Chapter 1: Returning to Life in Another's Body

With a painful roar, a giant crimson Purgatory Python opened its bloody maw in a final, deathly struggle!

The young girl riding atop the crimson Purgatory Python gripped the Blue Smoke Sword embedded in the python's skull with all her might, her cold, elegant features radiating a kingly dominance!

Her white gauze dress, pure as a lotus, had been stained crimson by the blood on her body, looking like the sunset on the horizon, exceptionally dazzling!

Though the girl was only sixteen years old, the spiritual power she cultivated had already reached the third stage of the Red Rank.

Her name was Huan Yao. In the Qingming Water Pavilion, the number one demonic sect of the Cangqing Continent, she was a once-in-a-century genius, one in ten thousand. Furthermore, she was the only disciple personally trained by the Sect Leader of the Qingming Water Pavilion, and the future successor to the sect.

"Huan Yao, the Red Spirit Fruit has been obtained!" The speaker was a breathtakingly beautiful man, also dressed in white lotus-like gauze clothing.

His appearance was like that of a banished immortal, and his peerless, gentle smile was like a lotus blooming in the Jade Pool—emerging from the mud but remaining unstained, beautiful to behold yet unreachable!

His warm, jade-like voice was like pearls falling onto a tray, sounding like heavenly music, as if from within the clouds, making one intoxicated and unable to extricate themselves!

Compared to the bloodstains on Huan Yao, the blood on the beautiful man's lotus-white gauze clothing was merely scattered specks!

In order to help him obtain the Red Spirit Fruit to increase his spiritual power, Huan Yao had engaged in a world-shaking battle with the Level 4 spiritual beast, the Purgatory Python, which guarded the fruit.

This battle lasted for a full day and night!

After the Purgatory Python let out its final groan, Huan Yao's slender, ethereal figure finally collapsed like a heap of soft mud, as if the last shred of strength in her body had been exhausted!

"You... are not the Northern Dark King!!" The moment Yun Juechen approached, Huan Yao's exhausted eyes suddenly snapped up, radiating cold light!

But her sharp gaze met an unfamiliar face!

The beautiful man subconsciously touched the layer of fake skin on his face, and his smile, which had been pretending to be gentle, instantly turned sinister: "Heh, that's right, I am not the Northern Dark King. I am Yun Juechen. I didn't expect that even though I used illusions to transform into the Northern Dark King's appearance, you would believe it so easily. Now, the Red Spirit Fruit I wanted is in my hands, and you are useless. Therefore, I can only kill you now to eliminate any future troubles."

Without hesitation, Yun Juechen swallowed the Red Spirit Fruit in his hand. In an instant, the spiritual power within his body converged toward his dantian like a flood, and his entire body was enveloped in pale red spiritual energy.

Yun Juechen felt a powerful, warm current rushing rapidly through his blood vessels toward his dantian.

With a slight application of spiritual power, the energy condensed in Yun Juechen's hand was incredibly dense. As expected of the Red Spirit Fruit that only grew once every hundred years; his spiritual power jumped directly from the third stage of the Red Rank to the fourth stage of the Red Rank, a level he had never been able to break through before.

It was indeed a pity to kill such a gifted young girl, but she was a disciple personally trained by the Sect Leader of the Qingming Water Pavilion, the number one demonic sect in the world. If he did not kill her now while her energy was exhausted...

In the future, once she adjusted her breath and recovered her strength, it would be difficult to kill her, and the people of the Qingming Water Pavilion would never let him go.

After a moment of hesitation, Yun Juechen's sinister eyes filled with resolve.

"Yun Juechen, the members of the Qingming Water Pavilion will absolutely not let you go." Huan Yao's gloomy eyes were bloodshot.

As soon as the words fell, with a "boom," Yun Juechen struck out with the spiritual power condensed in his hand toward Huan Yao.

A red light soared into the sky, so blinding that Huan Yao could not open her eyes, and a bone-eroding pain felt as if her entire body were being split apart.!!