"Swish!"

A chilling gust swept through, accompanied by the sound of bone shattering. The scarlet blossom erupted amidst the flying snow, splattering across the ground. After the bloodstain faded, a youth with a sword in hand and an alluring face stared coldly at the fallen enemy beneath his blade. His eyes, as cold as autumn water, held no flicker of emotion.

That child, in the midst of this frigid winter, wore only a thin, long robe. Originally pure white, the garment was now stained crimson by endless streams of water.

At the foot of the tree, nearly a hundred skeletons piled on top of the pristine white snow. The flowing water had already dyed the surrounding snow...

Then...

This is not over yet.

Zi slightly raised her eyes. Her pale and exquisite face bore a pair of deep, piercing eyes that swept across the tens of thousands of people gathered a hundred meters away. Each and every one of them stared intently at him with an almost greedy gaze.

His gaze swept across their faces one by one, the corners of his mouth suddenly lifting into a wickedly charming curve. He raised his hand, his fingertip tracing the heat at the corner of his lip, staining the pale flesh with an unnatural red.

79 people... Who will be next?

Ye Qingtang had never imagined that one day, she would become the enemy of the world and be besieged by thousands on Lingyun Cliff!

All of this is thanks to the mouth, that monstrous Emperor's heart!

Born with extraordinary visions, the Demon Emperor descends into the world. Heaven perishes, and earth is destroyed.

Ye Qingtang is not the Demon Emperor. She didn't know why the heart that should belong to the Demon Emperor would appear in her .

But all of that doesn't matter anymore.

All these people before me have come for the Heart of the Demon Emperor. Anyone who swallows the Heart of the Demon Emperor will obtain the monstrous power that belongs to the Demon Emperor!

No one would care, Ye Qingtang, whether she was dead or alive.

In the eyes of these people, he is but a demon emperor's heart.

How ridiculous!

Ye Qingtang stood up straight, her bare feet sinking into the soft snow. She tilted her head, raising her sword with a jeweled tip directly towards the man in fine robes surrounded by a throng of people.

"Ye You, don't send this bunch of useless people to their deaths. If you want the Emperor Demon Heart, come and get it yourself." Ye Qingtang smiled, but there was no smile in her eyes.

That year's Ye You, along with her fellow genius from the Ye family, tore open Ye Qingtang's abdomen with her own hands solely because Ye Qingtang's spirit was a once-in-a-thousand-years top-grade spirit. She forcibly removed Ye Qingtang's spirit and used it for herself.

Ye You had stolen the spirit, taking Ye Qingtang's life for herself. She became a dazzling genius, admired by all, now even reaching the pinnacle as an Emperor Supreme. But Ye Qingtang was reduced to a useless cripple. Even her parents and relatives were murdered by Ye You...

This debt has been buried in Ye Qingtang's heart for three hundred years.

Ye You, who was named by Ye Qingtang, frowned slightly, her eyes full of disdain. It seemed that in her eyes, Ye Qingtang was nothing more than a struggling ant on the verge of death, not even worthy of mercy.

"Don't let him get away! You must dig out the Demon Emperor's Heart, every piece of it!" Ye You ordered the guards beside her.

At this moment, all the people gathered on top of Lingyun Cliff immediately surged towards Ye Qingtang's location.

Even with three heads and six arms, Ye Qingtang would have no chance against an attack by tens of thousands!

Then, there was a bottomless abyss behind her. In front of her, thousands surrounded her. But on Ye Qingtang's face, there was not the slightest bit of fear or panic. She just stared straight at Ye You, at this enemy who had destroyed her whole life.

What Ye You wants is to be destroyed, and she won't let it come true!

In the instant that everyone rushed toward Ye Qingtang, Ye Qingtang abruptly raised her hand, arcing her five fingers and suddenly crushing the demonic emperor's heart that everyone craved, within her own palm!

"Boom!"

As Ye Qingtang's heart shattered, a deafening roar suddenly exploded on Lingyun Cliff!

The heart of the demon emperor was destroyed, and the air between heaven and earth surged. A violent wind swept across Lingyun Cliff, shaking the mountains. Between the tremors, the massive cliff suddenly cracked open a series of huge fissures.

At this moment, Ye You and the others were no longer concerned with anything else. They panicked and fled along the path they had come from.

As the wind howled and mountains trembled, Ye Qingtang, who was moored in the midst of the chaos, fell with a shattered boulder into the abyss.

Then...

In that instant, a golden ray descended from the heavens and struck Ye Qingtang who was falling.

Time, as if frozen in this very second.

The plummeting boulder hung suspended in mid-air, a shadowy figure gracefully descended and landed upon it.

He was a handsome, breathtaking man, his white clothes fluttering in the wind. He stood silently beside Ye Qingtang, gazing at the gaping hole before them, the faint aura slowly dissipating from the wound.

"I found you."

The melodious and deep voice was torn apart by the howling wind. The man slowly crouched down, his long and handsome fingers reaching towards the gushing wound. Wisps of breath constantly rose from Ye Qingtang's wound, little by little converging in the palm of the man's hand, forming a half-bright heart.

But just as it was about to coalesce into reality, that breath suddenly dissipated. The heart that had just begun to solidify, with its twinkling stars, scattered in an instant around Ye Qingtang. In a blink of an eye, it vanished without a trace.

In the man's deep eyes, a flash of emerald green suddenly appeared, "So that's how it is..."

The next second, the man's finger suddenly tapped on Ye Qingtang's brow, a golden ray quietly merged into Ye Qingtang's brow...