Chapter 72

At last, with trembling hands,

I wrote this chapter.

Chapter 72

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In three days, Ye Zhenzhen would turn fifteen.

She had expected the Immortal-Demon War to come, but not so soon.

When the Old Demon Venerable had ruled, the Demon Realm had colluded with the Kongtong School to wipe out the Heavenly Thunder Pavilion and attack Spirit Sword Manor. They had used the Sky-Gate Zither to slaughter countless cultivators, sowing hatred everywhere. The new Demon Venerable had held power for barely a year before abducting Ye Zhenzhen, the Cloudsky Sect Leader's daughter, to make her his wife. That had sparked universal outrage.

Has the Demon Realm grown so brazen that it thinks no one in the Cultivation World can stand against it? Led by Ye Qinghui, cultivators joined forces to attack the Demon Realm and rescue Ye Zhenzhen.

As Demon Venerable, Ye Qingchuan headed straight for the battlefield. But he struggled over what to do with Ye Zhenzhen.

If he confined her within a Restrictive Formation as he had last time, she might leave again or come to harm. Yet he could not rest easy sending her anywhere else, either. With Ye Zhenzhen in his life, he suddenly had a weakness. He was no longer the fearless man who dared lick blood from a blade's edge.

He had changed. Now he moved with care, as though treading on thin ice.

Ye Zhenzhen had once feared the Immortal-Demon War's battlefield. In the original book, Ye Qingyao had killed herself with a sword there to prevent rivers of blood and devastation across the land. But now Ye Zhenzhen herself had become the spark that ignited the war. For one thing, she had not suffered a heartbreak that left her as dead inside as Ye Qingyao had been. For another, she would