North of the Demon Imperial City, in front of the Golden Crow Lightning Fme Valley.

  A massive fme profound formation, thirty meters in diameter, spun slowly at the entrao the Golden Crow Lightning Fme Valley. At its ter, a golden image of the Golden Crow fshed, emitting blinding golden fmes.

  Even if all the high-level Monarchs in the Illusory Demon Realm worked together, there was no way they could break through it. Its intense heat made ordinary profound practitioners uo eve close to it.

  This was a forbidden ground; only once every five years, when the seal was released, did anyone dare approach.

  At this moment, Huan Caiyi stood before the formation, holding the Demon Emperor's Seal in her hand. She raised it, and the seal began to glow. Fag the formation, she stood silently for a while. The seal's light grew deeper and hotter, flickering slowly in perfect harmony with the Golden Crow's image at the ter of the profound formation, as if it developed some kind of resonance.

  Huan Caiyi reached out her left hand and cut her finger, a drop of blood flew out from the tip of her finger and fell on the Demon Emperor's Seal. At that moment, the Demon Emperor's Seal flickered in fmes, and a reddish-gold fme asded and surrouhe Demon Emperor's Seal in a raging fire that didn't go out for a long time.

  , another drop of blood flew from her finger directly towards the Golden Crow Profound Formation. It nded on the silhouette of the golden crow in the ter of the formation. A ball of the same reddish-gold fmes started burning in the ter of the profound formation.

  The Little Demon Empress held the Demon Emperor's Seal, flew up, and as it touched the ter of the profound formation, the two fmes from her blood merged with a hiss and shot out simultaneously.

  The profound formation sealing the Golden Crow Lightning Fme Valley also began to speedily dissolve at this moment, until it was gone pletely.

  The orance for the path to the Golden Crow Lightning Fme Valley was pletely revealed in front of her.

  She ehe Golden Crow Lightning Fme Valley and flowed at full speed, heading north in a straight line.

  After four hours, the Huan Caiyi reached a hill covered in reddish-gold fmes. She nded before a smaller Golden Crow Profound Formation, simir to the one sealing the Golden Crow Lightning Fme Valley, but with a deeper silhouette of the Golden Crow.

  Standing before the profound formation, Huan Caiyi's mind was filled with doubt aation. This was not her first time in this pce; in the past, she had left empty-handed because she cked the seal.

  Although Yun Wuji had told her that she wouldn't be able to i the Golden Crow's legacy, how could she give up based on the words of a stranger with unknown motives? This was her only ce, and she had to try for herself!

  In fact, this wasn't the first time she had heard about this. Many people from the Duke Paces spoke of it, as women who ied the Golden Crow bloodline suffered from stant pain and had shortened lifespans. She herself experiehese symptoms, often visiting Shiny Lake to tame the fmes of the Golden Crow.

  However, Huan Caiyi believed that, as the direct desdant of the Demon Emperor, she should possess the ability to i the Golden Crow's legacy.

  Holding the Demon Emperor's Seal, Huan Caiyi stepped forward. As she touched the profound formation, the seal flickered, and a burst of fmes enveloped her, slowly pulling her into the formation.

  The moment she stepped forward, the world arouransformed into an endless expahed in golden light.

  Holding the Demon Emperor's Seal, the Little Demon Empress k on one knee and said with great respect, "Illusory Demon Royal Family's Twelfth Emperor, eleventh ior of the Golden Crow's bloodline, Huan Caiyi, greets the Golden Crow Divine God."

  "Hahahahahaha..."

  As the Little Demon Empress finished speaking, a burst of loud, reckless ughter echoed in the golden world. It felt both distant and close, shaking her vital energy and blood despite her fifth-level Sn Profound Realm strength.

  Like the phoenix spirit, the golden spirit also possesses strength equivalent to the Divine in Realm.

  A simple ughter caused a Monarch to be injured.

  "Your Illusory Demon Royal Family has been te for a hundred years. You finally arrived today, but it's only a woman. Looks like this noble one's fate with your has e to an end, why did you still e here for!"

  Huan Caiyi's heart sank at the sound of the woman's voice, and Yun Wuji's words echoed in her mind. She raised her head and procimed, "A hundred years ago, Father and Brother faced troubles, and the Demon Emperor's Seal was lost until retly. Though I am a woman, I am the sole direct desdant of the Demon Emperor's bloodlih pure Demon Emperor blood. I ask the Golden Crow Divine God to grahe Golden Crow's Record of the Burning World and the aral bloodlio revive the Demon Emperor's ."

  "Grant you the Golden Crow's Record of the Burning World and the aral bloodline? Hahahaha! How pitiful and naive you are! Didn't you hear what I just said? The moment you entered here, I knew my fate with your was sealed!" The golden crow ughed arrogantly, its tone was full of mockery.

  "...so it is true that only men i the Golden Crow?" Huan Caiyi fell into despair. She could choose to not believe Yun Wuji's words, but no matter how hard she tried, she had to accept the Golden Crow's words as truth.

  She mumbled helplessly, "Why... why... why?!"

  "Hmph! So you already knoaste my time then?!"

  "Men embody Yang, women embody Yin. A mortal woman handle normal profound fmes, even those of the Phoenix or Vermilion Bird. However, my Golden Crow's fme is the fiercest Yang fire, there is no room for Yin! With just a trace of the Golden Crow's bloodline, you already suffer burns daily, shortening your life. Accepting the aral bloodline would disrupt your internal flow, causing a lifetime of pain!"

  "Moreover, as a virgin, your vital Yin remains in your body. If you accept the aral blood, the fme energy will explode within three days, leading to your death in fmes within five!"

  Huan Caiyi raised her head, refusing to give up. "Could it be that there's truly no possibility? Golden Crow Divine God, you also have the body of a woman!"

  Although Yun ghai had returned and there was still hope for revenge, she wao extract it with her own hands! Furthermore, how could she possibly accept that she, the Empress of the realm, had almost no power or trol over it?!

  After all, there is only oruth in this world; a strong fist is power, and power is the truth!

  Without strength, how could she restore her 's glory? It would be a blessing if her didn't get exterminated iure!

  "Hahahaha!" The fme-like voice ughed arrogantly. "A divine body 't pare to your mortal ohere's a slim possibility, but it would require the nourishment of a man's vital Yang with Phoenix or Vermilion Bird blood. However, in the Illusory Demon Realm, no such mas. Give up and leave!"

  "Phoenix?!" Huan Caiyi's pupils tracted into pine siz as she asked hurriedly, "Are you saying that if I find a man with a Phoenix bloodline, I could bear the Golden Crow's blood?!"

  "Hmph! This noble one sed this ti a few years ago, and I say for sure that there is no oh a Phoenix bloodline here," the Golden Crow snorted, cutting off her fantasies.

  "No! Not long ago, a man with both Phoenix and Azure Dragon bloodlines appeared!" Huan Caiyi excimed, standing up as if grasping for hope. Just a short while ago, she had no good feelings toward Yun Wuji, but now, after hearing the Golden Crow, he had bee her only hope.

  The feeling of hope amidst despair was indescribable. She felt an urgeo find him immediately.

  Yun Wuji...Snu snu... Avenging her father... Avenging her husband... Rebuilding the might of the Demon Emperor... Ref the entire Illusory Demon Realm...

  Huan Caiyi was willing to do anything for power to take revenge aore her , which was shown in the novel when she raped Yuh almost ation.

  "...to think someone like that would appear. Hmph! I was w why I caught a foul st retly, it must have been that wretched phoenix stench!" The Golden Crow was briefly speechless before spitting in disdain, "Then go and bring him here!"

  "Golden Crow Divine God, the sealing profound formation only be opened every five years. Even with the Demon Emperor's Seal, it only be forcefully opened once every hundred years, after which it ot be opened again within that time frame." Huan Caiyi didn't leave immediately and asked, "Golden Crow Divine God, your powers are boundless. I am sure you open the formation for me ter."

  "Of course! Hmph, when you two return, the formation will open for you," the golden crow replied. "But I will only open it when you are together; you won't be able to enter if you are alone."

  ...

  The Illusory Demon Realm arc will sist of only about 10 chapters before the war with the Four Sacred Grounds begins.