[Congratulations, host, on filling in the storyline from ten thousand years ago. Overall storyline completion: 65%. Main quest completion for the third stage, playing the demon monk: +30%. Current completion: 60%.] [You have now been transported to the ruins of the Flowing Cloud Sect in the Demon World. Please continue your quest, host.]
When Ning Ke woke again, he was still standing before the hall doors.
Xiao Yuan's voice sounded in his mind, asking softly, [Host, are you all right?]
Her tone was no longer playful, but filled with heartache.
Though she was only a staff member carrying out assignments, even she had been horrified by everything Ning Ke had experienced ten thousand years ago.
Bai Wanru's death.
Lou Yunxiao's death.
The massacre of Red River City.
Jiu Yuan had fallen into slumber, and Ning Ke had endured ten thousand wasted years alone. At last, he had found Lou Yunxiao's reincarnation, only to discover that he had revived the Demon Lord in the process.
He had killed Bai Wanru with his own hands, killed the Flowing Cloud Sect disciples who begged him for help, and destroyed Lou Yunxiao's cultivation and eyes.
They had been the people who mattered most to him ten thousand years ago.
Yet ten thousand years later, he had brought everything to ruin.
The truth was so devastating that even Xiao Yuan had never imagined it.
Anyone else would probably have gone mad by now.
At that thought, Xiao Yuan's heart shook.
Perhaps Ning Ke has already gone mad, she thought.
He just hasn't shown it...
After all, she still remembered Ning Ke's desolate smile when the Flowing Cloud Sect was wiped out.
There had been no hysteria, only a strange calm after despair.
[I'm all right.] Ning Ke lifted his eyes and forced a