God Tier Providence System Chapter 80

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These ghost-like wails scared Joanna so badly her face turned deathly pale.

The hairs all over her body stood on end. She instinctively took several steps back.

Alex, however, revealed a look of excitement. An amused smile curled on his lips.

“It really is you!”

The smoke gradually cleared. Standing impressively on the ground was a woman.

Long, wine-red hair cascading down her back, facial features exquisite as jade, skin fair as snow.

A proud, fiery figure. She was completely unclad, with only a few dark purple petals floating lazily around her body. Large expanses of fair, tender skin were exposed to the open air.

An absolutely alluring, seductive beauty.

Her name was Helen. A profound, immortal Millennium Rose demon.

According to the original novel, Knox’s past-past life was a scholar traveling to the capital for the imperial examinations. Without silver to stay at an inn along the way, he had no choice but to lodge in a ruined temple for the night.

It just so happened that a torrential downpour raged outside, accompanied by lightning and thunder.

The scholar noticed a tender rose seedling under the eaves of the courtyard, swaying dangerously in the wind and rain.

Taking pity on it, he carefully brought the tender seedling inside the temple and planted it.

That seedling was Helen.

At the time, she was merely a little demon with incredibly low power. Utterly incapable of resisting the ravages of the storm. Knox’s casual, unintentional act inadvertently saved her life, allowing her to eventually cultivate and achieve a true form.

After achieving the Dao and taking human form, Helen made a resolute decision. For all eternity, across countless lifetimes, she would follow her benefactor without fail.

In her first lifetime, after the scholar passed the exams and became a court official, he lost in a partisan struggle and was thrown into a major prison. Helen rescued him from the prison, slaughtered all of his political enemies, and repeatedly established merits on his behalf.

Ultimately, the scholar was honored as Prime Minister.

A grand chancellor second only to the emperor, above tens of thousands.

In her second lifetime, Knox’s immediate past life, he was a Daoist priest whose parents died when he was young. Originally possessing very low power. Not only did he fail at catching ghosts, but he frequently suffered backlash from the spirits, leading to a weakened fate and vitality.

Helen disguised herself as a wandering knight. Wherever the Daoist traveled to gain experience, she followed closely behind.

Whenever he encountered danger, she would appear at the perfect moment and save him.

Under her continuous escort and protection, the Daoist gradually grew stronger. Eventually becoming the number one ghost catcher in the world. However, her own cultivation regressed from the constant heavy injuries, her demonic power growing increasingly weak.

Later, during an encounter with a Mahayana Realm malicious ghost, the Daoist was no match for it. Helen stepped in to help. Exhausting almost all of her remaining strength, she finally managed to subjugate the malicious ghost.

After successfully averting the crisis, because her injuries were too severe, Helen accidentally revealed her true demonic form.

Upon learning that the partner who had supported and guided him all this way was actually a flower demon, Knox’s past life, the world’s number one ghost catcher, resolutely chose to pierce Helen’s heart with his peach wood sword.

Slaughtered her on the spot.

Absorbed all of her cultivation.

Because he didn’t want the world to know that he had only become the number one ghost catcher with the help of a demon.

Meanwhile, a wisp of Helen’s remnant soul wandered through the vast heavens and earth. It ultimately landed in the Void Domain Cave Heaven, dropped a new seed, took root, sprouted.

She cultivated with everything she had.

In just a few short decades, she recovered from having her cultivation completely ruined all the way back to the Nascent Soul Realm. She tried every possible method to lure prey close, hunting them down and absorbing their nutrients.

All for the sake of being able to continue following Knox in this current life.

The original author writing this character probably wanted to mold the image of a deeply devoted, infatuated woman.

Let’s not even talk about the first lifetime, where the scholar treated Helen entirely as a tool to be used.

Just looking at his immediate past life alone. He clearly accepted so much of her help, yet ultimately killed her with a single sword strike.

This wolf-hearted, dog-lunged behavior had long since canceled out that unintentional life-saving grace from the very beginning.

Helen was, for better or worse, a renowned Millennium Flower Demon with a face and a reputation.

To be treated like that by a human, and instead of seeking revenge, actually hole up in the Void Domain Cave Heaven cultivating diligently, just so she could continue following Knox in her third lifetime?

How the fuck is your brain wired? Was getting stabbed once not enough? Do you want to get stabbed again? Simps deserve to die.

In the original novel, while Knox was gaining experience here, he accidentally ran into danger.

At the critical, life-or-death moment, Helen appeared and slew a Nascent Soul Realm vicious beast. She then transformed into a rose bracelet, accompanying Knox everywhere. Inseparable as body and shadow.

Ultimately, during Knox’s battle against First Elder Cedric, she appeared at the most crucial moment. Selflessly blocked a lethal strike from Cedric’s Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation.

Bought Knox the perfect opportunity to kill Cedric in a single strike.

As for herself? After enduring three lifetimes of unwavering devotion, she completely threw away her millennium-old cultivation and perished entirely for Knox’s sake.

Thinking of this, the gaze Alex directed at Helen carried an extra trace of frustration.

Helen tilted her head up and glared at him. Her expression cold as ice.

“Who are you?”

“Why does your body carry the aura of my husband?”

“This seat is the Saint Lord of the Hale family, Alex.” Alex said calmly.

“If the husband you speak of is Knox…”

“Then it is not strange for me to carry his aura.”

“Because his blood has not yet dried on my hands.”