Evil Venerable of the Sword Dao-Chapter 614 - 050: When the heart is shackled, the Tao does not progress

Endless starry sky, still cold and dark.

The aura of the Netherworld continued to appear and then exploded.

Netherworld Goddess, Mu Qingyan, was walking through the starry sky, like a breeze blowing through the universe.

"Heart shackled, the path doesn’t advance."

Mu Qingyan muttered to herself. She gazed ahead where there was a secret realm, a broken secret realm.

That secret realm was called ’Heavenly Heart Secret Realm,’ a once-abandoned broken secret realm by her.

Secret realms had no names, but she named it ’Heavenly Heart.’

Because her path was the Heavenly Heart Dao.

The Heavenly Heart Dao, unpredictable.

The Heavenly Heart Dao, certainly not the path of the Demon Heart Sword Body.

"Although I don’t know why, I keep thinking about this broken secret realm. But here, there should be something that belongs to me, and I need to retrieve it."

"This place, there is truly something that has been calling out to me, even though I never accepted such a breeding ground world."

Mu Qingyan sighed softly, then gathered the Netherworld Heavenly Heart Dao, took control of a domain, and enveloped the Heavenly Heart Secret Realm.

The next moment, a torrent of Blood Light surged into the sky and swiftly disappeared, but left behind a bright mirror.

It was a mirror stained red with blood.

Blood-stained, the mirror became filthy, emitting waves of extremely evil, foul odors.

"This is the ’Wind and Moon Treasure Mirror.’ But why am I familiar with it yet unable to remember those past events?"

At that moment, Mu Qingyan showed a look of confusion.

Confusion was fleeting, for with her disposition and genius, she wouldn’t linger in confusion for long.

As someone called an ’Extraordinary Woman’ of the Ten Thousand Realms, she would not be shaken by trivial matters.

Mu Qingyan, with a gentle force of Netherworld Power, wiped away the familiar Blood Qi and filth from the Wind and Moon Treasure Mirror, then swept the mirror toward herself.

Instinctively, she deftly controlled the mirror, activating one of its functions—instinctively and without hesitation, without any thought.

After making such a move, Mu Qingyan’s delicate body trembled slightly, and a glance of confusion and disbelief flashed through her eyes.

For she didn’t remember ever having manipulated this mirror.

But after her control, the mirror suddenly displayed a burst of mysterious Divine Light.

The Divine Light, derived into an illusion.

Initially the illusion materialized several lines of Rune text—Heart shackled, path doesn’t advance. Self-slaughter and repentance, specially engraved in Space-Time and Heavenly Sword Dao, breeds the Sword Illusion Realm to narrate, to remember through eternity, a self-punishment...

Following these lines of Rune text, the illusion began to derive.

Within the illusion, two figures stood opposed.

One of them, a burly man, had an indistinct outline, only a shadow could be seen.

He was drinking.

Surrounded by numerous alcohols which seemed to be stored in a cosmic space, arrayed densely in endless numbers.

The alcohol was pitch black, appearing highly toxic.

So much poisonous alcohol could numb and lead any great warrior to decadence.

Yet that shadow wasn’t numbed, much less decadent, only endlessly tormented.

Not just with pain, but also with fear.

He feared the mysterious, curvaceous Illusion Woman before him.

"I once lost to you. I once totally devoted myself to you but for that my dignity was trampled, ridiculed, cast aside like worthless straw."

"Later, once my purpose was discovered, capable of producing a perfect offspring for you, you treated me merely as a tool for reproduction."

"You had your pride, but I had my dignity."

"Everything as you wished, the child perfect, and you without regrets."

"But the moment you treated me like worthless straw, I had already vowed revenge. When you abused me again, I remembered this hatred."

"You might know, only hate born from love is the strongest and most horrifying."

"To achieve my aim, I’ve spared no sacrifice!"

"The child is yours, also mine. But seeing this child, I have no joy or happiness of a mother, I only wish for the child to have a life worse than death!"

"The child is perfect, but I curse her through life after life, never to be perfect, letting you repent forever for the mistake you made!"

"I used every means to bring you to life’s proudest Realm, let you dominate the entire Universe, invincible, and stand at the summit in all aspects like Heavenly Dao, Artifact Dao, and Alchemy Dao, and then you realize at your peak, that beneath your feet lay the blood of those you cared about most.

Their blood, paved your path.

Their heads, a sacrificial rite to your summit.

Their flesh, filled your hunger.

Their cultivation, enhanced your vitality.

...

All these, I believe, you must have come to understand now."

The Illusion Man seemed already drunk, on the verge of collapsing, appearing utterly numb.

The Illusion Woman’s words were as if he had not heard them.

But the Illusion Man did not fall, and evidently, he had also heard those words.

It seemed he had used all his strength, his voice trembling, "Then why did you still have to tell me the truth?"

The Illusion Woman laughed, her voice cold and harsh, "Because the torment by Killing Spirit Divine Dao on you is still not enough! I want you to clearly understand, to make you suffer, to let you know that a person like you deserves to live in endless pain and torment, living worse than death, unable to move beyond life and death!"

As she spoke, the Illusion Woman laughed again, her voice gentle, "Husband, this is the Soul Devouring Refining Heart Wine, extremely poisonous, capable of amplifying the pain by ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred times! You like drinking wine, so duly drink this last drink of your life, which may be the last joy and also the last pain of your life!"

The features of the Illusion Woman could not be discerned.

But suddenly, Mu Qingyan felt her soul turn ice cold, a pang of pain gnawing at her heart.

She could clearly see in the illusion, the expression on the Illusion Woman’s face was so gentle, her gaze so infatuated, and the words she spoke bore the same tone of infatuation and gentleness, but those words sent chills to the heart.

The Illusion Woman did not wait for the Illusion Man to speak anymore and decisively turned away, walking towards the distance.

Just as the Illusion Woman was about to disappear, the Illusion Man, still convulsing as if poisoned severely, was nearly unable to stand.

The pain was indescribable.

Suddenly, the Illusion Woman’s body froze, and she revealed an even gentler smile, an even more affectionate gaze, "Our child, truly has a great talent. I told her, her father is a bastard, a worthless creature, a great demon. Who has killed many of her relatives and friends. Then, the powerful child, replacing me, for her mother fought against many of your beloved relatives and friends, suppressing them with ruthless methods, living worse than death.

Now, I want to show you what you think is their beautiful life. In reality, their lives are not better than yours, even... worse than yours.

Because you can still be a person, or sort of like a person.

But they, they can no longer be considered human, because even beasts live with more dignity than they do."

The woman spoke, pulling out a mirror.

The mirror seemed to be able to reflect everything at a certain spatial point.

The man did not lift his head, "Do you know, some things are indeed done by me, but also not by me. Demon Heart Sword Body, you never really understood it. If you had understood, and knew that the Demon Heart Sword Body has been torturing itself, suffering in pain for decades, living worse than death, just to prevent you from suffering any slightest grievance, you might then realize, you were wrong.

Demon Heart is Heavenly Heart, Heavenly Heart is truly Demon Heart.

But, it’s all useless now.

Everything, it’s over.

I deserve this.

This is my end."

The Illusion Man sighed, tears of blood falling from his eyes.

The Illusion Woman’s delicate body shook, disbelieving.

"No, this can’t be possible, absolutely not."

The woman screamed frantically.

The mirror in her hand shattered immediately, and out stepped a handsome young man’s silhouette.

He looked around and nodded, "Very good, you’ve been obedient, everything has been done well."

The Illusion Woman’s expression changed, her voice trembling, "Didn’t you say everything was a ’True Illusion Realm’? Couldn’t it win back ’his’ heart?"

"It is the True Illusion Realm, but truth and illusion have merely been switched, otherwise how could we draw out his perfect soul again? How could we capture your Ten Thousand World Life Soul? Ha, this time, compared to that initial perfect soul, it’s even more profound, truly wonderful."

The young silhouette spoke contentedly.

But just as he was supremely smug, the Void appeared with a giant fist illusion, enveloped by the boundless immortal Heavenly Tribulation, suddenly shattering the young man’s body.

Everything, annihilated.

The illusion also shattered at that moment.

...

The illusion disappeared.

The Wind and Moon Treasure Mirror in Mu Qingyan’s hands suddenly lost its luster and became desolate again.

Mu Qingyan’s mysterious veil had disappeared at some point, her face wet with inexplicable tears, her heart aching as if suffocating.

But she had no memories.

No memories of everything in this illusion.

It was like a nightmare, and she was like a puppet being manipulated in the nightmare.

Mu Qingyan’s delicate body trembled, sobbing softly, completely sinking into a moment of confusion.

She was the Extraordinary Woman of the Ten Thousand Realms, never confused before nor would be, but now she was.

"That Illusion Woman, was she me? She should be, because we both are Heavenly Heart Sword Bodies! But she also should not be, because I have never been so cruel! Even if I had control over a baby, it was just to fight for a genius for The Peaceful Realms’ invasion of the True God Plane’s Breeding Ground, making everything better after the invasion, never worse."

"That Illusion Woman even had a child, while I, to this day unmarried, still a virgin, would not have a child... So, that’s not me."

"But... why does my heart still hurt unbearably?"

"Heavenly Heart Sword Body, was it originally the Demon Heart Sword Body?" 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

"Demon Heart Sword Body, was it actually the true Heavenly Heart Sword Body?"

Mu Qingyan murmured to herself.

She stood still here for a long time, unable to take another step.

It was not until a man in Black Battle Armor, his face cold, passed by her through Void Travel, that she suddenly came to her senses.

She raised her eyes, looking towards the indifferent man.

And that man, at the same moment, met her gaze with a detached one.

Then, simultaneously, a sense of inexplicable ’meeting too late’ arose spontaneously in their hearts.