Chapter 104
Chapter 104
This time, Xiao Chengxu truly could not take it anymore.
Heaven as his witness, he had only ever regarded Xiao Mei as a younger sister. He really had never had any other thoughts about her…
When they first met, his teasing had only been because he took her for an ordinary prostitute. Later, after he discovered her birthmark, he had never touched her again.
Who would have thought she would…
The disciples nearby, meanwhile, were already all wearing expressions of people watching a juicy scandal unfold.
“I always thought there was something ambiguous between those two. So there really was something going on?”
“Tsk. Who knew Duke Anguo’s Mansion was so immoral…”
The veins on Xiao Chengxu’s hand throbbed.
If a scandal like this got out, Duke Anguo’s Mansion would lose every last shred of face!
And for the rest of his life, he would be branded with the unjust reputation of committing incest and abandoning a woman after seducing her. His official career would be finished for sure!
Xiao Mei, however, was still relentlessly questioning him. “Say it! I don’t believe you don’t like me… You’ve even taken off my clothes, and you still say you don’t like me?”
“Shut up!!”
Xiao Chengxu roared, then bellowed at her, “Stop indulging in your pathetic fantasies! What kind of woman can’t I, Xiao Chengxu, have? Why would I ever be interested in the likes of you? If I’d known your heart was this filthy, I never should have brought you back to Duke’s Mansion in the first place! You became a Princess for a few days and forgot yourself completely. Why don’t you look in a mirror? With that vulgar face of yours, what part of you is worth my fancy!?”
A mirror…
When Xiao Mei heard that, she actually pulled a small mirror out from her tattered sleeve.
If Brother wants me to look in a mirror, then I’ll look.
The moment she did, she let out a scream of sheer terror.
“Ah!!”
“This isn’t me! This isn’t me!!!”
Xiao Mei was frightened by her own face.
She had never seen such a terrifying face in her life. It was even scarier than a ghost…
Xiao Mei threw away the mirror and suddenly lunged at Xiao Chengxu.
“It’s because you wouldn’t save me that I turned into this! I hate you! I hate you-!!!”
Xiao Chengxu raised his hand and struck out with a palm, showing no mercy whatsoever.
Crash!
The zombie-like Xiao Mei was sent flying and smashed heavily into the ground far away.
By the time she landed, every bone in her body had snapped. She no longer made a sound.
“She had already turned into a Tianxie monster.” Xiao Chengxu’s face was cold as he turned and explained to everyone, “When dealing with Tianxie, there is no room for softheartedness.”
With that, he calmly tore apart his Life-saving Talisman and vanished on the spot.
The disciples watched, lingering fear in their hearts.
They had long heard that the Heir of Duke Anguo was ruthless and merciless. Seeing him today, his reputation was indeed well deserved!
He had placed righteousness above family.
Just then, Gu Liuxian arrived with the elders.
When they saw the corpses on the ground and the surviving disciples, everyone’s gaze shook hard.
Gu Liuxian spotted Ye Piaoling at once. Unable to suppress the worry in his heart, he rushed over in a single stride and cried, “Grandpa!”
Ye Piaoling: “…”
Grandfather was getting on in years and a little muddled. The moment he got worked up, he promoted her by several generations.
Gu Liuxian rushed to his granddaughter’s side. Only after seeing that she was fine did he finally relax.
Ximen Chunqiu asked in confusion, “Junior Sister Ye, what did Grandmaster just call you?”
Grandpa?
“Uh,” Ye Piaoling said with an awkward laugh. “He was calling me Old Ye. Old Ye!”
Hearing this, Gu Liuxian quickly went along with it and looked at Hua Wuhuang beside her. “Old Hua, you’re safe and sound too.”
Everyone: “…”
Grandmaster must have been too worried about us. He was so anxious that he even forgot his dignity as Grandmaster and started speaking far too casually.
After that, the surviving disciples all used their Life-saving Talismans to return to Tianwen Sect for treatment.
The elders, meanwhile, began collecting the bodies of the disciples who had died and launched an investigation into the incident.
Lu Yin walked up to Hua Wuhuang and reached out, wanting to help him up. “It’s good that you’re all right. You really had me worried sick.”
Hua Wuhuang ignored him with a cold expression. He directly tore apart his Life-saving Talisman and left.
After Ye Piaoling returned, the first thing she did was grab her blade and hurry to Chonghua Palace.
In the courtyard, the Regent King was leisurely drinking tea, his bearing elegant and unhurried.
Ye Piaoling stormed over in a huff and drove her blade into the table. “You certainly have time to relax. Do you have any idea how serious things have gotten out there?”
The man raised his eyes at an unhurried pace, his tone gentle. “You must have many questions on your mind.”
Ye Piaoling snorted. “Then start talking. What exactly is going on with that Heavenly Lord and the Eternal Life Origin Realm?”
Di Xiulan pointed at the two scrolls on the table. “The truth is right here. Read them first. If you still have questions afterward, I will explain them to you.”
“Oh?”
Curious, Ye Piaoling picked up the scrolls and unfurled them.
The first scroll recorded the fall of the Eternal Life Origin Realm.
To put it plainly, it was the story of humans destroying nature, only to be destroyed by nature in the end.
The Eternal Life Origin Realm was a high-level continent, as well as the birthplace of wood-element spiritual power within the Three Realms. And all of this depended on the Progenitor of Wood Element-the Divine Tree!
The roots of the Divine Tree had stretched into every corner of the Life Origin Realm. It provided spiritual power for the entire continent, nourishing every living thing there.
That continent had once prospered without limit, giving rise to countless powerful cultivation sects. Cultivators competed viciously among themselves, striving to outdo one another, desperately absorbing spiritual energy for their own use, never knowing satisfaction…
In the end, someone finally turned greedy eyes upon the Divine Tree itself.
The colossal tree that had once been worshipped as an ancestral deity began to be plundered by swarming cultivators. They absorbed the Divine Tree’s spiritual power at all costs, fighting bitterly over the best positions. Blades and sword qi struck the trunk again and again, yet the Divine Tree, which had long since developed sentience, remained silent.
Thousands of years passed. As humanity’s desires swelled infinitely along with their cultivation, the leaves of the Divine Tree gradually withered away. In the end, the cultivators even sought to chop down the Divine Tree to fully release its immense spiritual power…
This time, the Divine Tree finally flew into a rage.
Unable to endure any longer, it scattered all of its spiritual power beyond the heavens, together with both its love and hatred for the Life Origin Realm!
All it left behind in the Life Origin Realm was a towering dead tree that pierced the sky, and an eight-word curse:
Eternal Long Night, Drifting Forevermore.
Having abruptly lost its source of spiritual energy, the Life Origin Realm quickly became a living hell. Whether cultivators or demonic beasts, none could absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth anymore. They could only plunder and devour one another… Resentment blotted out the sky and sun, and the entire continent sank into endless darkness!
The harsh environment was like raising poisonous creatures in a jar. Weak lives were swallowed one after another, while the strong mutated, gradually transforming into terrifying monsters. That world became a ghostly domain overrun by monsters, a place where the light of day could no longer be seen. This was known as the Eternal Long Night…
As for the occasional lucky humans who escaped through cracks in space-time, they could only wander in foreign realms, homeless, drifting forevermore…
Years later, from among the countless monsters of the Life Origin Realm, there emerged a handsome man with violet eyes and silver hair.
He was the embodiment of humanity’s ultimate desire, possessing a beautiful appearance, overwhelming strength, and eternal life that knew neither age nor death.
The world called him: the Evil Lord.
In a sense, humanity’s desires had been realized-but realized through self-destruction.
The Evil Lord became the ruler of the Life Origin Realm, but of course he would not be satisfied with that. What he wanted was to unify the Three Realms for all eternity. And so, he tore through space-time and began leading the Tianxie to invade other continents.
Thus began the calamity of the Tianxie-
After finishing the scroll, Ye Piaoling finally understood. So this was the truth behind the destruction of the Eternal Life Origin Realm!
The tragedy of it all left one sighing.
She let out a deep sigh, then picked up the second scroll.
When she opened it, she found that it was written in Di Xiulan’s handwriting!
It seemed to be his personal record, documenting his true identity as well as the causes and circumstances that had led him to the Glazed Continent.
Ye Piaoling read only a few lines before her expression shook.