Gu Yue: It's Not Me Who's Wrong, It's This World...

"Impossible!"

Gu Yue's voice was almost a shriek, laced with millennia of accumulated venom.

"This hatred, this enmity, a thousand years? Ten thousand years? No, it's eternal and unquenchable!"

"I want everyone connected to you, for all eternity, to fall into the abyss!"

"I want to watch them, one by one, wail and turn to ash before your eyes... just like you slaughtered my entire soul beast clan!"

"I will make them... all die a terrible death! Not a single one left!"

She unleashed the most vicious curses, as if pouring out ten thousand years of pent-up hatred.

However, the Dragon Claw piercing Su Ling's chest trembled uncontrollably.

She didn't understand why she hesitated.

Just one more inch forward, and she could end the life of this enemy completely.

But in the boy's gradually fading pupils, she saw not fear or pleading, but a sense of relief, almost liberation.

It was as if he had been waiting for this moment for a very, very long time.

Su Ling had already prepared himself to meet death.

But Gu Yue's hysterical curses pierced his blurred consciousness like ice picks.

He suddenly realized he had underestimated the depth of Gu Yue's hatred and obsession.

How could a vengeful spirit whose Dragon Soul Obsession lingered in the Lake of Life for ten thousand years after her own death, be satisfied with his mere demise?

A coppery sweetness surged into his throat. He swallowed with difficulty, but his eyes became clearer.

He suddenly smiled, a desolate and resolute smile.

"Since that's the case..."

His voice was hoarse, almost unrecognizable, yet it carried a chilling power.

"Then kill me."

"But you must remember--"

His gaze locked onto Gu Yue's cold Purple Eyes, word by word, as if carving a curse:

"If you dare to touch a single member of the Su Family, even after I die and become a vengeful spirit, I will make your entire soul beast clan... pay the price."

Gu Yue had never seen such a ferocious expression on Su Ling's face.

Even on their wedding night in his previous life, when he personally plunged the sword into her heart, he never showed such bone-chilling hatred.

Heh... So this cold-blooded and ruthless man also has a weakness he'd die to protect.

The Su Family?

What exactly happened to the Su Family in the previous life?

Gu Yue's thoughts churned in a haze, but she couldn't recall the details no matter how hard she tried.

Ten thousand years of wandering as a remnant soul had already blurred her memories.

She even forgot why she took her own life, only remembering that deep-seated hatred.

"In the previous life, the Su Family's Heavenly Blaze Army defended Songting Pass to the death, and were eventually annihilated by Di Tian's Beast Tide."

"Su Ling's father, Su Zhantian, and grandfather, Su Qingtian, were hanged on the city walls by Di Tian after their defeat, their bodies left to rot for three days before being devoured by beasts, leaving no bones behind."

Gu Yuena's voice echoed in her mind, filled with uncontrollable pain.

"You still don't understand... why he killed you back then..."

"He had already created the Soul Spirit Method, he had already lowered his proud head and knelt before you in supplication."

"But you said the hatred between soul beasts and humans is irreconcilable..."

"You even separated me, this Humanity Incarnation, from yourself... completely crushing all his hope..."

"In reality, you were the most selfish one, willing to sacrifice everything for a so-called mission."

"Your love for Shengyan was perhaps just a twisted possessiveness..."

Gu Yuena's voice, laced with heart-wrenching sobs, assaulted Gu Yue's consciousness.

At this moment, the blurry memories of the previous life surged like a tide.

She finally understood the pain that young man had endured.

No wonder on their wedding night, he chose to end everything in the most extreme way.

To kill all soul beasts, and then willingly die by her hand.

Shengyan... Is this the future you chose?

Knowing full well that I could resurrect soul beasts after becoming a god, you still didn't kill me completely, but instead made me live in the most painful way...

"What do you mean? You mean I was wrong?"

"What did I do wrong? I did this for the future of the soul beast race! Without me, soul beasts would have been extinct long ago, how could they have ascended to the God Realm!"

Gu Yue roared hysterically in her consciousness, but her body trembled even more uncontrollably.

The young man's Flame of Life flickered in the wind, about to be extinguished at any moment.

But those eyes were as cold as poisoned blades, fixed on her.

His eyes held bone-deep hatred, mixed with unspeakable sorrow and despair.

Gu Yue suddenly dared not meet his gaze, lowering her head and burying her face in the young man's blood-stained chest.

She heard her own chaotic heartbeat intertwine with his gradually weakening pulse, forming a bizarre duet.

"But he saved you, yet you let Di Tian destroy his home and slaughter his entire clan... With what kind of feelings did you marry him in the end?"

Gu Yuena's question was like a sharp sword, piercing her last psychological defense.

"No... it wasn't like that... I was only doing it for the future of the soul beast race... I didn't mean for it to be like this... If anyone is to blame, it's those greedy humans!"

"They treat soul beasts as soul rings for cultivation, they were the ones who hunted us to extinction first! It's not me who's wrong... it's this world!"

Gu Yue's voice began to tremble, tears falling uncontrollably.

The scales on the Dragon Claw had vanished at some point, returning to slender, fair fingers.

Her fingertips unconsciously rubbed the wounds on the young man's chest, smearing the blood into a shocking red.

She suddenly realized that this was not forgetting, but deliberate avoidance.

Is that it? So in the previous life, I ended up committing suicide at the Lake of Life...

Just to start over and save the young man she had ruined?

"No, it was my will that made you commit suicide."

"I've always wondered... if Shengyan had never met us, would he have lived a happy life."

"With his talent, becoming a god was only a matter of time. It was you who personally pushed him into the abyss."

Gu Yuena's voice echoed in Gu Yue's mind with icy mockery, shattering her illusions without mercy.

"Shengyan... May we never meet again in the next life..."

Gu Yue ignored the Split Soul's mockery, murmuring the words she had spoken before her death in the previous life.

So... that's what this sentence meant...

Yes! That young man was driven to a dead end by her.

She remembered him kneeling before the Lake of Life, holding the Soul Spirit Method he had painstakingly created, begging her to stop the war.

She sneered and tore it apart, "What use is this thing?"

"Humanity's sins can never be washed clean! Only war, only blood, can repay them!"

Her words back then were so cruel, so condescending.

To prove her resolve, she even forcibly stripped away the Humanity Incarnation Gu Yuena, completely severing his last shred of hope.

The boy's eyes went from shock to despair, then to dead silence, finally heading towards extremism.

And now, history was repeating itself.

She once again pressed her sword to his throat, once again watching the light in his eyes extinguish bit by bit.

Only this time, she finally saw the pain buried deep within his eyes.