Mother Nature? Forget it.

“Scarlet Beauty Heart Snatching: Cultivate the Dao of True Heart by using the heart of true love as a guide.”

“The human heart has two aspects: one true, one false. One who does not give rise to false thoughts possesses a true heart.

With a true heart, all thousands of scriptures are consistent.

With a true heart, all myriad Dao return to one.”

“A true heart is hard to find. Scarlet Beauty Heart Snatching can seize the true heart of a confidante for one’s own use, cultivating the Dao of the Heart, breaking through falsehoods to reach true reality.”

“Cultivating the Dao of True Heart with an evil Cultivation Technique is both Righteous Path and evil.”

“Note: Only the heart of a truly beloved person can be used to cultivate this method.”

Xiao Fan looked at this Cultivation Technique, feeling a bit strange.

“Scarlet Beauty Heart Snatching, Dao of True Heart?”

The content sounded so Righteous Path, yet it sounded so sinister.

However, he seemed to understand the System’s meaning now.

In Jiang Lanzhi’s script, there was a plot point where Xiao Fan made her cultivate an evil technique, and after she succeeded, her heart was cut out with a single blade.

And he needed to create an image, to prove that it wasn’t Xiao Fan who dug out her true heart, but the mastermind behind Xiao Fan.

Only then could Jiang Lanzhi truly become devoted to him.

“Playing dirty tricks, I’m best at that.” Xiao Fan put away the Scarlet Beauty Heart Snatching, already beginning to construct the script for deceiving Jiang Lanzhi.

Looking at the massive Demon Core before him, Xiao Fan reached out, preparing to break off half of it.

Jiang Lanzhi seemed to need it quite a bit; he would prepare a piece for her, and keep the rest to control this Demon Mother Nest.

As he attempted to cut the Demon Core, a sense of danger emanated from it, causing uncontrollable trembling, and an evil soul read spread out, attempting to shatter Xiao Fan.

“Child’s play.” Xiao Fan sneered, pressing down hard, and cracks appeared on the Demon Core.

“Stop!”

A bone arrow flew at extreme speed, shooting towards Xiao Fan’s head.

Xiao Fan was only playing the pig, not actually a pig.

He raised his right hand and caught the bone arrow.

Turning his head, a hulking figure appeared, its face contorted with rage, veins bulging, and its entire body blackened. Its aura was formidable, at the Body Integration Stage cultivation.

With its abnormal chest, dark skin, disgusting dreadlocks, and thick black lips and revealing attire, one could barely discern from its external features that this was a female demon.

These physical characteristics instantly made Xiao Fan feel a sense of physiological discomfort.

Next to this person were two Protectors, one male and one female, whose auras were not very strong, only at the Void Refining Middle Stage cultivation.

“Who are you?” Xiao Fan said coldly.

“You mere Human Race ant, how dare you cause trouble in my territory?”

“This is my territory. I am the master of the Demon Mother Nest. You may call me: Mother of Nature.”

“Release the Demon Core, and submit to me as your master, and I can spare your life.”

Xiao Fan frowned upon hearing this.

“What did you say your name was?”

“Mother of Na…”

Xiao Fan unleashed his full power, and the three-foot long Sword Qi in his hand burst forth with dazzling brilliance, Sword Qi crisscrossing, more powerful than ever before.

“I’ll mother you, I’ll mother you! Try to mother me again, can you still mother or not?”

“You demonic thing, you’re just a black demon mother, and you’re still trying to act tough, aren’t you?”

Xiao Fan’s killing intent was not yet sated, and a storm of Sword Qi slashed towards the black demon mother.

The Mother of Nature’s pupils contracted sharply. It had never imagined that this tiny Soul Transformation fish before it possessed such formidable strength; he had hidden his true power!

This was the black demon mother’s thought.

In a hurry, it frantically blocked the attack.

But Xiao Fan’s swordsmanship, inherited from his father, Sword Ancestor, though appearing unremarkable, contained profound essence and mysteries that ordinary people could not discern.

Even Xiao Fan, the user, only knew that the sword moves were powerful, but couldn’t figure out why. Anyway, it was a good thing.

Pfft-ka!

The Sword Qi sliced through the fatty flesh, burrowing deep within, and harshly struck against bone, emitting a crisp cracking sound.

“Ah!”

“You’re killing me, brat, you’re asking for death!”

The sword light vanished, and a massive trotters shot into the sky, blood gushing out. The black demon mother’s face was hideous, vowing to kill Xiao Fan.

The power of a single sword strike broke through the black demon mother’s defenses. Truly worthy of Xiao Fan.

“You two, go!”

The black demon mother retreated two steps, being quite cunning.

It had realized that this person was incredibly strong. When the Sword Qi flew over, it couldn’t even react and had an arm instantly severed.

Not an opponent, flee!

Xiao Fan had originally intended to control this demon mother to produce demons.

However, something that caused physiological discomfort was not worth controlling.

Xiao Fan bisected the two Protectors with a single sword strike.

He charged directly towards the black demon mother, no, towards the Mother of Nature.

The Mother of Nature trembled in fear, begging for mercy:

“I am willing to serve you as master, spare my life.”

Xiao Fan ignored its plea for mercy. The black demon mother did not deserve to live in this world!

With one sword strike, its head was severed from its body. Xiao Fan was still not satisfied; he began a furious onslaught of slashes, as pork should be cut into pork cubes.

In just a single breath, Xiao Fan unleashed countless sword lights, pulverizing the black demon mother. Pig intestines, pig stomach, and lard scattered everywhere.

Its massive pig head was crushed like a watermelon under his foot, spilling out brain matter and watermelon juice.

The foul stench of blood made him feel a bit nauseous. He raised his right hand, and a ball of eerie blue flame flew out. This was Lan Yuhong’s ice-attribute ability, which he had inherited.

The eerie blue flames were terrifyingly cold, rapidly freezing and then scattering into countless ashes.

The entire world became clean.

“Damn it, how unlucky to encounter a black demon mother in a Xuanhuan world.”

Xiao Fan shook his head and took out the Demon Core. He had no desire to control this Mother Nest; its melanin content was too high, a low-grade inferior product, too dirty even for mining.

Xiao Fan could sense that within the Demon Core, an incredibly rich essence of life was contained.

This was the key to continuously generating demons.

Besides the essence of life, Xiao Fan also sensed spiritual energy with dark devouring attributes within it, which indicated that the Demon Core was also related to dark devouring attributes.

And treasures related to dark devouring attributes were certainly not ordinary items.

Such a peculiar existence as the Demon Core was only used to produce low-level demons and increase melanin, truly a waste of heavenly resources.

Xiao Fan extracted the Demon Core, preparing to leave.

However, before leaving, Xiao Fan put on some makeup for himself: cracked, pale lips, messy, scattered hair, a bloodless face, and ragged clothes, looking exactly like a beggar.

But he didn’t deliberately dig open his chest; instead, he simply exposed the healed wound.

Leaving a flaw for Jiang Lanzhi.

With the Demon Core extracted, the Demon Mother Nest began to collapse.

Xiao Fan skillfully closed his eyes and lay on the ground.

Continuing to play dead.

Outside, Jiang Lanzhi was consumed with anxiety.

The ten Elders were bombarding the Demon Mother Nest, but they could only make it tremble slightly, unable to break its defenses.

The ten Elders were already exhausted, but still saw no results.

“Perhaps we should report it.”

“Let Grand Elder inform the Saint Lord of the situation; the Saint Lord, knowing the truth, will surely come to rescue the Saint.”

“Right, with the Saint Lord’s strength, breaking through this demonic thing surely won’t be a problem.”

The ten understood tacitly. Dragging it out further would be futile; it was better to report it directly.

“Alright, you and the Saint’s wife will return to the Holy Land together, and the nine of us will guard here.”

“Agreed. We’ll report the situation to Grand Elder, and if anything happens here, we’ll be able to respond.”

Soon, the group of ten made their decision.

Jiang Lanzhi did not object. Bombarding it here for half an hour without breaking it already indicated the problem.

They had to go for reinforcements.

But the next moment, the black demonic armor shattered inch by inch.

The bone tree also lost its luster, becoming like rotten wood.

The thorny fruits on the tree stopped growing, and the vitality within them seemed to be draining away.

“What’s going on?”

“No, the vitality of this Demon Mother Nest is draining away.”

“Quick, retreat!”

The next moment, the massive Mother Nest collapsed with a roar.

Raising a cloud of dust.

Falling with the dust was Xiao Fan’s figure.

Jiang Lanzhi’s eyes lit up; her beloved had finally appeared.

Without a second thought, Jiang Lanzhi rushed out and embraced Xiao Fan.

His face was bloodless, his lips pale and cracked, and his originally dark hair was now streaked with silver, as if he had aged decades.

But Jiang Lanzhi’s focus wasn’t there. Her jade hand gripped Xiao Fan’s pulse, a thousand emotions—nervousness, anticipation, unease, fear—surging in her heart.

Thump…

Thump…

Thump…

Though faint, his heartbeat was indeed present.

This made Jiang Lanzhi weep with joy. She tenderly smoothed Xiao Fan’s messy hair, her jade hand caressing Xiao Fan’s face.

Two streams of clear tears flowed down her face, dripping onto the ground with a soft patter.

Perhaps he wasn’t held steadily enough, Xiao Fan accidentally, unintentionally, slipped down her arm and buried his head in Jiang Lanzhi’s embrace, trembling all over.

His ice-attribute ability activated, making him feel cold all over, and he kept muttering “cold, cold, cold.”

“You’re not cold. I’ll take you back now.” She held Xiao Fan tightly, using her body temperature to warm his cold body.

Xiao Fan felt a bit inhuman. Using the tricks he learned from one woman to deceive another, he truly deserved to die.

Especially that warm, soft embrace deepened his guilt. He couldn’t help but wonder, was it really okay to deceive people like this?

“Ding! Host has deceived the pure Empress of Unfeeling, making her fall for you. Gained Villain Points: 10,000.”

Listening to the System’s voice, his Dao Heart became firm again.

He probably hadn’t deceived enough people, which was why his Dao Heart was unstable.

He would deceive a few more in the future. That way, Jiang Lanzhi wouldn’t be the only one deceived.

Treating everyone equally, thinking this, his heart felt much more balanced.

“Quick, send the Saint back.”

“I have a Divine Travel Sail here, everyone get on.”

The Elders saw Jiang Lanzhi holding Xiao Fan, and a hint of joy appeared on their faces, knowing that there was still a chance to salvage the situation.

They quickly took action to send Xiao Fan back.

As for Xiao Fan, after acting for so long, it was perfectly normal to lie in her arms for a while longer, right?