Defeat

Gu Huaiwei's words made Sang Ying's heart pound wildly.

She thought she might have misheard, so she asked again, "What did you just say? What do you mean by 'Heavenly Dao's will wants me to die'?"

Gu Huaiwei curled his lips into a smug smile, "Yes, I only learned later that the so-called 'Child of the Heavenly Dao' are indeed favored by Heavenly Dao, possessing great fortune and extraordinary talent from a young age. But in reality, these enviable 'Child of the Heavenly Dao' are nothing more than 'mending stones' deliberately created by Heavenly Dao to repair its broken world!"

Gu Huaiwei once thought that Heavenly Dao truly loved his "Sang Ying," but after "Sang Ying" died, he cultivated his way up and finally learned more about the Child of the Heavenly Dao, and then he finally understood.

The Child of the Heavenly Dao is merely a consumable resource, created when Heavenly Dao needs it, and disappears from this world once it has paid its price for Heavenly Dao.

Whether they are God Race, cultivators, or mortal talents, once they have completed their mission to save the world, they will eventually disappear from everyone's sight without leaving any trace.

Even if legends are left behind and people sing praises, what good is it? Those glories cannot be enjoyed after death.

Therefore, Gu Huaiwei hated the ten cultivators who refused to save "Sang Ying", and hated even more the Heavenly Dao that used "Sang Ying" as a tool and then discarded her!

"Why should He make you saints? Why should He predetermine your life and your future? Does He think that by bestowing some good fortune upon you in the first half of your life and letting you live a glamorous life, He can arbitrarily decide your life and death and make you mend His sky?"

Gu Huaiwei's eyes welled up with tears, and her expression grew increasingly manic. "He dreams of it!"

Sang Ying silently took a step back, her mind going completely blank for a moment after the sudden revelation of the truth.

She silently sorted out all her thoughts and calmed herself down.

Gu Huaiwei continued speaking, seemingly wanting to vent all his resentment. "Heavenly Dao is unjust, so why do you insist on following Heavenly Dao will? You only need to continue listening to me, and you can not only save the people you care about, but also successfully ascend to the Upper Realm. Isn't that your long-held wish?"

His words were highly seductive.

Yes, Gu Huaiwei has indeed been planning for her all along.

First, he summoned Su Fuyun and wove his own destiny onto her. Then, he personally committed so many sins, making Sang Ying resolve them one by one to accumulate Merit.

In the end, he took all the blame upon himself, drained the Devil Race, absorbed all the Demonic Qi of the Lower Realm, and transformed himself into a heinous Devil God.

It could be said that as long as Sang Ying listened to him, waited for the sandstorm to eliminate the rest of them, and then killed Gu Huaiwei, she would definitely be able to ascend to immortality with the Merit of saving the world!

Moreover, he didn't leave no one behind; didn't he leave behind a hundred people? Even if all of those hundred people were people that Sang Ying knew or was close to, the spots wouldn't all be filled.

From this perspective, choosing the path set by Gu Huaiwei seems to be the easiest and most appropriate choice for Sang Ying at present.

But Sang Ying refused.

"You ask why Heavenly Dao dictates my future, and what gives you the right?" Sang Ying asked amidst Gu Huaiwei ramblings.

If what Gu Huaiwei said is true, she does indeed hate the arrangement made by Heavenly Dao, but in fact, every step she took was less driven by Heavenly Dao and more her own choice.

The Heavenly Dao merely gave the Child of the Heavenly Dao a possibility, but saving the world was their own choice. Just like now, even knowing everything, Sang Ying was unwilling to simply follow Gu Huaiwei's arrangements.

Gu Huaiwei aback by her sudden question; he truly had never considered this point. In his view, the Heavenly Dao was hypocritical, and those ten cultivators were selfish. He had schemed so much for Sang Ying; wasn't he more trustworthy than the Heavenly Dao?

Before this, he had never imagined that Sang Ying would refuse. After all, who wouldn't want to live?

However, Sang Ying disappointed him.

Gu Huaiwei's gaze instantly turned cold, as if his previous madness was just an act. He stared coldly at Sang Ying, his eyes, though devoid of pupils, still exuding a chilling aura.

"Are you really going to defy me like this?" He adopted the authority of an elder, and at this moment he seemed to have completely separated the Sang Ying in front of him from the innocent and lovely apprentice in his memory.

Sang Ying took a few steps back, the hairs on her body standing on end. "It's not as serious as disobedience. I never intended to listen to you. And you've never been my master."

The surrounding scenery changed abruptly after those words; the once magnificent Mara Gate collapsed instantly, turning into ruins.

Beneath the ruins, countless strange creatures, resembling the ten tentacles behind Gu Huaiwei, were entangled and writhing as they attacked Sang Ying.

Gu Huaiwei spoke almost in a murmur, "Since you're unwilling to obey me, I'll have no choice but to trap you for now. Don't worry, you'll thank me when it's all over."

Countless tentacles emerged from the ground, soaring into the sky and intertwining above Sang Ying's Sang Ying, forming a cage to imprison her forever.

Sang Ying certainly wouldn't give him that chance. From Gu Huaiwei's words, she had already understood that if she wanted to end all of this, she would have to kill him first.

Sang Ying never had much affection for Gu Huaiwei to begin with. Even knowing what he had done for her, she only felt suffocated by the feeling of having her life controlled, and felt no gratitude towards him whatsoever.

Right now, all she wants is to get everything back on track; she wants to kill this man!

The Demigod's aura was fully revealed, and the dragon shadow on the Dragon Abyss Sword leaped out once more, rushing towards those strange tentacles.

The dragon shadow was more than ten times larger than before. It opened its mouth and bit down, severing dozens of tentacles.

These tentacles are not like those on Gu Huaiwei's body; they are nourished by Demonic Qi and can grow back repeatedly.

The moment the tentacle broke, a gap appeared in the once-sturdy cage.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Sang Ying crawled out from inside, and the two of them, one dragon and one human, once again engaged in Gu Huaiwei.

She was extremely ruthless, each sword strike aimed at Gu Huaiwei's weak points. The dragon shadow beside her would also occasionally flick its tail or open its mouth, each time inflicting a terrible blow on Gu Huaiwei.

Gu Huaiwei knew how strong Sang Ying was. He originally wanted Sang Ying to become strong so that she could control her own destiny. This "control" did not mean that she could go against his wishes.

Only now did Gu Huaiwei realize that his actions had made Sang Ying so powerful that she had escaped his control.

In that brief moment of distraction, Sang Ying's sword pierced heavily into Gu Huaiwei's back, where tentacles had sprouted.

She dared not delay, and before Gu Huaiwei struggle free, she poured the Divine Power within her body directly into the Dragon Abyss Sword!

When Divine Power and Demonic Power collide, it's like water being poured into hot oil.

Gu Huaiwei cried out in pain. His tentacles instantly shrank, and even the black scales covering his body showed signs of falling off.

Gu Huaiwei seems to be losing.