Chapter 230: So I’m the Protagonist After All (26)
Sui Yihuan hadn’t expected the person on top of her to become even more emotional after she said those words, as if she had done something unforgivable.
—But she hadn’t.
Not knowing how to comfort someone who was losing control, but sensing the scalding tears, Sui Yihuan knew she had to continue this task she wasn’t good at.
So, while being held tightly by Su Mingxiu, she also tried to say something to alleviate the other person’s heavy guilt, which was almost self-destructive:
“Can you… tell me about your past life? I want to hear it.”
Her intuition told her that if she didn’t do something, Su Mingxiu might sink into those emotions and be unable to extricate herself.
But the other person didn’t seem very interested in these things, just listlessly rubbing her warm lips against the ear wearing the snowflake earring, her hot breath making Sui Yihuan itch uncomfortably.
“There’s nothing to tell.”
Su Mingxiu murmured, “It’s just a story of a fool falling in love with a heartless scumbag.”
Sui Yihuan had almost gotten used to being called a “fool” by her. She responded with a helpless look, her eyes shifting slightly, having long since returned to their usual black, now also containing a smile, no longer the cold and distant look she had feigned when they first met in the Demon Abyss.
“How could you be that kind of person?”
After a pause, she said, “You shouldn’t belittle yourself like that. I know my own nature. If I like you, it must be because you’re worthy.”
“But I’m not worthy.”
“Uh…” Sui Yihuan was both amused and exasperated by her stubborn self-deprecation. Noticing that the clinging kiss had moved from her neck to her face, making her eyelashes tremble uneasily, she didn’t dare to push away the emotionally unstable person at this time. She could only endure it, comforting her haltingly, “The Su Mingxiu I know is a cultivator who never yields to fate and always follows her own path… Whether in the cultivation world, the Demon Abyss, or the underworld, she walks through reincarnation and never bows her head… You are better than you think. I believe in you, even in the previous life, you must have fought.”
If you also loved me, you must have struggled for me—Sui Yihuan believed so.
Su Mingxiu cupped her face. After her voice fell, she swallowed the rest of her breath, their lips and teeth entangled for who knows how long. The person who finally let go chuckled, “Where did you get this trust? I don’t even dare to believe in myself like that.”
It was precisely because she had dissected her own heart that she knew all her flaws. Even though her cultivation had once been below demigod level, an existence that anyone in the Nine Continents would address as “Venerable,” as long as she wasn’t a god for a day, the dark side of human nature, the seven emotions and six desires, would always be bound in her heart, looking for opportunities to do evil.
Recalling the reincarnations in those illusions, Su Mingxiu didn’t even dare to tell Sui Yihuan how many excessive and terrible things she had done to her…
She had made her long for something she couldn’t have, and she had also made her suffer, lose hope, and break down… Thinking of these, Su Mingxiu felt that Sui Yihuan was really a fool, because a smart person wouldn’t like her.
“No one can escape the power of this ‘blood curse,’ only you… broke free from it and insisted on remembering me. It’s the same now, and it must have been the same before.”
Sui Yihuan wasn’t lying. She admired Su Mingxiu’s unyielding spirit the most, which allowed her to stick to her heart and remain unshaken no matter where she was or what kind of despair she faced.
Su Mingxiu was her anchor.
Because the other person had never lowered her head, she wouldn’t allow herself to give up either. Su Mingxiu in this life, after that night in the fishing village, was able to break free from her power.
Even though there was the temperament honed by reincarnation, who said that Su Mingxiu in the previous life was mediocre?
The fact that she could maintain her heart in those countless reincarnations already proved that this person was the same as before—if it were any other cultivator, they would have long since lost themselves in the repeated changes.
Therefore, Sui Yihuan was very sure that whether it was in the previous life or this life, this person was worthy of her love and her devotion.
Even though she didn’t have the memories from before and didn’t know why Su Mingxiu belittled herself like this, she firmly believed that the other person had also tried to fight against the Heavenly Dao in countless midnight hours, and had never stopped, never yielded.
“You really are…”
The usually eloquent cultivator was speechless in front of this pure Demon Lord.
The two snuggled close, drawing warmth from each other, the atmosphere incomparably warm. But just then, there was a sudden fluctuation of demonic power outside the room, making them both put away their expressions. Sui Yihuan took the initiative to ask, “What is it?”
“Above the Demon Abyss, the formation has changed. Please preside over the situation, Demon Lord.”
Half an hour later.
Su Mingxiu accompanied Sui Yihuan to the Demon Abyss’ discussion hall in Black Stone Dock. The hall was located at the very top of the tower, overlooking most of the Demon Abyss. Looking at the abyss shrouded in black and red mist, Su Mingxiu turned her gaze and swept over the agitated demons.
“This cultivator must be a spy sent by the Nine Continents. If it weren’t for them, the formation we altered wouldn’t have been broken so quickly—”
“Kill her!”
“We’ve been cooped up here for too long, it’s time to let the Nine Continents see the spirit of our demon race!”
But the cultivator, who had already been sentenced to death hundreds of times in these demons’ proposals, was very calm. She just looked behind the City Lord of one of the cities, at the demoness standing there with her head lowered.
This person looked familiar. She remembered that in her previous life, when the Demon Abyss and the Nine Continents were at war, this person was standing beside Sui Yihuan, and her identity was…
The future Demon Queen?
So that’s how it was.
So that’s what the final holographic game world meant.
Listening to the agitated crowd, there was one person who hadn’t expressed any opinion from beginning to end, and that was the Demon Lord beside Su Mingxiu, Sui Yihuan.
But even without speaking, just those crimson eyes calmly sweeping over everyone present made the rising clamor quiet down.
Just then, Sui Yihuan heard a soft chuckle beside her ear. She couldn’t help but turn her head, a subtle puzzlement in her eyes, wondering where her good mood came from.
Su Mingxiu didn’t have time to share her interesting discovery, about the final story of her previous life. Her expression just changed slightly, and she looked towards the top of Black Stone Dock, the emotions in her black eyes gradually cooling, like an icy plain swept by a cold wave, everything frosted over.
“They’re here.”
Hearing her words, Sui Yihuan also focused and sensed for a moment, her expression turning serious, “Those Nine Continents cultivators are so fast…”
But she clearly remembered that she had already grasped the whereabouts of those intruding cultivators. Where did they get their information from? Was it that elusive Buddhist Sect again?
“It’s not the Nine Continents.”
Su Mingxiu shook her head, sensing the change in the heart demon oath in her spiritual platform, “There are very few people coming—but one of them couldn’t wait to cheat.”
Almost as soon as she finished speaking, a rumbling sound suddenly came from above the Demon Abyss, alarming all the demons.
The meeting of the city lords and demon elders in Black Stone Dock also became meaningless. When the first lightning bolt pierced through the formation barrier and struck the top of the Black Stone Dock tower, the demons inside all stepped out.
Sui Yihuan and Su Mingxiu stood in mid-air, saw the countless rolling thunderclouds vaguely carrying a figure inside, and raised their eyebrows.
But Su Mingxiu still revealed the other person’s identity:
“Xiao Xingwei.”
Peak of Tribulation Transcendence.
One thought away from becoming an immortal, even able to break through the void and no longer be bound by the rules of the Heavenly Dao here.
Sensing his pressure descending upon the Demon Abyss, Sui Yihuan’s expression was quite ugly. She obviously thought of what Su Mingxiu had said before, knowing that this person must have achieved great success in the Buddhist Sect’s secret treasure—
According to their plan, they should have arrived at the Buddhist Sect first and killed these cultivators who were favored by the Heavenly Dao before the Nine Continents’ plan succeeded.
But they didn’t expect the Buddhist Sect’s secret treasure to be so terrifying… Peak of Tribulation Transcendence, how many years had it been since the Nine Continents had seen such a powerful existence?
When Xiao Xingwei drew the Tai’e Sword from the rolling thunder and lightning, it shook the entire Demon Abyss. The mountains and the ground trembled, almost like the world was splitting apart in ancient times.
When he held the Tai’e Sword, the thunder that entered the Nine Continents with him continued to strike the Black Stone Dock tower. The terrifying rumbling poured down towards the Demon Abyss. A City Lord of the Demon Abyss was originally very close to the lightning strike and was trying to retreat, but was caught by the jumping ball lightning and instantly turned to ashes.
“It’s tribulation lightning…”
“Ascension tribulation lightning!”
It had been too long since a cultivator ascended in the Nine Continents, but the demons of the Demon Abyss still remembered how those cultivators from the Nine Continents had taken advantage of the Heavenly Dao and exterminated them tens of thousands of years ago.
But after so many years without another ascender, the Demon Abyss thought that the Nine Continents’ luck had run out, who knew…
Now there was another Child of Heaven! There had been Tribulation Transcendence cultivators who could pluck stars, seize the power of the sun and moon, and move mountains and fill seas, but which Tribulation Transcendence cultivator could control ascension tribulation lightning?
None! This was the first!
The remaining City Lords of the Demon Abyss hurriedly retreated eight hundred miles away, afraid of being touched by even a wisp of the lightning that Xiao Xingwei had torn through the formation and brought into the Demon Abyss. This destructive power was too terrifying. Anyone below Tribulation Transcendence would die if touched…
But their expressions were sorrowful, and some even showed grief, knowing that this time, it was the Nine Continents, it was the Heavenly Dao, that wanted to completely destroy them.
After lying dormant for tens of thousands of years, the Demon Abyss’s grand plan to return was like an absurd joke under the will of the Heavenly Dao.
The male cultivator holding the Tai’e Sword glanced at Sui Yihuan and the high-ranking demon cultivators scattered around, but didn’t acknowledge anyone, his gaze finally settling on Su Mingxiu.
After a pause, Xiao Xingwei raised his other hand and reached out to Su Mingxiu:
Sui Yihuan subconsciously looked at her, as if wanting to say something. But in the end, she didn’t say a word, just quietly watching her.
The green-clothed female cultivator stood still for a moment, saw the lightning surrounding Xiao Xingwei that symbolized the will of the Heavenly Dao, and understood the arrogant words it had spoken to her when it was disguised as a system.
【You lost. I told you long ago that you should abide by your predetermined destiny. If you were still my protagonist, you wouldn’t have to face such a tragic end. You could have looked down upon the Nine Continents.】
She curled her lips and suddenly said to Xiao Xingwei, “Okay.”
Then she ignored the lightning surrounding him and walked towards him step by step in the sky above the Demon Abyss.
The surrounding protective lightning hesitated at this moment, and then magnanimously made way for her to pass, as if generously forgiving the child who had once betrayed it.
Xiao Xingwei stood with his sword, watching her approach. Just as Su Mingxiu was only a foot away from him, Xiao Xingwei’s wrist suddenly moved—
It was this movement that allowed him to block a ball of thunder spiritual power and lightning that had condensed in Su Mingxiu’s hand at some point. He subconsciously raised his sword and slashed across.
The green-clothed woman was cut in half, but not a single drop of blood fell from the sky.
Xiao Xingwei looked closely and saw Su Mingxiu and Sui Yihuan appearing in mid-air in another place.
And in the Demon Lord’s hand, a large pearl had appeared at some point, emitting a faint light… The figure of Su Mingxiu pretending to surrender earlier was just an illusion created by the pearl’s misty aura.
He frowned and coldly spat out four words, “Child’s play.”
“Tch.”
Su Mingxiu smiled faintly, wondering what he had to be proud of besides the Heavenly Dao’s favor. He was clearly a loser in every aspect compared to her.
“Just returning the favor.”
She said calmly, not answering the momentary confusion in Xiao Xingwei’s eyes. She was referring to the final memory of her previous life that she had just recalled. As the protagonist of the Heavenly Dao, with peak Tribulation Transcendence cultivation, she shouldn’t have died in the battle between the Nine Continents and the Demon Abyss.
But there was someone who was very jealous of her, and because she couldn’t have her, she developed hatred. So she actually… ambushed her on the battlefield.
The Heavenly Dao kept saying that she was too rebellious, but it wouldn’t admit its poor judgment. Because the one who made its plan collapse was clearly the male protagonist it had chosen, Xiao Xingwei.
If he hadn’t ambushed Su Mingxiu in their own camp, none of what happened later would have happened. But the Heavenly Dao didn’t want to admit its blindness and attributed everything to Su Mingxiu being too rebellious, insisting that it was because she refused to accept Xiao Xingwei that all the subsequent accidents occurred.
It even felt that Sui Yihuan was hindering Su Mingxiu’s future. So it readily accepted her soul’s destruction in exchange for Su Mingxiu’s rebirth, and then in those many reincarnations, it tried its best to reshape the protagonist into the way it wanted, but failed again.
Now it seemed—
“I suddenly understand why it chose you as the male protagonist. After all, you’re birds of a feather.”
Su Mingxiu thought, if the Heavenly Dao could take human form, it would definitely be a man like Xiao Xingwei. If someone surpassed them, then that person would eventually have to submit to them, otherwise they shouldn’t exist in the world.
If they chose someone, and that person didn’t want to accept their arrangements, then that person was too ungrateful, too rebellious, and had taken the wrong path.
To describe it in modern terms, both the Heavenly Dao and Xiao Xingwei were full of that condescending “fatherly” attitude.
Thinking of this, she once again sincerely felt that being able to be enemies with these two things at the same time was truly the most satisfying thing.
Seeing the two of them standing on the same side, Xiao Xingwei snorted coldly, ignoring Su Mingxiu’s inexplicable words, and slashed towards the front. He instantly cut the Black Stone Dock tower into ruins, but that was not his goal.
As the tower fell…
The prisoners imprisoned by the Demon Lord, at this moment, all saw the light brought by the thunder and looked towards the sky.
Sui Yihuan’s expression changed drastically. Sure enough, beneath the endless ruins, she saw a black shadow breaking free from the blood pool, carrying the black and red, ancient power of curses, laughing maniacally as it swept up from below, “Sui Yihuan!”
“I said, when I see the light of day again, it will be your death date!”
It was the Heavenly Demon.
Thinking that this guy only needed a little more time to be completely dispersed in that pool, eternally sealed beneath the Black Stone Dock tower, but now she was adding fuel to the fire, Sui Yihuan’s eyes darkened to the extreme.
And Su Mingxiu, facing this long-lost master, didn’t have the leisure to greet her. She just glanced at Xiao Xingwei, “You really colluded.”
With Xiao Xingwei’s abilities alone, how could he know the relationship between the Heavenly Demon and Sui Yihuan?
Looking at the lightning strikes that were falling everywhere but not on him, the one who deserved it the most, it was a clear fact that this person had colluded with the Heavenly Dao.
Xiao Xingwei didn’t care about her comments. For him, the most important thing was to become the strongest in the Nine Continents. No matter who the obstacle in front of him was, they couldn’t stop him.
He had considered giving Su Mingxiu a chance. After all, her character and beauty were truly worthy of him. It was a pity. Since she didn’t want to submit to him and was also someone the Heavenly Dao wanted to eliminate, let this beauty perish in the Demon Abyss.
“To be a stepping stone under my reputation—”
“You should feel honored.”
He raised the Tai’e Sword, its tip pointing towards the two people in front of him, his imposing manner making the entire Demon Abyss tremble.
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