Everything Has an End, Everything Has a Beginning (XV)...

The male protagonist froze on the spot.

Before, he was heartbroken, but in an instant, he let out a shrill scream.

With a leap, the mirror, already shattered into ice cracks, crashed to the ground. When the sunlight shone down, the protagonist even felt a sense of fear towards the sun.

But everything did not change according to his will. Under the bright sunshine, he was still calmly about to leave the sect. His time stopped at the moment when Ye Xiqing took him back to the mountain.

Things turned out better than he expected; none of the things he would have regretted happened, and the protagonist still succumbed to uncontrollable madness—

Separate!

The Yaoli Sect used to have many immortals, but now they're all gone, and Ye Xiqing lives alone in a single room.

There are four seasons in the mountains, and now it has become winter. As usual, Ye Xiqing looked at the fish swimming under the ice and raised her hand to wipe them clean, but the ice shattered inch by inch at her fingertips.

Looking up, countless black wisps gathered on the horizon; a world-shaking demon king was being born.

Ye Xiqing reached out and restored the ice surface to calm before leaping into the air.

Even after throwing the male protagonist into the mirror, Ye Xiqing did not stop him from gaining power, all for today.

The endless demonic energy seemed to have found its master, quickly enveloping the male protagonist, whose demonic power was taking shape.

An enormous hand suddenly appeared and slammed his head to the ground: Shout!

Male lead: ...

He looked up from the pile of rocks, his eyes blazing with fury as he stared at Ye Xiqing, who remained completely unmoved at the head of the table.

The Demon King, who possessed ninety percent of the world's energy, naturally wouldn't suffer irreparable damage from this blow. However, his devastated expression and prostrate posture made him appear even more pathetic than a simple defeat. He roared, "Why!!!"

Ye Xiqing lowered her head, looking at the male lead's prostrate figure on the ground, and gradually a wider and wider smile spread across her face—

"Of course it's because your current appearance makes me very happy. Since you need my rescue, how can I not kneel down and beg for it? Haha."

Male lead: ...

For a moment, everyone had a slight doubt: who was the real devil, the male protagonist or Ye Xiqing?

In contrast, the male protagonist, who learned the ability to love in the mirror, seemed much more human than Ye Xiqing. Lying on the ground, his eyes were filled with disbelief and despair: "So everything was fake! Was everything in the illusion fake?!"

Ye Xiqing looked at him strangely: "What, you still hope it's true?"

"Stop dreaming, I won't die no matter who dies."

"How could you be so vicious? I saved you, and you still want me to die."

"Luckily I didn't get involved, otherwise I would be a corpse now, unable to speak up for myself, which would be incredibly passive."

Male lead: ...

The system made a very good point: if the story in the mirror happens in reality, it's a pure love story; if it happens in the mirror, it's just a clown story.

Around this point, the male protagonist finally snapped out of his anger at being deceived and realized that his behavior in the mirror wasn't exactly honorable.

If he were truly a supreme demon king, he wouldn't care about such a trivial matter. But as a giant infant king with only power and zero humanity, he immediately defended himself: "That was—"

Ye Xiqing interrupted him: "That's the Mirror of Inner Demons. Everything there is formed from your own heart. Don't try to shift the blame to anyone else."

Knowing the male lead's classic scapegoating tactic, Ye Xiqing sent the vicious female supporting character to learn mind control overnight, and even used such a high-level prop as the Mind Demon Mirror. She refused to believe that there would be any explanation this time, no matter how the female lead was also responsible for all of this.

The male protagonist is now lying on the ground panting, probably because everything in the Mirror of Inner Demons is transformed from his own inner demons. Destroying the world was fun for a moment, but most of his soul power was also destroyed, so he can't blame anyone else.

Don't doubt why your mental strength is so weak. It may be physical weakness. How can you not be weak after losing half of your soul power? Don't attribute everything to being heartbroken.

The male protagonist was already in a terrible situation, but Ye Xiqing still made sarcastic remarks, causing him to shed tears of blood: "But no one taught me, no one ever taught me what love is. I thought the only person who loved me was just a lie!"

Ye Xiqing remained unmoved: "That's why I taught you in the mirror. Besides the location being the problem, is there anything else you're unhappy about?"

Male lead: ...

He finally realized that the real Ye Xiqing and the "senior sister" in the mirror were not alike at all. He slowly got up from the ground, no longer pleading: "Thank you for letting me know that all the love in this world is nothing but an illusion."

The protagonist's heart was broken, but his power was not. Boundless demonic energy gathered, and the power of the true demon was awakened instantly!

The system, having been humiliated for a lifetime, finally had its moment to vent its anger, and said viciously, "Host, you have cut off the male lead's last chance to turn back. If the male lead really goes down the path of destruction, you will bear the greatest responsibility!"

Ye Xiqing nonchalantly drew her thunder whip: "Then why don't I just perish together with everyone else?"

"If justice has no power to deter evil, and can only grovel before evil, what does it matter if such a world is destroyed?"

"There is no longer any protective force to restrain extreme evil. The only way to maintain the facade of justice is through the charity of the most notorious villains. If the top echelons are like this, won't the lower echelons compromise with evil even more?"

"How disgusting it must be to live in a world where everyone, from top to bottom, can only survive by compromising with evil."

"Why can't I destroy this disgusting world myself? I control the Heavenly Seal and can annihilate everyone's soul in an instant, even faster than the male protagonist."

"The male protagonist is a demonic seed born from evil thoughts. If everyone dies, he will cease to exist."

"What, is destroying the world something only the male protagonist can do? Can't I do it?"

system:……

So, is the male lead the world-destroying villain, or are you?

Ye Xiqing lashed out with her whip, the whip wind intertwined with lightning, and lashed out fiercely at the male protagonist, the space itself groaning under the unbearable weight of her whip wind.

She doesn't care about titles or anything like that. As long as the job prospects are good, she'll choose anything. If being upright is popular, she'll be upright; if being villainous is popular, she'll be villainous.

In a world where villains clearly have an advantage, why would she be foolish enough to play the hero?

In just a moment, Ye Xiqing proved what it means that it is always the honest person who suffers, not the bad person.

The original female lead tried to win over the male lead with love for a long time, but in the end, she was still inferior to him and looked up to him, waiting for him to save the world.

Ye Xiqing turned slightly evil, instantly gaining the power to violently attack the male protagonist.

The male protagonist possesses 90% of the world's power, but Ye Xiqing is also the female protagonist. It's probably based on the same principle as the theory of destiny. No one had thought that the female protagonist needed power, so it was all expressed in the male protagonist.

Now that Ye Xiqing is determined to fight for it, the world has no reason to favor one over the other. They are both its core protagonists, and in a female-oriented world, the female protagonist is even more central.

The male protagonist is a born demon god born from the evil thoughts of all living beings, while Ye Xiqing is a born god-demon born from the karma of all living beings. It's hard to say who is stronger between the two.

Ye Xiqing's Heavenly Dao model is not yet perfect, which is a big disadvantage for her. But coincidentally, the male protagonist also just lost most of his power due to self-attack in the mirror, so the score is tied 1:1 again.

The world looked at this and that, unable to calculate who was stronger, and finally decided to open the public resource pool, putting the energy here. The two concept gods each had to take what they could from it, and whoever emptied the energy pool first was also part of the duel.

Ye Xiqing didn't care what the world was calculating; she just kept whipping the male lead. Before, when he was at the 19-point mark, she couldn't even get a good lash out, but now she had to whip him as hard as she could!

Previously, I was a bit critical of the original female lead's weapon. I believed that the longer the weapon, the stronger it was, and that she preferred an iron rod that could be used to strike people directly. I felt that a whip was ultimately a soft weapon and made people feel unsafe.

Now, when I whip the male protagonist, I realize the advantages of a whip. Every lash resonates, and when I don't have to worry about breaking through his defenses, no weapon is as satisfying as a whip!

The male protagonist wanted to become ten times stronger by turning evil, but he didn't expect that Ye Xiqing was also a strengthened being. He was overwhelmed and beaten by Ye Xiqing, and he was shocked. In his life, when he had overwhelming power, he had never experienced such a moment!

A person becomes incredibly confident when they keep winning, but the trauma of defeat is also greater.

Since becoming a demon, the male protagonist has never suffered any injustice, no matter what kind of grievance he has been wronged by being outmatched in martial arts, which makes him widen his eyes in disbelief.

Seeing the male protagonist being defeated one after another, the system really got anxious. If it was set up in a world where the male protagonist's power absolutely suppressed the female protagonist, and the male protagonist couldn't even defeat Ye Xiqing, then what was the point of it creating this world!

Sometimes, the emergence of humanity isn't all a good thing. Without humanity, the system would just honestly collect traffic. With humanity, it wants to do some extra things.

Seeing the battle situation before it, the system gritted its teeth and actually did something that the stingy system would never have done before: it provided energy to the world on its own to maintain the protagonist's absolute power!

That world will certainly not refuse; it will fairly calculate the rules of the small world, but it will not refuse external energy. The system owns the small world and also has the right to interfere with the world to a certain extent.

Ye Xiqing and the male protagonist fought fiercely, but the male protagonist suddenly roared, his demonic body expanding rapidly, quickly losing its human form, and merging with the vast demonic energy in the sky.

After the male protagonist unleashed his ultimate move, Ye Xiqing was instantly slammed to the ground by a palm strike, just like the male protagonist at the beginning. Her legs carved long furrows in the ground before she regained her footing.

After the male protagonist merged with the demonic energy, his memories of his past life instantly returned. The male protagonist, who no longer had a human form, was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter: "So that's how it is! So that's how it is! That's how everything is!"

The memories of the Demon God's two lifetimes instantly returned. He fixed his cold gaze on Ye Xiqing, the one he had completely disregarded back then, yet who had caused him such a great loss: "I gave you a chance, but unfortunately, you chose the wrong path. Now it's all over!"

After the male protagonist suddenly erupted, Ye Xiqing withdrew her lightning whip, stood up straight, and looked at the male protagonist in the air. Everything seemed to have returned to the time when she first came to this world.

At that time, she was also using this attitude to confront the male protagonist, who had just entered the world and whose demonic body had reached its full potential.

Back then, she would bleed from her eyes if she looked at the male lead, and his breath could shatter her like a real ant. Now she's much better.

The system was explaining to Ye Xiqing as well as to the boiling barrage of comments: "I told the host long ago that the male protagonist of this world is invincible."

"The host did indeed do some different things, but evil accounts for half of human nature. No matter how good the system the host creates, it cannot stop the birth of evil."

"Human nature is inherently evil; only true love can dispel the deep-seated poison."

"Host, you've chosen the wrong way to complete this world!"

"Hehe." Ye Xiqing couldn't help but chuckle: "Then why should the male lead represent evil?"

The system suppressed its excitement at becoming a ghost, waiting to see Ye Xiqing fail, but unexpectedly Ye Xiqing suddenly asked an unrelated question.

The system was most alert to Ye Xiqing's sudden unrelated question and didn't dare to say a word, replying in a businesslike manner, "That's how it's set up."

Hearing this, Ye Xiqing laughed even harder, stepped forward, and looked up at the male lead: "Then do you think my hatred for the male lead stems from good or evil?"

system:……

It realized something in an instant, but it was too late to take back its words. Ye Xiqing continued happily.

"You made me feel genuine love for the male lead, but all I feel in my heart is hatred. How can I possibly feel love?"

“I have no pity for his misery, no empathy for his past, and I hate him even before I can give rise to just love.”

“He killed me once, I hate him. He has more power than me, I hate him.”

"Knowing that if I don't meet his demands, he will destroy the world, why can't I love him unconditionally, admire him, and redeem him, regardless of what he has done or what he possesses?"

"Because I'm not good."

"Even knowing that the male protagonist will destroy the world, I am unwilling to lower myself to coax him. Is there anyone more evil than me in this world?"

"Since the greatest evil in the world is inside my body, why don't you let the male protagonist take it away?"

“If he can take it away, without the evil within me, of course I will love him.”

If not—

Ye Xiqing slowly reached out and took out her eyes. The Yin-Yang Twin Wells, which had turned into the Samsara Pool, instantly transformed back into a pair of eyes and returned to her eye sockets.

"I can control my body as easily as I control my own arm."

"If the male protagonist can't even take away his own core energy source, then what makes him invincible?"

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Author's note: Qingqing: Oh, concept god, then try taking away my evil from me. If you take it away, I'll immediately love the sky, the earth, and the air. I also really want to be a pure, natural, and harmless little girl.

Conceptual genius is indeed powerful, but you have to make sure that it is indeed a concept, and not just a logical fallacy.