"Guha ha ha ha!"
"Who am I? Why, I'm Yan Ruyu, of course!"
"Even looking like this, you still can't recognize me?" Yan Ruyu, her fiery body completely bare, struck a seductive pose toward Chu Feng.
"You're not Yan Ruyu. Who are you?" Chu Feng was convinced the person before him was not Yan Ruyu — at the very least, her tone of voice was nothing like hers.
"Chu Feng, how could you do this? Have you forgotten what you did to me back in Qingzhou on the Nine Provinces Continent?" Yan Ruyu wore a look of grievance, but her eyes flickered with an eerie light.
"How do you know I'm Chu Feng?!" Chu Feng was shocked. The other party had seen straight through his Hundred Transformations Mask — not only had she uncovered his true face, she knew about his past with Yan Ruyu.
"Ha ha! A mere disguise mask might fool ordinary humans, but it can't fool this demon lord. The moment I laid eyes on you, I knew exactly who you were." Yan Ruyu suddenly burst into triumphant laughter.
"So you really aren't Yan Ruyu. Who are you, and why are you impersonating her?" Chu Feng seized on the contradiction and pressed her with a sharp interrogation.
"I am indeed not Yan Ruyu — but right now, I am Yan Ruyu, because long ago, she and I became one."
"Yan Ruyu's possession of such immense power now is entirely thanks to me. And she will grow even stronger because of me."
"As for you — you may have been the one who set me free, but now that you know my secret, I won't let you live. Yan Ruyu can't bear to kill you, but I certainly can." As she spoke, Yan Ruyu's expression suddenly twisted into something savage. At the same time, a torrential wave of killing intent surged outward, instantly engulfing Chu Feng.
"Don't!!" Yet the moment the killing intent appeared, it vanished just as suddenly. Yan Ruyu clutched her head with both hands and screamed at Chu Feng: "Get out of here! Run!!"
"You worthless fool! Wasn't he the one who ruined you like this? Didn't you swear to kill him? Now he's right in front of you — why won't you do it? Why do you keep letting him go over and over?!" That shrill, frigid voice rang out once more.
"Shut up! He wasn't the one who destroyed me — it was you! I won't let you use my body to commit evil anymore. I'm going to kill you."
"Kill me? Killing me is killing yourself. Are you going to end your own life? All because of a bunch of insidious humans?"
"To stop you from hurting anyone else, I'd rather kill myself."
"Ha ha ha! How noble of you. But I'm afraid this body no longer belongs to you. So just watch quietly as I butcher this filthy man who defiled you."
At last, Yan Ruyu's true voice was suppressed, and those eyes brimming with killing intent and malice once again fixed upon Chu Feng. "Kid, you're quite the charmer. You actually got that foolish girl to stand against me for your sake."
"Who are you? What will it take for you to let Yan Ruyu go?" Chu Feng was no fool. After what he had just witnessed, he had already grasped the general situation.
The person before him was undoubtedly Yan Ruyu — yet there appeared to be another existence occupying her body. A powerful existence. It was this entity that had committed the atrocity of refining humans for cultivation, and it was this entity that had twisted Yan Ruyu into something no longer human.
"Who I am doesn't matter. And I will never let go of Yan Ruyu, because she and I have long been one — we live and die together, we exist and perish together. I am her, and she is me."