After being reborn, the villain comes with a spoiler tag.

Beyond Qiongshan lies Yincheng, a town inhabited by ordinary people.

After entering the city, Huo Yu saw Long Yucheng first enter a shop, and soon after, he came out carrying a bow and arrows. He then ran all the way out of the city, heading straight for the forest in the north of the city.

Huo Yu originally intended to continue following, but at this moment he sensed a figure in his divine sense that should not be there. Without hesitation, he turned around and flew in the opposite direction. In an instant, he flew to a house not far from the south of the town.

Meanwhile, in the tranquil lakeside pavilion in the backyard of the Shen residence, a woman dressed in white seemed to sense something and gazed towards the direction where Huo Yu was.

"What's wrong, Miss Bai?"

The woman in yellow noticed her companion's distracted state and asked a question. Curious, she followed the woman in white's gaze but saw nothing.

"No problem."

The woman in white responded softly, her voice as cold as frost, emanating an aura that kept people at a distance.

The woman in yellow didn't seem to mind the coldness. She got up to refill their tea and returned to their previous conversation:

"Miss Bai, what are your plans for the future?"

"I will stay here for a while."

"Then why don't you stay at my house?"

The woman in white thought for a moment, then nodded in agreement: "Thank you for your trouble."

"Not at all, I hope you won't mind the poor hospitality," the woman in yellow said with a gentle smile.

This "White Girl" is none other than Bai Xue, the Holy Maiden of the Demonic Path who should be residing in the Chang Le Mountains.

She appeared here to find one person—Long Yucheng.

It all started a year ago, when Bai Xue had just escaped from a long and painful ordeal of inner demons.

As the daughter of the sect leader of the Chang Le He Huan Sect, she possessed a mutated ice-attribute heavenly spiritual root from a water-based spiritual root. Coupled with the sect's preferential treatment in terms of resources, she broke through to the Nascent Soul stage in just a hundred years. Such a cultivation speed was astonishing and made her famous in both the righteous and demonic paths.

However, after entering the Nascent Soul stage, whenever she tried to break through the bottleneck, she would encounter a strange inner demon tribulation, making the path to breakthrough extremely difficult.

When she was in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul realm, it took her twenty years to barely get through it; and when she reached the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, Bai Xue had spent more than thirty years dealing with the inner demon tribulation, and still had no clue.

As Huo Yu left the Chang Le Mountains, Bai Xue was undergoing her fifth trial of the Inner Demon Tribulation.

This time, the inner demon tribulation was completely different from the past. Bai Xue found herself in an endless void, in the center of which stood a wordless stone tablet.

After trying various methods, Bai Xue finally discovered that only by injecting her divine sense with a specific intensity would the characters appear on the stone tablet. Once the intensity of her divine sense changed slightly, the characters would quickly blur and disappear.

She surmised that perhaps only when the inscriptions on the stone tablet were fully revealed could she overcome this inner demon. However, when she finally saw the contents of the inscriptions, her mind was shaken so violently that she nearly suffered a mental breakdown.

The stone tablet was actually a story set in the cultivation world where she lived, and the protagonist's name was "Bai Xue"!

Knowing that this might be a trap set by the inner demons to disturb her peace of mind, Bai Xue quickly activated the Heavenly Crystal Lotus Heart Technique to calm her inner turmoil.

As she steadily channeled her divine sense, the number of characters on the stone tablet gradually increased. When the entire stone tablet was filled with characters, the old characters disappeared and new characters emerged.

With the Heavenly Crystal Lotus Heart Mantra running automatically, Bai Xue maintained a state of mind as clear as ice, suppressing all emotions, and steadily inputting her divine sense while quickly memorizing all the contents on the stone tablet.

The story tells of a mortal cultivator named Long Yucheng, with Bai Xue as one of the female protagonists. The story not only records many things Bai Xue herself was unaware of, but also depicts many experiences known only to her.

Under the influence of the Heavenly Crystal Lotus Heart Technique, Bai Xue remained detached from worldly affairs, witnessing the emotional entanglement between "Bai Xue" in the book and Long Yucheng without sorrow or joy.

To help "Bai Xue" overcome her inner demons, Long Yucheng spared no effort in searching for the Buddha Heart Lotus, but this brought annihilation upon his sect, and he himself narrowly escaped death. In the end, he survived only thanks to a mysterious entity called the "Heavenly Dao System," but he lost all his cultivation and his spiritual roots were destroyed.

In order to save Long Yucheng, "Bai Xue" ventured into the forbidden area of ​​the First Peak, and thus died tragically at the hands of Demon Lord Huo Yu.

Meanwhile, after gaining a new opportunity, Long Yucheng rebuilt his spiritual root and cultivated from scratch to the Golden Core stage. He then infiltrated the Chang Le He Huan Sect to search for "Bai Xue's" whereabouts. Upon learning of "Bai Xue's" death, he vowed to avenge her with his own hands.

What follows is a long series of adventures and descriptions of his cultivation improvement. During this time, Long Yucheng becomes a Daoist couple with another female protagonist, but he never forgets to avenge "Bai Xue".

Ultimately, on the day Demon Lord Huo Yu ascended to heaven, he killed him with his Nascent Soul stage cultivation and became the new Demon Lord.

Bai Xue was nearing her limit when she saw this part. There seemed to be more content to come, but as her input of divine sense gradually weakened, the words on the stone tablet became blurred and eventually disappeared without a trace, along with the stone tablet itself.

She failed again in this internal struggle.

After escaping her inner demons, Bai Xue quickly reviewed what she had seen.

Her first reaction was that it was utterly absurd. Putting aside how unrealistic the various adventures experienced by the protagonist Long Yucheng were in reality, and the omnipotent "Heavenly Dao System," the character in the story who shared the same name as her was simply unbelievable.

The novel devotes considerable space to depicting the deep affection between Long Yucheng and "Bai Xue," but only briefly touches upon the process of how their feelings for each other developed. Even Long Yucheng's initial approach to "Bai Xue" was solely to complete a task assigned by the "Heavenly Dao System."

If the "Snow White" in the storybook were herself, she would never believe that she would fall for such a strange person, much less lose her life for him.

In Bai Xue's view, the protagonist of the story, Long Yucheng, is not only cowardly and reckless, but also arrogant and opportunistic. Moreover, his cultivation improvement is entirely due to the strange encounters that inexplicably gathered around him and the "Heavenly Dao System".

As for him personally, he is utterly without merit. Even if you placed a stone in Long Yucheng's place, it would instantly become an immortal.

Moreover, Long Yucheng's feelings for "Bai Xue" came without any basis and faded quickly. What fueled his desire for revenge against Huo Yu was nothing more than an obsession, and had nothing to do with the real "Bai Xue".

What bothered her was that the storybook did indeed record many things that no one else knew except her, and even included the truth of an old story that she had been investigating.

If the former was because her inner demons knew everything about her, then the latter was a possibility she had never considered. Moreover, the logic of the story was so airtight that Bai Xue even began to doubt whether the truth was indeed as it seemed.

After much deliberation, she still came to no avail. Finally, Bai Xue decided to first find out if Long Yucheng really existed.

If she actually finds him, she'll kill him immediately.

Regardless of whether the story is true or false, once the protagonist dies, the story cannot proceed according to the original plot, and nothing that follows will happen.

With the plan set, Bai Xue immediately set off for the location of the Qiongshan Sect described in the storybook. As soon as she stepped into the territory of Zhao State, the Qiongshan Sect described in the storybook appeared within her spiritual sense range, and the details were almost identical. Bai Xue's heart sank.

However, after searching repeatedly with her divine sense, she still couldn't find a disciple named Long Yucheng. Just as she was feeling puzzled, she suddenly remembered that the description of time in the storybook was very vague.

She had a preconceived notion that if Long Yucheng existed, he must be in the Qiongshan Sect, but at this moment, Long Yucheng might not even have been born yet.

Bai Xue tried hard to recall the contents of the storybook, attempting to deduce from the plot when Long Yucheng joined the Qiongshan Sect, but found that her memory of the storybook's contents had become blurry, and no matter how hard she tried, she could not recall the specific details.

Finally, Bai Xue captured a disciple of the Qiongshan Sect and performed a soul search. The search revealed that the Qiongshan Sect recruits disciples every five years, and the next recruitment would take place in a year.

After weighing the options several times, Bai Xue decided to first return to the Chang Le Hehuan Sect to see if she could re-enter the Stone Tablet Heart Demon Tribulation. She would then check again a year later, after the Qiongshan Sect had finished its disciple recruitment, to see if Long Yucheng was among them.

Contrary to expectations, Bai Xue never entered the Stone Tablet's inner demon tribulation again.

When she went to Qiongshan Sect to find Long Yucheng again a year later, Long Yucheng had become Huo Yu's servant and was buried in cultivation in his cave.

Due to the interference of Huo Yu's defensive formation, Bai Xue's search yielded no results.

But she had an unexpected gain: she found another female protagonist in the story—the mortal woman who eventually became Long Yucheng's Daoist partner.