119: Chapter 119 Different Timelines

[After confirming the suspicion in your heart, you take a deep breath, an expression of resignation to death mixed with heartache in your eyes.]

[You step forward slowly until you are in front of Tantai Jin, letting the tip of his sword press against your throat.]

["Brother Tantai, I don't know why you harbor such intense killing intent toward me, but at least..."]

[You take another step forward, and the sharp sword tip pierces your skin. A trace of crimson trickles down your fair neck, creating a striking and painful contrast.]

[Tantai Jin's hand holding the sword trembles imperceptibly, and he instinctively steps back.]

["...at least let me know why you want to kill me?"]

[Your expression remains uninhibited and bold, just as it was when you first met, as you give a carefree smile.]

["That way, even if I die by your hand, our acquaintance won't have been in vain."]

[At the same time, your divine sense is already locked onto the thousand-mile escape talisman inside the system space, ready to activate it at the slightest sign of danger.]

[Tantai Jin looks at you with fear, hatred, and a trace of confusion, yet he still does not lower the spiritual sword in his hand.]

[He can no longer tell which is real and which is fake.]

[The blood-red figure from the extra memories he just received gradually overlaps with the person before him, yet feels starkly and clearly divided.]

[Yet those authentic memories, along with the precious high-grade secret arts and cultivation methods within them, have already been verified by him—they are all real...]

[Looking at your steadfast eyes, Tantai Jin recalls these completely different five years and ultimately recounts everything he experienced.]

[The blood-red figure in his memories was named Lin Qingyu, with the Daoist title Blood Phoenix.]

[Supposedly, she was born in a small mortal city named Luofeng City, but the very first thing she did after stepping onto the path of cultivation was massacre every mortal in that city.]

[Leaving neither chick nor dog alive, sparing not a single blade of grass.]

[Afterward, she was hunted by the Tianxuan Sword Sect. She hid for twenty years before reappearing at the peak of the Foundation Establishment realm, immediately slaughtering over a dozen cities belonging to the Tianxuan Sword Sect.]

[When this drew out a Core Formation cultivator, she used some unknown secret art to escape heavily injured.]

[Fifty years later, when Lin Qingyu reappeared, she was already at the early Core Formation stage. She swept through several minor sects and even killed a late Golden Core cultivator across realms.]

[Rumors spread from an unknown source that she cultivated an extremely terrifying technique, needing only to absorb the blood of cultivators to raise her cultivation without any bottlenecks.]

[Once this news got out, Xuanhuan Prefecture was shaken. Countless cultivators searched for Lin Qingyu's whereabouts, and even Nascent Soul True Monarchs personally intervened.]

[Yet Lin Qingyu seemed to vanish without a trace. The next time news of her surfaced was three hundred years later; it was said she had joined a demonic faction in the Central State and successfully broken through to the Nascent Soul realm.]

[Such speed of advancement terrified the cultivators of Xuanhuang Prefecture who knew part of her background, while also kindling endless greed in their hearts.]

[The Tianxuan Sword Sect feared her the most. They hurriedly reported the news to the Taichu Sword Court in the Central State, asking them to negotiate and pay a price so the demonic faction would hand over Lin Qingyu.]

[However, through unknown means on her part, the demonic faction firmly refused to yield. Fortunately, both sides retained their composure and did not come to blows.]

[Yet right during this stalemate, multiple strongholds of the Taichu Sword Court were wiped out. The perpetrator was extremely ruthless, setting up arrays to cut off teleportation arrays so that not a single person survived.]

[Thus, the great war between the Righteous and Demonic paths was kicked off.]

[Misfortunes never come singly. Just as the war between the Righteous and Demonic paths intensified, decades later, the Demon-Sealing Array at the border was destroyed.]

[The true Demon Race invaded the heartland of the Human Race in one fell swoop. They seemed to have complete knowledge of the human territory's layout, striking with extreme precision every time.]

[Only then did the higher-ups of both the Righteous and Demonic paths realize that they had been played by Lin Qingyu.]

[By then, Lin Qingyu was already leading a powerful army of demon warriors, charging toward the heartland of Xuanhuang Prefecture.]

[Taking the brunt of the attack was the Tianxuan Sword Sect. In just three days, this second-rate sect that had stood in Xuanhuang Prefecture for ten thousand years was completely slaughtered.]

[Next came indiscriminate slaughter. Tantai Jin, who was hailed as the strongest genius in Xuanhuang Prefecture at the time, naturally sought out Lin Qingyu.]

[However, though both were at the Nascent Soul stage, he couldn't even survive three moves against her...]

[Those indifferent blood-red pupils and that terrifying aura overflowing with slaughter intent that sought to destroy everything remained vivid in Tantai Jin's memory, to the point he lacked the courage to face her a second time.]

[That face overlapped completely with the woman in front of him.]

[Moreover, he occasionally seemed to feel that same air of utter disregard for everything coming from you.]

[Even though her life path was completely different from the person in his memories, the blood debts of his family's tragic deaths and his sect's destruction were vivid in his mind, and he did not dare to gamble.]

[After listening, you fall silent.]

[The protagonist in this story should be yourself... Perhaps that was a life lived without gaining the simulator.]

[One can imagine what kind of humiliation and torment you would have suffered in that tiny mortal manor without any external assistance.]

[Just thinking about it gives you the urge to destroy everything.]

[As a transmigrator, up to this day, you have always maintained your own principles and bottom line: as long as people don't block your way, you won't indiscriminately slaughter the innocent.]

[But clearly, the Lin Qingyu in the story had her bottom line trampled upon, so as an otherworldly demon, she was not going to treat this world kindly.]

["My heart is the universe, the universe is my heart."]

[You will not judge the "yourself" in the story; that was her Dao heart, radiating its own light.]

[Nor will you walk that path, for the path under your feet today is already a vast universe belonging uniquely to you.]

[Seeing you fall silent, a hint of reluctance flashes deep in Tantai Jin's eyes, but he still asks in a harsh tone:]

["Do you have anything else to say?"]

[With the doubts in your heart cleared and the rewards already gained, the final task for this simulation is to fuse the qinghuang blood essence.]

[Thinking up to this point, you pout your lips and say discontentedly:]

["Do you really have the heart to kill me with your own hands?"]

[Hearing this, Tantai Jin tightens his grip on the hilt of his sword and remains silent—silence being the best answer.]

[Dog of a man, quite ruthless indeed.]

[However, a flicker of appreciation flashes in your eyes; if he could disregard his family and sect for mere beauty and a lukewarm five-year relationship, then he wouldn't be much of a man anyway.]

["Brother Tantai, may I make a request before I die?"]

[A flush of red rises on your pretty face, and your shimmering eyes stare intently at him.]

[Seeing this, Tantai Jin's body stiffens. He can barely withstand this posture of yours, his heart thumping uncontrollably.]

[He struggled internally, thinking that after spending five years together, fulfilling her last wish wouldn't be too much.]

[Just then, the figure before him is suddenly wrapped in a white light and vanishes from his sight in the blink of an eye, leaving behind only a silvery, bell-like chuckle in the air:]

["Brother Jin~ Come find me quickly~ If you find me, I'll let you... tee-hee~"]

["Damn it!"]

[Tantai Jin shatters the boulder in front of him with one sword stroke, his body shooting toward the outside of the cave like a bolt.]

[Yet for some unknown reason, he subconsciously breathes a sigh of relief in his heart.]

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