The stream gurgled, water mist rising.
The girl rose from the water, her proud, exquisite body standing suspended in the air. She took out a fiery red gown and draped it over her naked figure.
Then she extended a hand as white and soft as jade, casually tied her loose, disheveled hair behind her head, and set a hairpin forged from white bone at an angle amid her locks.
At once, her entire bearing underwent a sudden transformation.
She was like an unparalleled demonic immortal descending into the mortal world, yet carried an air of haughty supremacy. As her star-deep eyes shifted, they glimmered with a faint violet light, brimming with immense majesty.
The surrounding mountains and rivers all fell into an eerie silence. An invisible pressure seemed to make the heavens and earth in every direction submit!
Her red robes fluttered as the girl paced through the air and arrived before Su Yi. Her peerlessly delicate pretty face was full of imposing dignity.
This was the Heavenly Demon Emperor's true appearance!
That pitifully charming, sweetly smiling appearance from before had merely been another side of her nature.
"Su, I truly have something to ask of you."
The Heavenly Demon Emperor spoke softly. Her red robes were like fire, her skin fairer than snow, and amid her cold, proud bearing was a majesty sufficient to make all living beings tremble.
She stepped close to Su Yi, her rosy lips parting slightly. "You also know that long ago, my cultivation had already reached Great Perfection of the Imperial Zenith Realm. Though I was not as powerful as you were back then, I could still be considered to have reached the end of the Profound Path Road."
Then she sighed faintly. "For people like us, that also means we have reached the