Chapter 484 - 491: Slaying the Heart Demon

The thought of her fiancé’s desertion, her three disciples’ betrayal, and Ye Chuxue’s schemes filled her with a potent hatred!!!

She had been a heaven-blessed prodigy with a brilliant future, but because of that one woman, she had succumbed to demonic influence and ruined everything.

Now, all she wanted was to return to the Song Family, to the embrace of her parents.

So, ignoring the pain, Song Wanning began to claw her way up the cliff.

She fell and was injured countless times, but she paid it no mind, her focus solely on the determined climb upward.

She knew that no matter what she became, her parents would always love and protect her!

Even if it meant death, she wanted to die by her parents’ side.

After what felt like an eternity of relentless effort, she finally hauled herself over the cliff’s edge.

But before she could even feel a moment of relief, she heard the news: the Song Family was under siege by countless other families, and she—the one who had succumbed to demonic influence—was the cause.

In that moment, her legs nearly gave out from under her.

’How dare they?’

She raced toward the Song Family residence without a moment’s pause. Even though her injuries made every step excruciating, she didn’t dare slow her pace.

When she finally reached the Song Family estate, she found her family completely surrounded.

Without a second thought, Song Wanning charged down.

"Father! Mother!"

Her eyes instantly reddened, and she was nearly drowned by a wave of self-loathing.

And standing at the head of the crowd was the very person she dreamed of killing day and night.

Song Wanning coughed up a mouthful of blood, her eyes filled with a soul-shaking hatred.

"Song Wanning, you have been possessed by a Heart Demon and have long since degenerated into a monstrous Demon, neither human nor ghost. The Song Family has harbored a fugitive, plotting to destroy the entire Cultivation World. For their crimes, they must be executed!"

"Today, we are merely carrying out justice on behalf of the heavens!"

The speaker was Gu Qingyuan, the man Song Wanning hated more than anyone.

While her bond with her disciples had only lasted a few decades, Gu Qingyuan had been her companion for the longest time.

’And now he was spouting such nonsense.’

Her three disciples then spoke one by one, some pointing accusingly at her, others urging her to lay down her weapon and willingly accept death.

And then there was Ye Chuxue, feigning sincerity as she spouted self-righteous platitudes. The pity in her eyes made Song Wanning’s fists clench.

And the families surrounding them... so many of them were familiar faces.

They had been impossibly polite when they came begging her for medicine, but now they were all screaming for her family’s blood. The irony was sickening.

The aura around Song Wanning grew increasingly unstable as the Heart Demon completely seized control of her mind.

Her eyes turned pitch-black, without a sliver of white to be seen.

All that remained was an endless tide of Demonic Qi.

"You—"

"ALL OF YOU DESERVE TO DIE!!!!"

Song Wanning let out a heaven-shaking roar as the murderous intent and madness in her heart were unleashed completely.

She brandished her Longsword and charged at the crowd.

But her injuries were too severe. She was knocked back again and again, her wounds worsening with each blow, until she was finally bound tight by an Immortal Binding Rope, unable to move.

"Song Wanning, now it’s your turn to watch the members of the Song Family be slaughtered one by one!"

At a single glance from Bai Yang, the surrounding Cultivators began their massacre of the Song Family.

She was forced to watch as those familiar faces fell to the ground, one after another, dying in agony.

They were even screaming for her to run, to leave them behind...

The endless cries of anguish turned Song Wanning’s vision completely blood-red.

A single, bloody tear slid down her cheek, and in its wake, her mind became terrifyingly clear.

She raised her head, fixing a deathly stare on the leaders of the group.

"AHH—"

With another heavenward roar, Song Wanning shattered the Immortal Binding Rope’s restraints and began to slaughter them like a madwoman.

Endless torrents of blood splattered across her face and body...

Yet she seemed to feel nothing at all, relentlessly reaping the lives of her enemies.

She was deaf to their pleas for mercy, as if she had become a killing machine.

But there were simply too many of them. Her arm began to ache until she could barely lift her sword.

Still, Song Wanning refused to give up. When she could no longer lift her sword, she used her fists.

When she could no longer swing her fists, she threw her body at them...

’Anything to kill them.’

Corpses piled up around her until a river of blood flowed across the ground.

’But it still wasn’t enough. Not enough.’

Song Wanning obsessively cut down every last person, not even sparing the lowest-ranking grunts of the various powers.

She fought until she collapsed from exhaustion, only to rest for a moment before struggling back to her feet to kill again.

...

「In the Netherworld.」

The Netherworld King was reviewing memorials submitted by his subordinates when he suddenly sensed an anomaly.

His figure flickered, and in the next instant, he appeared beside the long-abandoned Forget River.

’And there was a Cultivator by the Forget River!!’

A chill went through the Netherworld King.

’Ever since the great war of antiquity, the Netherworld and the Spirit Realm have been disconnected. How could a Cultivator possibly break in now?’

’And in a desolate place like this, no less!!!!’

His expression grew grave as he carefully studied Song Wanning, his astonishment growing the longer he looked.

Setting aside her bone age and Cultivation level, the sheer murderous aura rolling off her was enough to stagger anyone.

’How powerful must her Heart Demon be to drive her to this state?’

But it also spoke to her incredible mental fortitude; she actually dared to attempt to purge her Heart Demon in the Forget River.

The Netherworld King’s gaze lingered on Song Wanning, a flicker of interest sparked within him for this human.

...

"BOOM—"

As the last figure fell, Song Wanning collapsed to the ground, utterly spent.

She stared blankly at the sky. The figures of her family were long gone, leaving only the corpses of those she had slain.

At that moment, all her memories came flooding back.

She closed her eyes, shedding one last tear.

Reborn into this life, she had done everything in her power to keep the Song Family out of her affairs. She hadn’t dared to leave a single loose end, meticulously planning the eradication of her enemies one by one.

Her great vengeance had been achieved, and it was a cathartic release.

But being reborn didn’t mean the past had never happened.

Watching her family die while she was powerless to protect them had been her greatest regret, the source of her deepest guilt.

Now, the reappearance of her Heart Demon had given her the chance to personally resolve that regret.

Every single person who had participated in the siege on the Song Family had been cut down by her own hand.

The regret was finally put to rest. It was time for her to let herself go!!!!

Song Wanning’s eyes snapped open, bursting with an infinite, divine light.

At that very moment, a violent turmoil erupted around her.

The passage to her inner world opened automatically, and even the four-colored orb in her Dantian began to spin rapidly.

Immediately after, countless streams of Yin Qi swarmed toward Song Wanning, pouring directly into her body.

The scene left the Netherworld King completely dumbfounded.

’She... isn’t she human?’

’How can she possibly absorb Yin Qi??’

The Netherworld King felt his entire understanding of the world being challenged, and the curiosity in his eyes toward Song Wanning deepened.

However, not wishing to draw attention to himself, he chose to remain hidden.

He couldn’t yet tell if Song Wanning was friend or foe. He had no desire to reveal his presence; he was more interested in seeing what this person had come to the Netherworld to do.