Ghostly Blessing

In my previous life, I was half a move short and ultimately failed to reach the summit.
Having traveled back to the past, this time... I want to become the strongest in this world!
To become the strongest in this world, one only needs three simple steps:
1. Pick up a newly-transferred Demonic Sect Enchantress off the streets.
2. Subdue and vanquish the demon.
3. Take her cultivation technique for myself.
Awesome! I'm already invincible!
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Years later, Yan Yu, who had earned the title of "the strongest," was interviewed on television:
Host: To whom do you want to give thanks for your success today?
Yan Yu: I'd like to thank a very important woman to me.
Host (eyes lighting up): Oh, is she your wise and virtuous wife?
Yan Yu: No, consider her a stepping stone, I suppose.
Host (wiping sweat): Then... what about the other members of your team? They must have helped you as well, right?
Yan Yu: ... How could there possibly be only one stepping stone on the path to godhood?

Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

Yan Yu and Zhou Hongyu, of course, had no deep hatred or significant grudge.


Old Master Yan was simply kind-hearted, couldn't stand to see a woman belittle herself, so he wanted to help her find the will to live on... Of course, he didn't seek any reward, purely out of sympathy and pity.


For a woman with a strong tendency toward self-destruction, the necessary support for her to keep living must be some intense emotion, such as love, or like hatred.


Because of the marriage between her parents that was a "great failure" from any perspective, Zhou Hongyu completely rejected love and marriage, so hatred had to be used as her motive to live.


Look at that angry little expression, probably can't wait to die together with me in vendetta, huh?


Feeling the time was about right, Yan Yu calmly dodged her ferocious lunge, activated Curved Curse, and with a twist of the body, delivered a knee strike, toppling the irrational Zhou Hongyu to the ground.


Chapter 50 I'm saving her