"I, I... will become a demoness who slaughters innocent people?"
Hearing Ye Ling's words, Xu Xiaoqing was somewhat dazed, finding it hard to believe what he said.
However, as she felt the boundless resentment flowing within her, she suddenly found an inexplicable rage filling her chest, making her want to destroy everything before her.
"How, how could this happen? I don't want to become a demoness..."
Xu Xiaoqing couldn't accept it, and the red glow in her eyes became increasingly eerie.
She had grown up in Shu Mountain since childhood, instilled by her elders with the ideals of punishing evil and supporting the weak. She had always strived towards this noble direction, constantly vanquishing demons and monsters.
If she were to become a demoness, Xu Xiaoqing felt she would rather die!
The more Xu Xiaoqing panicked, the more fiercely the resentment within her corroded her.
Under the impact of vast amounts of resentment, red light surged in Xu Xiaoqing's eyes, and infinite killing intent erupted!
Seeing this, Ye Ling quickly said, "Xiaoqing, the Dao Heart Pill can suppress the resentment within you and stabilize your power. Power itself has no inherent good or evil; it entirely depends on the user. If you use resentment to do righteous deeds, then resentment is not resentment."
"If you wish to hold onto your original intention and prevent resentment from amplifying your deepest desires, then take the Dao Heart Pill."
The Dao Heart Pill could help the user maintain their Dao heart. However, the pill itself did not distinguish between good and evil. If Ye Ling had forcibly made Xu Xiaoqing take it, the pill might have even accelerated the resentment's consumption of her, turning her directly into a demoness.
Therefore, only if Xu Xiaoqing herself chose to take the Dao Heart Pill could she use it to recover.
"Dao Heart Pill..."
Xu Xiaoqing looked at the golden pill floating before her and reached out to grab it. But the closer she got, the stronger her resistance became!
Pain appeared on Xu Xiaoqing's face.
She suddenly had the impulse to destroy the Dao Heart Pill and completely let herself go.
Boom!
A large amount of resentment erupted from Xu Xiaoqing's body, sweeping through the entire Blood Prison. It even affected Xue Ling, who was nearby diligently working to replicate time and space, causing its mind to tremble!
"Such powerful resentment!" Xue Ling looked at Xu Xiaoqing with shock and horror in its eyes.
The evil aura Xu Xiaoqing was emitting at this moment had even reached the level of a spiritual entity like itself, condensed from resentment!
"Did she absorb all the resentment from the Great Dao Blood Crystal?" Xue Ling was somewhat astonished by Xu Xiaoqing, staring intently, wanting to know how she managed it.
Ye Ling glanced at Xue Ling and said, "I think you should focus on your own task. Today is the last day. If you haven't replicated time and space by then, I'll be visiting your grave this time next year."
Hearing Ye Ling's words, Xue Ling shivered and quickly replied, "I, I'm almost done!"
With that, Xue Ling, disregarding Xu Xiaoqing, returned to its own work.
"Kill!!!"
Xu Xiaoqing's eyes turned blood red, and she directly sent the Dao Heart Pill flying away. She then lunged at Ye Ling, with vast amounts of resentment transforming into bloody tentacles that coiled around him.
"This girl."
Seeing Xu Xiaoqing go berserk, Ye Ling sighed slightly, shattered the bloody tentacles that bound him, and retreated, creating distance between himself and Xu Xiaoqing.
Subsequently, black runes condensed around Xu Xiaoqing, forming shackles that locked her limbs, fixing her in place.
"Kill!!!"
Xu Xiaoqing roared, struggling continuously, appearing to have lost her mind and behaving like a wild beast.
However, with her current cultivation at the peak of True Martial realm, she was unable to break free from the shackles formed by Ye Ling's runes.
After restraining Xu Xiaoqing, Ye Ling did not interfere further. He brought the Dao Heart Pill before her again and said, "This is your last chance. If you still wish to return to Shu Mountain and live with your senior brothers and sisters, then use your own strength to swallow this Dao Heart Pill?"
"Otherwise, I can only send you to the inferno in the West, where you will be companions with demons. That will be your final destination."
"Shu Mountain..."
Hearing Ye Ling's words, the blood-red in Xu Xiaoqing's eyes instantly cleared considerably, and her berserk aura slowly calmed down.
"Return to Shu Mountain..."
Xu Xiaoqing seemed touched by the mention of Shu Mountain, muttering the words repeatedly. The resentment swirling around her immediately dissipated significantly.
Xue Ling, manipulating the laws of time not far away, sensed the resentment around Xu Xiaoqing disappearing and couldn't help but look at her again. "What exactly is going on?"
Xue Ling couldn't comprehend how Xu Xiaoqing, who was being consumed by resentment, had suddenly returned to normal.
Seeing Xu Xiaoqing's current state, Ye Ling's lips curved involuntarily. "This girl, how deep is her affection for Shu Mountain? She was willing to die for Shu Mountain before, and now she's suppressing such resentment just to return there."
"If I don't make her the sect leader of Shu Mountain, it would be a disservice to her fiery passion."
Ye Ling grumbled. Xu Xiaoqing's gaze also became firm. She opened her mouth, bit down on the Dao Heart Pill suspended in the air, and quickly swallowed it!
The Dao Heart Pill dissolved upon contact with her mouth, transforming into medicinal power that nourished Xu Xiaoqing's entire body.
The resentment filling Xu Xiaoqing's body visibly retreated into her heart, where it was stored.
"Girl, I've helped you this much, and this favor for purifying the Great Dao Blood Crystal is now repaid." Seeing the situation within Xu Xiaoqing clearly, Ye Ling felt relieved and shifted his attention to the Great Dao Blood Crystal.
Sensing the surge of insights into the Great Dao within the crystal in his hand, a hint of a smile flashed in Ye Ling's eyes. "Then I won't be polite."
As his voice fell, Ye Ling directly crushed the Great Dao Blood Crystal.
The insights into the Law of Time flowed into Ye Ling's mind.
"Law of Time, so that's how it is..."
Vast amounts of profound knowledge about the Law of Time unfolded in Ye Ling's mind, and his comprehension of it deepened further!
The Law of Time began to swirl around Ye Ling, condensing into a river of the Great Dao, continuously surging.
Within the Blood Prison, the aura of the laws grew increasingly dense!
Ye Ling began to master the Law of Time!
In the Blood Prison, resentment and the Law of Time intertwined. Xu Xiaoqing became the center of resentment, while Ye Ling became the center of the Law of Time. Two powerful forces filled the Blood Prison, like a Taijitu diagram.
And Ye Ling and Xu Xiaoqing were now the core of that Yin and Yang, respectively controlling the two strongest forces in the Blood Prison!
Xue Ling could easily sense the flow of the Law of Time around it. It looked at Ye Ling with horror and sighed softly, "Having absorbed the Great Dao Blood Crystal, which now lacks resentment, and mastering the Law of Time, his power... has likely ascended another level!"
Xue Ling's eyes flickered, and its reverence for Ye Ling grew even greater. Its slightest ulterior motive vanished at this moment.
If Ye Ling were to fully master the Law of Time, Xue Ling understood very well that even if it fled back to the blood pool, it would only face death!
Realizing that it could not harbor any small thoughts if it wanted to survive, Xue Ling suppressed its inner schemes and shouted to Ye Ling, "My lord, I'm done here!"