When Nángōng Jǐngtáng opened her eyes again, she was astonished to find herself once more in a vast chaos.
This environment was not unfamiliar to her. She had lingered here for three hundred thousand years before.
Indeed, her state was identical to before her resurrection and rebirth. How could this be? Hadn’t she already died? Why had she returned to this place?
And after Ye Yu used the Futian Rebirth Drum (扶天转生鼓, a sacred artifact for resurrection) to revive her the first time, that holy relic of the Peacock Clan had vanished completely—and had never been recovered even by the time of her fall. So how had she, upon death, ended up back here again?
Could it be that the drum’s power had acted once more to grant her another chance at life? No—something felt off. Before her death she had reached half-step Demon Emperor status; now she found herself regressed to the peak of the Demon King Realm. More tellingly, even her soul sensed one unmistakable presence beneath the surface: the aura of the human-faced spider, Shàng Jǐnléng.
Time had apparently reversed, and she had been reborn!
Overwhelmed with joy, Nángōng Jǐngtáng realized that in this cycle Ye Yu must not yet have fallen. As long as she prevented him from opening that fateful manual named Di (“Emperor”), the tragedy could be averted—and they could remain together forever.
Tears of joy sprang to her eyes. She thought that all she needed to do was wait here for Ye Yu’s arrival.
But as moments ticked by, doubt crept in. Judging by Shàng Jǐnléng’s violent aura below, she should have already emerged by now. Why had Ye Yu not appeared? Had something gone wrong?
Just then, a muffled drumbeat echoed through the chaos. A mysterious force poured into her body—the Futian Rebirth Drum had been struck again. Ye Yu was coming! He truly was the Destiny Great Demon!
Soon, eighty-one drumbeats completed, and Nángōng Jǐngtáng was granted rebirth. When she descended upon Luanyao City, she immediately spotted an unexpected figure.
Yuè Wǎnqiū? How could it be her? Yuè Wǎnqiū held the drum’s mallet in her hand. This made no sense!
Hadn’t only the Destiny Great Demon been able to strike the Futian Rebirth Drum to revive her? Now the Destiny Great Demon was not Ye Yu but Yuè Wǎnqiū?
At that moment, the various demon kings of Luanyao City and the city lord, Yè Jízuì, sensed Nángōng Jǐngtáng’s arrival and hurried to kneel and pay homage. The scene was exactly as she remembered—except for one thing: Ye Yu was nowhere to be seen.


To her shock, however, Ye Yu seemed to have vanished entirely from this world. No one retained any memory of him. Convinced her recollections were not dreams, Yuè Wǎnqiū had hurried to Nángōng Jǐngtáng—only to find her not yet revived. So she had struck the Futian Rebirth Drum herself, leading to this moment.
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