You Promised an Empress, but You Turned Her into a Female Demon? - Chapter 8

"You Promised an Empress, but You Turned Her into a Female Demon? - Chapter 8: The Devouring Heavens Demonic Art, Elder Tianyin"

Chapter 8: The Devouring Heavens Demonic Art, Elder Tianyin

Cultivation Tower.

Deep within the eighth floor.

Luo Qinghuan found a spot and asked, "Su Ye, what should I do next?"

"Sit cross-legged, circulate your cultivation technique, and absorb spiritual energy freely."

Su Ye's voice echoed in her mind.

Then, as if worried she might overthink it, he added, "Don't worry about causing trouble for others. Cultivation is inherently about survival of the fittest. If you don't fight for it, others will snatch it from you."

Hearing Su Ye's words,

Luo Qinghuan nodded thoughtfully.

Soon after,

She began circulating her cultivation technique.

A holy white glow soon enveloped her body.

"Hold on?"

"Luo girl, what cultivation technique is this?"

Watching Luo Qinghuan activate her technique, Su Ye frowned.

"The Holy Maiden Calming Heart Technique of the Xuan Yin Holy Sect," Luo Qinghuan replied honestly.

"The Holy Maiden Calming Heart Technique?"

Su Ye's frown deepened.

He could clearly sense that when Luo Qinghuan activated this technique, the radiant white light around her grew even brighter. This essence aura was identical to the innate purity of her 先天纯洁圣体 (Innate Pure Saint Body).

If Luo Qinghuan continued cultivating this technique, the constraints of her 先天纯洁圣体 (Innate Pure Saint Body) would only grow stronger.

Was this coincidence?

Or...

Was someone secretly manipulating her, deliberately guiding her down a specific path?

"Su... Su Ye, what's wrong?"

Luo Qinghuan's playful voice rang out.

"Nothing. From now on, you'll cultivate this."

Su Ye shook off his suspicions and waved his hand, transmitting a new cultivation technique directly into Luo Qinghuan's mind.

"This is... the Devouring Heavens Demonic Art?"

Looking at the rows of dark characters forming the technique, Luo Qinghuan glanced up curiously. When she read the description, her face paled slightly. "Such a powerful, brutal demonic art."

"Cultivate it?"

Su Ye didn't elaborate, simply asking calmly.

The choice was hers.

Would she become an empress used by others or a feared demoness? It all depended on her decision.

"...I'll cultivate it."

After a moment of hesitation, Luo Qinghuan bit her silver teeth and nodded firmly.

"Good."

Su Ye nodded in satisfaction, then instructed, "Close your eyes and focus. I'll transmit the technique to you."

As his words faded,

Luo Qinghuan felt the once obscure and difficult-to-understand text become clear and comprehensible.

This made her marvel even more.

Though Su Ye was a bit mischievous, his abilities were truly extraordinary.

[Luo Qinghuan has mastered the Devouring Heavens Demonic Art.]

[Great Dao Master activated!]

[Using the essence power of the Devouring Heavens Demonic Art, Luo Qinghuan delivers a hundredfold critical hit feedback to the host!]

In Su Ye's mind, the system's voice sounded.

"A hundredfold critical hit feedback, huh."

Su Ye revealed a faint smile.

This way, as Luo Qinghuan grew stronger, so would he!

[Host successfully invested in corruption.]

[Congratulations, Host, you have been rewarded: Immortal Soul Technique!]

"Immortal Soul Technique?"

Hearing the system's voice again,

Su Ye was momentarily stunned.

He immediately checked the description of the Immortal Soul Technique.

"Devour souls to strengthen one's own soul?"

Upon reading this,

His eyes began to gleam.

Currently, there were two ways for him to grow stronger. One was through Luo Qinghuan's cultivation, which provided critical hit feedback. The other was through the Immortal Soul Technique. Since he was currently a soul form, unable to absorb spiritual energy and thus unable to cultivate, the Immortal Soul Technique allowed him to actively train.

With these dual methods of growth, he would only grow stronger!

"Alright."

"Begin cultivation."

Putting away the Immortal Soul Technique, Su Ye gave a command.

"Mm~"

Luo Qinghuan nodded slightly, then sat cross-legged. Her hair cascaded down her fragrant shoulders, draping over her curvaceous figure. As the Devouring Heavens Demonic Art circulated, the spiritual energy of the eighth floor began to surge toward her.

At the same time,

On the other side of the eighth floor,

Lin Yue took out a pill, his eyes fierce.

"Huff..."

"Once I take this pill, my absorption of spiritual energy will increase fivefold!"

"Hmph!"

"Luo Qinghuan, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

"When I become the sect's Holy Son, I'll make sure you become my personal plaything."

Thinking of Luo Qinghuan's exquisite beauty and perfect figure, Lin Yue's eyes burned with desire. Without hesitation, he swallowed the pill.

The next moment,

He could clearly feel his perception and absorption of spiritual energy had significantly increased.

Immediately,

Lin Yue began greedily absorbing the spiritual energy of the eighth floor.

However, just then—

BOOM!!!

With a terrifying suction force erupting,

The spiritual energy of the eighth floor vanished in the blink of an eye, like a dried-up riverbed, leaving not a drop behind.

Lin Yue and the other disciples cultivating on the eighth floor opened their eyes in bewilderment.

Their gazes turned toward the source of the terrifying suction force.

There,

A white-robed figure sat cross-legged.

"That is..."

"Luo Senior Sister?"

...

Meanwhile, as Su Ye led Luo Qinghuan into the cultivation tower, Taiyin Zhen brought the pig-faced Meng'er to the entrance of a tightly sealed cave dwelling.

"Elder Tianyin."

"This old one brings Meng'er to pay respects."

"Meng'er?"

Soon,

A hoarse, grating voice echoed from within the cave, sounding like the screech of sawing wood. "My precious great-granddaughter doesn't look like this pig-face."

"Great-Grandma, it's really me, Meng'er!"

Meng'er looked utterly pitiful, nearly bursting into tears again.

"What?"

"You're really Meng'er?"

BOOM!

The door to the cave swung open.

A gaunt, skeletal old woman appeared before them.

When she saw the pig-faced Meng'er, her expression changed drastically, anger flashing in her skull-like eye sockets.

"Who!?"

"How dare someone beat my precious great-granddaughter like this?"

"Waaahhh!"

"Great-Grandma, you must avenge me!"

Meng'er quickly burst into tears, exaggerating Luo Qinghuan's "misdeeds."

"Hmph!"

"So you're saying that this Luo Qinghuan had a thousand-year sacred herb, knowing you were in a crucial stage of bone refinement. Even though the herb was useless to her, she'd rather waste it than help you? And she humiliated you, even beat you?"

"No virtue, no compassion!"

"Doesn't she understand the importance of helping fellow disciples, which ultimately benefits herself?"

"This infuriates me!"

"Taiyin! How did you teach your disciples!?"

"And you—"

"As her master, why didn't you stand up for Meng'er?"

Elder Tianyin's eyes blazed with fury as she glared at the trembling Taiyin Zhen, berating her harshly.

Hearing this,

Taiyin Zhen's face flushed red as she hurriedly explained.

"Elder Tianyin, please calm your anger."

"I didn't know this disciple would be so unreasonable and disrespectful."

"I usually don't teach her this way... As for standing up for Meng'er, I'm only at the Holy Emperor realm, while that disciple is at the Heavenly Sovereign realm. I lacked the strength, and besides, she severed our master-disciple relationship..."

"What?"

"Severed the master-disciple relationship!?"

"Good, good, good!"

"No humility, no respect for teachers and elders—it's rebellion!"

Hearing this,

Elder Tianyin laughed coldly in rage.

"Taiyin!"

"Go and bring that wretch here. I'll teach her a lesson!"

"Yes!"

"Elder Tianyin."

Taiyin Zhen quickly nodded.

Seeing her great-grandmother take her side, Meng'er's eyes lit up with joy. She clung to the old woman's skeletal arm and cooed, "Great-Grandma, what about Luo Qinghuan's thousand-year sacred herb...?"

"It naturally belongs to my precious great-granddaughter as an apology."

Elder Tianyin affectionately patted Meng'er's pig-face, then sneered.

"No."

"Not enough."

"One herb? At the very least, three!"

"Thank you, Great-Grandma!"

Meng'er's joy intensified.

"Elder Tianyin, that disciple has already reached the Heavenly Sovereign realm, and her strength is not shallow..." Taiyin Zhen frowned.

"Heavenly Sovereign realm?"

"Do you think I fear her?"

Elder Tianyin snorted coldly, waving her sleeve as the overwhelming presence of a Creation Realm expert swept through.

"Why haven't you brought that wretch to apologize to my precious great-granddaughter yet!?"

"Yes..."