Chapter 191

These words were so shocking that a deathly silence fell over the room.

"Impossible..."

"How could Qiaoqiao possibly become the new Demon God?"

"You're just spreading rumors!"

"Then, do you dare to try?" the Demon God roared arrogantly, "Kill me, kill me!"

"This..."

"How so?"

"What does death matter?" The Demon God's tone held a triumphant satisfaction, "To become the thing you despise most, for all eternity, that is my revenge against you!"

Your destiny was already predetermined.

"So what if you're reborn? What can you change? The people around you are destined for a tragic end. Have you forgotten how they all died in your past life?"

"It's all because of you that they suffered misfortune. You're destined to be a jinx, harming yourself and those around you. Devil Seed has already been planted in your heart!"

Qiaoqiao looked dazed, a pang of pain gripping her heart.

She thought of her senior brothers and sisters from her previous life, of Bai Fu who died after exhausting his true spirit, and of the long years within the Divine Pillar.

He was consumed by resentment.

A profound loneliness.

Was she the one who brought misfortune to those around her?

"Qiaoqiao, don't listen to his nonsense! It was clearly thanks to you that everyone was saved!"

"Junior Sister, everyone likes you very much!"

"Since we can't kill him, let's take him back and imprison him for a thousand or ten thousand years, keeping him alive, and then we'll slowly figure out a way to deal with him!"

Qiaoqiao remained silent.

The Demon God laughed wildly again, "It's too late!"

Do you know why I'm fighting you here?

With a wave of his hand, boundless resentment spread from the Divine Pillar. The resentment was chilling and piercing, and it condensed together in wisps, drifting towards Qiaoqiao without any guidance.

"Go, return to your master!"

The Demon God's tone was more excited than ever before. Although he could no longer see, he could feel the resentment surging towards Qiaoqiao. As long as the resentment from the Divine Pillar entered her body, coupled with the resentment inherent in the goddess's obsession, the Devil Seed would condense on her body. The moment she became the new Demon God, his broken body would naturally perish, and no one could stop it.

There cannot be two Demon God in the world.

"Unfortunately, you still lost."

Qiaoqiao sighed softly and uttered those words.

The Demon God was startled.

He sensed that the resentment stopped when it reached Qiaoqiao, as if it didn't recognize her as its owner. She was clean and pure, her spirit intact, without a trace of resentment.

"How is that possible!"

"How is this possible?!"

"Why is that?"

Who is it?!

Who ruined his grand plan of ten thousand years! The Demon God was enraged.

Qiaoqiao's eyes reddened slightly. "You underestimated me; there are still people in this world who love me so much."

She is not alone.

She is still loved.

As the Demon God weakened, the demonic mist surrounding the Divine Pillar gradually dissipated, and a figure in white slowly passed through the mist and walked before the crowd.

His white robe was spotless, and his long sleeves hung down like clouds.

He was exceptionally handsome, like a celestial being descended to earth.

The ethereal immortal energy was dispersed by the overwhelming killing intent emanating from him. As soon as he appeared, the resentment seemed to have found its master and poured into him.

Despite the resentment entering his body, his expression remained unchanged.

Only the slight furrowing of his brow symbolized the inhuman pain he was enduring.

His steps were slow and steady, and his eyes remained fixed on Qiaoqiao.

"Bai Fu..."

When all her suspicions were confirmed, Qiaoqiao was terrified and collapsed to the ground as if all her strength had been drained.

The man in white gently held her in his arms.

There was a faint fragrance of plum blossoms in his arms, just like back then.

She finally understood everything, and figured out the plan this man had set up since his past life.

At the moment of her death, he transferred half of his soul into her State of Mind, transforming it into Guardian Sword Intent that protected her consciousness through the long years within the Divine Pillar.

Because of this sword intent, she was never able to give birth to Devil Seed. Without Devil Seed, a new Demon God could not be born. The Demon God waited outside the Divine Pillar for many years, but never got the result he wanted.

Even after he could no longer resist destroying the Divine Pillar, all he found was the goddess's peaceful corpse.

Then, heavenly fire destroyed the world, and the world restarted.

He thought this was Heavenly Dao's favoritism towards the goddess, but little did he know that everything was within Bai Fu's calculations. Heavenly Dao was bound by its rules and could not interfere in the affairs of the Three Realms. The Demon God thought to himself, "It's just starting over again."

Even if we start over a thousand times, the outcome will not change.

He never expected that Bai Fu would enter the Slaughter Sword Dao with his own body, first to resolve the crisis of the Immortality Pill, and then to slay the Demon Ear. He used killing to stop resentment, gathering all the karma and sins of killing onto himself.

Then, he absorbed the goddess's resentment from Qiaoqiao, and thus, he replaced Qiaoqiao, embodying resentment and hatred, and will become the new Demon God.

Qiaoqiao's eyes welled up with tears, her heart felt like it had sunk to the bottom of the sea, so heavy that she couldn't breathe.

Overwhelmed by a surge of sadness, she felt waves of dull pain.

He loved her deeply, yet he never uttered a single word of love to her.

Because he had already foreseen his fate.

He never betrayed his way of the sword.

He continued to protect her.

Protecting this world.

She couldn't stop the tears from flowing. Through her blurry, tear-filled eyes, she could only see boundless resentment surging into his body, his Devil Qi surging, and the Demon God beside him screaming, yet unable to stop his own body from slowly perishing.

--It was all his own choice; a new Demon God was born, and the old Demon God disappeared.