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

Caiyun Kingdom, located in a remote part of the southwest, adjacent to the Yuntian Mountains, is an inconspicuous little country, famous for its specialty Yun brocade.

Due to its unique geographical location, it was teeming with poisonous insects and filled with miasma in the summer, making it an unsuitable place to live. Therefore, despite bordering the powerful state of Chu, it was miraculously not annexed.

This is the land of colorful clouds as seen by ordinary people.

However, in the world of cultivators, it is a holy city that righteous cultivators avoid at all costs, while demonic cultivators flock to it.

The reason why Saiunkoku was able to maintain its national foundation under the shadow of a great power is precisely because of this.

The Yuntian Mountains rise high into the clouds, with their slopes covered in snow all year round, making them sparsely populated.

Atop a mountain peak beyond the sight of mortals, an inverted mountain range identical to the Yuntian Mountains hangs above it. This inverted mountain range is perpetually spring-like, with blooming flowers and fragrant birdsong, resembling a fairyland.

Such a surreal sight is naturally the work of a cultivator, and certainly not something an ordinary cultivator could accomplish.

This is the sacred land of the Demonic Sect, known in the cultivation world as the Chang Le Mountain Range.

The Chang Le Mountain Range was originally the territory of the Chang Le He Huan Sect, a major sect of the demonic path, hence the name "Chang Le".

Since the Demon Lord unified the demonic path a hundred years ago, the Chang Le Mountains have become the headquarters of the demonic sect.

At this moment, atop a mountain peak in the Chang Le Mountains, where ethereal music wafts through the air, Hua Yan Yue leans lazily against a couch, listening listlessly to the reports from her branch leaders.

The main altar of the Chang Le He Huan Sect, one of the four major sects of the demonic path, is still located on the Chang Le Mountain Range, and Hua Yan Yue is the current sect leader.

The branch altar master was still reporting some trivial matters that Hua Yanyue found insignificant, making him drowsy. He couldn't help but yawn, and the branch altar master didn't dare to lift his head.

As the sect leader of the Chang Le He Huan Sect, Hua Yan Yue's cultivation level had already reached the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

Hua Yan Yue's powerful cultivation and the techniques she practiced made her every smile and frown captivating. Cultivators with slightly weaker cultivation would easily lose their minds and reveal their ugly side if they were not careful, to the point that the branch altar master did not dare to raise his head.

At this moment, Hua Yan Yue was absentmindedly thinking about where to go for a good drink to reward herself after the report was over. The next moment, her figure had disappeared from the couch.

The branch leader of His Highness was completely unaware and continued to diligently give his report.

On the other side, Hua Yanyue, who had disappeared from the main hall of the Chang Le Hehuan Sect, reappeared on the summit of the third peak of the Chang Le Mountains. Almost simultaneously, four other figures also appeared one after another.

The five remained silent for a quarter of an hour before a sixth figure sped towards them from afar.

The newcomer was a man dressed in black, whose cultivation was only at the Golden Core stage, a whole realm lower than the other five. However, his expression was neither humble nor arrogant, and he spoke:

"The Venerable One has left the peak, and everything is as usual."

"Left Protector, don't be in such a hurry," Hua Yan Yue said with a smile as she saw the man in black about to turn and leave. "Why don't you come with us to Master Zeng's place and have a few drinks to celebrate the Venerable One's return from seclusion?"

The leader of the cult, Zeng, who was called out, immediately looked bitter: "Why is it me again?"

The Left Protector's expressionless face remained blank for a long while before he finally nodded in agreement.

After the six people left, the third peak returned to tranquility.

Since the Demonic Sect established its headquarters in the Chang Le Mountains, the first to third peaks of the Chang Le Mountains have been unrelated to the Chang Le Hehuan Sect, and no one dares to set foot there on ordinary days.

The first peak is where the Demon Lord secluded himself; the second peak is where the Holy Maiden secluded herself; and this third peak is where the council is located.

Those six people were the Demon Lord's left and right protectors, as well as the leaders of the four major sects of the Demonic Path.

The sovereign they spoke of was none other than Huo Yu, the Demon Lord who unified the demonic path a hundred years ago and was truly the strongest in the demonic path.

Meanwhile, Huo Yu had quietly left Caiyun Kingdom.

Half a month ago, Huo Yu had already ended his long period of seclusion. During those two weeks, he had been reflecting on the various experiences he had "personally gone through" during his seclusion.

He witnessed his cultivation progress to the Mahayana stage, his gradual progress towards Mahayana perfection, his tribulation-crossing ascension, and his eventual failure to ascend.

This experience was exceptionally real. At the moment when his physical body and spiritual cultivation were destroyed, he truly felt the intense pain of his soul being burned, and what made him even more awake than the pain was the truth behind the Gate of Heaven.

When he awoke from his cave, a flood of memories of himself, who had only cultivated for three hundred years and whose cultivation was still at the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, rushed into his mind.

For a moment, Huo Yu even thought that all his experiences about ascension were just a phantom dream in his mind's illusion, but then, the intense pain from the depths of his soul suddenly pulled him back to reality.

His soul was so weak that it seemed like a candle flame that could be extinguished at any moment, as if he would face another tragic end of physical and spiritual decay in the next instant, just as if he had just experienced a burning of his soul!

However, what is puzzling is that, despite his weakened soul, Huo Yu did not find anything unusual when he used the method of internal observation to examine him. In fact, the strength of his spiritual sense was exactly the same as when he was in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul stage in his memory.

But whenever he used his divine sense, the feeling of his soul becoming increasingly weak was incredibly real.

This inconsistency between his perception and his inner vision puzzled Huo Yu for a long time, but in this way, no one could detect the abnormality in his soul.

Another novel discovery left Huo Yu completely baffled.

He suppressed the discomfort in his soul and maintained his internal vision, discovering a floating black prismatic crystal, about the size of a palm, above his head.

Huo Yu's first reaction was that this might be Long Yucheng's last attack, burning his divine soul, which, while destroying his physical body, also left an indelible mark on his divine soul.

But he quickly refuted this conjecture, because when he touched the black crystal with his divine sense, eight large characters appeared next to it: "[Abandoned by Heaven, no hope of ascension]".

Huo Yu fell silent, then scanned the Chang Le Mountains with his divine sense, becoming even more silent.

He saw that above each person's head floated a similar prismatic crystal, the same size as the one above his head, but different in color, and when he probed it with his divine sense, a line of words would appear.

Most of them are cannon fodder of the demonic sect, passersby, or lackeys; of course, in the end, they all have no hope of ascension.

A few titles also describe characters as "high-ranking cannon fodder," "minor leader of a demonic cult," "important supporting character," or "second female lead."

The latter two were what caught Huo Yu's attention.

The words "[Important Supporting Character]" were floating above Hua Yanyue's head, and what followed was not "[Hopeless Ascension]", but "[The Path is Bumpy and Hope is Faint]".

The crystal of the Flower Moon is as white as snow, emitting a faint silver light.

The crystals on the heads of the other people that Huo Yu saw were mostly white and without light, with only a few being white and emitting a white light.

As for the black one, Huo Yu has only seen himself so far.

Besides himself and Hua Yanyue, there was another special person: the Holy Maiden who had been in seclusion on the second peak of the Chang Le Mountains for many years.

The prism on her head was different from everyone else's, displaying a dazzling gold color. Even the words that appeared when Huo Yu carefully observed it with his divine sense were gold—[Female Second Lead, with a tragic fate, but Heaven has shown mercy].

Huo Yu lingered on the phrase "a life full of twists and turns" for a long time, then continued to use his divine sense to search for other unique crystals.