The Arch-Enemy Must Not Become a Wife

If he truly had confidence, he wouldn’t be so fainthearted. After all, the Dao Palace is a reclusive sect beyond worldly matters. They truly have no fear of being defamed by the Shangguan family, nor do they fear their attempt to overpower the weak.

Therefore, even though the Dao Palace maintains silence, directly refusing to meet the envoy sent by the Shangguan family, they show not the slightest intention of expelling Chu Xuan from their ranks, yet the mainstream opinion in the cultivation world has almost unanimously accepted that Chu Xuan is indeed the Celestial Evil.

Following this are numerous controversies arising because of him.

Some people shout the slogan "Exorcise the demon and defend the Dao", claiming that such a demon is a scourge to all and must be eradicated, rallying cultivators from all corners to actively search for Chu Xuan’s whereabouts to eliminate him completely.

The Shangguan family also stood out to cooperate in stirring up the situation, offering exceedingly high rewards related to Chu Xuan, from accurately locating him, to killing, to capturing him alive, with three tiers of rewards.

For the highest tier, let’s not mention treasures, pills, cultivation techniques, or secret arts; the Shangguan family can even help you establish a remarkable sect from scratch, handling everything from manpower, to the mountain gate, to the Mountain Protection Array, to the legacy cultivation techniques, to the treasury and secrets!

If you are determined to seek immortality, uninterested in power, they will fully assist you in progressing swiftly on the path of cultivation, giving whatever is lacking, offering high-level cultivators to personally teach and guide until this favor is entirely exhausted.

These impressively generous conditions naturally tempt many people, especially those loose cultivators with no affiliations, many of whom dream of leaping to success and reversing their fortunes.

Though capturing Chu Xuan is difficult, as long as one finds his whereabouts, the Shangguan family will still provide substantial rewards, fueling their motivation.

Let’s not forget that Chu Xuan is currently just a fourth-tier cultivator. Can his high-level cultivator associates continuously revolve around him? They surely have their own affairs to attend to, right?

There are countless cultivators enamored by Chu Xuan’s peerless magical power, even by that Blood God set and enigmatic treasure.

As for those who stand firmly on the side of the Celestial Evil Demon Venerable, indeed, they are not nonexistent.

After all, he deeply influenced the cultivation world; years passed, yet he still retained some scattered worshippers; however, his devoted followers were long annihilated, and the glory days are too far gone now. The faction proposing to return under the Demon Venerable’s banner is hardly a force.

Moreover, who knows what thoughts are in the minds of some? Perhaps they’re borrowing the "pledge allegiance" guise to draw Chu Xuan out.

This is also related to Chu Xuan’s current insufficient strength; if he could return to the ninth-tier peak, raising the [Celestial Evil Demon Venerable] banner, and offering benefits, he could naturally attract countless cultivators to join him.

Lastly, some forces adopt a neutral stance; the Shangguan family hasn’t produced direct evidence, so they remain silent, awaiting developments.

Notably, those who cry madly against Chu Xuan come from both righteous and evil paths; the unspoken ones also from both, making the situation extremely complicated as everyone waits for his reappearance.

In recent months, discussions on the matter have remained fervent, benefiting Bai Xiaosheng’s book "The Celestial Evil Chronicles" to sell out rapidly!

Given the events occurred six to seven hundred years ago, many lack understanding of the Celestial Evil, needing books to quickly catch up on knowledge.

Bai Xiaosheng first wrote a battle report, though he penned it under the alias "Jianghu Carefree Life", yet his writing style is so distinctive, few fail to recognize it.

Let’s not mention how that pen name used to write little pornographic books! Why suddenly writing battle reports?

In short, Bai Xiaosheng vividly depicted this Grotto Heaven experience, his sharp yet humorous style making those who didn’t go or left early feel as if they were right there, reading with great amusement.

Especially since Bai Xiaosheng specifically pointed out those high-level cultivators who rescued Chu Xuan: Primordial Monarch Taixu, Wu Gou Immortal, Blade Emperor, Miaoyu Bodhisattva, Demon Rain Demon Monarch.

Notice something? A full four female cultivators!

Moreover, among them, Monarch Ji and Immortal Su are characters from the same era as the Celestial Evil; is this really a coincidence?

Bai Xiaosheng naturally dares not write recklessly, but just by presenting the facts this way, he naturally leads readers to imagine, inventing stories between Chu Xuan and multiple Immortals...

At the battle report’s end, Bai Xiaosheng proposed a "Celestial Evil Riddle", listing various "is" and "isn’t" evidence and conjectures without concluding, only saying to let the world wait and see.

The battle report naturally sold out quickly, printed multiple times, unable to meet demand, then leading to the sales boom of Bai Xiaosheng’s old books.

Actually, they aren’t truly old books because in the past, under the righteous path’s suppression, no one dared to publish a person’s biography for the Celestial Evil Demon Venerable.

Though Bai Xiaosheng had written plenty of materials on the Celestial Evil, scattered in various works, this time they were consolidated under the biography name.

Including those records of the Celestial Evil that Chu Xuan first read in the Dao Palace, most were written by Bai Xiaosheng.

They noted the Demon Venerable’s great lust for beauty, utilizing all means to achieve his desires on the women he fancied, even creating the [Top Ten Beauties of the Cultivation World] list, enticing virtuous women, causing havoc among beautiful female cultivators and other misdeeds.

The book also mentions that the Celestial Evil might have mastered a secret technique for confusing others’ minds, adept at bewitching, tricking many women into devotion, even leading them to fall into the demonic way for him.

Sects not yet victimized, regardless of righteous or evil, each time encountering this scourge, first hid their beauties, showing the extent of harm caused.

Outsiders reading these recorded words, combined with Wu Gou Immortal previously being the Celestial Evil’s arch-enemy, yet today protecting him, naturally prompt sinister thoughts.

Cultivators proposed a bold conjecture: Immortal Su might already have succumbed to Chu Xuan’s "Bewitch Heart Evil Technique"!

Even, potentially, that Primordial Monarch Taixu hadn’t escaped Chu Xuan’s clutches...

Conspiracy theorists say this lifetime’s Chu Xuan joined under the Monarch due to long-standing desire, merely hindered from obtaining her in the past, so reincarnated intentionally to appear weak and catch the Monarch’s eye.

After tricking the Monarch with his superb acting, she took him as a disciple; Chu Xuan, using proximity advantage, with the Monarch defenseless towards her disciple, once again employed his terrifying "Bewitch Heart Evil Technique".

Under constant influence, even ninth-tier figures can’t escape his bewitchment.

Later when the Monarch expelled Chu Xuan from the sect, she realized some oddities, yet having suffered long poison, hated yet unwilling to kill or abandon him, eventually returning to find him, falling deeper, finally fully bewitched by Chu Xuan, losing self.

People heard this, aligning perfectly with Primordial Monarch Taixu’s attitude at the Hundred Flowers Banquet before, convincingly reasonable!

Additionally, others recalled Chu Xuan previously causing Shangguan Haitang and Duanmu Qing—this righteous Saintess, that Demon Sect Saintess—to risk death for him, believing further proof of his shocking "charm" ability.

Thus the rumors spiraled out of control, everyone becoming cautious, claiming Chu Xuan is a female nemesis, encountering his "peach blossom evil eyes" would capture their minds, letting him manipulate them as desired, somehow akin to "Guard against fire, theft, Celestial Evil".

Many female cultivators deeply believed this to the extent of fearing falling victim to Chu Xuan. Initially tempted by the bounty, or holding exorcise and defend Dao thoughts, now somewhat afraid.

Some sects even issued overnight notices, instructing disciples to protect the sect’s female cultivators, at all costs preventing contact with Chu Xuan.

Regardless of external discussions, no one could imagine that the spotlight-holding Chu Xuan, isn’t hiding in some remote mountain retreat cultivating, nor seducing, desecrating multiple immortals, but instead, brings along a beautiful woman deliberately arriving at the Capital City to participate in an exceptionally lively lantern festival.

However, his mood isn’t great, as he holds a book, cursing Bai Xiaosheng!

"You cursed street trader! Someday I will make sure to kill you!"

Though Bai Xiaosheng likely doesn’t intend to deliberately tarnish Chu Xuan’s image, those old books he’s reviewed.

But can’t stop key phrases being extracted, mindlessly associating the female cultivators protecting Chu Xuan, forming an absurd rumor through past and present imagination.