Deng Tianxin looked at the fragment and casually waved a hand.
The Negative Emotion Fragment flew into Deng Tianxin's body and was refined by him in an instant.
Having consumed the negative emotions, Deng Tianxin's understanding of love deepened.
"Thank you." The restored Demon Empress looked at Deng Tianxin gratefully.
Deng Tianxin waved his hand. "It was nothing. How did you end up like this?"
The Demon Empress fell silent for a moment before slowly speaking. Her voice no longer carried its previous thunderous savagery, instead bearing a hint of exhaustion and sluggishness.
"More than ten years ago, a meteor shower passed through these waters. Something fell from the sky and entered my body." The Demon Empress spoke slowly, as though struggling to sort through memories drowned in confusion. "At first, it was a good thing. It was like a condensed mass of Soul Power. My cultivation speed increased severalfold, and even my bottleneck loosened."
"But before long, it changed. My temper grew worse and worse. I wanted to kill everything I saw, and I could no longer control myself."
At this point, the Demon Empress paused. Pink-gold motes of light still drifting through the air reflected in her pupils. "That thing seemed to be whispering to me constantly, telling me to kill every creature that came near me. As if it bore some deep grudge and wanted to use my hands to settle it."
"Though I grew stronger and stronger, it felt as though I were trapped in a dream filled with nothing but blood. I couldn't wake up, and I didn't want to."
By this point, Deng Tianxin had already guessed roughly what had happened.
It had chosen the Demon Empress, using her body to nurture itself, endlessly spawning slaughter and chaos as it waited for the day