"Master, sob... Please don't send Shier away... Shier will work hard to complete the tasks Master gives me..."
"Shier doesn't want to leave Master... Sob, sob, sob..."
"Master... Shier doesn't want to be driven away..."
In a daze, Qingyu heard a soft yet miserable female voice.
Coming to his senses, Qingyu suddenly realized he had arrived in an unfamiliar place.
This was a somewhat old wooden room.
Outside, a heavy rain was falling.The room contained only a bed, a chair, and a desk. Qingyu was sitting on the chair, which faced the door.
He realized that a young woman with a refined aura and stunning looks was kneeling before him. She was dressed in a thin, white gossamer gown, and her long, silver hair hung down naturally. Being damp, it gave her a delicate, ethereal appearance. As she knelt on the clean floor, her full, shapely legs were tightly encased in white pantyhose. She wore no shoes, leaving her soft, fair soles exposed to the air.Rain had drenched her clothes, revealing her well-developed and charming figure in a faint outline.
Drenched by the rain, the young girl looked utterly alluring.
Kneeling on the ground, her eyes were red and swollen, tears streamed down her cheeks, and she wept as pitifully as pear blossoms caught in the rain, gazing with such anguish at Qingyu.
At this sight, Qingyu was instantly dumbfounded.
What was happening here, and where was this?
Didn't he run too fast in the rain and fall down a manhole whose cover had been washed away? Why had he appeared in this place?
After a brief daze, Qingyu realized that he, too, was soaked to the skin.
His clothes were still the modern black-and-white athletic outfit he had been wearing.
And the young girl before him was looking right at him now, sobbing as she pleaded with him not to send Shier away, crying as she wept.
This left Qingyu utterly bewildered.
Right at that moment, a flood of memories suddenly surfaced in his mind.
As he sorted through these memories, Qingyu instantly understood what had happened.
He had fallen into the open manhole during the rainstorm, and through a portal inside it, he had transmigrated here bodily!
He had transmigrated into a grand heroine web novel!And he was the most powerful villain in this heroine-focused novel!
His strength had reached the Soul Formation Peak stage!
He was the undisputed pinnacle of combat power in the entire Immortal Cultivation World!
Yet because very few people knew his true name, he was also known as the Bloodthirsty Demonic Lord!
As for why Qingyu was given such a moniker, it was because the things he had done terrified cultivators across the entire Immortal Cultivation World.
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When Qingyu was a child, his village was destroyed by a few plundering cultivators, leaving only five-year-old him alive.
Surviving, Qingyu fled deep into the dense mountains and primeval forests, where he encountered a Demonic Cultivator named the Heavenly Demonic Taoist. Taken in as a disciple by the Heavenly Demonic Taoist, he entered the Heavenly Demonic Sect to cultivate.
Then, when Qingyu reached the age of fifteen, he suddenly discovered that the Heavenly Demonic Taoist had taken him in solely to plant a demonic seed inside his body and subsequently devour him!
Every single elder in the Demonic Sect cultivated this way!
Thus, Qingyu struck first to gain the upper hand, launching a ruthless parricide at the moment when the Heavenly Demonic Taoist was completely unguarded while planting the demonic seed within him!
After destroying the Heavenly Demonic Taoist, Qingyu went a step further and used the Sect Master's blood to blood-sacrifice all the elders of the Heavenly Demonic Sect!
As a result of the blood sacrifice, he obtained a super elixir known as the Blood Demonic Pill!
Consuming it allowed cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage to instantly surge by three minor realms!
The only side effect was that for the span of a month, they could no longer employ spell techniques.
At that time, Qingyu assumed that the cultivators who joined the Heavenly Demonic Sect had been deceived into entering just like him, and he intended to win over these young cultivators.
Yet the moment he exposed the matter of the Blood Demonic Pill, he was immediately hunted down by his fellow apprentice brothers and sisters!
To protect himself, Qingyu killed them all, completely exterminating the Heavenly Demonic Sect!
However, the affair of the Blood Demonic Pill was exposed, and those righteous sects of renown came to seize his Blood Demonic Pill under the banner of eradicating the demonic path.
Over the next dozen years, Qingyu remained in a state of being hunted by both the righteous and demonic factions.
The reasons those cultivators hunted him down ranged from the Blood Demonic Pill and revenge, to claims that he possessed a special constitution suitable for use as a cultivation vessel, and even assertions that they were acting on behalf of heaven……
Even the evil deeds committed by numerous other cultivators were pinned upon him.After enduring over a dozen scams and murder plots, along with more than twenty betrayals, Qingyu had completely turned to the dark side, pulling out all the stops.
Blood sacrifices, brutal slaughter, poisonous pills, blood arrays... he stopped at nothing, leaving no method untried!
In the end, having provoked the wrath of the masses, Qingyu was besieged by tens of thousands of high-level cultivators from both the righteous and demonic factions across the entire Immortal Cultivation World!
Yet right there at the summit of Tianbai Mountain, the pinnacle of Central Province, Qingyu massacred these high-level cultivators, wave after wave!
Tianbai Mountain, a thousand miles high, was cleaved straight across its waist!
Reduced to five hundred miles!
The mountain peak was thoroughly dyed red with the blood of those cultivators!
And Qingyu became a super overlord known to all in the Immortal Cultivation World, dubbed the Bloodthirsty Demonic Lord!
After the battle of Tianbai Mountain, Qingyu suddenly vanished from everyone's sight, disappearing for a hundred years.
Until now.
Having sorted through the memories in his mind, Qingyu's expression grew steady.
Because these memories felt entirely as though he had lived through them himself.
They belonged to him.
Pulling his thoughts back, Qingyu looked down at the young woman kneeling before him, clad in white silk stockings.
Though he had no idea why this world featured modern hosiery, Qingyu didn't dwell on it.
After all, this was a world within a novel, and a grand heroine-centric one at that; having such pretty clothes was perfectly normal.
Gazing at the lovely young girl kneeling before him, her eyes swollen and red from crying, Qingyu began to reminisce.
Following the battle of Tianbai Mountain, he had grown weary of the deceit and treachery in the Immortal Cultivation World.
From then on, he pretended to be an ordinary mortal and wandered the world.
Fifteen years ago—precisely a hundred years into his journey as a wanderer—he took on three female disciples.
He even founded a sect named the Wendao Sect, intending to start anew and leave his days as a demonic overlord behind.
The female disciple kneeling before him now was his youngest, nineteen-year-old Liu Yashi.
As for why she was kneeling before him, it was because a truly absurd situation had occurred.
In the beginning, Qingyu treated his three female disciples quite normally.
Not only did he care for his apprentices, but he also nurtured the growth of the Wendao Sect.
Yet four years ago, influenced by the original plot, his three female disciples encountered demonic cultivators while out on a trial, and while fighting them, they cried out to him for rescue.
When he arrived, he killed those demonic cultivators and casually wiped out their demonic sect as well.
From that moment on, swayed by the influence of the original novel, a bizarre urge inexplicably arose within Qingyu: to destroy the entire world.
Yet rather than carrying out the destruction himself, Qingyu first dispatched his subordinates, using the influence of the Wendao Sect to do it.
However, under the protagonist halo of the female lead, the members of the Wendao Sect were either defeated or subjugated.
By now, the sect had been reduced to just Qingyu, his three dutiful apprentices, and a single female elder.
They were forced to cower halfway up a desolate mountain in the wilderness.
Just a week ago, Qingyu had assigned a task to his third disciple, Liu Yashi, who was now kneeling before him.
He ordered her—despite being only in the Early Golden Core stage—to assassinate the grand heroine, who possessed the most powerful influence in Central Province and an Early Nascent Soul cultivation level.
He even threatened that if the assassination failed, she would be expelled from the sect!
The Immortal Cultivation World was divided into the Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern Regions, along with Central Province.
Central Province was the most prosperous.
To put it simply, that grand heroine was the most powerful figure in the current Immortal Cultivation World.
Desperate not to be cast out by Qingyu, Liu Yashi went to attempt the assassination of the female lead.
Yet protected by her protagonist halo, the female lead not only shrugged off the poison Liu Yashi administered, but launched a counterattack using a sword array, leaving a deep gash across Liu Yashi's back.
With the assassination failed and unable to strike again, Liu Yashi returned to face judgment from her master, Qingyu.
She begged Qingyu not to drive her away, declaring that she would accept any other punishment he saw fit.
At this moment, fresh blood was still oozing from Liu Yashi's back.
It had stained her entire back red.
Looking at Liu Yashi's miserable state, Qingyu let out a helpless sigh.
Then, he rose from his seat and walked toward his third disciple, Liu Yashi, who was huddled on the ground, shivering violently from the cold.
He could no longer allow things to follow the original plot.
He might have once been the Demonic Lord who sought to destroy the world, but now, he had reclaimed his identity as Qingyu—the strongest cultivator who cherished his dutiful apprentices and those around him!