Shen Yingxue was continuously killing, and with each kill, her vision recovered a bit.
However, as the amount of blood she was stained with increased, her emotions grew closer to breaking point.
In her blurry vision, she saw these ferocious men reaching out their claws at her desperately.
This filled her with more fear. After an unknown amount of killing, perhaps due to exhaustion, she was pushed to the ground by a large man.
Shen Yingxue numbly thrust the dagger into her own heart…
Instantly, a memory entered her mind.
She saw the life story of the Ten Thousand Bloom Empress.
The scenes she had just experienced were the true experiences of the Ten Thousand Bloom Empress. The Empress was a genius abducted by a demonic sect from a young age and trained as an assassin.
To train her, the sect locked her in a cage with three hundred men who had taken aphrodisiacs.
She had to kill all of them to survive.
Otherwise, not only would she not survive, but she would also suffer disgusting torture.
And that year, the Ten Thousand Bloom Empress was only seven years old.
Later, a seven-year-old child walked out of the blood-soaked cage.
She awakened the [Ten Thousand Bloom Eyes]. The sect was immediately overjoyed, removed her from the assassin training program, and revered her as a Saintess!
She built her foundation at twelve, achieved Golden Core at eighteen, Nascent Soul at twenty-five…
By the time she became a Soul Transformation cultivator, she was already the strongest in the entire sect. The demonic sects believed their era had arrived, but in reality, the Empress expressionlessly slaughtered the entire sect.
Facing the confusion and bewilderment of the sect elders, she coldly replied, "I started remembering things at one year old. My mother taught me right from wrong. When I was three, you slaughtered my family and wiped out my village. You thought I knew nothing about it, but from that moment on, you were all on my kill list!"
"This is good. This is an evil demonic sect that has committed all sorts of wickedness. I feel no guilt killing them!"
With the demise of the demonic sects, the Ten Thousand Bloom Empress, from being the Saintess revered as a deity by demonic cultivators, directly became a great enemy. This was what it meant for an idol to fall from grace.
However, the Empress's subsequent life was not smooth sailing.
Demonic cultivators fiercely assassinated her, while righteous cultivators deemed her nature too brutal.
But she calmly accepted all challenges. Tribulations pushed her to the brink of death more than once, but in the end, it was always her enemies who died.
Her dominance also attracted a large number of admirers, including not only demonic geniuses but also the Holy Sons who considered themselves righteous.
Yet, she chose to live a solitary life, for no other reason than that none of her peers could defeat her.
…
Shen Yingxue awoke from her daze. She had already appeared outside the [Ascension Tower].
Wiping away the tears that remained on her face, her eyes became somewhat vacant.
The scenes she had experienced inside were undoubtedly illusions, as she was perfectly clean and didn't feel covered in blood.
What shocked her even more was that while trapped in the illusion, she had completely forgotten that she was inside the [Ascension Tower].
It had not only affected her mind but also muddled her memories.
"Senior… is so powerful."
There was no trace of resentment for being tricked. After witnessing the Empress's life story, she deeply felt that she was a complete waste!
Compared to the Empress, her own experiences were insignificant.
What the Empress could achieve at seven years old, she hadn't managed. What right did she have to be on Immortal Brother's list of potential Immortal Emperors?
"Damn it, it's just killing a few hundred people! It's all fake, I'm not afraid!"
Then, Shen Yingxue gritted her teeth and rushed in again.
"Senior, I'm really prepared this time!"
The Ten Thousand Bloom Empress stroked Shen Yingxue's chin and teased, "Oh my, did you read my life story and get inspired by me?"
Shen Yingxue pursed her lips and said, "Senior is very powerful…"
"You won't go easy on me even if you praise me!"
The surroundings turned pitch black again, and fear filled her heart once more.
She was still too naive. In this state, she would forget that she couldn't die and that this was an illusion.
And so, the pitiable little sister was tormented by the Ten Thousand Bloom Empress time and time again.
But as the killings increased, her heart gradually turned cold, and a hint of ferocity appeared on her originally pitiful face.
Chu Yang was also paying attention, but he did not intervene.
With an Immortal Emperor leading, he could comfortably be a hands-off manager.
Liang Zifan entered the [Thunderstorm Bamboo Forest]. Since he couldn't defeat the Foundation Establishment stage Nine Tribulations Thunder Emperor anytime soon, he might as well temper his physical body within it.
Before entering the [Eternal Winter City], Chu Yang gave them another seven days as a buffer.
Every day was precious, but they also knew how to arrange their time.
Time flowed quickly.
Reaching the Golden Core stage was no longer as easy as before. Although they often spent half a year or even a year in places like the [Blazing Fire Palace] or the [Thunderstorm Bamboo Forest], and their cultivation was rapidly increasing, relying solely on secluded cultivation was very slow.
However, what made Chu Yang somewhat regretful was that out of the three hundred people sent to the cultivation world for training, only two hundred and fifty remained.
Based on the estimations, they should have experienced ten years there.
And in those ten years, their growth rate had been quite rapid. That class monitor, He Guangxin, was now a peak Golden Core stage expert.
Besides him, more than half of them had entered the Golden Core realm, and the rest were at least at the late Foundation Establishment stage.
The reason for this was naturally their identity as "remnants of the Five Elements Immortal Sect."
After the demise of the Five Elements Immortal Sect, it became an affiliated sect of the Great Yan Dynasty, essentially a lackey.
But even a starving camel was bigger than a horse. The new sect master was, after all, a Soul Transformation stage cultivator, and many people still applied when recruiting disciples.
Moreover, the Great Yan Dynasty would send their young talents to the Five Elements Immortal Sect to flaunt their power.
However, what awaited them was a nightmare.
It was rumored that a sword cultivator, who was once the senior disciple brother of the Sword Control Peak, escaped during the sect's period of turmoil and transition, and was now seeking revenge.
Every time disciples went out on missions, this sword cultivator encountered and killed them all!
Furthermore, his strength was terrifying; he had comprehended his own sword intent, and no one at the same cultivation level could match him.
The people from the Corpse Kui Sect and the Void Heaven Sect were also not faring well. Those disciples who had participated in the attack on the Five Elements Immortal Sect now dared not go out. For cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage, encountering that harbinger of death usually meant no survival.