The Arch-Enemy Must Not Become a Wife-Chapter 40: The Transmigrator’s Mystery

The Celestial Evil Demon Venerable often used a magic artifact known as the Returning Ruins Ancient Cauldron, though the outside world referred to it as the Devouring Element Demon Cauldron. When combined with his cultivation technique, its power was immense, and same-level cultivators had a very low chance of victory unless they had means to counter it.

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The Demon Venerable was unpredictable in speech and action, always surprising others with his disguise and had multiple aliases, even mingling with righteous figures at times.

Even after his identity was exposed, some righteous cultivators were deceived into believing he was not a bad person, showing the strength of his persuasive abilities. It is speculated that the Celestial Evil might have mastered a secret technique for confusing others’ minds.

Perhaps to gain the trust of righteous paths, there was a period when the Celestial Evil acted in a style that blurred the lines between good and evil, but eventually fell completely into the abyss of being a thorough demon, with countless evil deeds.

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The Demon Venerable had a great fondness for beauty, and whenever he set his eyes on a woman, he would use threats or inducements, sweet talk, or persistence, to win her over by any means.

He even went around gathering information to carefully compile a list of the "Top Ten Beauties of the Cultivation World," revealing his wolfish ambitions transparently.

The Celestial Evil had no qualms about ruining many beautiful female cultivators of the time; be they righteous fairy maidens, heroic women, sinister demonesses, he laid his fingers on anyone with beauty, leading contemporaries to gnash their teeth in anger, wishing to devour him alive.

Sects not yet harmed by him, whether righteous or not, would always hide their beauties whenever they encountered this villain, indicating the extent of his harm.

Though he engaged in rape, plunder, and countless immoral acts, leaving traces everywhere, he also had a dislike for associating with upright people, killing anyone he met, yet claimed flamboyantly to be a "Protector of Flowers," an act of shamelessness.

Remarkably, many women were truly deceived by him to the extent of unwavering devotion, even falling into the demonic path for his sake, an example for posterity to heed.

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Despite being born into demon paths, the Celestial Evil showed quick wit.

In several battles against righteous paths, he demonstrated excellent command and coordination abilities, organizing his subordinate cultivators into groups such as "Frontline Attack Group," "Mobile Reinforcement Group," "Steadfast Defense Group," "Logistics Support Group," "Intelligence Reconnaissance Group," causing significant trouble for the righteous side.

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However, evil cannot triumph over good, and such a demon naturally faces its nemesis sent by heaven.

At that time, the Profound Celestial Sect was a well-known major sect among the righteous paths, and the son of Sect Leader Shangguan Yun, later known as Profound Silence True Monarch Shangguan Yu, had already become a mortal enemy with the Celestial Evil before taking the sect leader’s position.

As both grew up, they clashed for a lifetime. The Profound Celestial Sect was once attacked by many demons led by the Celestial Evil, suffering heavy casualties, which led to its decline.

The Celestial Evil was also severely wounded by Shangguan Yu once, almost killed, but ultimately escaped a fatal blow, later reappearing after breaking through a major realm, shocking the world.

In several righteous-demonic battles, these two were the most fiercely fighting individuals on the front lines.

Finally, Profound Silence True Monarch set a deadly trap for the enemy and invited various hidden seniors from the cultivation world to assist, ultimately killing the Celestial Evil at the Land of Demon Destruction.

It is said that during this battle, the soul of the Celestial Evil Demon Venerable was shattered, completely preventing the possibility of reincarnation.

Profound Silence True Monarch’s great vengeance was accomplished, solving this emotional knot, and shortly thereafter he ascended through tribulation, becoming an immortal, respected as Profound Silence Immortal Venerable by later generations.

Unfortunately, the Profound Celestial Sect was greatly weakened by repeated damages, and after their sect leader ascended, they withdrew from worldly disputes, living in reclusion, seldom seen by the outside world.

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Chu Xuan is reading this character record, also written by Bai Xiaosheng, containing many times more content than the piece about Primordial Monarch Taixu.

Perhaps it’s due to the person being long dead, and considered an "ancient" from over six hundred years ago, Bai Xiaosheng wrote with little restraint.

Furthermore, the Celestial Evil Demon Venerable indeed had significant controversy and numerous captivating stories, with much worth a detailed account.

Chu Xuan reads diligently, increasingly wanting to criticize; what kind of cliched protagonist is this?

A worthless constitution, then a chance encounter leading to acquiring peerless cultivation techniques, mingling between righteous and demonic paths, having numerous romantic interests.

Though the text intentionally disparages the image of the Celestial Evil, Chu Xuan vaguely senses that Bai Xiaosheng seems to admire him somewhat.

Yet due to the official narrative where righteousness must triumph over evil, the Demon Venerable is heavily criticized; otherwise, this book probably wouldn’t be published at all.

But amid criticism, he often doesn’t forget to discreetly make a few compensatory remarks.

In fact, for complete slander, some realities could be omitted, such as women being devoted to the Celestial Evil, such as praising the Demon Venerable’s command and coordination abilities.

Honestly, before seeing the ending, Chu Xuan was completely envious, jealous, and hateful of this Celestial Evil Demon Venerable.

Isn’t this what kind of smut protagonist? 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Did he really enjoy all the advantages?

However, seeing the end, Chu Xuan’s mood inexplicably turned a bit unpleasant, possibly because he got slightly immersed in it.

Did the Celestial Evil die like this? Surrounded and ambushed to death, with his soul shattered as well?

Moreover, his mortal enemy ascended to immortality shortly after defeating the Celestial Evil, which just makes things more irritating.

Even though Bai Xiaosheng describes Shangguan Yu very positively, as a peerless genius, kind-hearted and approachable, well-loved by righteous people, having done numerous charitable acts for saving lives, almost consecrating him as a saint.

Yet Chu Xuan still inexplicably harbors great hostility towards this Shangguan guy, feeling he is incredibly hypocritical.

Is it Bai Xiaosheng’s writing skills that have reached the highest level of "reversed loyalty," desperately depicting Shangguan Yu’s benevolence, but instead, he seems like a hypocrite?

Apart from these, was the Celestial Evil Demon Venerable a transmigrator?

Chu Xuan believes... he very likely was!

Not only due to those two lofty slogans earlier, but also other evidence.

Although the Celestial Evil seems to have not invented anything, neither gunpowder nor plagiarized ancient poetry, but he transmigrated into a cultivation world, not to an ancient dynasty, so perhaps there was no need for such acts.

There are several pieces of evidence:

One. In speech and action, always surprising others.

Translated, it means: often blurting out inexplicable words, like when Chu Xuan unconsciously used the term "character setting" in front of his master and Jiang Yiyi.

Two. His speaking style really resembles a transmigrator, especially his rhetoric "people killed by me are equivalent to returning to heaven and earth," showing the shameless demeanor of a transmigrator.

Three. Compiling the Top Ten Beauties of the Cultivation World list, this behavior also seems like something a transmigrator would do.

Four. Assigning roles to subordinate cultivators, those labels are too modernized, not fitting the language style of this realm. Outsiders might think Bai Xiaosheng made it up, but only transmigrators like Chu Xuan would find it familiar.

After speculating to this point, Chu Xuan felt a bit complicated; there turns out to be more than one transmigrator in this world. Although this predecessor has long been deceased, he indeed lived a magnificent life.