Chapter 1393: The Cycle of Reincarnation

If the previous few defeats at the hands of Shi Zhixuan could be said to have had a traceable pattern, then this time, there were absolutely no signs at all; Su Xuan was defeated directly.

"Shi Zhixuan, what exactly must I do to be able to defeat you?"

Amidst the astonished gazes of her master and Bian Bufan, Zhu Yuyan gritted her teeth in hatred.

That's right, she had come back to life once again.

Even though she cultivated the Purple Blood Great Art and relied on powerful demonic arts to unify the Jianghu, she was still unable to rewrite her fate.

Shi Zhixuan's strength was unfathomable; no one knew how he had become so powerful.

If one were to follow the first lifetime.

After Zhu Yuyan successfully cultivated the Heavenly Demon Great Art to the eighteenth level, it should have been enough to defeat her opponent, but the facts were not so; even if she reached the eighteenth level of the Heavenly Demon Great Art, numerous complications would always arise.

She would even lose to Shi Zhixuan after cultivating the Purple Blood Great Art.

"660" Like a shadow following a form, like maggots clinging to bone.

Shi Zhixuan was like her demonic tribulation.

He always followed her; as she became stronger, Shi Zhixuan would also become stronger.

Such a result once caused Zhu Yuyan to feel a sense of despair.

It was as if everything she did was in vain.

"Are you satisfied with this result?"

In the dark, there seemed to be a mysterious person saying this to Zhu Yuyan.

Having experienced several lifetimes of reincarnation, many of Zhu Yuyan's memories had become blurred; she could not remember who this mysterious person was.

But there was one thing she could be certain of: she would never be satisfied with such a result.

Zhu Yuyan swore that she must defeat Shi Zhixuan.

In this lifetime, she tried every possible method to kill Shi Zhixuan, but unfortunately, she failed in the end just the same.

And then, the next lifetime began.

She did not know how much time had passed, nor how many lifetimes she had experienced; in every lifetime, she strove to learn from the lessons of the previous one, struggling to change her own destiny.

During this time, many things had indeed changed.

Either she mastered techniques she had never cultivated before, or she accomplished things she had never achieved in the past.

Among these, she had unified the Demonic Sect, vied for supremacy over the world, and even, in order to find Shi Zhixuan's weakness, left the Demonic Sect at the very beginning to attempt to join the Cihang Jingzhai and cultivate the Cihang Sword Manual.

She had tried all sorts of unorthodox methods.

If it were the beginning, she naturally would not have done these things.

But as the things she experienced gradually increased, she slowly became numb.

For her, the only thought that kept her struggling on was the demonic obsession in her heart: defeating Shi Zhixuan.

She did not know from which lifetime it began, but Shi Zhixuan had come to possess the Dao Heart Planting Demon Great Art; to contend with the Dao Heart Planting Demon Great Art, relying solely on the Purple Blood Great Art was not enough—it required a profound technique from the same rank as the Four Great Strange Books.

She had searched for the Longevity Secret, but could not find an entry point.

That was why she pinned her hopes on the Cihang Sword Manual.

With the help of the Cihang Sword Manual, she did indeed contend with the Dao Heart Planting Demon Great Art for a while, but in the end, she still became Shi Zhixuan's furnace.

It was only after being drained and dying as a furnace that she understood why, in those few lifetimes, Shi Zhixuan's strength had advanced greatly because of Bi Xiuxin and the Cihang Jingzhai; it was simply because the Cihang Sword Manual actually had an amplifying effect on the Dao Heart Planting Demon Great Art.

This was an extremely incredible thing.

Clearly, the Dao Heart Planting Demon Great Art was the supreme mental cultivation method of the Demonic Sect, while the Cihang Sword Manual was the supreme mental cultivation method of the Righteous Path, yet the two could actually complement each other.

But the facts were just so.

Zhu Yuyan had no heart to ponder it further; then, another lifetime of reincarnation began.

In the subsequent reincarnations, Zhu Yuyan tried many ways to defeat Shi Zhixuan.

Shi Zhixuan always stood until the end.

Zhu Yuyan even tried to repair her relationship with Lu Miaoji, and with Lu Miaoji's help, she met Xiang Yutian, who had not yet shattered the void and departed at that time; unfortunately, even after meeting the Evil Emperor and learning the mysteries of the Dao Heart Planting Demon Great Art from him, she still could not defeat Shi Zhixuan.

In one lifetime, Zhu Yuyan and Xiang Yutian joined forces, yet they still lost to Shi Zhixuan.

In the great hall, Su Xuan held a cup of tea, watching Zhu Yuyan, who was trapped in an illusion, with great interest.

In the illusion, Zhu Yuyan had already experienced over a dozen lifetimes, but in reality, it had been no more than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

Although it was only a cup of tea, relying on his powerful Primordial Spirit, Su Xuan still perceived everything Zhu Yuyan had experienced in those dozen lifetimes; or rather, these events were the script he had directed all along.

No matter how the plot developed, the ending had long been destined: Zhu Yuyan would perish at the hands of Shi Zhixuan.

Shi Zhixuan was Zhu Yuyan's emotional knot, the greatest flaw in her heart.

One of the things Su Xuan did to take revenge on Zhu Yuyan was to continuously magnify the flaw in her heart.