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Translator: Fate
Translation Checker: Silavin
Ah Man was immersed in her memories. She clutched her forehead as her expression shifted between pain, torment, and calmness.
It was akin to a terrifying undercurrent lurking beneath the wide ocean.
As she took in the memories, the tidal waves came crashing into her mind.
She needed time to process them and come to accept them.
Gu Changge did not disturb her, giving her the space to sort through those memories alone.
This thankfully did not last very long. Soon, Ah Man opened her eyes, but now, there was no longer any trace of naivete in her youthful features.
“Senior…” Ah Man turned to Gu Changge and called out softly.
“Do you understand now?” Gu Changge asked.
Ah Man nodded at first, but then she shook her head and said, “I only understood some of these memories. There are a lot of things I still don’t understand.”
According to the memories she regained, she was actually the Daughter of the First Primeval Deity. But, for some reason, the First Primeval Deity had offended an ancient Celestial Deity and was killed as a result.
To stop the First Primeval Deity from coming back to life, the Celestial Deity had his corpse cut into six pieces and buried in the four ends of the world.
The Primeval Deities that came after the first had all gotten hold of the First Primeval Deity’s fragmented remains somehow and received formidable strength from it.
Meanwhile, the Grandfather who raised Ah Man was actually her Father’s slave.
[Why did Grandfather raise me? Why was it that in every lifetime, he used all kinds of methods to observe my growth and ensure that I followed a specific path?]
Ah Man did not know the answers to these questions. In fact, the man himself did not know why he was doing it. He was simply acting in accordance with the orders that had been left in his mind.
“Perhaps it was all under the orders of that Celestial Deity who is high up above in some distant world looking down on everything. Not only did he kill my Father, but he even forced me to live through such torturous lives over and over again, so that I awaken my demonic side. It has to be for the sake of taking revenge against my Father.”
Slowly, Ah Man’s expression grew firm. She was able to consider several possibilities.
Throughout her past lives, whenever she was on the verge of recalling the past, her Grandfather would show up to set things back in order. He would wipe that part of her memories to ensure that she continued down the path that had been set for her.
However, in every lifetime, something unexpected would occur, just like the scene she saw earlier.
In that situation, she was the Saintess of that Primitives’ settlement but had inadvertently found out that the previous Primeval Deity disappeared because he had been devoured by the Ninth Primeval Deity.
The glorious deity who was supposed to protect the Primitives was nowhere near as righteous as they thought.
He was a despicable person who stole Divinity through various means.
It was why she attempted to kill the Ninth Primeval Deity during the ritual sacrifice. She wanted to let her people see his true colours.
“The reason for the decline of the Primitives lies in the fact that the real Primeval Deity has long since vanished… Perhaps it is more apt to say that the later Primeval Deities had consumed the earlier ones.” Ah Man murmured to herself as she came to grasp this tragic truth.
All of a sudden, she realised why the people who embarked on a search for the Primeval Deity ended up disappearing without a trace.
She now knew why her adoptive Father in this lifetime would also be killed four years later.
“Grandfather knew everything, so to hide the truth and avoid letting me recall the past… He chose to kill my Adoptive Father.” Ah Man was soon able to see the full picture. Her bright and pretty eyes grew calm.
After taking in the memories that the Grandfather had taken away from her, some kind of shackles within her seemed to break apart.
It was an ancient and profound mark that contained her past cultivation. A never-ending stream of mighty and majestic energy began to flood her lungs, bones, heart, and every fibre of her body.
“Celestial Deity?”
“My Real Father?”
Gu Changge watched in silence. He did not make any sound so as to avoid disturbing Ah Man.
However, his expression shifted strangely when Ah Man murmured to herself about her past memories.
In reality, the truth that Ah Man had discovered was far more cruel than she knew.
Nevertheless, Gu Changge did not plan on telling her.
She could not undergo a true transformation if she did not experience such cruelty herself. In his eyes, she was still extremely innocent.
There were still traces of the innocence and naivete of a young woman in her eyes. She was still a far cry from the almighty white-haired Demoness that dominated the world and stunned the other end of time that Gu Changge saw when he looked into the River of Time and saw her destiny.
Her path to becoming a True Demon had only just started.
“Senior…” Ah Man regained her composure and turned to Gu Changge. She seemed hesitant.
“What do you plan to do now?” Gu Changge simply shook his head and asked with a faint smile.
“I want to take revenge. I want to kill the Celestial Deity to avenge all nine lives, as well as the death of my Father.” Ah Man raised her determined eyes that sparkled with hope.
“Okay.” Gu Changge nodded and studied her carefully. “Right now, even without my help, you’re just as strong as the ninth-level cultivators of this world. It is within your means to take revenge.”
“The strength of a ninth-level cultivator…” Ah Man did notice that her body was filled with an unimaginably terrifying power that was enough for her to lord over the experts in this world.
Even the other major Forces, whose strength rivalled that of the Primeval Deity Sect, would not be able to go up against her.
Some of her strength came from the mark within her, but most of it was thanks to the Nameless Technique that Gu Changge had taught her. It had allowed her to devour the Sources from the Elders of the Primeval Deity Sect.
In Ah Man’s eyes, the Nameless Technique was the greatest source of hope and opportunity that would allow her to take her revenge.
Words could not describe the terrifying mysteries within it.
“Are you leaving now, Senior?” Alas, Ah Man could not be happy right now, despite finding out what she believed was the truth and having the hope of becoming stronger to take revenge.
From Gu Changge’s words, Ah Man picked up on his intention to leave.
To her, he was not just a Senior. He was the light that broke through the storm of darkness.
Without Gu Changge, she would still be a pitiful Soul trapped in the lies she had been fed, just as she had seen in the mirror. There was no telling how long it would have taken her to figure out the truth.
Plus, she did not have the courage to face the cruel reality that was meant to happen in the future.
“Me?” All of a sudden, Gu Changge chuckled.
Ah Man stared at him with glassy eyes. It was her first time seeing a smile like this on his face. It reminded her of the clearest lake waters, brightest white clouds, and endless warmth.
He looked so handsome when he smiled.
Ah Man was caught in a daze. She recalled the embarrassing dream she had last night and blushed.
She was in her teens, the age when one began to have budding emotions of love and romance. Ah Man did not know if that was what she was feeling right now, but she knew she did not want to separate from Gu Changge.
Even though it had not even been a month since they met.
“Goodbyes don’t have to be forever. We will meet again, so you don’t need to feel sad,” Gu Changge said gently as he reached out and stroked Ah Man’s head.
“I don’t know your name yet, Senior. Can you tell me?” Ah Man lowered her eyes. She looked like a lost and helpless young woman. Her hands kept fidgeting beneath her sleeves.
She did not know Gu Changge’s name and origin. She did not know why he chose to help her and what the deal he mentioned was.
There was too much that she did not know about.
Gu Changge was like a fog that appeared in this world out of the blue and came before her.
“My name?” Gu Changge chuckled and looked at Ah Man. “You can address me as Demon Lord.”
“Demon Lord…” Ah Man seared those two words into her memory and kept them safely in her heart.
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