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00:01At age 4, my dad took me to demons for 3 pennies.
00:05Clara came to purge the demon lair when I was about to be devoured.
00:08She saved me, brought me to the supreme order.
00:11I went from worthless meat into a direct disciple.
00:14I came to see her as my only family.
00:16A century later, we ascended together.
00:19I chose the realm above to pursue the eternal path.
00:22But Clara chose love.
00:24For a mortal king, she shattered her immortal bones and stayed behind as his queen.
00:28Years later, I sent my spirit to the mortal realm.
00:32Found her chained in demon-suppressing tower.
00:34The radiant celestial maiden she once was now had hair like dead grass.
00:39Her meridians severed.
00:41The king had crowned a new queen.
00:43Her own children called her Demon Queen.
00:46When she died, the king declared a national celebration over her end.
00:50Up in the ninth heaven, I no longer held back.
00:53I summoned the celestial river.
00:55The glittering capital city drowned.
00:57The king was buried.
00:59His heirs with him.
01:01After I completed my cultivation and became divine lord, on a whim, sent a thread of divine
01:06thought to see my senior sister Clara in the mortal world.
01:10Twenty years ago, she and I ascended together.
01:12Without hesitation, I chose the realm above to pursue the eternal path.
01:16But she, at the very last moment, looked back at a man in royal robes.
01:21Nora, the eternal path is a lonely road.
01:23But he's there.
01:24It would shatter every bone for a lifetime with him.
01:27I tried to warn her.
01:29A mortal king lives barely a hundred years.
01:31Love is fleeting, there and gone.
01:34A mortal life is nothing next to eternity.
01:36Hundred years.
01:37That's enough.
01:37She shattered her immortal bones and turned her power into dragon's breath, pouring it
01:42all into Evan Stone's kingdom.
01:44She helped him conquer his enemies and build a golden kingdom.
01:48And she became his one and only queen.
01:51I thought she found what she wanted.
01:53But today, I searched for her in the capital city and found no trace of her.
01:58On the queen's throne in the royal palace sat a stranger.
02:01Clara's thread of fate led to a rage-filled black tower deep in the palace.
02:05On it, three words written in blood.
02:08Demon-suppressing tower.
02:10My heart sank.
02:11Without any hesitation, I tore through the void and stood before it in person.
02:16Wicked arrays surrounded the tower, black mist swirling.
02:19With the wailing of countless trapped souls, these arrays were meant to drain the one inside.
02:25I waved my hand, unleashing the power of a divine lord.
02:29The arrays mortals boasted shattered like paper and turned to dust.
02:33I pushed open the heavy doors.
02:36The stench of blood, rot, and despair hit me.
02:39Even a divine lord like me felt sick.
02:42Inside, darkness and damp.
02:45In the center, a figure was chained, iron through her bones.
02:49Every limb was bound tight.
02:51Her hair was dead grass.
02:54Her beauty was gone.
02:56Only yellowed skin stretched tight over bone.
02:58Two black threads of fortune ran from her body.
03:02One leading to the Eastern Palace and one to the Princess Manor.
03:06Her precious twins were her greatest pride.
03:08Now they fed on her.
03:11Clara!
03:12That withered body stirred faintly.
03:13She struggled to lift her head.
03:15Her clouded eyes slowly moved, trying to make out who had come.
03:19When her gaze finally found me, from those long dried eyes came two streams of blood-red tears.
03:24N-Nora, what are you doing here?
03:27I walked toward her, step by step.
03:29Each step felt like walking on blades.
03:31I stared at the chains fused into her flesh, the runes draining her last drops of life.
03:36My immortal heart, unmoved for centuries, felt as if pierced by eternal ice.
03:40The pain was beyond words.
03:42Who did this?
03:43It was...
03:44Evan Stone.
03:45With every word, black blood spilled from her lips.
03:48Once his kingdom was secure, he called me the Demon Queen, said I'd stolen the kingdom's fortune, that I'd bring
03:54ruin, though he locked me here.
03:56What about your children? Why haven't they come for you?
04:00At the mention of them, a smile crossed her face, worse than tears.
04:03These are rays.
04:04They set them up themselves, to drain the so-called Demon Queen's Dragon's Breath, and secure their places as prince
04:11and princess.
04:12They came every day, beat me with whips soaked in spell water, and called it justice.
04:17Boom. My mind went blank.
04:20I couldn't imagine the girl who used to cry when a flower petal nicked her hand.
04:24How had she endured this, day after day?
04:27With the last of her strength, she grabbed the hem of my robe.
04:30That hand? Nothing but skin and bone.
04:33Nora, I regret everything.
04:35Should never have fallen for this mortal world.
04:39Promise me, destroy this kingdom.
04:41Before she could finish, her hand fell limp.
04:44The light in her eyes went out forever.
04:46Her soul was gone.
04:48Stood there frozen, watching her fading soul disappear.
04:52Her life-bound jade hairpin, dim and cold, slipped from her withered hair, and fell to the floor with a
04:57clear, heartbreaking sound.
04:59My only family.
05:00Gone.
05:01The one who saved my life.
05:03My senior sister.
05:05Gone.
05:05Killed by those she gave up immortality for.
05:08I bent down and picked up that cold jade hairpin, clutched it tight in my palm.
05:12And at that very moment, outside the tower, thunderous cheers erupted.
05:16Bells and drums rang out, loud enough to shake the sky.
05:19Heaven bless the great realm.
05:21The demon queen, Clara White, has fallen.
05:23The moment Clara's soul shattered, the resentment and arrays collapsed.
05:27Above the royal palace, the golden dragon, forged by her power, let out a heart-wrenching cry.
05:33Its light dimmed in an instant.
05:35Yet this mournful cry was swallowed by the roar of celebration.
05:39The demon queen is dead.
05:40The great realm shall stand forever.
05:43Long live the king!
05:45Crown prince and princess put justice above blood.
05:48True blessing to our kingdom.
05:50I held Clara's cold jade hairpin in my hand.
05:53Walked out of the tower, trapping her, and consumed her in the end.
05:56I looked around.
05:58The entire royal palace was decked with lanterns and ribbons.
06:00Red carpet everywhere.
06:02More festive than the new year.
06:04Palace servants ran to spread the news.
06:06Their faces beamed with genuine joy.
06:07As if the one who died wasn't a former queen, but a monster that had plagued the kingdom.
06:12You heard that?
06:13When the demon queen died.
06:15Heavenly blessing descended!
06:17Yeah.
06:17The king has decreed three days of national celebration.
06:21General amnesty for all.
06:23All thanks to the crown prince and princess.
06:26Walked the palace path, expressionless.
06:28The laughter and cheers around me.
06:30Every word felt like a poisoned blade stabbing into my chest.
06:33My divine thoughts spread out in all directions.
06:36I saw him on the throne.
06:38The man Clara gave up the eternal path for.
06:40Evan Stone.
06:41He sat triumphant, receiving praises from all.
06:44Beside him leaned a young and beautiful woman.
06:46The phoenix crown on her head.
06:48The new queen.
06:49Your majesty, you can rest easy now.
06:52With that demon gone, the great realm will flourish for generations to come.
06:57Well said, my love.
06:59All thanks to Henry and Lynn.
07:01His gaze fell proudly upon the figures below.
07:03There, his twin children with Clara, Crown Prince Henry Stone and Princess Lynn Stone, stood in their finest robes, arrogantly
07:10receiving the court's bows.
07:12Rise, my loyal subjects.
07:14Demon queen may have been my birth mother.
07:16But when duty calls, personal ties mean nothing.
07:20My sister and I set the arrays ourselves to drain her power and feed the kingdom.
07:25Now her power is gone and she's dead.
07:28A final atonement for all her sins.
07:32All hail his highness's wisdom.
07:34All hail her royal highness's virtue.
07:37The praises rose like waves.
07:39I stood outside the hall, watching this grotesque scene in silence.
07:43The smug grin on that man's face.
07:45The cold pride on the faces of her children.
07:47The crawling flattery of the court officials.
07:50They were celebrating Clara's death.
07:52They built this golden age on her blood and bones.
07:55And now they celebrated grinding her to dust.
07:57I slowly tightened my grip on the hairpin.
07:59It still held the last faint trace of her.
08:02Cold and full of sorrow.
08:05Stopped holding back my presence.
08:06In an instant, a divine pressure from the ninth heaven, like free-flowing mercury across the floor, silently enveloped the
08:13entire hall.
08:14The clamor died in an instant.
08:17Absolute silence.
08:18Soul-deep terror gripped them.
08:20As if heaven itself was watching.
08:23Even breathing became a struggle.
08:25Without warning, cold snow began to fall.
08:28Snow in mid-summer.
08:30A sign of grave injustice.
08:33Step by step, I walked into the hall.
08:36The moment I stepped inside, all the candles flickered violently.
08:39The temperature plummeted.
08:41It felt like mid-winter.
08:43Every eye turned to me.
08:44In their gazes.
08:46Stunned.
08:47Confusion.
08:48But mostly fear.
08:49Awed by the otherworldly presence I carried.
08:52How dare you?
08:53Who are you?
08:54Farging in on a royal celebration.
08:56Crown Prince Henry was the first to recover.
08:58Stunned by my unearthly beauty.
09:00Then enraged by my insolence.
09:02I was unmoved.
09:03I walked past him without pause.
09:05He, who fancied himself of royal blood, had never been so ignored.
09:09Demon.
09:10You'll die.
09:11His jade pendant burst into flame, carrying a scorching blast of heat straight at my face.
09:16I didn't even lift my eyes.
09:18I simply stood there.
09:19Still.
09:20That weapon, born of Clara's dragon's breath, stopped three feet from me.
09:24As if striking an invisible wall, it let out a mournful whine.
09:27Then, with a clicking sound, it shattered.
09:30Piece by piece.
09:31Scattering as a cloud of crimson dust that drifted slowly down.
09:34The entire hall fell into dead silence.
09:37All stood frozen in terror.
09:40Henry's face turned deathly pale.
09:42Staring as the weapon crumbled to dust.
09:45My gaze shifted from Evan's stone on his throne to Henry and his sister.
09:50Who taught you the arrays?
09:52You used to drain her dragon's breath.
09:54Princess Lynn shivered under my gaze.
09:56But spoiled as she was, she snapped back.
09:58The royal sage taught us.
10:00That demon queen, a creature of evil, had no right to sit on the throne.
10:04Using her power to serve the great realm was her honor.
10:08What we did was for the good of the people.
10:10For the good of the people.
10:12I repeated those words, a cold smile forming on my lips.
10:16Right.
10:16For the good of the people.
10:19Sylvia Reed, the new queen beside the king, finally recognized me.
10:22Decades ago, she had glimpsed Clara and me from afar.
10:25Now, terror drains the color from her face.
10:27She pointed at me and screamed.
10:29Your majesty.
10:30It's her.
10:31An ally of the demon queen.
10:33She.
10:34She's an immortal.
10:35She's here for revenge.
10:37Mortal.
10:37Those two words hit like a thunderclap through the hall.
10:40Evan's face turned grim in an instant.
10:43Henry and Lynn were both shocked and furious.
10:46Shocked by what I was.
10:47Furious at the thought that the one they had tortured to death
10:50might not have been merely a demon queen, but a true immortal.
10:54Yet their fury was quickly replaced by greed and bloodlust.
10:58Though she's with the demon queen.
11:00Father.
11:01He's alone.
11:02We have the kingdom's fortune on our side.
11:04And the royal sage is here.
11:06Why fear her?
11:07Take her down.
11:08And use her immortal bones.
11:10The great realm will last forever.
11:13Exactly.
11:14Kill her.
11:15Pathetic fools.
11:16I couldn't even be bothered to argue.
11:19I raised my hand reaching toward them and clenched it.
11:22Two piercing screams rang out.
11:25Henry and Lynn flew off their feet.
11:27Dragged before me by an invisible force, hovering in midair.
11:31The dragon's breath within them instantly erupted.
11:33No longer a docile force.
11:35It turned into countless sharp blades slicing and tearing through their meridians.
11:41It hurts.
11:42My meridians.
11:44My cultivation.
11:45Let me go.
11:46You demon.
11:47Let me go.
11:48Barely a taste of what Clara endured.
11:50I was just letting them have a small taste of karmic retribution they deserved.
11:54Stop.
11:55With a furious shout, Evan rose to his feet.
11:58He grabbed the imperial seal of dominion and poured all his dragon's breath into it.
12:02A dragon's cry echoed through the hall.
12:04A golden barrier rose from the seal, taking the shape of a golden dragon,
12:09coiling above Evan's head, barely holding back a sliver of my power,
12:13giving him room to breathe.
12:14He stared at me, hard.
12:16Not a trace of guilt in his eyes.
12:18Only imperial arrogance and indignation.
12:22I know you're Clara's junior sister, but do you know what happened after she stayed in this world?
12:27She changed.
12:28Her demonic nature took over.
12:29She even slaughtered palace attendants and tried to overthrow the great realm.
12:33He wore a mask of grief.
12:35Out of old affection, I couldn't bring myself to harm her.
12:38So I followed the royal sage's counsel and had her sealed in the tower.
12:42To wear away her demonic nature and guide her back to the righteous path.
12:45Everything I did was for the people of this world.
12:49For every soul in the great realm.
12:51His speech was impassioned, righteous, and magnificent.
12:55Had I not seen Clara's ruin with my own eyes and heard her last words myself,
12:59I might have actually fallen for his act.
13:02He was that convincing.
13:03The officials in the hall had wavered with doubt.
13:06After hearing the king's speech, they found their anchor once more.
13:10So that is how it was.
13:11His majesty is wise.
13:13A demon's heart is truly wicked.
13:15Celestial Immortal, don't be deceived by lies and wrong and innocent man.
13:19Watching this court twist truth into lies, I laughed.
13:23That laughter was cold as ice.
13:25The temperature in the hall dropped further.
13:28Evan Stone, is your little performance done now?
13:31I slowly opened my palm.
13:34Clara's dim, life-bound jade hairpin rested in my palm.
13:37I channeled a thread of divine power into it.
13:40The hairpin hummed softly.
13:41A beam of light projected from it, hovering in the air of the hall.
13:45Within the light appeared a scene from 20 years ago inside the tower.
13:49Clara, the royal sage says your immortal bones are shattered, but the immortal essence remains.
13:55It conflicts with the mortal dragon's breath.
13:57You must rest in the tower for a century and let the dragon's breath heal you.
14:01Only then will your immortal essence fade, and we can be together forever.
14:05Clara believed him.
14:07She walked, unsuspecting, into the cage they had built for her.
14:10But she didn't know that the moment he turned away, the tenderness vanished from his face.
14:14Replaced by cold calculation, behind him stood Sylvia, smiling sweetly.
14:19Clara, you're too powerful.
14:22Your very presence is a constant reminder that my kingdom was built on a woman's back.
14:27What I want is an obedient queen, not an immortal who looms above me.
14:32Starting today, you'll stay right here and serve the great realm as our guardian for dragon's breath.
14:37As his words fell, the soul-sealing spikes were driven deep into Clara's body.
14:42In the projection, Clara's scream, disbelieving and heart-wrenching, echoed clearly through the dead silent hall.
14:48The truth was laid bare.
14:49Every voice that had defended Evan fell silent.
14:52The court erupted in shock.
14:54They stared in horror at the king, his face now ashen.
14:58They couldn't believe the demon queen was an immortal framed by the king,
15:01and that the king they revered was a treacherous hypocrite.
15:05Evan's mask of righteousness was torn off before the entire court and shattered.
15:10He stared at the projection.
15:11His body trembled uncontrollably, but I knew it wasn't fear.
15:15It was pure, searing rage.
15:17You am the king.
15:19I am the true dragon.
15:22Everything I did was right.
15:24So what if you're an immortal?
15:26You entered my world.
15:27You follow my rules.
15:29Guards, protect me!
15:31Kill this demon!
15:32At Evan's command, from behind the screens flanking the hall, dozens of black-robed cultivators emerged.
15:38They lived on the great realm's patronage, hounds of the royal family.
15:42Each radiated considerable spiritual power.
15:45In mortal eyes, they were earthbound immortals.
15:48Form the array!
15:49Kill the immortal!
15:50The cultivators formed an intricate array, encircling me.
15:53Their energies merged as one, drawing on the dragon vein below, manifesting as chains of energy that closed in from
16:00all sides.
16:01A spark, daring to outshine the sun, scoffed, not even bothering to use immortal arts.
16:07I released but a tenth of the pressure a divine lord carries.
16:10In an instant, an invisible storm erupted from me.
16:14That supposedly unbreakable array collapsed in an instant.
16:18Dozens of cultivators, before they could even scream, their bodies exploded like crushed tomatoes into clouds of bloody mist, staining
16:26the ornate carpet a horrifying crimson.
16:28The thick scent of blood filled the air.
16:31In the hall, the remaining officials were already shaking with terror, crumpling to the floor.
16:35Some couldn't hold themselves up.
16:37A pathetic sight.
16:39Impossible.
16:41How...
16:41How are you not a celestial immortal?
16:43You're actually a divine lord.
16:46After uttering those words, his body gave out.
16:48With a bang, he too burst into bloody mist.
16:51Evan watched his last line of defense erased so effortlessly.
16:56Ill fear finally appeared on his face.
16:58Frantically, he poured all the dragon's breath and the fortune of the entire kingdom into the golden dragon above his
17:04head.
17:04That golden dragon, forged by her, let out a deafening roar.
17:09Its form swelled to hundreds of feet.
17:11Golden scales blazed with blinding light.
17:14Carrying the full weight of the kingdom, it charged at me.
17:17That strike could level a mountain range.
17:20Yet I simply watched it quietly.
17:22This dragon, meant to carry Clara freely up in the ninth heaven, had instead been used to imprison her.
17:27And now, to attack me, a trace of pity surfaced in my eyes.
17:31Go home.
17:32The roaring golden dragon charging toward me stopped just a foot away, frozen.
17:36In its massive eyes, fury and majesty faded.
17:40Replaced by deep sorrow and longing, it could sense in me an essence that matched its own.
17:45The essence of Clara.
17:47It let out a low, mournful cry.
17:49No longer attacking.
17:51Instead, it gently pressed its massive head against my palm.
17:54Like a child long lost, finally finding its way home.
17:58Then, its colossal form began to crumble.
18:01Piece by piece.
18:02Breaking into golden specks in the sky.
18:04Like a grand, yet sorrowful meteor shower.
18:07Raining over the entire royal palace.
18:09Until at last, it vanished completely.
18:11It was free.
18:12And the great realm's fortune, in that moment, was severed by me.
18:17On the throne, Evan spat a mouthful of blood.
18:20His jet black hair turned gray before my eyes.
18:22His handsome face aged thirty years in an instant.
18:26He slumped in his throne.
18:27His reign was over.
18:29With the golden dragon of the realm gone, the immediate consequences fell upon Henry and Lynn.
18:34They were mortals by birth, who had used a raise to steal dragon's breath that was never theirs.
18:39When the kingdom flourished, they could keep it in check.
18:42Now that fortune was cut off, they were adrift.
18:45Unable to bear the immense power within them, their screams were ten times worse than before.
18:51The rampaging dragon's breath inside them surged like a flooding river, raged through their meridians, tearing them apart.
18:58Crack!
18:59The sound of shattering bones was clear and sharp.
19:02Their bodies shriveled like deflating balloons, rapidly collapsing.
19:06Their grand robes hung loose.
19:08Beneath their skin, golden fractures spread across the surface, as if they'd burst apart at any moment.
19:14Their cultivation was gone.
19:16Their meridians shattered.
19:17They had fallen from exalted airs to cripples worse than ordinary mortals.
19:21The overwhelming pain and terror of death finally destroyed the last of their pride.
19:26It was wrong.
19:27Celestial Immortal, spare me.
19:28I really was wrong.
19:30Please don't kill me.
19:31I'm begging you.
19:32I'll never do it again.
19:34I looked at them coldly.
19:35When you whipped her, did it ever cross your mind that she was your mother?
19:41My words halted their pleas.
19:43You traded her flesh and blood for your status.
19:46Did you feel even a flicker of guilt?
19:49They had no answer, only trembling.
19:52Now, it's your turn.
19:54I waved my hand.
19:56Two ropes of immortal energy bound them both and dragged them out of the hall.
20:00No matter how they screamed and begged, it made no difference.
20:03I dragged them all the way to the ruins of the tower.
20:06Then, with a spell, I hung them both high above the demon-suppressing tower on the tallest, sharpest broken beam.
20:13You two, stay here.
20:15Watch closely.
20:16How the kingdom you were so proud of meets its end.
20:20I placed a curse upon them.
20:22They could neither live nor die.
20:24Only remain conscious, feeling sun scorch, rain soak, and wind tear.
20:29Feeling the abandonment, despair, and agony.
20:31Until they paid the final price for what they'd done.
20:35With that done, turned.
20:36My gaze fell once more upon the hall.
20:38Upon the man slumped on the throne, his face ashen.
20:41Was time to end this.
20:43Yet, just as I was about to do it, an immense, boundless pressure descended from the ninth heaven.
20:48The entire sky was instantly blanketed in golden clouds.
20:53Immortals and mortals are separate.
20:55Heavenly law has its order.
20:56Nora Green, you are a divine lord of the realm above.
20:59You may not interfere with mortal kingdoms.
21:02Peace at once.
21:03Return to the realm above.
21:05Otherwise, heaven's judgment shall fall.
21:08The voice of heavenly law rang like a great bell, shaking every living being in mortal world.
21:13Inside the hall, the officials, already half-dead with fear, grabbed at this like a lifeline.
21:18Celestial, immortal, save us!
21:20Heavenly law sees all!
21:21This demon defies heaven and slaughters the innocent!
21:24Please, send heaven's judgment!
21:26Strike this demon down!
21:27Restore peace to our world!
21:29In Evan's eyes, hope flickered back to life.
21:32Implore heavenly law to stand with me.
21:34And the great realm!
21:36They all thought heavenly law was on their side.
21:38I slowly raised my head and looked up at the golden clouds.
21:41A cold, mocking smile curled at the corner of my lips.
21:45Heavenly law.
21:46My voice was soft, yet it cut clearly through the clouds and reached that lofty emissary
21:50of heavenly law up above.
21:52When my senior sister Clara shattered her immortal bones for love and remained in the
21:58mortal world.
21:59Where was heavenly law then?
22:01She was deceived and betrayed, imprisoned in the demon-suppressing tower, drained of her
22:06dragon's breath day and night, and tortured for a hundred years.
22:09Where was heavenly law then?
22:11Her own wretched children called it righteous justice and whipped their own mother for sport.
22:17Where was heavenly law then?
22:19My voice rose with every word and grew colder.
22:21Her soul destroyed.
22:23Her body not yet cold.
22:25And this entire court and kingdom celebrated.
22:29Heavenly law.
22:31Why didn't it strike down a single bolt?
22:33Now, I seek justice for her.
22:36Yet, so-called heavenly law suddenly appeared to lecture me about, immortals and mortals are
22:41separate.
22:41Heavenly law has its order.
22:43This is the biggest joke I've ever heard.
22:47My words made the pressure in the clouds falter.
22:50The emissary of heavenly law clearly hadn't expected a divine lord rising from the mortal
22:54realm to challenge heavenly law like this.
22:56Insolent!
22:58Heavenly law governs all.
23:00Everything has its order.
23:01Clara's fate was a result of her own choices.
23:04Karma runs its course.
23:06What does it have to do with you?
23:07Warn you one last time.
23:09Stand down.
23:10Now.
23:11Or-
23:12Or what?
23:13Cut him off.
23:14I stopped holding back my divine power.
23:16The vast force of a divine lord, like a volcano dormant for eons, surged in that moment.
23:22Boom.
23:23A pillar of platinum white light shot from my body into the sky, tearing apart the golden
23:28clouds and obliterating the divine phantom.
23:31The emissary hid behind on the spot.
23:34Enough noise!
23:35Today, I will defy the heavenly law.
23:38I will break its order.
23:40Let's see if your heaven's judgment gets here first.
23:43Or if I wipe this filthy kingdom off the map first.
23:47Today, no one stops me.
23:50The sky cleared once more.
23:52As if the warning from heavenly law had never happened.
23:55Inside the hall, the hope on Evan's and Sylvia's faces froze solid.
23:59Replaced by boundless despair, they finally understood who they were facing.
24:03Someone who would defy even heavenly law.
24:06Someone who had come for revenge.
24:07A true divine being.
24:08Ignored the wailing of them in the hall.
24:11My form slowly rose into the air.
24:13Through the dome of the hall.
24:15Up to the ninth heaven over the capital city.
24:17Stood in the clouds and looked down at the flourishing city below.
24:20Teared rooftops.
24:21Criss-crossing streets.
24:22Crowds surging like tides.
24:24All of these were built on Clara's bones.
24:27This city.
24:27For every bit of its splendor.
24:29Clara suffered just as much.
24:31It doesn't deserve to exist.
24:33In the capital city, every citizen stopped what they were doing.
24:36They looked up in terror at the figure in the sky.
24:39A god to earth.
24:41Sunlight wrapped me in gold.
24:43Clouds bowed beneath my feet.
24:45Slowly raised my hand.
24:46In my palm was Clara's life-bound jade hairpin.
24:49Drawing on my own immense divine power.
24:51And using the last trace of Clara's soul, I began to chant a forbidden incantation.
24:57Even in the realm above, this was a forbidden art.
25:00As I chanted, the entire sky began to tremble violently.
25:03Above the firmament, as if gripped by invisible hands, the sky was torn open.
25:08A massive rift.
25:09Behind that rift was neither void nor darkness.
25:12But a vast, surging, ever-flowing river formed by countless stars.
25:16The Celestial River.
25:18River that separates immortals and mortals.
25:20That keeps the order of the universe.
25:23The Celestial River.
25:24She's going to call the river down on us.
25:27On the throne, Evan collapsed completely.
25:30Staring at that apocalyptic sight in the sky.
25:32At that river of stars about to pour down.
25:35He murmured.
25:36Not knowing who he was even talking to.
25:37Was wrong.
25:39Clara.
25:40I really was wrong.
25:41Officials dropped to their knees, begging.
25:43The new queen saw no way out.
25:45Her face was pale as death.
25:46It was all too late.
25:48Their regret meant nothing.
25:49I felt within the life-bound jade hairpin.
25:52Clara's faint, lingering will.
25:53Driven by my divine power, it became a sigh that crossed through time.
25:57I raised the hairpin, pointing it at that wicked city below, with one gentle gesture.
26:02In the name of my senior sister, disciple of the Order of Celestial Clarity, Clara White.
26:07I decree, let the Celestial River pour forth, and wash away all filth.
26:13The decree was spoken.
26:14Heaven and Earth went silent.
26:16Through the rift torn in the sky, the rushing waters of the Celestial River found their outlet at last.
26:20They formed a colossal wave.
26:22Carrying the purifying force of stars, they crashed down.
26:25The first being swallowed was the gleaming royal palace.
26:29The flood was unstoppable.
26:31The grand halls, unyielding city walls.
26:34Before the law-bearing waters of the river, they crumbled like sandcastles, instantly swept away, crushed, and gone.
26:41Evan on his throne, Sylvia on hers.
26:44And every member of the royal family, the instant the waters touched them, they couldn't even scream.
26:50Their bodies and their souls were completely purified by the stars.
26:54Body and spirit erased.
26:56Every sin they'd committed, along with their very existence, was washed clean by the Celestial River.
27:01Hung high above the ruins of the Tower, Henry and Lynn watched.
27:05The cataclysmic flood surged toward them.
27:07At last, true relief appeared in their eyes.
27:09Perhaps in their final moments, they understood that death, for them, was a mercy.
27:15The flood took them and took the entire royal palace.
27:19But that was only the beginning.
27:21The Celestial River continued to spread from the royal palace outward, sweeping in every direction.
27:26Streets, houses, markets, everything, under this divine judgment, was erased one by one.
27:34Those noble families deeply tied to this corrupt kingdom.
27:37Those officials and the powerful who had once cheered the death of the demon queen.
27:41None were spared.
27:43In this catastrophe, they all turned to dust.
27:46Stood silently above the ninth heaven, watching it all with cold detachment.
27:51In my eyes was the reflection of that city below, from splendor to ruin.
27:55My heart felt nothing.
27:57Not because I was heartless, but because grief had hollowed me out.
28:01As flood swallowed the last inch of earth, when the last sinner vanished into nothing,
28:05slowly closed my eyes.
28:07Clara, did you see?
28:08That kingdom, which you gave everything for, which took everything and betrayed you,
28:13buried it with my own hands.
28:15For you.
28:16No one knew how much time had passed.
28:18The rushing waters of the Celestial River finally receded,
28:22returning to the rift in the firmament.
28:23The sky grew still, as if nothing had happened at all.
28:28But on the earth below, an indelible mark remained.
28:31The once thriving capital of the Great Realm had vanished from the map entirely.
28:35In its place was a vast, shimmering lake, its depths unfathomable.
28:40The water was clear, mirroring the sky.
28:43No trace of what had been.
28:45Moved, landing at the center of the lake.
28:47This was once the site of the demon-suppressing tower.
28:50Opened my palm.
28:51The life-bound jade hairpin in my palm, after absorbing the last trace of Clara's pure essence
28:56from the world, miraculously glowed with a gentle warmth.
28:59No longer so cold.
29:01Clara, I'm taking you home.
29:04In your next life, don't believe in mortal love again.
29:07Come with me.
29:08Let's walk the eternal path together.
29:10Cold, yet fair.
29:12With that, I put away the jade hairpin, never looked back at the lake I had made with my
29:17own hands.
29:17Every grievance in the mortal world, from this moment on, settled like dust.
29:22I turned, becoming a streak of light across the sky, tearing through the void, carrying
29:26Clara's last trace with me, and returned above the ninth heaven.
29:30From that day forth, the mortal world lost a thriving kingdom, but gained a legend of divine
29:35judgment.
29:36The legend said,
29:38Long ago, there was a celestial maiden who, for love, chose to descend to the mortal world.
29:43But the mortal betrayed her devotion, and so her junior sister summoned the celestial river
29:48and buried an entire kingdom for her.
29:50This legend was recorded by rulers of future generations in the highest level secret text,
29:56passed down through the ages to warn their descendants.
29:59Never, ever betray the heart of a cultivator, because you'll never know who stands behind
30:04them, and just how terrifying that person might be.
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