The villain daughter did all kinds of things

"I've only been ashore for a short time, and I haven't even found a decent big city yet, but people from the Tianyun Empire have their eyes on my wealth and want to kill me and steal my treasure."

"But am I not someone to be trifled with? I turned the tables and wiped out all those who wanted to kill me, and even added their corpses to the undead army."

"Although they all shouted before they died that their sects and elders would not let me go and would avenge them, I didn't care at all. I'll kill them if they deserve to be killed."

"Sure enough, within a few days, several more cultivators from the Tianyun Empire found me. They were all quite strong, and they were the elders of the sects of those people from a few days ago... Seeing that they all looked very grief-stricken, I took pity on them and sent them to the Netherworld to reunite with their disciples."

"However, I won this wave with a bit of difficulty, which also made me realize that the locals of the Tianyun Empire are indeed very united. After this wave, there may be another wave coming to find me."

"So I stopped acting in a high-profile manner, erased all traces I left behind, and hid in the wilderness far from the town... I actually wandered around Tianyun Kingdom quite peacefully for a few months."

"Until that day, I suddenly sensed a large number of people dying instantly in a certain direction... The speed of death was so fast that even a battlefield would have difficulty achieving it; it could only be a one-sided massacre."

"I hesitated for a long time, but I couldn't resist my curiosity and went to take a look."

"Then I saw her... that person with whom I have a karmic entanglement, the one who slaughtered a town with a population of over 10 in an instant."

"I sensed that she also had a strong evil aura, and that she wasn't a good person like me. After thinking for a moment, I took the initiative to show myself and strike up a conversation with her."

"She was also surprised when she saw me. Although she was very wary, she did not attack me directly like those so-called righteous people. Instead, she started chatting with me."

"Only then did I realize that she killed so many people in one go in order to refine that little flag-like magic weapon in her hand, called something like the Ten Thousand Souls Banner."

"I'm so envious of her... Why did I become the enemy of the Federation back then? It was because I wanted to massacre cities to expand my undead army... She accomplished what I've always wanted to do but couldn't."

"And after chatting for a while, I discovered that although she had killed everyone in the city, she had only used magic to extract their souls; she hadn't taken any of their corpses."

So I asked her—do you still want these corpses?

She paused for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter—"Do you want them? If you want these corpses, you can have them all."

Chapter 256 Targeted Training

"Uh... and then, Grandma, you turned all the corpses of that entire city into ghosts?"

Amélie asked with great curiosity, while inwardly complaining:

What is this? An encounter between Eastern and Western heretical cultivators? Will that famous scene be staged next?

"Of course... Just like how an ordinary person wouldn't refuse to pick up money if they saw it on the ground, how could I, as a necromancer, waste a corpse?"

The old lich grew increasingly excited as he spoke, his voice even carrying a strange hint of sweetness:

"With a wave of my hand, I turned all the corpses in the city into undead warriors. She looked surprised when she saw it, and even asked me excitedly, 'You kill people often too?'"

"Of course I answered yes, and I even proudly told him that I had killed thousands of people!"

"I didn't expect her reaction to be one of slight disappointment—only a few thousand? That's a bit few. What about yesterday?"

"puff!"

Emery couldn't help but burst out laughing.

What are you laughing at?

The old lich seemed somewhat enraged and smacked Amelie's head with his finger:

"Do you think I didn't want to kill more people to expand my undead army? It's just that I gave up because I was worried that doing so would have too much of an impact on the family's reputation in the Federation... Do you know how hard it was for me to bear seeing so many living people on the streets of major cities in the Federation and not being able to kill them?"

"Goo~~~~"

Of course, Amelie could only cover her head and feign pitifulness. Once the old lich had calmed down, she asked with some curiosity:

"Speaking of which, why did you like killing people so much back then, Grandma? I've known you for so long, but I've never seen you kill many people."

"...because back then I didn't think that killing was killing."

This time, the old lich fell silent for a moment, and gave Amelie a strange look:

“I don’t know if you, Ellie, have ever experienced what I went through. Anyway, after glimpsing the mystery of death, I was almost completely captive to death for a period of time. I believed that life is the ultimate beauty at the moment of death, and that becoming a ghost is the beginning of a new life… So during that time, I wanted to kill any living thing I saw.”

"Now, I can control a lot of the power of death, so my temperament and thoughts are no longer so affected... Therefore, the number of people I have killed in the past 900 years is less than a fraction of the number of people I killed in the first 200 years, or even less."

"Uh……"

Amelie was somewhat surprised, because she felt that the old lich had killed quite a few people over the years.

Could it be that after transmigrating and being reincarnated, he lived in the Allen Federation, a country similar to the Western countries of his previous life, for too long, and his thinking has become outdated and can no longer keep up with the orthodox Eastern heretical cultivation?

Lost in thought, Amelie asked again:

"Grandma, when you were at your most arrogant, how many people did you kill to have such a profound understanding of the power of death?"

"...those were probably the happiest days of my life when I first met her."

The old lich paused for a few seconds to reflect, then continued her story:

"In short, after that encounter and a few words with her, we felt like we had known each other for a long time, and we were excited to have finally found someone who shared our ideals."

"She invited me to travel with her and work together to cause trouble in various cities... After we succeeded, she would use the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls to collect souls, while I would use the soulless corpses to expand the undead army."

"Of course I agreed without hesitation and started following her around causing trouble."

"With her, a local, leading the way, it was much easier to cause trouble. We quickly set our sights on a small border town of the Tianyun Empire with a population of about 7, and easily succeeded. We both got what we wanted and gained a lot."

"Of course, the prestigious sects of the Tianyun Empire are not entirely fools. After no one survived in two consecutive cities, they finally got serious and gathered a large number of experts to hunt us down, leaving us no time to do anything a third time."

"Back then, we weren't nearly as strong as we are now... Well, back then I was probably about the same as you are now, Ellie, but she was a little stronger than me."

"Even with her, a local, leading the way, and my help to cover up our tracks and hide, we were eventually discovered by those prestigious sects, and a group of experts chased after us."

"There were too many people on the other side, and we couldn't beat them at all. We were being chased and running around... Several times we were almost in dire straits."

"Fortunately, the cultivators of the Tianyun Empire have a rather strange characteristic: unless absolutely necessary, they generally do not leave the borders of the Tianyun Empire."

"We took advantage of this, often hiding in the wilderness, and occasionally slaughtering a few large wilderness tribes to strengthen our forces. When the immortal sects of the Tianyun Empire were relaxed, we would choose to attack the border towns of the Tianyun Empire again... Although this was somewhat dangerous, even the smallest towns on the outskirts of the Tianyun Empire had a population density and quality that the wilderness tribes could not match."

"We've been working together like this for decades, accomplishing many great things, acquiring a large number of souls and corpses, and our strength has increased rapidly."

"Gradually, we discovered that most of the elders and deacons from the immortal sects who came to attack us were no longer a match for us."

“Even if their numbers are several times greater than ours, we can easily cripple them or even annihilate them by setting a simple trap. Most of the elite undead in my undead legion who were cultivators of the Heavenly Cloud Empire’s immortal sects in life were acquired back then.”

"But just when we were at our most triumphant and planning to do something even bigger... we encountered an absolute terror that we could not overcome. From then until today, neither she nor I have dared to step into the borders of the Tianyun Empire."

"Uh, an absolutely invincible terror?"

Emery was genuinely surprised this time:

"Could it be that the sect leader of that immortal sect personally attacked you, Granny? I heard that she has been in seclusion for thousands of years and has no involvement in affairs... To force her to take action, you were really powerful back then... and you actually survived?"

"Oh? Little Ellie, you know about the Dao Ancestor too? You know quite a lot..."

The old lich was slightly surprised, but didn't pay much attention. He simply sighed and pointed to his skeletal body:

"Women love beauty, and I'm no exception... You should know this well, since you've also mastered the flesh and bone modification technique, right? I could easily create a beautiful and perfect body for myself, so why don't I do it? Is it because I don't like it? Of course not, it's because I can't do it."

"Could this be...?"

A quick thought struck Amelie, and she immediately guessed what was going on.

"Yes, it's that one, isn't it?"

The old lich nodded directly:

"She and I both originally had bodies, and we were both stunningly beautiful women... However, that Dao Ancestor, with just one sword strike from tens of thousands of kilometers away, completely destroyed her physical body, and also destroyed all my flesh and blood, leaving only bones and hair."

"That sword strike slashed us both terribly, but fortunately it was only one strike. In fact, the Immortal Sect didn't send anyone to pursue us in order to save the face of the Dao Ancestor, which is why we were spared."

"Of course, we immediately fled the borders of the Tianyun Empire and have not dared to go back since. Even if I were to face that sword again now... I would only be confident that I could survive."

"Is that Dao Ancestor of the Immortal Sect really that strong?"

Emery covered her mouth slightly, feigning surprise:

"Then how does she compare to the Elf Queen? Didn't you see the Elf Queen from afar during the Elf Wars, Mother?"

"Well... I can't say for sure, but I definitely can't beat either of them."

The old lich thought for a moment and said:

"If we have to determine who is stronger between the two, then what I can say for sure is that if they were to fight one-on-one within the Tianyun Empire, the Elf Queen would definitely lose. Conversely, if the battle were to take place in the Elf Forest, the Dao Ancestor would definitely lose."

"Whoever has the venue wins? Hmm... I think I understand."

Emery nodded; this was pretty much what she had guessed.

After a few seconds of silence, Emery asked again:

"And then what happened? After you and your friend were struck by the Dao Ancestor's sword, did you both flee and dare not commit any more crimes?"

"Of course not."

The old lich shrugged:

“Are we the kind of people who can give up so easily? The Tianyun Empire has a Dao Ancestor, so we certainly dare not commit any more crimes, but isn’t there the Shangying Kingdom to the south of the Eastern Continent?”

"After barely escaping from Daozu's sword, we went to Shangying Kingdom... and found that the environment of Shangying Kingdom was simply too wonderful."

"Not only is there a rampant demonic tide here, but the lords of the country are also constantly at war... When she and I arrived in Shangying Kingdom, there were several lords fighting each other, and many people were dying every day."

“We were both overjoyed. We both needed a lot of death to heal our wounds... She needed souls, and I needed corpses.”

"So we acted decisively. At first, it was a battlefield of lord wars. The two of us joined forces to kill all the soldiers on both sides and then faked that they had died together."

"After that, we did not act rashly, but went into hiding to observe in secret, in case that there were similar organizations like the Immortal Gate in Shangying Kingdom that would discover us."

"As for the result... hehe, those two lords of Shangying Kingdom were really idiots. They both thought their armies had been wiped out by the enemy, and in their extreme anger, they resorted to even more violent means of warfare. One of the generals even ordered the massacre of the city."

"We certainly wouldn't let such a good opportunity slip by. We took advantage of the chaos of the war, killed many people on both sides, and gradually recovered our strength after being injured by the Dao Ancestor."

"Although our strength has been restored, our bodies can no longer be repaired... For the next thousand years, I have remained in this skeletal form, while she has only a spirit body."

"Perhaps we killed too many people in a short period of time. Finally, some smart people in Shangying Kingdom noticed something was wrong and began to investigate the matter in secret."

"We were careless for a moment and got discovered... She was a high priestess of the Tengu Shrine. She wasn't very strong, but she was very courageous. She knew she was no match for the two of us, but she still dared to stop us."

"Back then, although I hadn't completely lost interest in beautiful girls like I do now, I wasn't exactly a chivalrous person either. If I encountered a woman who was an eyesore, I would kill her without hesitation... I had killed many fairies back in the Tianyun Empire, so naturally I wouldn't care about a witch."

"But we never expected that we would be hit hard for the second time so quickly, and it was all because of that stupid, audacious witch... sigh."

"Grandma, you really killed the shrine maiden of the Tengu Shrine..."

Emerald rolled her eyes in exasperation. She finally understood why the Divine Tree had wanted to throw her out without a word when she first entered Sakura City.

And it's not hard to guess why the person in Shangying Kingdom was able to so easily defeat the old lich and her friend:

"That must be a very favored priestess. Did you anger the Divine Tree?"

"...Yeah, sigh."

The old lich gave a bitter laugh:

"Although that stupid tree isn't as strong as the Dao Ancestor, it's not as arrogant as the Dao Ancestor who only slashed at us from tens of thousands of kilometers away. It's really chasing us down and beating us to death!"

"We were quickly scattered during the battle and could only flee and try to save our lives."

"Because I killed that witch, the stupid tree didn't chase her to death. Instead, it chased me for over 1000 kilometers in the White Sea... In the end, I pretended to be dead and sank to the bottom of the sea. I was then swallowed by a big fish, which finally allowed me to escape."

"That was the worst injury I ever suffered, and the closest I ever came to death... or rather, if I hadn't had such a deep understanding of death and life, I would have been eaten by fish."

"But I didn't die after all. I quickly gained control of the big fish from inside my body, making it devour other creatures in the sea to help me recover."

"Even so, it took me almost 50 years to recuperate in the sea before I finally recovered to about 70% of my peak strength and contacted my old friend."

“She was very surprised that I was still alive… She thought I had been killed by the sacred tree, so she built a cenotaph for me and would bring good wine to the tombstone to chat with me every now and then.”

"However, it was precisely those two life-or-death ordeals that allowed us to advance our understanding, so that we no longer needed to ruthlessly harvest the souls and corpses of the living to improve ourselves."

"So we settled down. She took root in the wild lands near the border between the Tianyun Empire and Shangying Kingdom, while I returned to the sea area near the Federation, chose an island, and established the Pirate Island that many people in the Federation know today."

“We no longer team up to cause trouble, but we meet for a while every twenty or thirty years. Either she comes to the pirate island to find me, or I come here to find her.”

"Until more than ten years ago, that guy took on a very talented disciple who would constantly chatter and brag in my ear via telepathy, which annoyed me to no end... So I went back to my family, intending to find a talented junior to take on as a disciple and compete with her. In the end, the person I found was you, Little Ellie... Hehe, it turns out that my judgment was pretty good."

"understood."

Amelie looked delighted, her curiosity greatly satisfied.

She had always been interested in the old lich's past stories, but unfortunately, the old lich refused to tell her whenever she asked, and if she pressed him, he would get angry and double her homework.

But now it seems that even ancient bones need the lubrication of love. The old lich, who had just spent a few days alone with his old lover, was clearly in a good mood and finally told Amelie her story in a fairly complete way.

"All right."

However, a teacher is a teacher after all, and no teacher likes to see students idle, and the old lich was no exception: