In the face of Wu Lingxiao's hysterical fury, Time Dao Ancestor did not become angry. Instead, he let out an extremely grating, mocking laugh.
“True love? The unreachable?”
There was a sarcasm in Time Dao Ancestor‘s laughter that seemed to see through all the falsehoods in the world. "Wu Lingxiao, oh Wu Lingxiao, you are truly pitiful. As the Empress of Great Xia, you maintain a sprawling harem with three thousand male concubines. By nature, you are fickle and loose, a woman deep down willing to sacrifice everything for power."
“Tell me, someone like you, who is accustomed to trampling men underfoot like mere playthings, could never possibly have genuine, undying love for anyone. The reason you feel you can’t live without Ye Xuan now, the reason you think you love him to the point of madness…”
Time Dao Ancestor took a sudden step forward, and a terrifying pressure forced Wu Lingxiao heavily to the ground. "That isn't love at all! It’s because you are under his damn curse!"
“You’ve been completely conquered by his ’Everlasting Claim’!”
“You... what nonsense are you spouting?” Wu Lingxiao lay on the ground, looking up in disbelief. “What curse? What do you mean... ’Everlasting Claim’?”
Time Dao Ancestor looked down at her from a height, as if regarding a pathetic puppet on strings.
“This is an extremely vile innate law that supersedes the laws of heaven—one might even call it the filthiest innate law in the cultivation world,” Time Dao Ancestor said, his voice growing cold and hard.
“As long as you become a Dao partner with a man who possesses this ability, the law of ’Everlasting Claim’ will, like a clinging bone-maggot, permanently alter your soul's cognition and lock the upper limit of your emotions!”
“It will permanently solidify the infatuation and submission you feel at the peak of passion. Even if you once hated him, even if you were promiscuous by nature, once this law is triggered, the depths of your soul will worship him as your one and only love! Your affection will never fade, and you will never be able to betray him!”
Listening to Time Dao Ancestor’s cold recitation, Wu Lingxiao was thunderstruck, her eyes wide and mouth agape.
“No... this can’t be...”
Wu Lingxiao shook her head frantically, her hands clawing at the gravel of the ground. “My feelings for Ye Xuan are real! I remember every single moment we spent together! I remember every drop of blood he shed for me! How could this heartache be fake?!”
“Your memories are real, but your overwhelming love is the result of the law being forcibly injected into you!”
Time Dao Ancestor ruthlessly tore apart her last shred of illusion. “If you truly loved him that much, how could you have originally gone to the Holy Son Yeyou to share your bed?”
These words struck like a sharp knife, piercing precisely into the most fragile part of Wu Lingxiao’s heart.
Yes. If she truly regarded him as the one and only love of her life, why had she been bewitched enough to bring another man into her dragon bed?
This extremely contradictory psychological state—the before and after—had always tormented Wu Lingxiao. And at this moment, everything finally had an answer.
The infidelity was due to her innate nature as a cold-hearted, power-seeking empress. The current agony—the love so intense it felt deadly—was because the power of the ’Everlasting Claim’ law, after she lost Ye Xuan, had completely erupted in absolute control over her soul.
Wu Lingxiao laughed a despairing, bitter laugh, tears streaming down her face.
“So such a terrible innate ability exists in this world...” she murmured desolately. “Love that never fades... No wonder... no wonder I’ve felt that living is worse than dying lately. Even ruling the entire realm feels meaningless...”
Yet, unexpectedly, only a moment later.
Wu Lingxiao gave a miserable smile. She lifted her head, her eyes filled with a sense of brokenness, but also burning with a morbid stubbornness.
“Even so... even if everything is due to the ’Everlasting Claim’s schemes... now, I have fallen completely in love with him.”
Wu Lingxiao wept, but a strange satisfaction curled at the corners of her mouth. “As long as this love is real to me, I don’t care if it’s being controlled. I just want him to come back!”
Seeing the empress, now utterly and sickeningly obsessed, Time Dao Ancestor let out a frustrated snort.
“You can’t even recognize your own soul is being manipulated. How pitiful. But don’t worry...”
A hint of pride flashed in Time Dao Ancestor’s eyes. “All laws in this world have their vulnerabilities. Although Ye Xuan’s ’Everlasting Claim’ is heaven-defying, as long as it hasn’t been cultivated to its peak, there is a way to break it. And across all the myriad realms, I am the only one who can remove this damn law!”
Though Wu Lingxiao had said she didn’t care, when she heard it could be undone, she still instinctively curious. “How do you break it?”
“Very simple.” Time Dao Ancestor pointed at the River of Time behind him. “I will cast your body into the essence of time, using the power of time to wash your flesh and soul, forcibly reverting your state to before you met Ye Xuan.”
“By stripping away the traces of the time you spent together, the brand of the law will lose its vessel. At that point, your sick obsession with Ye Xuan will vanish in an instant. You will once again become the cold, ruthless, self-worshipping Empress of Great Xia!”
“No!”
Wu Lingxiao was greatly alarmed, screaming like a mother wolf protecting her cub. “How can that be! I don’t want it undone! I don’t want to forget the feeling of loving him!”
“Your love is merely a manipulation!” Time Dao Ancestor mocked.
Wu Lingxiao suddenly stood up, braving Time Dao Ancestor’s pressure, and looked him straight in the eye without retreating. “Whether it’s a result or not, it changes nothing! To me, this pain is real, this longing is real, and my willingness to die for him... is also real!”
“If you take this love away, my heart will be hollow. I would rather sink forever into this false curse than let you erase the mark he left on me! You want me to kill him? Even if it means the Great Xia Immortal Dynasty crumbles to dust, I will protect him completely!”
Time Dao Ancestor looked at this empress, her soul completely twisted by the law, sunk into extreme madness and obsession, and couldn't help shaking his head.
“Utterly foolish... beyond saving…”
A hint of uncontrollable fear and trembling crept into his voice.
“You have no idea how terrifying this innate ability truly is.”
Time Dao Ancestor slowly turned around to look at the Divine Dragon Stone Wall engraved with billions of worlds. His tone was eerily cold, as if it could freeze time itself.
“Do you think this is just some petty struggle over a harem in the mortal world? You don’t know that the last man to possess ’Everlasting Claim’ caused a devastating catastrophe in the Immortal Realm!”
“That catastrophe is recorded in Immortal Realm history as the Calamity of Fallen Immortals! Countless ancient Dao Ancestors, who had overseen entire eras, perished because of him!”
Wu Lingxiao was shocked by the fear in Time Dao Ancestor’s tone.
A Dao Ancestor—someone who had transcended life and death, who controlled the root of the Great Dao. How could they fall in great numbers?
“They… why did they die? Could that man truly possess the power to kill a Dao Ancestor?” Wu Lingxiao asked in shock.
“If it were simply a matter of strength, it would not be so frightening.”
Time Dao Ancestor let out a bitter, anguished laugh, a laugh brimming with unbearable humiliation. “The reason they died was naturally to… seize that one and only man!”
ng to die together with you." Lin Xuan is dead, his body thrown into the river by his scumbag lover and her accomplice. She, the president of the Su Group, is decisive, ruthless, and ice-cold. For three days and three nights, she had his body fished out of the river, and without hesitation, she kissed the bloated corpse of Lin Xuan. She laid down beside him in a cold coffin, their fingers intertwined, a smile lingering on her lips as she closed her eyes. The noble and cold-hearted woman, only bending for one man—Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan, with his golden finger, is reborn and returns to the day of his wedding to the treacherous woman. Su Qiang comes to steal the bride. Lin Xuan's eyes light up, eager to pledge his loyalty on the spot, but instead, her kiss transfers a glass of drugged wine into his mouth, causing him to pass out... 【Male Protagonist with Single Female Lead】【Yandere Tycoon】【Action-Packed】【True vs. Fake Heir】
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