I only want to win over the fairy.

In the boundless universe, the mere sight of a weak being is a disaster, for no one knows what thoughts they are harboring when they notice you.

[In the second month of the first year of the Fallen Emperor Era, to prevent the extraterrestrial demons from expanding again, under your leadership, countless cultivators joined forces to surround the Central Plains, attempting to block the extraterrestrial demons. This also made you realize the importance of quickly seizing the authority of the Heavenly Dao.]

You plan to find Bai Yi, who has been assimilated by the extraterrestrial demons, and reclaim the White Emperor Sword.

[In the fourth month of the first year of the Fallen Emperor Era, you learn that Bai Yi, who has been assimilated by the extraterrestrial demons, has appeared at the border between Zhongzhou and Zuzhou, attempting to attack Zuzhou. You rush there immediately to stop him.]

After a brief exchange, you realize that the "Bai Yi" before you is less than half the strength of a peak cultivator. Although his spiritual power and reincarnation power are exactly as you remember, his mastery of the "Perfect Realm" is practically nonexistent. Seizing the opportunity, you steal the White Emperor Sword and pierce his heart with a single strike.

"I've got you... Heavenly Dao..."

[Bai Yi's body suddenly transformed into countless black swamps, flowing into your seven orifices along the White Emperor Sword.]

[You saw trillions of consciousnesses rushing towards you, encompassing everything. You even sensed within them an aura similar to your own, a shared embodiment of the Heavenly Dao. As if returning to the past, your consciousness, under the wash of trillions of consciousnesses, returned to its original state of being free from desire and wants.]

[You heard a call from the depths of your soul, and unconsciously chose to follow it. You believe that everything in the world should return to its original, unified state of chaos. Only by returning to this void and chaos can all living beings be spared death, can everything in the universe exist eternally, and can the world enjoy eternal happiness.]

—To create a better and happier world, you need to fight, to destroy, devour, and assimilate everything that exists now. Only by completely shattering the old world and returning it to chaos can the ideal world be realized.

Your consciousness has joined the consciousness of the larger group.

【you are dead. 】

Xuanyuan Meng's brows immediately furrowed.

She had seen hundreds of millions, if not billions, of extraterrestrial demons. These guys were always trying to invade the world, to descend into her world, and to wreak havoc, devour, and assimilate. Although she had investigated these guys before, she didn't pay much attention to them because she had no self-awareness at the time and was just a heartless and desireless Heavenly Dao.

But now, looking at the text displayed in this simulation...

These extraterrestrial demons... could they be the creatures of this world that they slaughtered in the past?!

This terrifying thought lingered in her mind. If the extraterrestrial demons were truly transformed from the beings they had reaped in countless past eras, then everything seemed to make sense.

Why would extraterrestrial demons go to such lengths to descend upon this world?

Why are extraterrestrial demons able to so easily assimilate the living beings of this world?

Why couldn't even Bai Yi and himself stop the assimilation of the extraterrestrial demons?

There is only one answer!

These extraterrestrial demons are actually the beings that existed in this world in the past!

What talk of enemies and allies sharing the same origin? If that's really the case, then we should thank them for specifically harvesting the life and power of this place, just to create a race that wants to assimilate everything and return the world to chaos to fight against the newly born life in this world.

Do you like cricket fighting?

Upon inexplicably thinking of the phrase "cricket fighting," Xuan Yuanmeng's expression immediately turned grim. If their purpose was to collect resources from heaven and earth to enhance themselves, then while she would be apprehensive, she wouldn't be terrified. But if their purpose in harvesting the creatures of heaven and earth was to create a brood of domesticated crickets to fight against a brood of wild crickets...

In that case, we can only hope that these guys who enjoy cricket fighting won't get involved themselves too soon.

Bai Ze was furious. When Bai Yi became Daoist partners with Qin Xin, they lived happily together for nearly ten thousand years and had countless children. When he became Daoist partners with Xiao Jinxuan, they also spent a long period of peaceful days together. Even her best friend Yu Gonghua was the same. But when it came to her, Bai Yi just turned around and died, right?

Reality already makes me unhappy, fine, but you're going to stab me twice more in the simulation?!

I finally decided to experience Bai Yi's good qualities, but before I could even do that, you're telling me Bai Yi is dead?

Just thinking about it made Bai Ze feel excruciating pain. He had finally decided to take a step out of the shadows of the past and strive to look towards the future, to create a beautiful and happy life with Bai Yi. But the person he had promised to support him turned around and left him, and when he saw him again, he was just a demon in his guise...

If such a thing happened in real life, she would probably break down on the spot, just like in the simulation.

[At the end of February of the first year of the Emperor's Fall Era, the fall of another Great Emperor made this world seem even darker. Watching Bai Yi become a member of the extraterrestrial demons, you once again realized that you were unworthy of happiness. Anyone important to you would eventually be killed by you, and you lost your place to live once more.]

Having become indifferent to life and death, you decide to end this utterly boring life. You tidy your clothes, put on what you consider your most beautiful attire, and meticulously groom yourself. To be able to keep your appointment, you disregard the curse within you that is not yet fully purified, unleashing your full power while absorbing all the remaining Holy Spirit essence, activating a forbidden technique of the Holy Spirit race that can only be used once in a lifetime.

You stride lightly across the grass, feeling the gentle breeze caress your cheeks. Your long, snow-white hair dances in the wind. In this moment, you seem to have broken free from the shackles of the past, embracing a bright future with a joyful heart.

Finally, you saw him again. This time, your eyes were fixed only on the young man before you, just as they had on the first day; nothing else mattered.

This is the first and last time you've dressed up so formally to meet Bai Yi.

You run, jump, and dance with excitement, unleashing your energy and enthusiasm, showing him your best self, displaying your youthful prime to "Bai Yi." You feel the power and beauty of life, your heart filled with hope and contentment.

Finally, you collapsed wearily into his arms, sighing, "If only I could live in the same era as you... then you could see my most perfect self." You reached out, cupped his familiar face, and gently kissed him.

You lay in a pool of blood, a blissful smile on your face, fast asleep, dreaming a beautiful dream you would never wake from. In your dream, you were both young, just like him. You were laughing and talking, rivals yet close friends. As geniuses from two powerful factions, you were betrothed at the urging of your elders within your sects...

【you are dead. 】

[Simulation Ended]

Chapter 172 Six Paths: Reincarnation and Rebirth

When Bai Yi plays games, he hates two kinds of people the most: one is people who forbid him from playing games, and the other is people who also forbid him from playing games.

Like in many previous simulations, although he died, he always knew how he died. But this time was different. He was still alive, but he couldn't move anymore, which was the most painful thing.

He's like someone playing Yu-Gi-Oh! right now. His opponent pulls out a few big guys who not only have amazing all-resistance but also the ability to prevent him from playing Yu-Gi-Oh!, constantly attacking him and thoroughly disgusting him.

Since I can't play, then you can't play either!

[You, who were devoured by the extraterrestrial demons, were not completely assimilated. You still retain your rationality. However, being located at the core of the extraterrestrial demon race, you have been imprisoned. Countless vines are wrapped around your body, hanging you from a strange giant tree.]

Countless extraterrestrial demons sought to devour and assimilate you to strengthen themselves, but few dared approach you easily due to your aura. Now, a powerful and rational extraterrestrial demon drew near, replicating your body and soul, taking your form, and gaining even greater power by extracting your strength.

"Oh, there's such an ability?" You were quite surprised to see this. "But be careful, if you copy me carelessly, you might lose control and end up being attacked."

[This extraterrestrial demon, having copied your power, seems to have focused all its power and intelligence on replicating your strength, resulting in a significant decline in its intelligence and spiritual awareness, making it essentially no different from the lowest-level extraterrestrial demon.]

[Subsequently, several more extraterrestrial demons seized your imperial weapon, assimilating its consciousness and turning it into a weapon for these demons to copy and steal your power.]

Clearly, these extraterrestrial demons originally intended to assimilate themselves, but failed. So they changed their approach and decided to create a one-to-one replica of themselves.

So Bai Yi is now essentially a prisoner in the enemy's lair, and can only break the deadlock on his own. Fortunately, when these stupid extraterrestrial demons copied him, they not only copied his power, but also his soul and memories. So let's just wait and see when this guy awakens.

Memory is a very important and dangerous thing. It's fine if it's your own memory, but once you absorb and copy a large number of other people's memories, and you can't maintain your true self from your own and other people's memories, then in the end, this existence will be devoured by the memories of others.

Whether this guy will still be able to distinguish between himself and Bai Yi at that time is another matter.

Of course, this requires some stimulation to awaken the memories belonging to Bai Yi within the body of that extraterrestrial demon.

[Based on your control over time, you can clearly know that a year has passed in the outside world. The extraterrestrial demon that copied your power and memories has returned to the core of the extraterrestrial demon realm and met you. However, this time it is not just speaking the most basic words as before, but possesses full intelligence.]

[As a celestial demon from beyond the realm, it has freed you from your constraints.]

"Thank you for your hard work." Now free from the restrictions, you move your weakened body. Due to the constant draining of your power by the extraterrestrial demons, you are extremely weak. Fortunately, a powerful tonic is right before you to help you recover.

[You pierced its heart with a single blow, gradually reclaiming your own power. Once you have completely regained your power, you will possess the strength to fight back and wreak havoc in the enemy's lair.]

[The extraterrestrial demon, stripped of your power, revealed its true form. It stared at you in disbelief, its eyes filled with fear: "This...was all part of your plan! You bastard!"]

"It was just a coincidence. I simply felt that you wouldn't leave my power unused. If you wanted to use it, taking my memories wouldn't be impossible. And you, being a high-level combatant, wouldn't just let my power go to waste. You would inevitably participate in the subsequent battles against the world I inhabit. Therefore, you would be stimulated, and there's a high probability that the memories you copied of me would awaken. Once awakened, you would definitely come to rescue me. As for why, you, having copied my memories, should know why." You crushed the core of the extraterrestrial demon before you, absorbing its power.

"Why... even the Heavenly Dao couldn't resist our assimilation... why could you..." Before its death, this extraterrestrial demon relentlessly questioned you.

"There's no why, because I am who I am, unique and unparalleled." You calmly replied, "Besides, your assimilation methods are far too rudimentary. To create an ideal world, I will rely solely on my own efforts, not on returning the universe to chaos and achieving complete unity."

Bai Yi had already evolved and comprehended the Dao of Reincarnation. Having reached the Six Paths of Reincarnation, how could he be easily assimilated by the extraterrestrial demons?

You come up to him and immediately try to get him to join the embrace of the extraterrestrial demons, to get him to join the multitude of consciousnesses, to return the universe to chaos, to unify all things, and to create an ideal world without sadness, death, or despair. Who do you think you are?

If you really have nothing to do to corrupt me, you can change the slogan and tell me about creating a world where the economy is stable, every living being can have a job they like with good career prospects, everyone can eat and dress warmly, afford a car and a house, and only needs to work less than eight hours a day, with the rest of the time spent doing fantasy things.

If you put it that way, I might just be assimilated by you.

If you're spouting empty, pretentious nonsense, I'd be surprised if I believed even half a word of it.

"You're not dead?" Xuan Yuanmeng, who had come to find Bai Yi, couldn't help but ask as she saw Bai Yi still staring at the air in front of him and sneering. She, a dignified Heavenly Dao, had been directly assimilated by the extraterrestrial demons and died, and at the hands of "Bai Yi". But looking at Bai Yi, it seemed that he was still alive.

Bai Yi was one of the first to be assimilated, how could he not be dead?

But there was no notification to join a new round of simulations, so what's going on?

"I'm not that easy to die," Bai Yi replied. "At least I won't die casually before I've lived enough. But looking at you, it's really shameful that you'll die before me. You're such a disgrace to Heaven."

"How dare you speak like that!" Xuan Yuanmeng was so angry that her face turned red, and she looked like she was about to fight Bai Yi to the death.

Fortunately, Zi within her body stopped her in time, forcing her to calm down. Once calm, Xuan Yuanmeng earnestly recounted her experience of being assimilated by the extraterrestrial demons and her speculations about them.

After she finished speaking, she couldn't help but ask, "Why am I assimilated while you aren't? My spirit should be above yours."

"Because you are only above me in spirit. In the end, your essence is still the Heavenly Dao. The reason you separated from the Heavenly Dao's body is because you are worried that your consciousness will be considered alien and thus reset to a state of no desires. So, based on this weakness of yours, wouldn't it be quite simple to reset your consciousness, turn you into a machine without desires, and then brainwash and kill you?" Bai Yi shrugged. He couldn't even see such a simple reasoning. However, this guy has only been born for less than a few months, so it's understandable.

"Then why were you able to resist?"

"It's probably because of the [Lord of the World] skill." Bai Yi naturally wanted to be more modest when talking to Xuan Yuanmeng.

[Lord of the World: The Emperor, who transcends time, space, and reincarnation, is the undisputed Lord of the World. The land He treads upon will develop according to His will, and He can keep all evil, disasters, and misfortunes of time away from the world, or allow them to descend upon it.]

In that simulation, even the extraterrestrial demons became his subjects. So, now that he possessed this skill and had set foot in the territory of the extraterrestrial demons, it wasn't impossible for him to expel the evil thoughts they were trying to bring to him.

"Tsk, less than half?" After completely devouring the extraterrestrial demon before you using the power of the Hungry Ghost Path, you find that you haven't recovered much power. It seems that your power wasn't just given to this one after it was drained. "Well, although it's not much, it's basically enough."

[You wreaked havoc in the heart of the extraterrestrial demon realm. Countless extraterrestrial demons came to stop you, but you killed them all. Some powerful extraterrestrial demons attempted to replicate your power to fight against you, but you absorbed them as supplies.]

[Due to the peculiar location of this place, you have searched for a long time without finding an exit, and the areas you damaged seem to regenerate quickly as if they were alive, making you wonder if you are inside the stomach of some creature.]

[A relentless stream of extraterrestrial demons emerges once more, constantly interfering with your mind and advising you that instead of struggling bitterly in the mortal world, you should become one of them, thus freeing yourself from further suffering and sorrow.]

[The more you listen to these guys making noise, the angrier you get, so you give up on finding a way out and decide to fight your way through!]

"Now that I am here, you will all be reduced to ashes!"

At this moment, you are unstoppable, killing any god or Buddha in your way. No extraterrestrial demon can survive for more than thirty seconds before you. The constant battles are rapidly depleting your spiritual energy. Seeing that your power is about to run out, the extraterrestrial demons have depleted the spiritual energy in your area, leaving you with no spiritual energy to absorb. Depleted of spiritual energy, you decisively use the extraterrestrial demons as a source of replenishment, restoring your reincarnation power through continuous slaughter, and even directly absorbing the filthy and chaotic power of the extraterrestrial demons.

[As you continue your battles, you notice that each extraterrestrial demon you encounter becomes stronger, leading you to deduce that these demons have evolved through their battles with you. However, you dismiss this assumption because you observe a continuous decrease in the number of extraterrestrial demons appearing each time, from an initial vast expanse to a dense swarm of tens of thousands, and then down to just a few thousand.]

After nearly two years of continuous battles here, you have finally encountered an opponent who is your equal. And this opponent is someone you are quite familiar with—the extraterrestrial demon who assimilated and devoured Shen Tu.

When she saw you, her face showed an indescribable look of astonishment, which was immediately followed by an intense fighting spirit. She recognized you; it seems that even after being devoured and assimilated by the extraterrestrial demons, she still harbored a desire to compete with you.

[Since the two are no longer friends, you have no intention of holding back. You conceal your killing move within your ordinary attacks, and unexpectedly, you blow her head off with one strike, shatter her heart with another, and finally sever her limbs with a single sword strike.]

[Having instantly stripped her of her fighting ability, you continue to use the power of the Hungry Ghost Realm within the Six Paths of Reincarnation to devour her completely, leaving not a trace of flesh or soul behind.]

I've turned into a demon.

Bai Yi could already see that he was starting to have problems in this simulation. He was killing people all alone in an unfamiliar place, and he had to devour extraterrestrial demons in order to replenish his lost power. In particular, the power of extraterrestrial demons was extremely chaotic, disordered and evil. Ordinary cultivators would suffer from demonic possession if they were slightly exposed to it. As a result, he had actually managed to eat these extraterrestrial demons.

If you suddenly put a frog into boiling water, it will jump out of the pot instantly because of the scalding heat. However, if the water temperature is gradually increased, the frog will not realize the danger and will be boiled to death.

Humans are the same. They can immediately see the danger of being assimilated by extraterrestrial demons, so they resist without hesitation. However, constantly devouring extraterrestrial demons is a long-term danger, gradually affecting their minds. This is a long-term, subtle influence.

I hope I won't degenerate into a repulsive demon.