At the main altar of Xuanyuan Sect, Devil Venerable Wen Renhe went in seclusion for seven days, behind tightly closed doors. Every day, the food and the water sent by his subordinates were left untouched, and nobody knew what kind of profound cultivation method he was learning.

Altar Master Yuan, who was in charge of the affairs of the altar, was in a dilemma. The Lord had gone in seclusion without leaving any instructions, and he didn’t know if the Lord would really have gained a new understanding of the new skills or if his realm would have improved once he opened the door. This celebration….. should it be prepared or not?

Devil Venerable Wen Renhe was neither extravagant nor wasteful, and he wasn’t fond of formalism. However, if the Lord’s skills really gained a new level, he should at least ask the disciples to wait for him to go out from the general assembly hall and congratulate him on the improvement of his strength, looking forward to the future, when Xuanyuan Sect would dominate the whole cultivation world.

Altar Master Yuan thought about it and finally decided to ask Yin Hanjiang, the Left Protector of Xuanyuan Sect, for help. Yin Hanjiang was a confidant of the Lord, and he had been in contact with the Lord before he went in seclusion. He should be the one who knew the thoughts of the other best.

Yin Hanjiang, dressed in black from head to toe, with a face as cold as frost, had been guarding the door of the study room for the past seven days. He was a man of very few words and after listening to the difficulties of Altar Master Yuan, his indifferent expression appeared a little blank and he looked a bit at a loss.

Altar Master Yuan was not tall, so he needed to raise his head to look up at Yin Hanjiang’s eyes, waiting for his instructions.

Yin Hanjiang moved the corners of his mouth as he spoke, “Not yet.”

“Ah?” Altar Master Yuan was stunned. “I heard that seven days ago, when the Lord got a secret book, he immediately went in seclusion. The Lord has not had a breakthrough for many years, and there are few cultivation methods that he hasn’t seen yet. Isn’t it possible that he is trying to make a breakthrough during this time of seclusion?”

“I said no. Don’t do it,” Yin Hanjiang said indifferently, and a sharp light shot out from his long sword. Altar Master Yuan didn’t dare to ask again and hurriedly retreated.

After he left, Yin Hanjiang looked at the closed door behind him, and his indifference transformed into bewilderment.

Seven days ago, the Lord did get a book, which others nearby thought was a secret book. Only Yin Hanjiang, who was closest to Wen Renhe at that time, caught a glimpse of the title of the book —— 《Abusive Love Affair: You are the only one I will never change》.

The title almost made Yin Han Jiang grit his teeth. This book did not seem to be any secret cultivation method. Even the erotic scripts written by secular scholars were much more elegant than this title.

At that time, Yin Hanjiang thought that Wen Renhe would set this mess on fire, but when he opened the first page and glanced at it, he sighed for a long time and then went in seclusion with the book.

A mundane book that the Devil Venerable found worthy of reading for seven days?

The longer Yin Hanjiang stayed in front of the Lord’s door, the more complicated his mood became.

It should be noted that this was the cultivation realm, which was incomparable with the martial arts realm of Wulin and Jianghu. Wulin and Jianghu were places where a group of people who, through practice and doing everything possible to strengthen their bodies, became slightly stronger than ordinary people. No matter how high their internal skills were, they were merely acquired. At best, they had the strength to kill a beast with one punch. On the other hand, the cultivation realm of Xiuzhen was one level higher than that of Wulin. The cultivators were separated from the world of mortals and ascended to the realm of immortals in various ways. Their skills were also beyond those acquired by the martial artists in Wulin, which was called the innate state.

People in Wulin may yearn for the legend of love, heroes, and beauties, but the cultivation world needed to break away from the worldly affairs; cut off the kinship and follow its own path. In particular, the Devil Clan, who practiced by the virtue of men and women’s affairs as to not lose one’s heart due to their sexual desire and simply wanted to collect and absorb energy, rather than some sentimental love story.

Apart from all the ways of killing people, the Lord who had never been interested in men or women, how could he read 《Abusive Love Affair: You are the only one I will never change》 for seven days and seven nights!

He didn’t understand, couldn’t understand, but Yin Hanjiang was the Left Protector of the sect and Wen Renhe’s most loyal subordinate. He once made an oath that he, Yin Hanjiang, would never let him suffer any harm as long as he was alive. If someone wanted to kill Wen Renhe, he would have to kill Yin Hanjiang first.

So even if he knew that the Lord was reading some love story and had not gone in closed-door cultivation, Yin Hanjiang was still holding his sword, silently guarding the door of the study room, not leaving.

Behind the door, Wen Renhe put down the book. His hand lay on the cover as if he wanted to smash the book with one hand. His hand trembled slightly, but he finally retracted it and did not destroy the book.

He frowned slightly and supported his forehead with his fist. It seemed that he was thinking about an extremely difficult thing.

Seven days ago, when he heard that people were discussing with his confidant, Yin Hanjiang, how to beat those righteous cultivators who were shouting and killing people from Xuanyuan Sect, a thick book suddenly appeared in his hand. At present, Wen Renhe’s strength was one of the greatest in the cultivation world, so no one should be able to quietly put a book in his hand without being detected by him, unless it was an immortal from the higher realm.

With such vigilance, Wen Renhe did not destroy the book, but endured the title, opened the first page, and saw a few lines of words: 【Due to excessive plot holes, the plot was not recognized by the readers. Therefore, choose a character with the highest popularity among readers to verify the rationality of the plot, and make appropriate modifications.】

Because of this sentence, Wen Renhe immediately closed his door and spent seven days reading the book with more than one million words from the beginning to the end, word by word, over and over again. Thanks to his strong divine sense, he could recite it word by word after the first time without reading it ever again, but he still read it all over again and thought about the meaning of each sentence.

After reading it for so many days, he still couldn’t understand.

Every word and sentence he could understand. Even added together, he could imagine pictures and scenes, but he still couldn’t understand them!

This book was about the entangled love and hatred between a man and a woman that started in their previous lives.

In her previous life the female lead was an innate goddess. She had not acquired her godly status through cultivation, but was born from heaven and earth as a goddess responsible for spreading disease, disaster and death in the world. She sounded like an evil goddess, but in fact it was for the sake of the balance between heaven and earth. Life must lead to death, and death must lead to life. The cycle went on and on and was never-ending. She was absolutely fair and impartial, never targeting a certain race, and spent countless years with no joy or sorrow.

After several tens of thousands of years, the innate goddess had fallen, and there were countless acquired gods appearing in the divine realm. These people were the ones who had understood heaven and earth and led heaven and earth into their bodies. After thousands of disasters, they had the same power as the innate goddess and became gods. The male lead was one of them.

The male lead was a man who regarded all the people in the word as his duty. After he ascended to the divine realm, he learned that the rare innate goddess, the female lead, was responsible for releasing various disasters. When he was just a mortal, he heard of many natural disasters caused by this woman, so he came to advise the female lead constantly, trying to persuade her to turn over a new leaf.

Like heaven and earth, in her previous life the female lead had no feelings. To her, the male lead was no different from the floating clouds in the sky, or the stones on the ground, he was just like a fly or an insect buzzing near her ear. At most, she quarreled a bit and then blocked the speech ability of the male lead with her skills and threw him beyond the thirty-three heavens.

However, the male lead persisted and crawled back every time. After he had lifted the silencing spell, he continued to persuade the female lead to think for her own life.

Thus, many years later, the fate of the female lead came to be.

Even heaven and earth had to experience the three disasters of wind, water, and fire, and they would be destroyed and reborn countless times. So the female lead accepted her fate and bravely faced the calamity. When the calamity occured, the male lead came again.

The disaster caused by the innate deity was extremely terrible. The female lead knew that she would die this time. Only by preserving her godly soul, reincarnating, and re-enlightening on the road, did she have a chance to live. Therefore, she stripped off her divinity before the calamity, and sealed it up in the cultivation world. When she gained divinity in the future, she could regain her strength and return to the divine realm.

At the time of the tribulation, when the female lead was about to start her physical reincarnation, the male lead appeared to help her withstand the thunder calamity. Taking part of the calamity for her, both of them were reincarnated.

Somehow, the female lead got entangled with the male lead. After reincarnation, the naive female lead, after paying her respects to the sect master, saw the senior disciple of the sect and had a feeling of being struck by lightning at the first sight of him. Wen Renhe analyzed the effect of the lightning strike according to the description in the book that “one look made her whole body numb and crisp, she couldn’t move her eyes away and couldn’t move her feet”. As a person who had never experienced love, Wen Renhe thought this kind of symptoms could only be produced by lightning strikes.

At first sight, the female lead fell in love with the male lead. The female lead named Baili Qingmiao was in love with her eldest senior brother He Wenchao. This triggered a period of mistreatment, but the female lead did not regret her infatuation. In the end, she gave up her divinity for He Wenchao. A story of an abusive love, wholeheartedly wishing for the life of an affectionate couple without any envy for immortal life.

To sum it up, the specific plot was as follows: framing, misunderstanding, Baili Qingmiao being imprisoned, abused, poisoned, hunted down, and He Wenchao getting married, but the bride was not her. Several important supporting characters were devoted to Baili Qingmiao and took care of her.

However, Baili Qingmiao only liked He Wenchao and ignored the good deeds of others, only wishing to be with He Wenchao. After being hurt and injured by He Wenchao, his wife, suitors, and her own family, she was rescued by other supporting male characters. After the wounds were healed, she continued to come back to be abused.

This plot was written in more than 800,000 words, and he was almost fascinated by it. If Baili Qingmiao appeared in front of him at this moment, he would crack open her human skull to see what was going on in her head.

When he reached the last page, it was no longer the plot, but some extraordinarily pleasing words, which were called book reviews, and most of the book reviews were–

【The female lead is sick, right? She gave up immortality for such a second marriage scum man!】

【Garbage, after reading almost one million words, waiting for the female lead to get back at this scum, she turned out to be so cheap until the end.】

【He Wenchao loves the female lead, but his life is more important than the female lead. His teacher is more important than the female lead, the innocent people are more important than the female lead, and everything else is more important than the female lead. The female lead is the existence He Wenchao can abandon at any time. This love is too humble to be embraced.】

【He Wenchao has killed the female lead in two lifetimes. The innate goddess is different from He Wenchao who acquired the values of both a god and a man. Releasing the disaster was not only her duty but also had the purpose to balance the ways of Heaven. He forced others to favor the human race and also interfered with the female lead in her tribulation making the female lead entangled with him in the next life. This man is so terrible, that he abused and killed the female lead in the name of righteousness!】

【Love at first sight can be said to be the karma from their previous life, but why is this karma not so important to this He Wenchao? On the contrary, did he even care if Baili Qingmiao is dying? He Wenchao could marry the leader of Ziling Pavilion, so don’t tell me Baili Qingmiao cannot marry Zhong Liqian or Wen Renhe? Is the heir of Xiuzhen’s first aristocratic family not handsome enough or is the Devil Venerable not cool enough? Why hang herself on He Wenchao?】

【Wen Renhe was the only driving force for me to read these almost one million words. I just wanted to see him tear this man off or kill this woman.】

【Wen Renhe, Zhong Liqian, and Yin Hanjiang are all better than He Wenchao. This woman is blind!】

【However, I think we’d better pass on Yin Hanjiang. He is too scary.】

【Cross out Yin Hanjiang. I will have a nightmare if I see his name now.】

【Cross out +1, we’d better depend on Wen Renhe. 】

In the reviews, the familiar names of Wen Renhe, Yin Hanjiang, Zhong Liqian, and others appeared repeatedly, which was also the reason why he persevered in reading this book with patience.

Wen Renhe knew that the character in this book was really himself.

As described in the text at the beginning of the book, Wen Renhe was the infatuated and domineering second male lead in 《Abusive Love Affair: You are the only one I will never change》, and their world was just the fictional story in this book.

After learning the truth about the world, most of the practitioners would be traumatized and either live passively in the future or go crazy with madness. Wen Renhe was also in trance for a while but fortunately, the experience gained from killing had made his mentality extremely strong.

He soon realized that this cultivation world was just one of thousands of worlds. Others only saw their world as a book, but 《Abusive Love Affair: You are the only one I will never change》 was only a record of the love and hatred of a few dozens of people. The places not described in the book were worlds of their own. This book was just a record of the story of a certain person from a certain era and not of the whole world.

It was enough to know that you were truly alive and that your thoughts and actions were not controlled by anyone, and that the world was real.

What really puzzled Wen Renhe was that in the book it was said he would fall in love with Baili Qingmiao in the future, fight against heaven and earth for her and that he would give up his life for her, which made the heartless Wen Renhe very puzzled.

Just by reading this book, he wanted to pull Baili Qingmiao’s soul out of the book and make her forget her feelings for He Wenchao. How could he risk his life helping He Wenchao in order to protect Baili Qingmiao?

Thinking like this, he knew that if he didn’t understand these things clearly, sooner or later, he would be possessed by evil spirits and be unable to continue his cultivation path. Even if it wasn’t for the task at the beginning of the book, just to stabilize his mind, it was time to solve it.

After three days of meditation, he made up his mind to find out why Baili Qingmiao was so brain dead. Indeed, he couldn’t figure out by himself why she became infatuated. Baili Qingmiao may be confused herself. After all, she had been struck by lightning, and there might be something abnormal in her brain. However, other people mentioned in this book, especially Baili Qingmiao’s love rivals, probably understood. After all, they also liked He Wenchao, and they fought to death for him.

If one person’s strength was not enough, then find more people. You could always get the answer if you asked enough questions. After understanding the crux of the problem, the difficulty of changing the plot would also be reduced.

After making a decision, Wen Renhe pushed the door open, and Yin Hanjiang, who was guarding the door, saw his Lord go out. Putting his long sword on the ground, he knelt on one knee and waited quietly for his orders.

Wen Renhe looked at his most trusted Left Protector and recalled Yin Hanjiang’s existence in the plot, then began by saying, “Protector Yin, your love for…. Forget it.”

After saying these few words only, he thought of Yin Hanjiang’s creepy behavior in the plot and didn’t want to ask anymore.

Yin Hanjiang probably didn’t know anything about love either.

Yin Hanjiang heard the unfinished words and understood that Devil Venerable Wen Renhe mainly wanted to ask him what he thought of love. To be honest, Yin Hanjiang didn’t understand it either.

When he was young, he was picked up by the Lord and brought back to Xuanyuan Sect from the graveyard. He always followed the Lord’s orders and never expressed his subjective opinion. Although Wen Renhe’s words remained unspoken, he lowered his head and said, “The Lord’s preference is this subordinate’s belief.”

If his Lord liked reading the script, Yin Hanjiang would collect all scripts in this world. If the Lord liked women or men, Yin Hanjiang would bring for his Lord all the people he liked; The Lord’s order was Yin Hanjiang’s command.

Wen Renhe gazed at Yin Hanjiang, who was kneeling on one knee in front of him, and recalled the plot that filled his mind these days.

According to the plot in the book, Yin Hanjiang did exactly what he said just now.

Yin Hanjiang, in《Abusive Love Affair: You are the only one I will never change》, as the fourth male lead, was the second male lead, Wen Renhe’s trusted aide, with habitually silent temperament, docile and obedient towards Baili Qingmao. Wen Renhe liked Baili Qingmao, so when he couldn’t take care of her, he would send Yin Hanjiang to protect her. Yin Hanjiang was beaten, poisoned, injured and even nearly lost his life for Baili Qingmiao, without even a word of complaint. He didn’t even reveal his feelings for Baili Qingmiao. The most explicit thing he said was during the crisis. Yin Hanjiang let Baili Qingmiao escape first and said in a hoarse voice, “If I live, you live. But if I die, you will still live.”

Which girl could resist such a loyal, handsome man who showed his love through his actions? In the early stage of the novel, Yan Hanjiang was even more popular than Wen Renhe. Even Baili Qingmiao, who was hanging on He Wenchao, said with tears that she would forever owe him her life and would never be able to pay him back.

All readers, including Wen Renhe, who read this book, thought that Yin Hanjiang was deeply in love with Baili Qingmiao. Who would have thought that when he heard of Wen Renhe dying for Baili Qingmiao, Yin Hanjiang……

Recalling what he had read in the plot four to five times over and over again, he asked, “You are loyal and devoted when this lord is here. But what if one day this lord is gone?”

Hearing Wen Renhe’s words, Yin Hanjiang’s body shook and his arm on the ground trembled slightly. It seemed that the mere thought of the possibility that Wen Renhe would die made it difficult for him to bear. Yin Hanjiang was unwilling to think about the possibility of him dying, but when he was asked this question, he forced himself to think about it. However, after a long time, Yin Hanjiang’s forehead was full of cold sweat, which obviously showed he was pushing himself to the extreme.

After a long time, he squeezed out the answer from between his teeth, “This subordinate will die before the Lord.”

Hearing it, Wen Renhe pulled his sleeve and inadvertently wiped off the cold sweat from Yin Hanjiang’s forehead. His actions were very gentle, but his words were very merciless, “If this lord has an unfinished matter, would you be allowed to die?”

Yin Hanjiang’s pupils trembled and his posture changed from kneeling on one knee to kneeling on both knees. His palms pressed to the ground as he bowed his head deeply and said, “This subordinate doesn’t know.”

He didn’t know but Wen Renhe knew.

In the book, before Wen Renhe died, he ordered Yin Hanjiang to protect Baili Qingmiao. In the book, Wen Renhe thought that Yin Hanjiang also liked Baili Qingmiao and would be able to take his place and protect her well. Yin Hanjiang did it and stood by and kept following Baili Qingmiao closely.

At the same time in the plot inexplicably appeared Ghost Face. He was everywhere, using every means to injure Baili Qingmiao. When Baili Qingmiao was wounded, he sprinkled bone powder on her wound; when Baili Qingmiao was unconscious, he threw her into the cave of ten thousand snakes; when Baili Qingmiao was alone, he set up an oil pan to refine oil from Baili Qingmiao. With every appearance, Ghost Face’s perversion escalated.

Readers had been guessing Ghost Face was a malicious female supporting character in disguise. Although the description in the book stated it was a man, it was not difficult for women to disguise as a man by wearing men’s clothes.

Unexpectedly, one time, when Baili Qingmiao and Yin Hanjiang were hunted by Ghost Face and hid in the cave, Baili Qingmiao said softly, “Brother Yin, luckily there’s you by my side.”

“Really?” Yin Hanjiang asked.

Baili Qingmiao was extremely tired as she leaned against his back and was about to fall asleep when a corner of the package Yin Hanjiang had been holding was revealed. She looked at it intently and it was the ghost mask that had woken her up from nightmares countless times!

After Wen Renhe’s death, Yin Hanjiang finally did something against his orders. He wanted Baili Qingmiao to suffer all kinds of torture and die. He wanted Baili Qingmiao to be buried and made into an everlasting soul lamp which burned day and night for Wen Renhe to illuminate the road as he passed by.

His previous care was not because of his admiration for Baili Qingmiao, but because he was asked to do so by Wen Renhe, so he put Baili Qingmiao’s safety to his heart. When he heard that his Lord died because of Baili Qingmiao, he only wanted to hack this woman in thousands of pieces.

While reading the book, Wen Renhe didn’t understand Yin Hanjiang’s way of thinking. Only after asking was he able to understand Yin Hanjiang’s pain. The first difficult problem from the book was finally solved.

“Come on, stand up,” said Wen Renhe.

Yin Hanjiang got up steadily after rubbing his right sleeve on the side of his lips. Wen Renhe grabbed his right arm and his nose caught a trace of bloody smell at the cuff.

Being forced to imagine the Devil Venerable’s death made Yin Hanjiang very miserable. Wen Renhe, who had witnessed plenty of massacres and suffering, was also somewhat moved.

At this moment, Wen Renhe was not as deeply in love as he was in the book, so he didn’t feel that there was anything wrong with what Yin Hanjiang did. The people who followed the devil path were not so selfless, if you can’t have it, destroy it. It was extremely normal for them to take others with them to the grave.

He just wanted to say to Yin Hanjiang in the book, “Well done!”

Incidentally, the Devil Venerable could be beaten in the book, just like the female lead with brain problems. It was absolutely impossible for Wen Renhe to accept that he too had abandoned everything for the sake of love.

Why would he fall deep into it, unable to extricate himself? Why did Baili Qingmiao like He Wenchao so much that she lost herself and was willing to be with him after being harmed countless times? Why did the malicious female supporting characters in the book frame an innocent woman for He Wenchao?

There were too many things that Wen Renhe didn’t understand.

Yin Hanjiang answered a question for him, but there were more questions awaiting for the Devil Venerable to understand.

Wen Renhe placed his palm on Yin Hanjiang’s chest and injected some genuine Qi to heal him. Yin Hanjiang didn’t resist and allowed Wen Renhe’s overbearing genuine Qi to enter his Dantian to help him suppress his soul force – which was restless because of his unstable state of mind.

After his treatment of Yin Hanjiang was completed smoothly, Wen Renhe instructed, "Order the Right Protector to come to the Council"

Yin Hanjiang obeyed his command, took out the Lord’s command seal, and summoned the Right Protector.

After the two men came to the Council Hall and waited for a while, a woman wearing purple walked in slowly. It seemed as if she was wearing clothes, but in fact, it was nothing more than purple gauze wrapped around her body. What should be covered wasn’t covered much, but instead it appeared more beautiful and aroused men’s fantasies.

However, both of them were cold-hearted blind men. Shu Yanyan, the Right Protector, had long been accustomed to their reaction and made an enchanting gesture of greeting to the Lord. When she got permission to get up, she impatiently asked, “My Lord, do you want to go down the mountain to attack those righteous hypocrites? This subordinate is already itching to get on with it.”

With that, she covered her mouth and smiled shyly.

Wen Renhe, who knew his subordinates well, said in a deep voice, “Are you truly so eager to give those hypocrites a lesson, or is it that you can’t wait for their yang to fill your yin?”

“Isn’t that the same thing?” Shu Yanyan blinked at Wen Renhe. “My Lord, you know me, it’s best to follow the way of the heart. As long as the matter can be completed in both respects, I will not let it slip.”

Wen Renhe then raised his hand, and Shu Yanyan got permission to take a seat on his right-hand side. She stretched her long legs lazily, her every movement exuding irresistible feminine charm.

Wen Renhe ignored the charm released by the Right Protector and slowly asked, “Do you know He Wenchao, the senior disciple of Shangqing Sect?”

“You meant him? Then I may be interested.” Shu Yanyan sat in an unoccupied seat, slumped lazily and supported her cheek with one hand while blinking. “My Lord, weren’t you the one who ordered me to go down the mountain three months ago to investigate the righteous path? I disguised myself as an ordinary but lovely and pitiful lady singer and pretended to be bullied by the young disciples of Shangqing Sect in a restaurant. It was He Wenchao who helped me. This man…”

Speaking of this, Shu Yanyan licked her lower lip, as if savoring an aftertaste. It took a moment before she came to her senses and continued, “His yang Qi was abundant.”

What she was thinking, Wen Renhe was perfectly clear on.

In the book, He Wenchao’s yang Qi was indeed absorbed by Shu Yanyan. At that time, Shu Yanyan’s cultivation was greatly reduced, so she locked him in her residence and almost emptied him. In the end, Baili Qingmiao went as far as to brave death to rescue He Wenchao. In order to replenish his Qi essence, she went to the ice field of Wanli to find the snow flame elixir and then helped He Wenchao absorb it.

Shu Yanyan was the first vicious girl in the early stage of the plot. She didn’t like He Wenchao but was simply greedy for his yang Qi, which made her act like a demon. It was precisely because Shu Yanyan was a bad person and harmed He Wenchao that Baili Qingmiao forgave him the first time for having a relationship with another woman.

The witch of Xuanyuan Sect practiced the charm cultivation method, and Shu Yanyan’s cultivation was much higher than that of He Wenchao. If she wanted to do something, He Wenchao couldn’t resist at all, so he was a victim.

At that time, Baili Qingmiao didn’t know that after the first time there would be a second time, and in the future, there would be countless times when He Wenchao was “forced” and expected her to understand.

“Tell me more about the situation at that time,” Wen Renhe said.

According to the total number of words in the book, currently, the plot should only have progressed to about 70,000 or 80,000 words, which was also the only sweet section throughout the whole text. Baili Qingmiao joined Shangqing Sect and fell in love at first sight with He Wenchao. Having cultivated for over ten years in the sect, both of them could be considered childhood friends that grew up together and He Wenchao took very good care of his younger martial sister. Going behind the sect’s back, they would sneak off to the back of the mountain in the middle of the night to practice their martial arts skills amidst the flowers under the moon. Their feelings of affection and love expressed through their actions seemed to seep into the hearts of others like honey. It was so sweet that it caused others to feel toothache.

During this period, there were several female disciples from the same sect who were throwing a tantrum. However, at that time, everyone was young and innocent, so they did nothing that would have gone out of line. He Wenchao was also a young hero, the most pampered and favored son of heaven in the sect, and did not shoulder the burden of the sect yet.

Shu Yanyan, the witch, was the first conflict between them.

“Who is still able to remember so much? I am just thinking about that youngsters’ yang Qi. My Lord should be aware that my cultivation has remained stagnant for many years, and if it goes on like this, my skin will start to wrinkle.” While she spoke, Shu Yanyan took out a mirror and looked at her young maiden face. Only then did she continue with satisfaction, “He Wenchao’s yang Qi is unusual. He has a thunder spiritual root and has the power of thunder and fire. Not only that, it seems like there is a mysterious power hidden within him. I have always felt that if I were to absorb his power, I would certainly be able to improve my power!”

For cultivators, there were five kinds of common spiritual roots, namely metal, wood, water, fire and earth, and five kinds of variant spiritual roots, which consisted of wind, thunder, ice, light and darkness. Common people usually had three, four or even five mixed spiritual roots whereas double spiritual roots, in the cultivation realm, were considered to have superior qualifications. A single common spiritual root occurred in one out of thousand, while a variant spiritual root was even rarer. He Wenchao had a thunder spiritual root.

Had the spiritual root been created before his reincarnation by the thunder strike of the heavenly tribulation? Wen Renhe muttered to himself.

That mysterious power was naturally a divine power. He Wenchao’s previous life was that of a man who acquired godhood through cultivation and reincarnated along with his postnatal godly personality. Baili Qingmiao was an innate goddess who was born from heaven and earth. Her character couldn’t follow her into the body of an ordinary person, but He Wenchao’s divine character could.

If Shu Yanyan absorbed He Wenchao’s yang Qi, relying on his divine power, she could indeed greatly increase her power.

“Why didn’t you kill him three months ago? His strength should be inferior to yours,” Wen Renhe asked.

“Well,” Shu Yanyan sighed, “I did consider attacking, but his power is very special. If he wasn’t willing to be friends with me, I couldn’t force him. He has a sweetheart, who is a little girl whose looks are by no means inferior to mine. This little girl is very sharp though, as she constantly suspects me and keeps a close eye on her lover, so she didn’t give me a chance at all.”

“Oh?” Wen Renhe raised his eyebrows slightly. “He must be willing?”

This was not mentioned in the book since it was written from Baili Qingmiao’s perspective. He Wenchao told her that he had been abducted by Shu Yanyan, and Baili Qingmiao believed him.

“My Lord, you still don’t know me?” asked Shu Yanyan coquettishly. “When it comes to this matter, I am most particular about mutual consent. If those men perform a little better and try to please me, I will even supplement some pure yin that they have lost during their cultivation. Apart from the enemy, which of those little sweethearts in my family hasn’t tasted the sweetness? Those that I’m tired of, even if I were to try to drive them away, they wouldn’t even want to leave.”

‘I don’t really know. It seems that there are still many things I didn’t know about,’ Wen Renhe thought to himself.

“Nevertheless, I won’t let He Wenchao off so easily,” Shu Yanyan expressed her loyalty to Wen Renhe. “Their Shangqing Sect is the mastermind behind the attack on Xuanyuan Sect. How can I show mercy to the enemy’s senior disciple? Lord, you can rest assured. I have taken up the role of a miserable girl and He Wenchao has been going behind Baili Qingmiao’s back for some time now, so that he can communicate with me. He pities me, and would often secretly go down the mountain to help his subordinates. Sooner or later, I will get my hands on him.”

He pondered for a moment and then said, “No, there is no need for that.”

“There is no need for what?” Shu Yanyan blinked her beautiful big eyes.

“There is no need to destroy this man,” Wen Renhe said, tapping his fingers on the armrest of his seat.

“Just do as you normally would. Having plans to ensure that you’ll be able to come and go safely pays off in the long run. There is indeed a special power in his body which is very beneficial to you, but there is no need to go to such extremes.”

“Huh?” Shu Yanyan was stunned. Was this still her Lord who would exterminate his enemies and never show them any mercy?

She knitted her brows. “He is the most favored senior disciple of Shangqing Sect, the pillar of the righteous path. If we don’t destroy him while he is still young, won’t he give us trouble in the future? If I were to feed him back during cultivation, his cultivation would improve even faster. Even if it is good for me, it will not be good for Xuanyuan Sect.”

As Shu Yanyan spoke, her expression became cruel and fierce, without even a hint of her previous lovable, soft and charming appearance.

Her words greatly pleased Wen Renhe.

From Wen Renhe’s point of view, this was what a cultivator should look like. This path was emotionless. Rather than greed and love, it would be better to gain benefits. Moreover, cultivators had to be firm in their standpoint, and simply couldn’t nurture a tiger to invite calamity out of soft-heartedness. (to indulge one’s enemy is asking for trouble)

Looking at Shu Yanyan’s awareness and Yin Hanjiang’s actions, then recalling falling in love and giving up Xuanyuan Sect just for Baili Qingmiao in the book, Wen Renhe deeply felt that he was not as good as his two sect protectors.

Any ordinary person would reckon it would be best to stay away from Baili Qingmiao in the future, so as to not get caught up too deeply in it. However, Wen Renhe had a character of facing difficulties head on. He had to meet Bai Qingmiao and He Wenchao cold-heartedly and by no means be moved by love!

Thinking about this, he ordered, “Shu Yanyan, you must look at this matter long term and you have to act as a saboteur.”

Shu Yanyan pondered for a moment and then lightly clapped her hands as her eyes lit up. “My Lord, your subordinate understands what you mean. What I should do is to entice the future pillar of the righteous path in some pitiful manner; refine the well-tempered steel to wrap it around my fingers. To have him believe I am a good woman who is physically with the devil path, but internally sides with the righteous path. To have him be obsessed with me, obsessed with my beauty and obsessed with the power I can bring him. This way, there will come a day when I will need him to save me and he will disclose some sect information that he deems unimportant to me. It would be even better if he becomes the sect leader in the future, he could be lured into the devil path little by little, until he is stuck so deeply that he can’t extricate himself.”

The more Shu Yanyan spoke, the more excited she became. She would be going down the mountain to play the role of a weak girl. Casting a long line to catch a big fish was the right way to go!

Wen Renhe: “……”

He had only wanted to let Baili Qingmiao see clearly that He Wenchao was willing to be with Shu Yanyan, so he had Shu Yanyan entice He Wenchao. Who would have known that Shu Yanyan thought so much deeper than him, making the trivial affair between a man and a woman develop into a significant matter involving a war between both the devil and the righteous path.

His Right Protector was really a woman with great ambitions. Wen Renhe wasn’t even aware of it in the past.

“Your plan is feasible. Be sure to keep these two points in mind. Firstly, don’t harm Baili Qingmiao. Secondly, you mustn’t fall in love,” Wen Renhe instructed.

“My Lord is so farsighted! Keeping Baili Qingmiao and letting her act willfully will instead push He Wenchao towards my obedient self. Keeping her is definitely more useful than killing her,” Shu Yanyan agreed and continued, “As for He Wenchao, my Lord please rest assured, this subordinate has the experience of a hundred battles under her belt and has long been able to see through the hypocrisy of noblemen in this world.”

Once Shu Yanyan finished speaking, she turned to leave the Council Hall, showing her slender back to the two silent men.

“Sect Protector Yin,” after a long while, Wen Renhe started speaking. “This lord is not as good as the Right Protector.”

He was referring to himself in the book.

Yin Hanjiang said, “My Lord is the wisest and most farsighted person in the world. The Right Protector is not as good as a thousandth of you.”

“You……” Wen Renhe shook his head and changed the topic, “Follow me down the mountain. I want to meet some of these juniors from Shangqing Sect.”

He wanted to see how He Wenchao would explain it to Baili Qingmiao when Shu Yanyan didn’t suck him dry this time. Also, if the female lead would follow the original plot and forgive He Wenchao.

This Devil Venerable was just so full of curiosity.