ACER-Chapter 27: You Haven’t Changed at All

Di Yange couldn’t help but retort, “Isn’t that obvious? Who wouldn’t believe what they see? Haven’t you heard that seeing is believing?”

The woman looked at Di Yange in disbelief, “You… you don’t blame him? He misunderstood you and even wanted you to die, and you don’t blame him?”

Di Yange rolled her eyes indifferently, “I’m about to die anyway, he can do whatever he wants.”

“You…”

The woman stared at Di Yange with wide eyes. After a while, she said slowly, “You really are very similar to that bitch.”

“……” Di Yange, who had no idea who she resembled.

The woman looked at her and sighed, “But you are still different. Because she was pretending, while you are truly stupid.”

“Big Sis, are you done yet? That should be enough. If you want to kill me, then do it. But before that, can you let me see Xiao Jue?”

Di Yange suddenly remembered that she had forgotten to pass on the inheritance.

However, upon hearing this, the woman became extremely angry, “You want to see him? Then I won’t let you meet.”

In an instant, the woman waved her hand. After Xiao Jue was heavily injured by ‘Di Yange’, he disappeared from the secret realm.

“He is…?”

“I sent him out. Don’t worry, he won’t die. He’ll just have his cultivation completely destroyed.” The woman spoke lightly, as if crippling someone’s cultivation was a trivial matter.

“Then thank you very much.” Di Yange rolled her eyes. “By the way, what about the others?”

The woman giggled, “Since you said so, I’ll throw out the ones still alive as well, out of respect for you. But they won’t remember your kindness. Your efforts are in vain.”

Di Yange clearly had no interest in that and said, “Then hurry up and do it, don’t waste time.”

However, the woman suddenly changed the topic.

“He sealed me in this place. I have suffered tens of thousands of years of icy torment here. Do you know why I want to keep you here?”

“……”

Di Yange suddenly had a bad feeling.

“I have been here for tens of thousands of years and finally found someone like you with a pure heart. I want you to stay here in my place and endure tens of thousands of years of icy torment. Every day, you will suffer three hours of being cut into pieces and three hours of arrows piercing your heart. Such painful days will have no end.”

The woman burst into laughter. That person thought such a person couldn’t exist in this world, but heaven took pity on her and let her find one, she could finally leave this place.

The onlookers immediately erupted.

“The demon emperor once had a pure heart? How is that possible? Someone with such a nature shouldn’t fall into what he is now.”

“What is a pure heart?”

“It is said that those with a pure heart are inherently kind, cannot bear to see others suffer, and possess a benevolent heart that wishes to save all living beings.”

“Either this is fake, or he must’ve changed after being unable to endure the suffering in this secret realm.”

“Sigh, what a pity. Such a tragedy. If not for this woman, the demon emperor wouldn’t have become like this.”

……

Inside the light screen, Di Yange was completely stunned.

People these days really don’t keep their word.

“B-big sis, what is a pure heart? You must have made a mistake. I don’t have that at all. I’m just a selfish and despicable person. Really, you should just kill me.”

“Want to die? Hmph, don’t even think about it.”

As Di Yange was about to argue further, the woman standing before her disappeared.

The surroundings fell silent, with only a faint beam of light illuminating the environment.

Only then did she realize that everything around her was filled with bluish ice and nothing else.

And this ice was no ordinary ice. Everyone could tell that it was millennia-old cold ice, and there was a vast amount of it. Even immortals would feel a chill in such a place, let alone someone in Foundation Establishment like Di Yange, every moment would feel like knives cutting into her skin.

Cruel, too cruel.

Who was this woman? Who would treat her like this?

At the same time, Di Yange’s limbs were already bound by long ice chains, and she could only stand barefoot on a block of ice, able to move only within this limited space.

Soon, a gust of wind swept through the ice chamber, blowing her green robe and scattering her hair. With her delicate face, she appeared even more fragile.

For a moment, the crowd was stunned.

As expected of the demon emperor, even from a young age she looked like trouble.

At the same time, everyone shivered from seeing this, especially seeing Luo Ziyin trembling there, they felt even colder.

Suddenly, countless ice needles appeared in the wind. Each needle was about three inches long, and just looking at them made one feel uneasy.

The chains suddenly tightened, stretching Di Yange’s limbs and exposing her completely beneath the ice needles.

The onlookers fell silent in shock at this scene.

Although they wanted to see Di Yange suffer, when this scene appeared before them, they couldn’t help but feel a moment of sympathy for her.

Among the crowd, the person who had been staring at Di Yange with hatred looked at the scene in disbelief.

He seemed to murmur, “Impossible, absolutely impossible.”

Back then, it was clearly Di Yange who betrayed him, causing his cultivation to be destroyed. He fainted by the roadside and was later taken in by Tiangang Sect, where he suffered greatly. If not for Xue’er, how could he stand here today?

But now the truth in the past was right before him.

Di Yange had never betrayed him. Instead, she suffered here for his sake.

A trace of emotion flashed in Xiao Jue’s eyes, but it quickly disappeared.

Even if he owed her in this matter, many things happened afterward. She wasn’t innocent in any of them, nor did she deserve his forgiveness.

He still hated her.

At that moment, Luo Ziyin let out a cry, clutching his chest as he knelt on the ground, “Brother, it’s all my fault. If not for helping me cultivate, you wouldn’t have gone there, and you wouldn’t have been captured by that woman.”

Xiao Jue also saw Di Yange in the light screen at that moment, the countless needles piercing her chest.

Yet she kept her eyes tightly closed, making no sound, only her trembling eyelashes revealing her pain.

Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his own heart.

……

In actuality, at the time, Di Yange was indeed startled at first. The ice needles were long and sharp, and just looking at them made one’s heart ache. But afterward… although she was in the ice chamber, she didn’t feel too cold. Instead, it felt a bit comfortable. Having exhausted her cultivation earlier, she was too tired and accidentally fell asleep.

When she woke up, she found herself lying on the ground, and the punishment seemed to have ended.

After three days of such a life, Di Yange became angry.

She recovered from her injuries, then got injured again, and after several days, she was still lively and energetic.

Damn it.

So she became furious.

She decided to resist.

She would cultivate, she would break through.

She would use the tribulation lightning to shatter everything here into pieces.

Thus, she entered a state of cultivation.

Fortunately, she figured out a way to cultivate without meditating, she could cultivate even while lying down.

Cultivation knows no time. After an unknown period of time, Di Yange felt her dantian swelling, her abdomen churning.

It wasn’t exactly painful, but it felt extremely bloated, as if it was about to explode.

At that moment, the woman who hadn’t appeared for a long time reappeared.

Her gaze toward Di Yange was extremely complicated.

“It’s been five years and you still haven’t changed at all.”