She Turned the Tables to Become a Peerless Empress the Cold Immortal Lord Regrets Too Late!

Xin Yao, the former First Empress of the Tai Xu Yun Sect and its most powerful cultivator in history, is reincarnated after five thousand years of sealed memories. Reborn into a weak body with a mundane spiritual root, she finds herself married to Jin Chiyue, the Peak Lord of Bright Moon Peak, for a century. Jin Chiyue, who she saved from death when he was near demise, has grown cold and distant. The central conflict ignites when Jin Chiyue demands Xin Yao’s spiritual root to save his junior sister, Zhou Linlang, who was gravely injured in a secret realm. Jin Chiyue believes Xin Yao’s root can regenerate because he witnessed her survive a fatal injury years prior, unaware that she had actually hidden her true, regenerative nature. Despite Xin Yao’s pleas and the certainty that losing her root will kill her, Jin Chiyue forcibly extracts it, leaving her to die in a pool of blood in their spirit field. He departs without looking back, prioritizing Linlang’s recovery.

As Xin Yao lies dying, her suppressed memories as the Empress awaken. A blood-red lotus mark blooms on her hand, revealing a connection to a mysterious artifact spirit within her. This rebirth grants her access to ancient cultivation techniques and a new, purified spiritual root that forms from the remnants of her old one. Instead of dying, she recovers rapidly, her cultivation surging from a crippled state to the mid-Qi Refining stage in mere days. She returns to Swallowing Heaven Peak, the former residence of Emperor Su Qianyue, which she now claims as her own. There, she destroys the spirit field Jin Chiyue had valued, using the explosion to publicly announce her divorce through a blood-written letter carved into a stone stele. The act shocks the entire sect, stripping Jin Chiyue of his dignity and revealing the marriage that he had kept secret.

Jin Chiyue, initially dismissing the divorce as a tantrum, sends his chief disciple Zhuang Gui to retrieve Xin Yao. However, the reborn Xin Yao effortlessly defeats Zhuang Gui, shattering his spirit weapon and displaying power far beyond her supposed low cultivation. When Jin Chiyue arrives personally with Zhou Linlang, he is stunned by Xin Yao’s transformation. She no longer wears the submissive white robes of her past life but dons crimson attire, exuding an aura of cold authority. She rejects his demand to return, openly mocking his relationship with Linlang and exposing the hypocrisy of his moral posturing. Jin Chiyue, unable to comprehend her defiance, threatens to drag her to the Discipline Hall, assuming she will submit to avoid expulsion from the sect.

Xin Yao counters by asserting that Swallowing Heaven Peak is her ancestral home and that she is returning to her own peak gate, not trespassing. To prove her identity, she produces a handwritten letter from Emperor Su Qianyue, a legendary figure whose unique rune-based handwriting is recognized by Jun Xin Yuan, the Third Peak Master, and the Discipline Hall elders. The revelation that Xin Yao is the reincarnation or descendant of the sect’s founding Empress leaves Jin Chiyue and Zhou Linlang in shock. Zhou Linlang, whose injuries were partly feigned to manipulate Jin Chiyue, attempts to discredit Xin Yao but fails as the elders recognize the authenticity of the letter. The artifact spirit within Xin Yao, initially hostile and arrogant, begins to show signs of protection, lending her spiritual power during confrontations. The story concludes with Xin Yao establishing her dominance over Swallowing Heaven Peak, rejecting her past life of subservience, and preparing to reclaim her former status while Jin Chiyue grapples with the consequences of his betrayal and the loss of his wife.