“Pfft!”
Ye Fan stared fixedly at the scene inside the mirror. Combined with the meaningful glances from the other cultivators in the hall, rage overwhelmed him, and he suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood. His fiancée had actually become pregnant with the child of an ugly rat demon.
Even though everything inside the Haotian Mirror was fictional, the vivid and immersive experience of being so thoroughly humiliated filled his heart with unbearable bitterness and pain, and even gave rise to a terrible and strange excitement.
After being imprisoned and defiled by the rat demon in the mirror’s world for a year, Gu Miaojun was now heavily pregnant, her belly swollen. She was like a living corpse, her gaze hollow and dazed, her hair disheveled, her clothes ragged. She resembled a mentally deranged, filthy beggar woman.
“Miaojun, it’s time to eat. Only by staying alive can there be hope.”
Gu Hai, who had lost an arm and was now haggard and despondent, carried a food box into the rat cave’s cage. Seeing Gu Miaojun standing there motionless like a puppet, his heart ached as he spoke softly.
Half a year ago, Gu Hongyu had tried to rescue Gu Miaojun, gathering many conscientious half-demons to rebel against the golden-furred rat king’s rule. Unfortunately, they were all killed and eaten. Gu Qing had sacrificed her life to give Gu Hai a slim chance at survival.
“Seventh Brother, do you know? Our world is fake. It’s a fabrication of the Imperial Artifact, the Haotian Mirror. You all have been dead for a long time. This is my punishment from Master. Everything is my own doing. I’ve failed Senior Brother, and I’ve failed myself.”
Gu Miaojun, cradling her pregnant belly, spoke hoarsely.
She constantly reminded herself that everything happening was fake, that she was still the high and mighty Fairy Miaojun. Yet the pain of being ravaged and impregnated by the rat demon was vividly real.
“Miaojun, are you alright? Is there anything I can do for you? Mother, Eighth Brother, and Thirteenth Sister were all bitten to death and eaten by that monster.”
Gu Hai, his heart dead, spoke gently to the mentally broken Gu Miaojun, thinking she had lost her mind.
“Seventh Brother, please go to the valley in front of the manor and find my Senior Brother. Tell him that Miaojun is sorry, that she knows her mistakes. Beg him to kill the rat demon and save me from this sea of suffering. I don’t want to stay in this mirror world anymore. I want to leave this nightmare.”
A glimmer of hope flashed in Gu Miaojun’s murky eyes as she pleaded through tears.
“Miaojun, have you really gone mad? How could you be the junior sister of such a powerful cultivator? You only left home for half a month before running back, and you’ve been imprisoned by that monster ever since. You’ve never even set foot outside Jinyang Mansion! Wuwuwu, you must stay strong. You are my only hope for living on.”
Gu Hai cried out bitterly.
“Wuwuwu, Seventh Brother, I beg you, please believe me this once. I’m not crazy. This world is truly fake. As long as my Senior Brother kills the rat demon, we can all be freed.”
Gu Miaojun suddenly knelt down and clutched Gu Hai’s legs, weeping bitterly.
Gu Hai used his remaining arm to wipe the tears from her face and spoke earnestly.
“Okay, I promise.”
Gu Miaojun nodded.
“Wuwuwu, Sister Miaojun is so pitiful! Senior Brother, please hurry and save her. She knows she was wrong.”
Outside the Haotian Mirror, Li Yue’er and Li Ling’er clung to each other, crying like pear blossoms bathed in rain.
“The emotional red thread deep within Gu Miaojun’s consciousness has indeed dimmed. It seems that as long as Ye Fan starts to resent these women of his harem, we can silently weaken his Heavenly Dao fortune.”
Murong Bing’s lips curved into a mocking smile as she calculated silently.
Having been Demon Empress alongside Xia Changqing for over a thousand years, she had long been influenced by the charming and manipulative nature of the handsome youth, and had unwittingly become adept at toying with hearts.
Seeing Gu Miaojun’s current half-human, half-ghost misery, not only did Murong Bing feel no pity, but she even felt a refreshing sense of satisfaction on Xia Changqing’s behalf.
Time flowed much faster inside the Haotian Mirror than outside.
Gu Hai escaped from Beast Taming Manor and tirelessly searched for Xia Changqing’s whereabouts. In the blink of an eye, three months had passed without any success.
After recovering from his injuries, Xia Changqing had begun to wander the mirror world, investigating its nature. No matter which direction he flew, he could not escape the Azure Cloud Holy Land’s domain. This was the limitation of the Haotian Mirror’s coverage.
“Are you the immortal from Azure Cloud?”
As Xia Changqing returned to the nameless valley, Gu Hai, who had been waiting there in vain, saw him flying in on his magic sword and immediately knelt down and asked.
The magic weapon Xia Changqing had refined was called the Ruyi Demonic Armament. It could transform into any weapon—blade, spear, sword, halberd—according to his preferences.
“You lowly half-demon, how dare you block my path? Are you seeking death?” Find the original chapter at g.com.
Xia Changqing’s long black hair fluttered in the wind, and he looked like a ruthless devil as he spoke coldly.
“Lord Immortal, I beg you, please save Miaojun. She said she’s your junior sister. I know she must be rambling, but you Azure Cloud disciples have always taken eliminating evil as your duty. There’s a golden-furred rat king at the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm in Beast Taming Manor, committing heinous crimes. He delights in capturing girls with spiritual roots to use as breeding tools. Many of my siblings were the products of that rat demon’s sins.”
Gu Hai, skinny as a skeleton with matted hair like a beggar, his sunken eyes full of hatred for the rat demon, wept as he pleaded.
“What? Gu Miaojun has become a breeding tool for the rat demon’s offspring? Pfft—hahaha! Ye Fan, did you hear that? Your fiancée has become a slave to a rat demon! Even though this is a fictional world created by the Haotian Mirror, you’re still wearing a green hat in spirit. Hahaha, no wonder your surname is Ye. Green must be your family’s lucky color! Hahaha, congratulations, you’re going to be a father! And congratulations to the Grand Elder, you’re going to be a great-grandfather! Junior Brother Ye, broaden your mind. If you love a woman, you must love everything about her.”
Hearing Gu Hai’s words, Xia Changqing was stunned for a moment, then the more he thought about it, the more amusing it seemed.
His lips curled into a grin, and finally, he burst into hearty laughter. His laughter was loud and carefree, but it was also full of deep mockery and disdain.
“Damned Xia Changqing, I will kill you!”
Ye Fan’s handsome face flushed purple, eventually turning the color of pig liver. He clenched his fists tightly and roared in a low voice.
Grand Elder Ye Zheng’s old face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, but being seasoned and shrewd, he managed to suppress his hatred perfectly.
“This bastard is really trying to stir trouble again.”
Murong Bing couldn’t help but smile as she watched Xia Changqing’s wicked smirk inside the Haotian Mirror.
“Waaah!”
Along with a baby’s cry, a blood-red pillar of light shot up from Beast Taming Manor, lasting for a full minute before gradually fading.
“A Celestial Demon Body! No wonder she’s entangled in karma with Ye Fan. As one of the Heavenly Dao’s selected concubines for him, she’s also favored by the Heavenly Dao’s fortune. Even with a rat demon, she could still give birth to a Celestial Demon Body! Hahaha, this game is getting more and more interesting.”
Xia Changqing activated his Saint Eyes, turning his pupils pure gold. His gaze pierced through countless obstacles and landed directly on the depths of the rat den, where he saw Gu Miaojun lying exhausted on a pile of straw, holding a delicate baby boy with rosy lips and white teeth in her arms.
Although the Celestial Demon Body was not as monstrous as Xia Changqing’s Immortal-Demonic Physique or Murong Bing’s Creation Divine Body, it was still an extremely rare constitution.