Chapter 244

They all listened closely to the System.

A greater conspiracy?

The System rustled through its books for ages before it finally pieced everything together.

[In the battle a thousand years ago, Si Le had already hidden his true body in the Demon Realm to bide his time and build his strength. The wisp of soul he left behind was actually a wisp he had extracted from Si Yaoxie's soul. Killing this wisp would count as Si Yaoxie overcoming his Emotional Tribulation and help him break through to the seventh level of Demon Refining.]

Everyone present was stunned.

They stared at the soul before them, which bore Si Le's likeness.

He was at death's door, with only a faint breath left in him.

He was Si Le's father, Si Yaoxie?

The ancient Demon Venerable who had bewitched Immortal Hàn Rì and torn apart the Barrier between the Devil Race and the Cultivation World in one fell swoop?

What was going on?

Killing him would help him break through?

An Emotional Tribulation?

Was this Si Le's scheme?

Li Zi scratched the back of her head. [So this soul is actually Si Yaoxie?]

[Yes!] said the System.

[Si Le dumped him here while he himself has been living it up in the Demon Realm?]

[Yes, yes, yes! Once Si Yaoxie overcomes his Emotional Tribulation, he'll break through to the seventh level of Demon Refining. He'll be at his weakest right then, so Si Le can devour all of Si Yaoxie's Cultivation and become a Demon God in one stroke.]

Li Zi was thoroughly baffled.

Why wasn't the plot following the book?

She remembered nothing this complicated in the original novel.

Si Le had left a soul outside the Demon Realm, fallen into an epic romance with Ran Zirou, then coordinated with the Demon