The Emperor's Domineering Favor, the Evil Consort's Unparalleled Reign

"Ying Li, what are you doing?! Ying Li! Stop! Stop now! This will destroy your pure spiritual energy and severely damage your foundation! Stop now!"

Ying Li sat amidst a pool of blood, clutching hundreds of spirit beast inner beads in his arms. His eyes were lifeless, and his hands mechanically stuffed the beads into his mouth. He indiscriminately swallowed the inner beads of different spirit beasts, without a single thought to refine them.

She was surrounded by wisps of black energy, which grew stronger and stronger. Yin Lie looked at Ying Li with concern, but no matter what he said, Ying Li wouldn't listen to a word.

With blood clenched in his palm and blood smeared at the corner of his mouth, Ying Li was in excruciating abdominal pain. His dantian was aching from the bloating and foul gas. Gradually, he could hear the sounds around him clearly. Ying Li snapped out of his daze, stared at the remaining inner bead in his hand, and after a long while, gave a bitter laugh.

"He's a heartless man! Ying Li, you promised me! You promised me you'd have nothing to do with him. He's just like Mu Zhen, a cold-blooded and ruthless person! Have you forgotten Yin He? Have you forgotten our clansmen? Or have you forgotten the Ying family, forgotten Ying Xue and Ying Wuyou?!" Yin Lie said coldly, his hatred spreading with a bewitching power. His eyes were covered with a layer of black mist, and Ying Li stood up unsteadily.

"I haven't forgotten! I haven't forgotten! Not even for a moment!" Ying Li gripped the inner beads tightly, the smooth powder scattering in the dark air. A beast resided within her, and Yin Lie's few words had awakened it! The beast controlled Ying Li, gradually making her appearance repulsive, roaring and venting its fury. Ying Li suddenly realized her own repulsiveness, realized her loss of composure, and frantically touched her face. A line disappeared from the tip of her nose. She smiled bitterly and sighed helplessly.

How come after gaining power, she's become less and less like herself?! She was clearly, clearly just a Ying Li who loved to fight injustice and was always ready to argue with everyone!

She gazed at the expanse of the Spirit Beast Mountain Range where she stood, an endless expanse of blood, the smell of death. Tears welled in her eyes, her right hand clenched tightly. A sharp pain shot through her heart; even breathing became a luxury.

"The people in the Mu Dynasty are all villains! If Yin Huan weren't one of your Six Shadow Guards, I would have killed him the moment he appeared, without hesitation! Ying Li, don't you understand?! What is most important in your life?!" Yin Lie roared, looking at Ying Li with disappointment and frustration.

“It’s Jiang Huai.” Ying Li’s lips parted slightly as she looked up at the black clouds stretching across the horizon. The clouds drifted slowly by, catching her eye. Ying Li sighed, and a tear from her left eye fell to her feet.

"It's Jiang Huai! It's Jiang Huai! It's Jiang Huai!"

She suddenly became hysterical, gathering spiritual energy in her right hand to summon Yin Lie from the Bone Ring!

Ying Li glared at Yin Lie, unwilling to accept defeat, and said, "I'm going crazy, do you know that, brother? From childhood to adulthood, in the Ying family, all I wanted was to live, but they wouldn't let me live. For fifteen years, I lived in the dust, in shame. I didn't even know what it felt like to have friends who cared for me. In this new life, I have no grand ambitions. Whoever bullies me, I'll repay them a hundredfold, a thousandfold. Being a good head of the Ying family, being filial to Grandpa and Uncle, and having my brothers and sisters support each other is enough. But the first time we met, you tricked me into going to the Evil Serpent Mountain to make me stronger, to test me, and I almost died there!"

"I left home to cultivate at fifteen. While other fifteen-year-olds enjoyed a peaceful life under the protection of their loving mothers and strict fathers, I was far from home, enduring wind and rain, venturing out into the world alone, witnessing life and death along the way. The first time I held a whip, the first time I killed someone, I was afraid, but I endured it. Everyone praised me, saying I had good skills and good methods, but only Jiang Huai, only he asked me if I was cold, hungry, or in pain."

"I hate that he always asks, I hate that he always tells me he likes me. I want to escape from him and cut all ties with him. I know that if I stay with him, I will be tied down and unable to do anything. But when he risked his life for me, I really thought about the future, about living a good life with him. At that time, I naively thought that it didn't matter if Jiang Huai didn't live long. I didn't ask him to love me for a long time or stay with me for a long time. I just wanted his love to be passionate and his affection to be unforgettable."

"Ying Li, you're spineless! How could you be so spineless?! You're a member of the Blood Moon Sect, you're the young master of the Blood Moon Sect, you must demand repayment from the Mu Dynasty for the sake of the Blood Moon Sect! You must! You absolutely must!" Yin Lie roared angrily. He couldn't understand why the stubborn and carefree Ying Li was now so bound by love!

Are love and affection really that important to women?

Yin Lie didn't know that for someone who had been lying prone in the dead silence for too long, even a little warmth could really trick them into giving their life for it! Ying Li was like that, and Jiang Huai even more so!

"When I resurrected you with the Bone Ring, did you forget the promise you made to me?! You promised me one thing, and now I'm telling you: I want you to remember your mission! I want you to remember the humiliation our people suffered! I want you to take the lives of those who betrayed the Blood Moon Sect!!!"

“But I have never spent a single moment with the Blood Moon Sect. I am a living, breathing human being. I cannot feel that bone-deep hatred. That hatred remains in my body, but I cannot feel it completely every moment. But the Ying family, Jiang Huai, I cannot forget them.”

Only by becoming stronger can one gain freedom! A thought flashed through Ying Li's mind. Ying Li raised her eyes, her gaze gradually turning cold, "Once I become a Spirit Lord, no one, absolutely no one will stop me! No one will force me!"

"Hehe, once I become a Spirit Lord, once I become a Spirit Lord, no one, no one can stop me!!!" Ying Li laughed maniacally, the blood at the corner of her mouth was incredibly vivid. She was like a bewitching flower, blooming brilliantly in the Spirit Beast Mountain Range. Powerful spiritual energy enveloped Ying Li, and black turbid energy enveloped her. The happier she laughed, the denser the turbid energy became.

"Ying Li! What's wrong with you?! Ying Li!" Yin Lie walked up to Ying Li and shook her body repeatedly, but after a short while, he was blasted away by a powerful spiritual force!

"The Fallen Demon Formation! It's the Fallen Demon Formation! Ying Li, wake up, wake up, wake up!" Yin Lie stared at the large black formation beneath Ying Li's feet, his face growing increasingly pale. The power of these superhumans was immense; a single moment of weakness could easily lead them to demonic possession and entry into the Fallen Demon Formation.

As the blood of the Ghost Realm gradually dissipates, Ying Li will slowly lose all his spiritual power, eventually becoming an ordinary person from the Spirit Realm, and everything will vanish into nothingness!

Ying Li had already cultivated to the ninth level of Spirit Saint, and although she was in a moment of panic just now, she was completely able to control herself. So why did she suddenly enter the Fallen Ghost Formation now?!

"It seems that even a ninth-level Spirit Saint is nothing special. I thought Ying Li would have some ability, but now it seems that he just happened to be lucky. With a little carelessness, he has lost all his cultivation over the years!" Mu Huan's voice came over, and Yin Lie's expression changed drastically.

"What? Didn't expect that, did you? That guy Yin Huan really helped me out!" Mu Huan walked over with her hands behind her back, her eyes indifferent and aloof. When she looked at Ying Li, the corner of her mouth twitched slightly, full of disdain.

"So it was you! You managed to slip through my fingers! Ying Li is a ninth-level Spirit Saint, she won't be easily influenced by you! Stop dreaming! I advise you to obediently go back to your body, otherwise, don't blame me for disregarding Yin Huan's status as a Shadow Guard and killing you!!!" Yin Lie said, the blood python rushing forward with murderous intent, as if it would swallow Mu Huan whole in the next moment!

Mu Huan shook her head and smiled, her eyes suddenly turning fierce. "Do you think I dare to come here by myself?! Not to mention Yin Huan, this potential threat, just look at Fu Cheng. His illusions are enough to keep me from breaking them for a while, not to mention there's also Yi Bicheng from Tianfu. Chu Jue, you've had enough of the show, it's time to come out!"

Yin Lie's expression changed drastically. Chu Jue walked over from afar, bringing with him a powerful force. With that force, the black aura on Ying Li's body intensified! Ling Jue was personally taking action; if this continued, Ying Li would undoubtedly die!