The Investiture: Unlimited Blade Works Nezha
Chapter 353 - 352: Yunxiao’s Heart Demon

Chapter 353: Chapter 352: Yunxiao’s Heart Demon

For this scene, Nezha wasn’t surprised at all. The Heart Demon, wanting to destroy an Immortal’s mind, would naturally attack what she cared about most.

Predictably, Yunxiao cared most about her two sisters, No Brainer and Unhappy.

This trick, though cliché, was undeniably effective.

Look at the younger version of Yunxiao before them—she was bawling her eyes out, clearly on the verge of an emotional breakdown.

Although Nezha was standing right in front of her, Yunxiao was already trapped in her Heart Demon World, unable to perceive his presence.

Nezha thought Yunxiao would stop there, but then he witnessed something completely unexpected: Yunxiao "ate" her two sisters!

"Sob sob... Haha, now our sisterly bond will last forever!"

After saying that, she returned alone to her dwelling.

The youthful version of Old Zhao showed up in front of Nezha.

"Big Sis, where are Second Sis and Third Sis?"

Yunxiao didn’t answer Old Zhao’s question but instead asked, "Big Brother, if it was for me, you’d be willing to do anything, right?"

Without hesitation, Old Zhao answered wholeheartedly, "Of course, I—"

Before finishing his sentence, Yunxiao pierced through his chest and ripped out his heart.

Her previously normal expression twisted into something grotesque. "Brother, let’s make sure the four of us are together forever!"

With that, Yunxiao began to devour Old Zhao’s origin force.

Old Zhao was initially shocked, but then it seemed he figured something out. Instead of resisting, he relaxed his defenses and gently said, "Big Sis, you’re right. Let’s make sure our sibling bond never ends."

Nezha was stunned, witnessing this scene. Seriously, being obsessed with one’s siblings in reality is one thing, but how did the Illusion Realm just make all of this even worse?

After consuming her two sisters and elder brother, Yunxiao’s origin became even more perfect and formidable. Her aptitude markedly improved, but her behavior turned ruthless, unpredictable, and downright extreme—a completely different version of Yunxiao.

With her cultivation speed accelerating at an alarming rate, the timeline within the Heart Demon World rushed forward. Yunxiao swiftly broke through Taiyi Golden Immortal, Daluo Golden Immortal, and then Quasi-Saint.

Yunxiao plundered any resource she could find by any means necessary, and the Heart Demon World continually evolved to match her desires.

During this time, Nezha even caught a glimpse of himself.

It was during Yunxiao’s time as a Quasi-Saint when she entered the mortal realm to undergo tribulation, using him as a pawn for her trial. Once her tribulation reached perfection and she severed her first corpse, she immediately drew her sword and killed her lover as her starting move.

The corpse she severed manifested as the Evil Corpse, Qiong Xiao.

Seeing her sister, Yunxiao seemed to be triggered by something again. The Heart Demon World timeline accelerated further, and within merely ten thousand years, Yunxiao severed her second corpse—the Good Corpse, Bixiao.

Then came the Sealing God Tribulation, where Yunxiao wreaked havoc, successfully severed her true self-corpse, and finally combined the Three Corpses to attain Chaos Origin.

Nezha curiously examined the Saint-like Yunxiao, wondering—what is this? Is killing off your supposed burdens all it takes to become a Saint?

Nezha assumed Yunxiao would indulge in her newfound power, but to his surprise, Yunxiao opened her eyes and muttered to herself, "This isn’t what I want."

"I will definitely come back again."

Even the rapidly expanding Heart Demon paused in confusion.

Why say you’d return if you’re planning to leave anyway?

Upon hearing this declaration, Nezha immediately tightened his control over the God Slaying Spear’s power. Yunxiao’s original consciousness began to wake up, suppressing her Heart Demon, which was scouting ahead.

Soon, the Heart Demon World dissipated, and Yunxiao reverted to her previous self.

"Sister Yun, how are you feeling?"

Yunxiao reflected for a moment and sighed heavily.

"I never realized I had so much resentment toward my two sisters, thinking of them as burdens. But I truly do love them... What a mess."

The Heart Demon projects reality; using her sisters’ deaths to break Yunxiao’s defenses couldn’t have been more fitting, since it mirrored Yunxiao’s deeply buried thoughts.

Yunxiao’s path to cultivation was, in essence, one long journey of cleaning up her sisters’ messes. Among the three sisters, Yunxiao definitely had greater aptitude, but it wasn’t so exceptional that it should have created a gulf as vast as Quasi-Saint, Golden Immortal, and Taiyi Golden Immortal levels.

The root cause was Yunxiao’s constant state of high pressure. The pressure came from none other than her two trouble-prone sisters.

After all, these two had dared challenge Yuan Shi Venerable in the original timeline—a feat of reckless audacity that words fail to describe.

Their guts were extraordinary, their knack for trouble unstoppable, and neither of them ever cared about cultivation. Qiong Xiao would only practice when Yunxiao supervised her but would slack off the moment she was left alone.

Bixiao was even worse; she actively sought ways to avoid cultivation even under supervision! Training? Not a chance—she’d never cultivate for a lifetime.

If she were to cultivate diligently, wouldn’t that render the effort of hardworking Big Bro and Big Sis pointless?

In short, No Brainer and Unhappy were either causing trouble or on their way to cause trouble, leaving Yunxiao constantly cleaning up after them or preparing to do so. In the Primordial world, cleaning up messes required one essential ingredient: strength.

Without strength, you’d already be dead from all the messes.

Yunxiao outwardly expressed no resentment, but could she truly harbor no bitterness inside?

Yunxiao loved them and was willing to tolerate them, but that didn’t mean her heart was free of grievances.

After a long pause, Yunxiao finally said, "Impatience won’t get me anywhere."

Receiving her signal, Nezha once again unleashed the God Slaying Spear’s demonic Qi. The Heart Demon World began to rebuild itself.

And then... and then Nezha saw Yunxiao holding her two sisters again, crying...

Wait—so you know what’s wrong and still refuse to change?

Also, your resentment toward being your sisters’ nanny is clearly not trivial!

This time the progression was almost identical to before, and in the blink of an eye, Yunxiao became a Saint once more.

"Not right! I will definitely come back again."

Snap!

The Heart Demon World dissipated. Yunxiao frowned, deep in thought, before eventually composing herself and saying, "Impatience won’t get me anywhere."

Once more, the Heart Demon Illusion Realm began to unfold, unsurprisingly following the same trajectory as before.

From initially being puzzled, Nezha had gradually grown accustomed to this process. Despite how quickly Immortals accepted new concepts, the inertia of millennia-old thought patterns kept them stubbornly conservative.

Meanwhile, Nezha’s unconventional thinking left even the Heart Demon feeling awkward.

After all, what normal Immortal would slaughter their way from the South Heavenly Gate to the Palace of the Polestar, only to first complain about dry eyes?

Could you have some other reaction? Must you fixate on your irritated eyes?

At this point, the demon inside the God Slaying Spear regained its confidence. Indeed, there was no problem with me, the great Demon here—the issue lies entirely with this troublesome little bastard Nezha!

Nezha, meanwhile, couldn’t care less about the demon within the spear. Recently, he’d been relentlessly training himself with the Immortal-breaking Sword, relying on its intense demonic aura and wild nature to swiftly hone his cultivation and temper his heart.

After watching Yunxiao kill her sisters along the so-called "Righteous Dao" path again and again—countless iterations later—the storyline finally shifted.

This time, instead of killing her sisters, Yunxiao directly refined them into puppets.

Watching Yunxiao’s growing intensity and escalating insanity, Nezha was genuinely alarmed. Are all these seemingly elegant Immortals in the Primordial world secretly this deranged?