The illusion is like rippling water.

The scene before my eyes collapsed, and when it condensed into a painting again, it had already moved from the human world to another world.

Xue Qingyi is no longer the weak baby who cannot protect herself in the Xue family, but the second senior sister of Liuyun Taoist Sect, a favored daughter of heaven who learned from the Immortal Master Chenghua and wields the Lingxi Sword.

At this moment, she was in the alchemy room on Wangduan Peak where her fifth uncle Shangluo was.

Xue Qingyi held a broken medicine bag in her hand.

Su Youyao accidentally tore the medicine bag. Just as she was calling her "Second Senior Sister" sweetly and begging her to repair the medicine bag, Shangluo suddenly came back.

"Fifth Uncle, please don't be angry. I have already advised Second Sister, telling her that this medicine bag is precious to you and that it was left to you by Senior Sister. No one else is allowed to touch it. But Second Sister didn't listen, saying that what belonged to Senior Sister was hers, and she insisted on opening it to have a look. Not only did she break it, she even blamed it on me..."

As soon as Su Youyao saw Shangluo appear, she immediately looked aggrieved, and the evil guy who turned right into wrong was the first to complain.

"It's not like that, Fifth Uncle...it's Junior Sister...ah!"

"How dare you touch her things!"

Xue Qingyi was surprised by Su Youyao's inconsistency and hesitated for a moment. Before she could finish her words to prove her innocence, she was slapped by the furious Shang Luo and vomited blood!

He didn't listen to her explanation, told her to get out, and said he never wanted to see her again.

At this moment, Xue Qingyi felt for the first time an emotion called heartbreak.

No one knows that she likes Shangluo.

If the master is the beacon she pursues on the long road of cultivating immortals and the sword goal she longs to become, then Shangluo is the gentle glow hidden in her heart, and will always be the most captivating existence.

After that, Xue Qingyi never came to his Wangduan Peak again.

Not long after, she was framed by Su Youyao, who accused her of colluding with evil cultivators to poison her, and she refused to admit her guilt.

In order to force her to admit her mistake, the master followed Ji Jian's advice and threw her into the Demon Abyss.

The Demon Abyss is a rift between the world of cultivation and the world of demons, where all kinds of monsters run rampant. If a cultivator below the Golden Core stage is thrown into here, it is almost impossible for him to survive.

At that time, the master placed a special restriction on her that would only be used on disciples during the inner demon trial. This would prevent the master from dying no matter how brutally and severely the damage the monster inflicted on her body, just to torture her deeply.

She was in the Demonic Abyss, being chased and bitten by demons with much higher cultivation than her, thrown from the sky, burned with demonic flames, struck with demonic thunder, and pierced by sharp blades...

More than a month passed in a life worse than death.

Later, she couldn't bear it anymore, and cried and admitted her mistake to the photo-recording beads used to monitor her every move, admitting that she had colluded with the evil cultivator to harm Su Youyao. Finally, her master sent people to rescue her.

After returning, she kowtowed to Su Youyao and admitted her mistake in front of the entire sect.

Throughout the whole process, Shangluo remained a bystander.

It was at this time that Xue Qingyi began to have inner demons.

For a long time, her cultivation had stagnated, and her experience in the Demon Abyss had become her most feared nightmare late at night. Worse still, even the abuse she had suffered in the Xue family as a child had entered her dreams.

The illusion collapsed and condensed again.

Xue Qingyi's eyes moved, and she found herself in a dark room. The meridians in her body were blocked, and there was not a trace of spiritual energy.

At this time, the voice of Third Junior Brother Lu Zhanxing suddenly rang out:

"Master spent so much effort to cultivate Xue Qingyi, but she became possessed and lost all her cultivation in one day! Liuyun Dao Sect never keeps idle people! I suggest that we dig out her spiritual roots and sword bones and transplant them to Junior Sister. In this way, Junior Sister can practice and maybe she can reach the peak like Senior Sister again in the future!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the darkness in front of his eyes dissipated.

The water in the illusion moved.

Xue Qingyi was lying on a long couch in the alchemy room of Wangduan Peak.

"Qingyi, you're awake." Shangluo's pleasant voice sounded in her ears.

"...Fifth Uncle."

Xue Qingyi's eyes moved slightly, and she subconsciously called out and wanted to get up, but then she found that her whole body was restrained by magic and she could not move.

What made her feel ashamed was that she was only wearing a bellyband...

"Qingyi, don't be afraid, it won't hurt much."

Shangluo looked at her with the same gentle eyes as always, but the words he said inexplicably made her tremble with fear.

Then, he used his beautiful finger bones that had touched her burning forehead when she was young to split the flesh of her back and dig out her sword bone...

"No... Fifth Master, please don't! It hurts! It really hurts! Fifth Master, please let me go!"

Xue Qingyi was completely reduced to a useless person amidst her painful cries for mercy.

Without the sword bone, she would never be able to hold the sword again.

Shang Luo knew very well how much she wanted to become a swordsman like her master.

But his hand was so steady when he cut the knife, without any trembling or hesitation.

A moment.

The illusion before my eyes collapsed like a broken mirror.

Xue Qingyi stood there with sweat all over his forehead, his fingers holding the sword clenched tightly, but his eyes gradually became clear.

She raised her head and looked into the void.

The first level of the inner demon trial - the refining of the state of mind is over.

Use your heart as a furnace and temper it through repeated hammering.

After re-experiencing the process of the growth of inner demons, his Taoist heart was not damaged, and his soul and state of mind were tempered.

The second level is called the state of mind.

A majestic and ruthless voice came from the void: "Your second uncle harmed you, your servants bullied you, your master betrayed you, the monsters in the abyss bit and tortured you, and the person you loved destroyed your dream - if you were asked to go through it all again, what would you do?"

What should she do?

She has thought about this question over and over again since she was reborn.

If she could choose all of these, then her answer would be only one - kill.

Anyone who harms or bullies her should be killed.

Anyone who betrayed her and put her in a desperate situation should be killed.

Those who rob her of her talent will be killed.

There are too many injustices in this world. Only killing can live up to my conscience!

"Kill? Then go ahead and kill me." The voice in the void answered coldly, and then countless shadows of inner demons appeared.

This is the third level of the inner demon trial, the state of mind.

At this time, a familiar figure appeared in front of Xue Qingyi.

"Qingyi, I'm your second uncle! I'm your biological uncle! Your father is my biological brother! I didn't mean to harm you! It was that servant who did it behind my back! Can you please forgive me this time? I will definitely treat you well in the future, and I will give you all the property of the Xue family. Do you want to eat some milk cakes? Your second uncle has a lot here..."

Xue Qingyi looked at the hand that her "Second Uncle" stretched out to her, on which were two pieces of her favorite milk cakes when she was a child.

She raised her hand.

"Second Uncle" thought she was going to take the cake, and a hideous and twisted smile suddenly appeared on his face, and his black and sharp nails grew quietly.

But the next moment.

The hand of "Second Uncle" holding the milk cake was cut off by a sword!

"Ahhh! Qingyi...you..." The "Second Uncle" in front of her with a broken hand screamed in pain and looked at her in shock and astonishment.

"I said, I want to kill--" Xue Qingyi answered him with a sharp and clean sword without blinking.

This sword pierced his heart.

A series of shrill screams suddenly emanated from the mouth of "Second Uncle", and then his body reverted to its original form as a monster, and then turned into a ball of black gas and completely dissipated.

Xue Qingyi put away her sword and looked at the second figure that quickly appeared in front of her.

In her mind state, the shadows of her inner demons all appeared in the image of her inner demons, intending to disrupt her mind and force her to make the wrong choice.

But Xue Qingyi has made mistakes all her life, how could she make the same mistake again?

She did not hesitate at all and slashed and stabbed at the demon shadows with the sword in her hand without stopping. She was simply bloodthirsty!

The Tao is ruthless?

She no longer wanted to practice the ruthless way.

From now on, the way she practices is to prove her truth through killing!

The moment he realized the truth, the Lingxi sword in Xue Qingyi's hand suddenly disappeared, and the fingertips that were originally holding the sword suddenly burst out with a bright and solemn sword intent.

"This move is called Heart Demon Slash!"

Her eyes focused, and the sword intent spread out from her fingertips, like waves and wind, opening and closing, and instantly killing a group of demon shadows!

When all the inner demon shadows dissipated and the entire inner demon realm returned to calm, the spiritual energy in Xue Qingyi's dantian suddenly surged.

Outside the Demonic Realm, calamity clouds suddenly swarmed in, almost covering the entire mountain in darkness.

"Look! Someone is about to survive a catastrophe!"