3064 The Grand Finale 31 (1/2)

”How is this even possible?” She murmured in disbelief while her evil aura slowly faded away.

”Your level of Kung Fu is spectacular. I finally know why it took Fan Qianshi thousands of years to plot against you, but there is something I still do not quite understand. Back then, your Kung Fu was not this powerful at all!”

Di Fuyi replied, ”When I first encountered her, I had not fully regained my strength.”

”Her? It was me!” The demon answered with a squeal of disapproval.

”No, you have never been the girl I met,” Di Fuyi emphasized once more. ”Fan Qianshi placed her memory forcibly into your head in order to increase your grudge against Gu Xijiu. He intended to strengthen your hostility.”

The demon was perplexed, for what she thought was hers turned out to be someone else's. Even her memories belonged to someone else. Did anything even belong to her?

Her body started swaying as if caught in a daze. Meanwhile, glimpses of light started to escape from Di Fuyi's hands.

The demon sensed the danger and immediately turned to look at him and asked, ”What are you going to do to me?”

”Send you back where you belong,” Di Fuyi answered calmly.

Then, flashes of seven-colored rays slipped through Di Fuyi's fingers and encapsulated the demon in a blinding circle of light.

The demon was never supposed to exist. She was a result of many irresponsible choices. She shared the same appearance as Gu Xijiu, but her character was completely different. Di Fuyi had no reason to keep the demon alive. Furthermore, if she lived on, the trapped spirits in the abyss of grudge and misery would never be cleansed.

Nevertheless, Di Fuyi did not seem heartless after all. He made sure that her suffering was minimal, for she used to be Gu Xijiu's unspoken obsession once upon a time.

The demon, on the other hand, was reluctant to be cleansed. She continued to struggle against the bubble of light but could not set herself free.

She suddenly raised her voice and challenged Gu Xijiu, ”Seems like he doesn't love you at all. Look at the cruelty that he is putting me through. I used to be a part of you! As the Master of the Heavenly Law, he has to be compassionate to all, not passionate to only one. Now that he has regained his identity, he will no longer love you the same! Haha! He will not love you anymore!”

Gu Xijiu said nothing back. With a frown, Di Fuyi clenched his fingers to strengthen his seven-colored ray, causing the demon to screech with pain. ”Di Fuyi, you will regret this! You will regret killing me off!”

It did not take long before she disappeared entirely in the light and turned into dust. Then, the surrounding spirits stopped squealing for a while. They were thoroughly intimidated by Di Fuyi's superior aura as a deity and fell into a brief moment of silence.

Di Fuyi looked at Gu Xijiu, who was standing not too far away from him. She seemed absorbed in her thoughts while staring blankly at the spot where the demon was last seen. He decided to ask her to come over. ”Come to me.”

It was normal for her to keep her distance from him when he was busy dealing with the demon. But now that the problem was no longer a concern, why didn't she get closer? Was she affected by what the demon said?

Di Fuyi decided to walk to her and placed his hand on her waist. He softly said, ”Are you mad at me? Hmm? She had nothing to do with you at all. Killing her off certainly does not mean I do not love you.”

”I do not think this is over yet,” Gu Xijiu finally broke her silence.

”Hmm?”

”The demon would not give up so easily, for sure. I have a feeling that she must have left some evil doings behind. What she said did not sound like a simple threat,” Gu Xijiu made her guess while absentmindedly tapping on the block of ice.

Di Fuyi was caught off guard by her unexpected response. She had clearly overthought the whole situation. During his time in the Lower Bound, he found a way that would allow him to regain his status as the Master of the Heavenly Law, but he could not do it. There could only be one Master of the Heavenly Law, so his return would put his son's existence to an end.

When Di Hao disappeared, Di Fuyi's memory of him disappeared too. However, something still lingered in Di Fuyi's subconscious mind, telling him not to reinstate his status or something important might never return. He would not do it unless it were absolutely necessary.

As soon as he was restored to his former self, memories started to flood into his head. Being the Master of the Heavenly Law allowed him to experience what he had gained over many lives, thus filling him with countless fragments of memories. Due to his longevity, those fragments flowed back to him like a massive tide.

When he first recalled his former identity, he had to suffer from an inflow of memory every time he returned to the Lower Bound. There were just too many fragments of memory for him to absorb all at once. Every time the recovery happened, he needed to take a break before he could put those fragments into a proper timeline.

However, there was no time for him to react this time when the demon remained as his greatest threat. Even in a state of stunned confusion, he knew that he needed to stop the demon from causing more harm, which was why he was a little distant from Gu Xijiu at first.