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

As Long Yucheng and Shen Xinyue's figures gradually disappeared, Huo Yu did not look away.

His current divine sense could easily cover the entire Tanzhou Prefecture, so he could naturally see where the maid wearing the white rabbit mask ultimately led the two of them.

Long Yucheng is now located outside the city, and the route of this carnival seems to be going upstream from the river outside the city, bypassing most of Tanzhou County, and finally returning to the city from the east gate, arriving at the square in the center of the celebration.

Huo Yu didn't understand the significance of this event, nor could he comprehend Long Yucheng's enthusiasm for such mortal celebrations.

Just as Huo Yu was considering whether to teleport directly to the end of the carnival and wait for Long Yucheng to finish, Bai Xue beside him suddenly made a move.

Guided by another maid also wearing a white rabbit mask, Snow White, carrying a lantern, stepped toward the entrance, seemingly interested in joining the garden party.

Huo Yu glanced at her indifferently, then strode off and followed closely behind.

The reason he had remained indifferent to letting Long Yucheng and Shen Xinyue be taken away by the maid was because Shen Xinyue, being a mortal, posed no threat to Long Yucheng whatsoever.

However, Bai Xue, in the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, was completely different.

Huo Yu didn't understand why Xue wanted to harm Long Yucheng, nor did he intend to investigate the reasons, but he would not allow Xue to repeatedly damage his things under his nose.

The maidservant moved with light steps and quickly led Huo Yu and Bai Xue outside the city wall. After carefully pointing out the direction for them, she turned back silently like a ghost in the night and disappeared into the vast darkness.

Although he was also going upstream along the winding riverbank, Huo Yu could only see the babbling river within his field of vision, and he did not see any other person.

However, Huo Yu could clearly see in his divine sense that countless couples, just like him and Bai Xue, were slowly walking along the riverbank.

Under the careful arrangement of the maids in charge of guiding them, each couple was kept at a distance that was neither too close nor too far apart, so as to ensure that they would not disturb each other and could concentrate on immersing themselves in their own world.

However, such tricks are naturally useless against cultivators who can see with their divine sense.

Huo Yu could see that not far ahead of them, Long Yucheng and Shen Xinyue were walking leisurely in the night.

A gentle night breeze carried a hint of early spring coolness. Long Yucheng's clothes fluttered slightly in the wind, while the lantern in Shen Xinyue's hand swayed gently with her steps, casting dappled shadows on the ground from the flickering flame.

The two maintained a subtle distance, neither too close nor too far. As usual, Long Yucheng took the initiative to find topics to break the silence when he was next to Huo Yu.

Shen Xinyue, standing beside him, was completely different from Huo Yu. No matter what topic Long Yucheng brought up, she could respond appropriately, speaking and acting with grace and poise. She was neither overly enthusiastic nor made the person who initiated the conversation feel neglected, ensuring that the conversation could continue smoothly.

The night was as dark as ink, with only the lotus lantern in Shen Xinyue's hand and the flower lanterns floating downstream beside them emitting a soft glow, like the Milky Way falling into the river.

Under the silent night sky, the chirping of insects and the sound of flowing water are the only accompaniment. Occasionally, a few fireflies flutter their wings and fly up from the grass, their tiny lights twinkling in the darkness, as if reflecting the lanterns on the river.

The golden celestial prisms above their heads shone brightly in the night, like two stars echoing each other in the darkness. As the "favorite of the Heavenly Dao" and the "heroine" chosen by the Heavenly Dao, their compatible personalities were naturally just the most basic manifestation of this predetermined destiny.

However, Huo Yu, who was walking behind, felt a strange ripple in his heart. This vague and strange feeling had been following him ever since he captured Bai Xue's figure in his divine sense.

The conversation between Long Yucheng and Shen Xinyue was like a whisper carried on the night breeze, trivial in content and lacking in substance.

Huo Yu listened for only a moment before losing interest. He simply blocked out their conversation and focused all his attention on the strange emotion that lingered in his mind, trying to find its source.

However, that strange feeling lingered in Huo Yu's mind; he could neither find the exact cause nor make it disappear.

Although Huo Yu was indeed unusually indifferent to emotions during his mortal life, this gradually disappeared after he embarked on the path of cultivation. Although Huo Yu is now aloof, he does not cultivate the path of ruthlessness, so he is not a person who is devoid of feelings, love, desires, or wants.

He can feel joy, and there are times when anger surges within him.

He has an almost obsessive possessiveness of what belongs to him, and he will not allow others to touch it; although he has never encountered inner demons in the process of cultivation, Huo Yu also has an obsession in his heart - it can even be said that he lived for that obsession of ascension in his previous life.

However, the emotions swirling in his mind at this moment were unlike anything he had ever experienced before, like a tiny thorn deeply embedded in his soul, impossible to remove or ignore.

Huo Yu disliked anything that was out of his control, but now, what was beyond his control was first his soul, and then his heart.

It was as if this reborn body had some kind of flaw, which greatly reduced his control over himself. This feeling of gradually losing control of himself made Huo Yu's gaze turn extremely cold.

Just then, Bai Xue, who had entered the garden party with him, suddenly let out a cold laugh, her tone full of sarcasm:

"Senior brother? I didn't know that a Demon Lord who came from a rogue cultivator actually had a sect."

Unlike Long Yucheng and Shen Xinyue, Bai Xue maintained a distance of five steps from Huo Yu. Even when she was making sarcastic remarks, her gaze remained fixed on the road ahead, never wavering.

Huo Yu ignored her provocation without even frowning, but simply blocked Bai Xue's divine sense from surrounding the two people in front of him.

Although Bai Xue was already in the late Nascent Soul stage, only one step away from the Divine Transformation stage, that one step was like an insurmountable chasm.

Huo Yu vowed not to harm her, but that did not mean he was helpless against Bai Xue.