Chapter 314

Jia Baihe gave a bitter laugh: "That Ku Danmen may have been founded by a former disciple of the original Ku Danmen, but it's not the Ku Danmen I'm talking about."

"Ku Danmen was just a small sect; one day, Peng Peng Shibin, the First Disciple of Taiyan Sect, came to my Ku Danmen, and I accidentally let him see my face…"

At this, Jia Baihe's eyes grew slightly red.

"If not for my carelessness, my father wouldn't have died…"

"At the time, Peng Peng Shibin demanded I become his cultivation partner. My father knew that compared to Taiyan Sect, Ku Danmen was a tiny, insignificant sect—he could only choose to agree."

"You refused, so he killed your entire sect?" Ding Huan guessed roughly.

Jia Baihe shook her head: "No, I agreed too, because I knew I couldn't resist. But on the wedding day, I was raped by Fang Wuque, a senior elder from Jieyuan Quan Temple, who came to observe the ceremony."

When my father learned of this, he flew into a rage and demanded justice from Jieyuan Quan Temple, then took the matter to Taiyan Sect's patriarch, Xi Xi Shiyi."

What I never imagined: the moment Xi Xi Shiyi saw me, he didn't go after Fang Wuque—he killed my father, then raped me again."

Worse still, elders who heard the news came one by one to rape me."

Later, twenty-one members of the Peng family, sixteen of the Feng family, sixteen from the Gu Yi family, plus the patriarch and four elders of Jieyuan Quan Temple…"

Ding Huan stared at Jia Baihe, dumbfounded.

He admitted Jia Baihe was beautiful, but what she said was utterly implausible.

Even if she revealed her perfect figure and deliberately acted seductive, he couldn't believe so many prominent figures would all rape her.

It wasn't that he refused to believe—it was that the story had virtually no credibility.

After cultivating to this level, how could they lack even this much self-control? Were they all ruled by their baser instincts?

"I was like a dog—any beast could come and rape me, humiliate me…"

Even after so much time had passed, when Jia Baihe spoke of these things again, her eyes burned with fury.

Here she paused, for she saw from Ding Huan's expression that he didn't believe her; she let out another bitter laugh:

"Because I'm an Immortal Spirit Body. Do you know what that means?"

Ding Huan's mind suddenly flashed with information on the Immortal Spirit Body—it was a Jia Ling talent body.

On the surface, it was like the Jia Yi cultivation method; Guan Cui's Great Phoenix Crimson Cloud Art was a Jia Yi method.

But Jia Yi methods required the cultivator to first train, then have their power taken by another, who must then continue cultivating it themselves.

The Immortal Spirit Body was different—it was practically a bug in the cultivation world.

If a woman was an Immortal Spirit Body, any man who cultivated with her would slowly transform his spiritual root into an Immortal Spiritual Root.

What did an Immortal Spiritual Root mean?

It meant that even if you trained a trash technique, you could reach the peak of the Immortal-Fanqiao just by closing your eyes.

Even if you lacked the Immortal-Fanqiao realm, the Immortal Spirit Body would automatically generate Dao cultivation techniques below the True Immortal level.

The Immortal Spirit Body meant attaining immortality was a foregone conclusion.

Ding Huan fell silent.

No wonder Jia Baihe was so beautiful—she possessed a body type that shouldn't exist in the mortal world.

He himself wouldn't do such a thing—but what about others?

Coming to this world—no, even before he came to this world, in his past life, he had known one thing.

That most cultivators, in pursuit of the so-called Immortal realm, would stop at nothing.

Not to mention cultivating once with Jia Baihe granted such an opportunity—even more horrific acts were within their capacity.

Human nature was the most terrifying thing of all.

At that moment, Ding Huan sank into deep confusion.

Was cultivation truly about stopping at nothing to reach the Immortal realm?

Sect patriarchs, clan leaders, outstanding true disciples…

They would do beastly things to become Immortals, without the slightest hesitation.

Ding Huan was overwhelmed by profound helplessness—he knew he had no power to change this, not in the past, not now, not in the future.

He could change the laws of the Threefold Heaven Star Continent, alter its fate, but he could not change human hearts.

If it happened again, Ding Huan guessed this would still occur.

Ding Huan gave a bitter laugh. Who was he, after all?

He had strained every effort to defend the Threefold Heaven Star Continent from external enemies, set up countless defense arrays, even arranged a planetary protective array for it.

But could that change the ugliness and rotten roots in the hearts of most cultivators here?

If the protective array he built shielded only such people, was it even worth setting up?

Maybe not everyone was like this—but at this moment, Ding Huan's desire to arrange the planetary protective array faded, nearly to nothing.

When desire crushes humanity, they cease to be human.

"If it were me, I might kill even more brutally than you," Ding Huan said slowly.

Jia Baihe had only destroyed the sects and families that harmed her, and hadn't continued her revenge—her mind hadn't even twisted. How extraordinary was that?

Jia Baihe looked at Ding Huan: "Thank you."

Ding Huan shook his head—he felt no thanks was due.

But Jia Baihe said: "I'm not thanking you for believing me—I'm thanking you for not looking down on me."

In Ding Huan's eyes, she saw only anger—nothing else.

"What I don't understand is, with such a high spiritual root talent, why are you still at Earth Immortal Mid-stage?" Ding Huan asked, puzzled.

Jia Baihe sighed: "To seek revenge, I had to cultivate the Poison Dao. Otherwise, I couldn't kill all those beasts. Fortunately, I succeeded."

After I destroyed two major sects and four clans, and killed over a thousand who pursued me, no one dared lay a hand on me again."

They all claimed they wanted to kill me, the Poison Demon—but none dared chase me. After I poisoned those who called me the Poison Demon, they stopped even openly calling me that."

Instead, I became the true greatest Poison Demon of the Threefold Heaven Star Continent. Heh—eventually, they even forgot my gender.

All I know is that I am a poison demon, a demon who kills anyone he sees.

"If that's the case, why do you still choose to stay here? The vast universe has countless places to hide," Ding Huan asked, puzzled.

If this had happened to him, after killing all his enemies, he would have left this star continent and sought rebirth in the boundless universe.

Jia Baihe looked up at the pitch-black ceiling:

"Because I must avenge one person—his name is Xun Bu."

"Xun Bu?" Ding Huan repeated in astonishment.

He knew of this matter: Xun Bu, alone with his spear, had slain four Earth Immortals, thirteen Human Immortals, and a host of True God Realm cultivators from Jiuyuan, and no one knew whether he was killed or escaped.

Jia Baihe softened her tone: "When I was living a life worse than death, Xun Bu saved me—he took me away. Moreover, he gave me a copy of the 'Post-Universe Poison Scripture' and told me to flee quickly."

I pursued the Poison Dao too urgently; my body was corroded by poison, damaging my foundation. After reaching the mid-stage of Earth Immortal, I could no longer advance a single step.

But I didn't care, because I had avenged myself—I slaughtered every person who humiliated me, along with their sects and families.

As she spoke these words, Jia Baihe exhaled deeply, as if releasing a heavy chain buried deep within her soul.

"After I avenged myself, I originally planned to leave the Third Layer Star Continent—but I still hadn't repaid my debt."

I searched everywhere, collecting and seeking, until I finally found the 'Nine Heaven Spear Dao.' I rushed to find Xun Bu with this spear scripture…"

Ding Huan silently sighed.

Jia Baihe clenched her fists: "But the news I received was that Xun Bu was surrounded by a pack of beasts from Jiuyuan and ultimately fell in battle."

I swore I would avenge Xun Bu.

I began investigating Jiuyuan, and only then did I learn that Jiuyuan had long planned to invade the Third Layer Star Continent and seize it for themselves.

I waited patiently, waiting for the day Jiuyuan would seize the Third Layer Star Continent. I believed that on that day, Jiuyuan's people would be everywhere across the continent.

At that moment, I could poison them all.

But I waited for a long time—and Jiuyuan never invaded the Third Layer Star Continent…"

Ding Huan thought to himself: You'll never wait for it.

He had slaughtered every Jiuyuan cultivator on the Third Layer Star Continent—even the star-core stones buried beneath the city governor's mansion had been taken. What reason did Jiuyuan have to come?

"I can't wait any longer. I've spent my whole life playing with poison—and ironically, I've been poisoned too deeply. If I don't transform the poison, I won't last much longer."

So I intend to go to Jiuyuan and kill every last one of them with poison.

I know my own limits—I'm only skilled in poison; my combat power is terrible, even weaker than a mid-stage Earth Immortal.

If I go to Jiuyuan Star alone, I might be detected and killed before I even get close.

When I saw Fei Zhankong's escape technique, so advanced, and his ability to conceal his presence, I thought to partner with him—to use his hands to deliver poison to Jiuyuan Star for revenge.

From start to finish, I never once considered killing Fei Zhankong."

Ding Huan smiled slightly:

"The hardest thing in a person's life is repaying a debt. The easiest thing? Revenge. Partner with me—I'll take you to Jiuyuan Star and help you avenge him."

Jia Baihe froze. She had told Ding Huan all this because he was the second person, after her parents, who hadn't coveted her Immortal Spirit Body.

And another reason: Ding Huan hadn't tried to kill her without cause.

"I'm willing to partner with you," she said firmly after only a few breaths of hesitation.

"Good. Wait here for a while—I'll kill every Jiuyuan cultivator on the Third Layer Star Continent. I want to see if Jiuyuan Star will send reinforcements."

In truth, even without you, if Jiuyuan Star's cultivators don't come, I'm still going to Jiuyuan Star myself."

Ding Huan knew Jia Baihe was unaware of the changes on the Third Layer Star Continent.

Indeed, upon hearing this, Jia Baihe stared blankly at Ding Huan: "You killed all the Jiuyuan cultivators on the Third Layer Star Continent?"

This was what she had always wanted to do—but had never been able to accomplish.

Those Jiuyuan cultivators had blended into the Third Layer Star Continent's own cultivators—there was no way to tell them apart.