“The Haotian Mirror can reverse time and reveal the cause and effect of the past. Since each of you insists on your version of the story, both of you will enter the Haotian Mirror and see the truth for yourselves.”
Murong Bing spoke with absolute finality.
Before the crowd could react, the stunning Sect Master used her profound Nine Heavens Immortal Qi to activate the Haotian Mirror again, sending Xia Changqing and Gu Miaojun into the world inside the mirror.
“Wuwuwu, I’ve finally returned to the Beast Taming Manor! Xia Changqing, you can’t stop me from going home this time!”
Beside the handsome youth stood a young girl with rosy lips and pearly teeth. She was crying with joy, overwhelmed with emotion.
Under the divine might of the Haotian Mirror, they had returned to the secluded valley outside the Beast Taming Manor two hundred years ago.
Xia Changqing’s Immortal-Demonic Dao Body allowed him to remain unaffected, but Gu Miaojun, lacking any special physique, had her cultivation and power suppressed by the Haotian Mirror’s laws of cause and effect, leaving her a powerless mortal.
Their cause and effect began here, and it would also end here.
“Get lost, you disgusting, self-important woman! Stop disturbing my cultivation.”
Xia Changqing kicked Gu Miaojun flying without a glance, then sat cross-legged on the spot to cultivate.
After being beaten down two major realms by Chen Ji and the others, his body was riddled with wounds. He needed to seize the time to heal and couldn’t care less about Gu Miaojun’s life or death.
“Xia Changqing, I will reveal your cruel and inhumane massacre of my family to the higher-ups! You will never become the next Supreme Leader!”
Gu Miaojun wiped the blood trickling from her broken lip and snarled with hatred.
Tears streaming down her face, she ran toward the “home” she had been separated from for over two hundred years.
Father, mother, my beloved younger brothers and sisters, I, Gu Miaojun, miss you so much!
“Master, how could Senior Brother treat Fourth Junior Sister like that? He even made her bleed, and she’s just a mortal now!”
“Exactly! How could the once gentle and selfless Senior Brother turn so cruel?”
“Could it be that Senior Brother was always pretending? Is this his true nature? Scary!”
Lin Xinyue and the others complained as they watched the scenes unfolding within the Haotian Mirror.
“Silence!”
Murong Bing’s face showed her impatience as she coldly reprimanded them. She raised her jade hand and pointed lightly at the Haotian Mirror, infusing it with an immense amount of heaven and earth spiritual energy and a trace of the Imperial Artifact’s source, channeling it into Xia Changqing’s body. Read the latest chapters at novelping.com.
‘The source of the Imperial Artifact! This Master is so much better than the previous one. For treating me so well, I’ll hold off on rebelling against her for now. Hehe, but if she disappoints me later, I’ll knock her down and ruthlessly bully her.’
Sitting on the grassy field, Xia Changqing smirked wickedly.
‘You damned turtle, you shameless traitor! You’re still thinking about bullying me? What do you mean if I don’t behave you’ll push me down and humiliate me?’
Murong Bing, catching Xia Changqing’s inner thoughts, blushed faintly and almost couldn’t resist rushing into the Haotian Mirror to slap him to death.
“You fools! How dare you lose the vessel I painstakingly prepared for producing offspring!
To hide our demon bloodline and avoid extermination by the cultivators, each generation of our clan has mixed with the human race to breed stronger descendants. On the surface, we are the Beast Taming Manor, but in truth, we are the Breeding Beast Manor!
This time, I finally found a furnace vessel with high-grade spiritual roots, and you actually lost her!”
A middle-aged man in luxurious robes appeared, his face rodent-like with a sharp mouth and thin cheeks, his eyes blood-red. He viciously glared at the trembling half-demons kneeling before him.
His shrill voice screeched like a shovel scraping against concrete.
“Spare us, King! We already did our best!”
The half-demons trembled and begged for mercy. Although they were all his sons, in the demon race, there was no concept of human morality. Incest and cannibalism were common. Many of their siblings had been killed and eaten by the Rat King himself.
“King, there’s a powerful cultivator outside the manor. That little girl, Miaojun, was taken by him.
The children were too scared to tell you the truth.”
A beautiful human woman stepped forward to explain.
Having fallen into the demon den was like sinking into an abyss. She only hoped Gu Miaojun would never return.
“Hmph, you humans are truly cunning! If I find out that you helped that vessel escape, even though you once saved my life, I will not hesitate to snap your neck and eat you alive.”
The Rat King gripped the woman’s neck, baring his sharp fangs, his Nascent Soul Peak cultivation aura mixed with dense demonic energy surging out.
“King, you know I’m not afraid of death. If not for protecting these children from your demonic urges, I would have long ended my own life.”
Gu Hongyu’s face remained emotionless as she spoke calmly.
In the five hundred years she had been imprisoned, she had given birth to thousands of half-demons. Those not dying prematurely were either hunted or eaten by the Rat King.
“Hahaha, such noble motherly love! But when you humans killed my mother and gouged out her demon core, you showed no mercy.
Our treasure-seeking rat clan was slaughtered until we could only survive through interbreeding. People have long forgotten that we demons are the true descendants of gods and devils, the rightful rulers of the Mystic Sky World!
If we don’t produce the strongest offspring, I will never rest!”
The Rat King laughed hysterically, tears streaming from his eyes.
“King, the world is now ruled by humans. The glory of the demon race is long gone. If we continue our rampant kidnapping of girls with spiritual roots in Jinyang Prefecture, Azure Cloud Holy Land will surely notice us.
The outsider may well be a disciple of Azure Cloud. We should leave Jinyang Prefecture tonight and head to the Demon Clan’s sacred land, the Ten Thousand Mountains.”
The beautiful woman urged earnestly.
“Father, mother, brothers, sisters, I’m home!”
Disheveled and in tattered clothes, her delicate skin scratched by thorns, Gu Miaojun finally reached the gates of the Beast Taming Manor after a day and night of struggling, crying with joy.
Now powerless, she was just an ordinary person. To make it back had already exhausted all her strength.
“Seventh Brother, Thirteenth Sister, I’m back!”
She shouted excitedly at the two Foundation Establishment guards at the gate.
“Where did this little beggar come from? Get lost! Our manor doesn’t have leftovers for you.”
The young swordsman turned and saw her. His face stiffened, then he quickly barked harshly, signaling the girl urgently to leave.
Gu Miaojun’s mind had been tampered with by the Golden-Furred Rat King’s illusions, making her mistake them for her loving family.
“Sister, please spare her life. If you let her go, you can absorb my cultivation. Even if you eat me, I will have no complaints.”
Gu Hai, seeing Gu Qing smile cruelly and about to report to their father, begged her through voice transmission.
“Really?”
The girl in green licked her red lips. Her eyes turned into demon pupils as she smiled wickedly. She had long coveted her Seventh Brother’s cultivation.
“I don’t want her to end up like Mother, a slave to that tyrant. Besides, I’ve long stopped wanting to live.
In my next life, I want to be a real human, not a disgusting half-demon.”
Gu Hai smiled bitterly, ashen-faced.