"Enough!" Lu Dongbin abruptly cut him off, shouting, "If becoming immortal means I can't be with White Peony, then why shouldn't I become a demon?
If I become a demon, I won't have to care about fate, or the mission of the Eight Immortals.
I'll be able to do everything I want without restraint, and fly together with Peony, never to part.
Right—as long as the Jade Emperor is overthrown, the heavenly laws can be abolished, and we won't be forced apart anymore."
After a thousand years of suppressing his emotions, Emperor Donghua had not been without a loathing for the heavenly rules and precepts in his heart.
That was why, when he was reincarnated as Lu Dongbin and heard the story of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl, he had felt it so deeply.
Why he had wanted to ask the Queen Mother to show mercy and let the Cowherd and Weaver Girl meet a few more times.
If that were possible, it would mean the heavenly laws were not unchangeable.
Though at the time, he had not known what the heavenly laws represented, nor had he understood how this heavenly precept bound him.
Yet he had done so instinctively, because such an obsession lay in his heart.
Before this heavenly precept existed, the immortals in Heaven could also know love.
But after some immortals had fallen into demonhood for love, even sparking turmoil in the Heavenly Court and disrupting the laws governing the operation of heaven and earth, the Heavenly Court established this heavenly precept.
And Fairy Yunhua was the first immortal who had dared to defy it.
Naturally, her fate was enough to serve as a warning to all immortals.
Now that Lu Dongbin's love demon had entered his heart, he too was gradually following Fairy Yunhua's old