was pierced through the waist and abdomen. Xue Ling's hilt protruded from his back.

But he actually laughed. He never laughed, as if he was born with a deadpan face, and was often talked about in private by the disciples in the sect.

But in fact, he could also laugh. It was just that when he was very young, his mother said that he looked too ugly when he smiled, and said that as the crown prince of a country, if he could not establish his majesty, no one would be able to be convinced in the future, and the lives of their mother and son would be gone.

Then he stopped smiling, but his mother was still gone, and his country was gone. Later, when he entered the immortal sect, he still never smiled again.

But at this moment, he laughed. He seemed to see his mother, who had not yet become the queen in the palace. She always didn't like to wear shoes and would hold him barefoot to watch the fish swimming freely under the corridor and the birds flying freely in the sky.

He always said innocently, "Mother, if I could fly, I would take you out of this palace."

On the verge of death, You Zishu saw himself flying as if he had grown wings. His smile was not ugly at all, but rather revealed a kind of innocent silliness and simplicity.

The Xue Ling sword was stained with its master's blood and buzzed. The Suque could not shake off the person nailed to its back, but it still rushed towards the human race's great formation.

Just as it was about to hit the human race's great formation, You Zishu's inner alchemy and his sword spirit exploded together. The Suque let out a mournful cry and exploded into pieces in front of the human race's great formation.

The three great demon generals had lost their fighting power. The elders no longer formed protective shields, but began to raise their swords and sacrifice their magical weapons to fight the remaining demons.

The Yin soldiers and ghost generals shuttled among them, led by the Ghost King Yan Su, fighting with the demons and beasts until the sky was dark. Yin Yi's senior and junior brothers dragged his body out from under the dead hairy ape. He was no longer in human form, but his left hand was still tightly clutching the bracelet on his right hand.

It was a bracelet that only women would wear. It was the only valuable thing his sister, who had been reduced to a government prostitute after her family was destroyed, had given him when he promised to enter the Shadow Sect. She wanted him to bribe their superiors who were training them.

Yin Yi had vowed to never let the demon race cross the border of the human race. His sister's young son had just passed his 100th birthday… He could not protect himself, but in the end, he died to protect the human world.

At this time, the Heavenly Demon suddenly appeared among the immortal masters. The corners of his mouth were smiling, his eyes were red, and he killed several elders almost effortlessly. The elders were almost all exhausted and had no power to fight back.

He held Purgatory, paused slightly in front of Xuan Zhu, and then said angrily, "How dare you borrow my symbiotic method!"

As he spoke, Purgatory, carrying a heavy demonic aura, slashed towards the battered Xuan Zhu.

Leng Mushi blocked Purgatory, but it was too late. She was hesitant to act, and while she was taking care of this side, she could not take care of the other side. Anger rose in her heart, and she fought with the Heavenly Demon again, killing until the sky was dark.

The Heavenly Demon's sword did not immediately kill Xuan Zhu, but split his soul apart. Xuan Zhu knelt on the ground, feeling a part of his body being gouged out. The pain was more unbearable than death.

He turned his head and saw Hua Yanyue appearing beside him. This time, the Heavenly Demon's awakening had affected their symbiosis, and Hua Yanyue quickly weakened to the point where she could not even appear.

Xuan Zhu couldn't remember how long it had been since he had looked at Hua Yanyue like this. They were symbiotic, but they could never see each other. No one could understand what it was like to miss someone who was one with you.

Therefore, Xuan Zhu's first reaction was not that he was going to die because his soul was torn apart, but the surprise of finally seeing the person he had been thinking about day and night.

He looked at Hua Yanyue, and Hua Yanyue looked at him too. They actually smiled at each other and reached out to each other.

However, before their fingertips could touch, they both vanished into thin air.

The surrounding vitality surged towards Leng Mushi again, and soon even the human border formation faintly showed signs of breaking. Everything in the world was shaped by vitality. She had to stop and stop the vitality from pouring into her body.

However, the Heavenly Demon was wounded by her, and the tide of the battle was temporarily turning. However, Leng Mushi heard the Heavenly Demon's voice ringing ominously in her ears, "How does it feel to see the people you know die one by one? Everyone in the world has someone they love and care about. Do you?"

"You should not have appeared in the human world. You should have returned to formlessness with me forever!"

Leng Mushi's mind was slightly dazed. Who could she care about?

She thought of someone, but quickly banished that person from her mind.

It was also at this time that the reversal of the battle situation was broken again because Leng Tianyin died to save Yi Tu.

Yi Tu hugged Leng Tianyin's body, which had been torn apart by the beast's claws, and cried hoarsely. However, he did not notice that Leng Tianyin's body was rapidly absorbing the surrounding blood demon energy.

Leng Mushi quickly withdrew her spiritual power that was fighting against the Heavenly Demon and landed on the ground. But in this instant, Leng Tianyin had already dug out Yi Tu's heart alive.

She got up and stuffed his heart into her mouth in Yi Tu's astonished gaze. Yi Tu stared with wide eyes, watching her surrounded by demonic energy, and still tried to pull her.

However, Leng Tianyin crushed his finger bones and arm with one foot. After eating a human heart, she excitedly turned her gaze to Headmaster Zheng Ping, who was fighting with the demons and beasts.

The purer the cultivator's spiritual power, the more delicious the heart.

The demons and monsters who were still fighting felt a powerful demonic energy. This was the awakening of a great demon!

"Welcome back, Water Shade Demon General!"

"Welcome back, Water Shade Demon General!"

Water Shade was the most powerful of the four great demon generals. She was a water ghost that Leng Mushi had raised hundreds of thousands of years ago.

This was also the reason why Leng Mushi had been hiding her.

Chi Yu was once her little pet, the hairy ape was a little monkey she had saved from being imprisoned and performing, and the Suque was her former mount. But these beasts had all left her because the Heavenly Demon had separated from her body and been bewitched by him.

Leng Mushi landed on the ground and stood in front of Leng Tianyin. Leng Tianyin seemed to be a little afraid of her, but soon reached out to dig out her heart.

"Slap" with a slap, the demonic energy overflowing from Leng Tianyin's body was actually sucked away a lot. Leng Mushi said, "Wake up! You are weak and incompetent, but look back and see who you have killed?!"

"Senior Brother Yi Tu wished he could hold you in his mouth, yet you actually…"

Leng Mushi's voice was like a bell, striking Leng Tianyin's heart. She briefly regained her senses, looked back at Yi Tu, who had died with his eyes wide open, and instantly let out a shrill wail.

Leng Mushi saw her pounce on Yi Tu and was about to turn around when she saw Sun Wufang, covered in blood and carrying a broadsword.

Leng Mushi's gaze passed through her and landed on a red snake spitting out its snake letter behind her.

Sun Wufang's broadsword fell to the ground.

"The debt of gratitude I owed you at the Phantom Fox Cave… is repaid…"

It's repaid.

But before she could finish her sentence, her body exploded into pieces and rolled to the ground.

The smell of blood hit her, making Leng Mushi's throat itch.

She looked at the fleeing red snake and was finally completely enraged.

This red snake was a member of Chi Yu's clan and also a descendant of the mirage dragon. It was indeed better than its predecessor. It could actually replicate You Zishu's ultimate skill, Snow Blade Frost Wind, to kill.

It was trying to sneak attack her.

The corners of Leng Mushi's mouth slowly curled up, but there was no smile in them at all.

"You…" She glanced around and said softly, "Unruly beasts."

She closed her eyes, slowly raised her hands, and instantly, all the vitality and demonic energy, led by Leng Tianyin, were gathered into her palms.

The fierce wind rose again, but this time, it did not distinguish between spiritual power and demonic energy, and it mixed together to become a large knife that could cut the heavens and earth in half, slashing down from the sky.

The heavens and earth changed color again, and the sun was completely covered by darkness. Everything Leng Mushi saw had its vitality extracted, whether it belonged to demons or cultivators.

Wind and thunder rolled, dark clouds gathered, and even the Heavenly Demon showed panic. He could not control the demonic energy being extracted from his body. The demons, cultivators, and even the human race's great formation were all wiped out.

The two huge beams of light belonging to demons in Leng Mushi's palms gradually condensed into two black and white pills.

Lightning flashed across the sky, and heavy rain poured down. In this world, except for Leng Mushi and the Heavenly Demon who knelt down weakly, there was also the Ghost King Yan Su, who was hiding in a deep pit, and his ghost officials who did not belong to vitality. There were no more demons or cultivators, not even corpses.

Leng Mushi clenched the two black and white pills in her hands, her whole body drenched in the heavy rain. The spiritual light around her had dissipated, and at this moment, standing in the blood that had been washed into the abyss by the rain, she was as embarrassed as a homeless child.

"Since you are so unwilling…" Leng Mushi turned her head and said to the Heavenly Demon, "Then I will seal myself."

The Heavenly Demon's demonic energy had been drained, and his fingertips were trembling constantly. He looked at Leng Mushi, at the two black and white pills in her hand.

He watched her suddenly close her palms and crush them.

"Boom—" With a loud noise, the pills shattered.

The curtain of rain was briefly blocked, and the surging vitality fell to the ground, spreading rapidly, bringing a strong vitality to this withered land.

Grass sprouted from the soil, big trees rose from the ground, and the plants that had been deprived of their vitality all sprouted branches and leaves, and for a time, vines grew wildly.

The great formation in the human abyss reappeared. When the rain hit it, the golden runes swam around. It was a formation from the Heavenly Monarch.

Along with the vitality, there was also a dark aura. So, insects grew on the fresh grass, ants appeared in the center of the trees, and those invisible dark lives that destroyed vitality and also balanced vitality were quietly reviving.

Leng Mushi walked up to the Heavenly Demon, looked up at the sky, and didn't reach out to wipe the rainwater from her face. She was feeling the taste of being human for the last time.

It was no wonder that all living beings, after gaining intelligence, aimed at cultivating into human form.

No wonder.

These mortals, who lived and died in a day, did possess the most abundant five senses and seven emotions in the world, more vivid than any other life force.

Complex and beautiful, even if it was just raining recklessly like this, one could truly taste the taste of being alive.

Leng Mushi looked down at the Heavenly Demon and said, "You have achieved your goal. I will seal myself, and you will never harm the human world again."

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