His name was Yunze. He was the sixth prince of the Jin Kingdom's royal family, and his mother was a member of the Bai clan of Cangyue Valley.
Although the Bai people are not a major family of cultivators, they have ancient bloodlines, and many of their members possess special abilities. Most of the people in the Bai people are capable of cultivation.
However, his mother was an ordinary person who had neither cultivation talent nor any special abilities. She was just born with a beautiful face and was stunningly beautiful at the age of fifteen or sixteen.
By chance, she encountered her father, the emperor, who was on an inspection tour. Despite the family's objections, her mother followed her father and became a concubine in the deep palace.
At first, his father doted on his mother, but after she gave birth to him, his father disliked her because of his blue eyes, which were different from those of ordinary people.
Later, the mother and son were framed by other concubines and imprisoned in the Cold Palace, becoming easy targets for everyone in the palace.
But his mother did not blame him and continued to love him dearly.
Because everyone in the Bai clan knows that their ancestor Bai Ze had blue eyes, whether in human or beast form.
Blue eyes are one of the characteristics of atavism. The more atavistic characteristics a member of the Bai clan has, the stronger their innate abilities.
Although she knew everything, she couldn't reveal it; it was a clan rule. This was to prevent the world from prying into the special bloodline of the Bai clan.
Later, her mother contacted the family, wanting to send her back, but she passed away before she could do so, leaving behind only the words "live well" and the regret of not being able to return to the family one last time.
After that, at a young age, he endured hardship alone in the cold palace, suffering endless humiliation and torment.
The Yun clan of the Jin state had a powerful bloodline that had been passed down for thousands of years, and many of their ancestors were powerful cultivators.
However, it has been a thousand years since anyone with spiritual roots has appeared.
Every ten years, a cultivation sect would come to the capital of Jin Kingdom to select children with spiritual roots from the entire city and bring them back to their sect for training.
Upon hearing this, he knew it was his only chance to change his fate.
On the day the Spirit Sword Sect arrived, he tried every means to sneak into the team testing spiritual roots. After the test showed that he had spiritual roots, he was taken back to the sect.
Although the Spirit Sword Sect wasn't a major sect in the Immortal Abyss Realm, he was already quite content to have escaped the imperial palace that had brought him endless suffering.
He had no attachment to that cannibalistic palace that had shown no warmth since his mother's death.
He thought he had finally escaped his misery, but little did he know that entering the Spirit Sword Sect was the beginning of another abyss.
At the sect's disciple selection conference, he was accepted as a personal disciple by the Grand Elder of the Spirit Sword Sect.
But the moment he saw the Grand Elder, he felt a chill run down his spine and became wary of him.
At that time, he was of low status and had no right to refuse to become the Grand Elder's disciple.
For the next few decades, he stayed in the sect, where the Grand Elder of the Spirit Sword Sect was his master. The Grand Elder taught him meticulously, passing on all his cultivation experience and providing him with abundant resources.
This made his fellow disciples increasingly jealous of him, and he, who was not good at speaking, was gradually isolated.
Everyone said that the Grand Elder treated him like his own son, but he would rather his master not think of him at all.
He didn't care about this special treatment at all, because he clearly sensed that his master had ill intentions towards him.
His master always looked at him as if he were a lamb to the slaughter, as if he would be killed and devoured when the time came.
For many years he lived cautiously and worked hard in his cultivation, hoping only to have the ability to protect himself.
He spent ten years building his foundation and less than fifty years achieving the Golden Core stage. His cultivation speed was so fast that few in the cultivation world could match it, and he was invincible among those of the same realm. His reputation as a genius was among the top in the Immortal Abyss Realm.
However, as his cultivation level improved, his master's gaze towards him became increasingly cold and greedy.
His fellow disciples also began to treat him in increasingly strange ways.
He didn't understand why, faced with an ever-increasing sense of crisis, he could only cultivate even more desperately, spending years in seclusion.
This time, he happened to be there when the secret realm opened, and he had reached the Great Perfection of the Golden Core stage, so he immediately signed up to participate in the secret realm training, hoping to find some opportunities to successfully overcome the Nascent Soul Tribulation and gain more self-protection capabilities.
Despite his utmost caution, he still couldn't escape his master's scheme.
It turned out that his master knew his identity and discovered his race and bloodline the first time he met him.
His master had been stuck in the Nascent Soul stage for thousands of years and was nearing the end of his lifespan, which made him very unwilling.
He obtained an ancient fragment from a demonic cultivator he had killed, which contained a wicked technique.
The key is to extract the spiritual root of a cultivator with ancient bloodlines, refine it using secret techniques, and then integrate it into one's own body.
In this way, one can improve one's spiritual aptitude and enhance one's cultivation.
This special bloodline is hard to find, but the Grand Elder is almost driven mad by his desire to continue living forever, and Yunze is the one who was chosen.
Therefore, the dignified Grand Elder of the Spirit Sword Sect took advantage of the opening of the secret realm, used a magic weapon to suppress his own cultivation, disguised himself as a sect disciple, and entered the secret realm with the others.
Taking advantage of his inattention, they ambushed him, then cruelly extracted his spiritual root and dug out his golden core, and finally instructed his senior brother, who had always been jealous of him, to throw him off a cliff.
Fortunately, he turned misfortune into blessing by meeting Lin Qianqian and receiving Bai Ze's inheritance.
As he accepted the inheritance, Yunze switched back and forth between human and beast forms.
He was indeed exceptionally talented and insightful. With the help of Bai Ze's inner core, his strength and cultivation level were reset, progressing from Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment to Golden Core, reaching his original cultivation level.
But the advancement did not stop there. He successively crossed the Nascent Soul and Deity Transformation stages until he reached the Great Perfection of Void Refinement before stopping.
As expected of a divine beast's inner core that is millions of years old, if it weren't for his lack of mental cultivation, with his talent and comprehension, he could have directly broken through to the Void Refinement realm and reached an even higher level.
But things are not bad now, because the innate talent of the Bai Ze divine beast has truly manifested in Yun Ze.
It is said that Bai Ze understands all things under heaven and can read people's hearts.
That's because the true divine beast Bai Ze comprehended the laws of time and space.
It can see the past and the future along the timeline, and it can also penetrate spatial dimensions to know the whole world.
Thus, Yunze saw another future for himself.
In that future, he did not meet Lin Qianqian, and no one came to save him.
He lay alone at the bottom of the cliff for three days and three nights, watching his blood slowly drain away, as snakes, insects, and rodents came to gnaw at his flesh. He was in great pain and fear.
He didn't know what he had done wrong, or why God was treating him this way!
Bai Ze is an auspicious beast, and as its descendant, I should not have suffered such a torment.
How cruel is God! He hates the injustice of fate, denounces the unfairness of the world, and curses the cruelty of humankind.
Unwilling to accept his fate and filled with resentment, he held his breath and refused to die, which resonated with the residual power of Bai Ze in the Immortal Tomb.
After the two merged, he absorbed the resentment and filth of the entire secret realm, causing him to fall into the demonic path before his death, and eventually become a demon king three hundred years later.
His first battle after breaking through the border was to annihilate the entire royal family of Jin, causing the already weakened state of Jin to descend into chaos, with its people suffering and countless deaths.
Then they went to the Spirit Sword Sect and wiped out the Grand Elder, who had already advanced to the Void Refinement stage, and his entire sect. Other fellow disciples who tried to stop them also suffered heavy casualties.
The survivors fled to other sects for help, but the reinforcements who came were also annihilated by the bloodthirsty Yunze.
Yunze became the public enemy of all factions and the number one on the list of those who must be killed by the righteous path.
This revenge battle has spread far and wide, and its impact has become increasingly profound.
As his magical power increased, more and more followers gathered around him.
He became the leader of the demonic sect, destroying one immortal sect after another.
But he wasn't happy at all; what he missed most was his mother, the only one who had ever given him warmth.
But he tried every means to find her soul; perhaps his mother had already been reincarnated.
For the next thousand years, the struggle between good and evil continued unabated. In the end, he was exhausted from fighting and walked into the formation set up by the righteous path, a formation meant to destroy each other.
At that time, he had almost wiped out all the sects and families in the Immortal Abyss Realm, and humanity was reduced to less than one in ten due to the war between good and evil. The entire cultivation world was in ruins.
Having only briefly glimpsed his alternate ending, Yunze felt something, but not much.
Perhaps it's because I haven't experienced all that loneliness, resentment, and pain that I can't fully empathize with.
Opening his eyes and looking at the white cocoon still enveloping him, Yunze felt somewhat dazed. It turned out that the difference between fortune and misfortune was just her…
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