Divine Seal: I, the Grim Reaper, am kept by the yandere Cai'er.

Chapter 13 The Rinnegan: The God Descends from the Darkness

"white night……"

Cai'er hugged the clone dominated by Bai Ye's consciousness tightly, burying her face deeply in the clone's not-so-broad shoulders. Tears streamed down her face like broken pearls, instantly soaking the clone's shoulder fabric.

It's been four years.

From the moment she was deprived of her sense of touch and feeling, and trapped in that dark and sunless chamber, the White Nights became the only light in her life.

She had nestled against him countless times in the sea of ​​her spirit, but she never imagined that one day she would be able to truly embrace her god in this cold and desperate reality.

Feeling the girl's trembling body and her scalding tears in his arms, Bai Ye's eyes softened.

He raised the small hand that belonged to Cai'er's clone, and as he always did in her sea of ​​consciousness, gently stroked Cai'er's soft, long hair again and again, soothingly saying in a soft voice, "It's alright, don't cry, I'm here to keep you company, aren't I?"

Cai'er sniffed and lifted her head from the clone's embrace.

Curious, she reached out and poked the clone's cheek, which was exactly like her own, and then pinched the clone's arm. Her clear, cold eyes were full of novelty and disbelief.

It was clearly a shadow formed from spiritual energy, and it had a face exactly like hers, but the gentle, calm, and powerful aura emanating from it made her absolutely certain that the person standing before her was the one and only Bai Ye.

"This is amazing..." Cai'er burst into laughter through her tears, and a rare, radiant smile bloomed on her usually icy face.

"This is just the beginning."

The clone dominated by Bai Ye smiled slightly and explained, "This 'Shadow of Death,' which is controlled by my consciousness, is no longer an ordinary clone with only half the combat power of the original body because it carries my divine sense. It can unleash one hundred percent of your current cultivation level, and I will personally control the battle."

Bai Ye paused, a hint of arrogance flashing in his eyes: "In other words, from now on, you no longer need to overexert your body like you did today, forcing me to 'take over' your account. You are essentially carrying a top-tier assassin of the same level as you, who is proficient in all the laws of death, with you at all times."

Cai'er's eyes lit up instantly.

Double the combat power! And one of them is personally controlled by Bai Ye! If this were on the battlefield, it would be a nightmare for any enemy!

Just as Cai'er wanted to talk to Bai Ye's clone a little longer, Bai Ye's expression suddenly changed slightly.

"Someone has arrived, and their cultivation level is very high."

Before he finished speaking, Bai Ye severed the connection with his clone without the slightest hesitation.

With a soft "bang," the once lifelike shadow of the Grim Reaper instantly turned into a cloud of black mist and dissipated into the air.

Bai Ye's consciousness also secretly returned to Cai'er's spiritual sea.

Almost at the same time, the tightly closed wooden doors of the barracks were silently pushed open.

Saint Moon, dressed in a black robe, appeared in the room like a ghost.

Looking at his great-granddaughter sitting cross-legged on the bed, Sheng Yue's usually cold and aloof face showed a rare hint of a relieved smile.

"Cai'er, your great-grandfather witnessed your performance on the city wall today. To kill a fifth-tier Emerald Twin-Blade Demon with only fourth-tier cultivation is nothing short of a miracle! You have lived up to the expectations of the Assassin's Temple; you are a peerless genius, one in a thousand years, in our Assassin lineage!"

However, despite her great-grandfather's lavish praise, Cai'er didn't even lift her eyelids.

Her delicate face instantly regained its usual icy coldness, even revealing a hint of displeasure at being disturbed.

If this old man hadn't suddenly appeared, she could have stayed with Bai Ye a little longer!

Sheng Yue was already used to Cai'er's indifference, and he didn't take it to heart, continuing to speak to himself:

"My great-grandfather is here today to tell you something. In a year and a half, the Alliance's once-every-five-years Demon Hunter Selection Tournament will be held. At that time, you will represent our Assassin's Temple!"

At this point, Saint Moon's eyes turned fervent: "In previous selection tournaments, the individual championships were almost entirely dominated by the Knight Temple and the Magic Temple. Our Assassin Temple hasn't touched that supreme glory for far too long. But now it's different. With the arrival of you, the Saintess of Reincarnation, this is the perfect opportunity for our Assassin Temple to rise again!"

"Cai'er, your great-grandfather hopes that you will cultivate diligently for the remaining year and a half, make a name for yourself in the selection competition, and bring back the spirit furnace that belongs to the champion!"

Cai'er remained silent, only nodding perfunctorily.

She utterly disdained the so-called glory of the Assassin's Temple.

Her sole motivation for desperately becoming stronger was simply to survive better, and to one day truly stand beside Bai Ye.

Seeing this, Sheng Yue said no more, left behind several bottles of precious tonifying and nourishing pills, and then turned and left.

……

Time flies, the years are like a shuttle.

For the next year, Cai'er's life was dull and bloody.

She was like a tireless killing machine, fighting madly against the demons on the city walls of Exorcism Pass, which was like a meat grinder, during the day, and desperately squeezing out every bit of her potential in the barracks under Bai Ye's strict guidance at night.

Under this hellish training, Cai'er's cultivation level advanced by leaps and bounds, breaking through the fifth-level barrier without any suspense!

A fifth-tier assassin at less than thirteen years old—this talent is enough to drive the entire Holy Temple Alliance crazy!

With her current strength, she has already exceeded the infantry battalion's quota and could easily apply to be transferred to a higher-level, better-paying assassin-only camp.

But Cai'er unexpectedly chose to stay and remain in the battalion with an extremely high casualty rate.

Throughout the year, she watched helplessly as batches of soldiers around her died, only to be replaced by new ones.

Apart from a few veterans like Battalion Commander Zhang Hairong who were lucky enough to survive, most of the faces that mocked her for her oversized uniform have now become cold skeletons outside the city walls.

If it weren't for Cai'er, the "Grim Reaper," secretly and relentlessly reaping the lives of high-ranking demons, and even saving Zhang Hairong's life at the last minute several times, the casualty rate of the First Battalion would probably have been several times higher.

Therefore, even Zhang Hairong, a rough and rugged man, now only felt deep awe and gratitude in his eyes when he saw Cai'er.

They all understood that beneath the cold exterior of this girl, who exuded an aura of loneliness, lay a kind heart.

She was protecting these ordinary soldiers who had built a defense for her with their own flesh and blood when she was at her weakest.

On this day, dark clouds covered the sky above the Demon Exorcism Pass, and the sounds of fighting shook the heavens and the earth.

The demons' offensive came wave after wave like a tsunami, seemingly endless.

"when!"

On the city wall, twelve-year-old Cai'er, dressed in black, held a dark gold dagger that transformed into a sharp, cold light, fiercely parrying the massive scythe of a fifth-tier emerald-green dual-blade demon.

Now, she no longer needs Bai Ye to "take over" her account. With her fifth-level cultivation and unparalleled assassin skills, she can easily deal with this demon king and precisely sever its central nervous system in less than twenty rounds!

"Bang!"

The massive body of the Emerald Twin Blade Demon crashed to the ground.

However, before Cai'er could even catch her breath, her powerful performance had thoroughly enraged the high-ranking beings in the demon camp.

"roar--!"

"Hey——!"

Accompanied by several ear-piercing roars and shrieks, two even larger emerald-green twin-blade demons and three fifth-tier bird demons circling in mid-air, like five bolts of lightning, tacitly surrounded Cai'er from different directions!

Five fifth-tier demons!

Such a formidable and overwhelming force would force even a sixth-tier knight to temporarily retreat!

Zhang Hairong, watching from afar, was filled with rage and desperately wanted to help, but he was relentlessly entangled by an endless stream of low-level demons and couldn't break free at all.

However, even in the face of such a certain death, there was no fear on Cai'er's delicate face.

She didn't even flinch; her spiritual energy surged wildly within her, and the dagger in her hand emitted a dazzling dark golden light.

It was nothing more than a tough battle, something she was already used to.

But, at the very moment she was about to soar into the sky—

Without warning, the world before Cai'er's eyes suddenly plunged into a pure, deathly darkness, as if the power had been forcibly turned off!

The city walls, the demons, the sky, the blood... everything vanished completely at that moment.

The most brutal and dangerous trial of the Six Paths of Reincarnation—the Eye of Reincarnation—has arrived!

She has lost her sight!

Suddenly becoming blind on the battlefield where life and death hang by a thread, the terrifying sense of weightlessness and fear of the unknown instantly shattered Cai'er's cold facade.

"white night!"

Just as the five fierce attacks were about to land, the girl, plunged into endless darkness, cried out in panic the name etched deep in her soul.