Chapter 39: The Destined-to-be-Abandoned Good-for-Nothing (19)p2
Originally Gui Mian didn’t want to touch her. After all, the body of a Great Ascension cultivator was indeed beneficial to her current cultivation level.
But seeing Su Mingxiu provoke her again and again, as if she was sure Gui Mian wouldn’t do anything, Gui Mian, in a fit of anger, released a wave of grey mist, drilling into Su Mingxiu’s meridians.
She decided to drain all of Su Mingxiu’s spiritual energy!
Let her know the consequences of provoking her!
The grey mist entered Su Mingxiu’s meridians, roaming through the vast network of spiritual energy, unconsciously guided by Su Mingxiu towards her dantian, then towards her sea of consciousness.
Finally, the grey mist stopped before the sea of consciousness.
She knew that this place couldn’t be damaged. If she invaded it, let alone curing Su Mingxiu’s heart demon, her master might not need any cure in the future, she would be completely crippled.
But at this moment, an unknown force suddenly pushed the grey mist into the sea of consciousness.
Gui Mian: “!!”
The grey mist didn’t dare to move, even condensing into a human form within Su Mingxiu’s sea of consciousness. The miniature figure said angrily: “Are you crazy?”
Leaving her in the sea of consciousness, did Su Mingxiu want to die?
As soon as she finished speaking, Gui Mian saw the scenery of the sea of consciousness change instantly. Soon, she found herself in a room decorated in festive red. The walls were adorned with double happiness characters, red candles were burning on the table, even the bed curtains and quilt were red.
A figure appeared behind her. As their arms wrapped around her waist, both of them trembled.
The contact between their souls felt much more intense than physical contact.
Gui Mian instinctively tried to break free, to transform back into grey mist, when she heard Su Mingxiu’s chuckling voice: “My good disciple, you have to be quiet here, or you might have to arrange Master’s funeral early.”
The mist stopped moving and condensed back into a human form, stiffly pulled into Su Mingxiu’s embrace.
Finally able to hold her, Su Mingxiu felt a sense of satisfaction. But she had underestimated her own willpower. Transforming her sea of consciousness into this wedding chamber was initially just a prank to tease Gui Mian, matching her red clothes.
But in this room, seeing that face dressed in festive red like a bride, her hidden desires were amplified.
She could only close her eyes, not daring to look at the captivating scene that stirred her heart.
Gui Mian, held in her arms, tried to struggle free, but she couldn’t control her strength. Frustrated, she saw Su Mingxiu holding her comfortably, as if her scheme had succeeded. She couldn’t help but turn her head and bite Su Mingxiu’s lips.
This time, she didn’t hold back at all, as if she was using her head as a weapon, ramming it straight into Su Mingxiu.
Fortunately, Su Mingxiu dodged in time. Otherwise, both of them would be in trouble.
Seeing the fleeting look of shock in Gui Mian’s eyes, Su Mingxiu chuckled. She seemed to have guessed the other party’s actions. She leaned in again, her lips kissing the tip of Gui Mian’s nose.
“Want to bite me again?”
“I’ve always wanted to ask, are you a dog, little Chaos?”
Gui Mian: “…”
Ever since Fox Nine had taught her about the various demon races, she knew that each race had its own dignity, especially Chaos, a great demon born with heaven and earth. How could she be compared to those lowly dog demons?
Seeing the anger rising in her eyes, like a firecracker about to explode, Su Mingxiu chuckled and cupped Gui Mian’s face, her lips moving down to her chin. Before her kiss landed, she said indulgently, as if coaxing a child: “Don’t be angry, I’ll let you bite.”
She truly offered herself up to Gui Mian.
But the grip on Gui Mian’s face didn’t loosen. After all, this was within her own spiritual platform, her sea of consciousness. Su Mingxiu had absolute control over everything here.
Gui Mian couldn’t close her jaws, she could only let Su Mingxiu have her way… The hunter, who had boasted about going hunting, was now trapped in the prey’s snare. She could only be examined helplessly, her fur stroked inch by inch by the prey.
—Now the hunter was about to be sold by the prey.
Tears welled up in the corners of the little girl’s eyes, whether from anger, shame, or frustration. In any case, when Su Mingxiu finally released her, those clear and beautiful eyes were filled with tears.
She looked like she had been terribly bullied.
This made Su Mingxiu, who had wanted to do something even more outrageous, feel a pang of guilt.
She could only cover Gui Mian’s eyes with her hand, wiping away the teardrops on her lips. After a soft sigh, Su Mingxiu whispered: “Don’t cry.”
Hearing this comforting tone, Gui Mian, who hadn’t even intended to cry, felt even more tears streaming down her face, as if her tear ducts had lost control.
It must be Master’s sea of consciousness playing tricks.
She thought as she cried.
Su Mingxiu couldn’t wipe away her tears no matter how hard she tried. Feeling like she was only making things worse, she suddenly thought of something. She transformed the room, with its red candles and double happiness characters, into a swirling mist and led Gui Mian towards the depths of her sea of consciousness.
At the very center, a miniature figure was meditating with its eyes closed.
It was the Nascent Soul avatar in Su Mingxiu’s sea of consciousness.
This miniature figure should have looked exactly like her. But perhaps because the Golden Core that had hatched this Nascent Soul came from Gui Mian, the little figure that appeared before them now was half Su Mingxiu, half Gui Mian.
As if their appearances had merged.
The little figure’s eyes were slightly closed, one half cold and aloof, the other half pure and innocent. Despite the different appearances on each side, its features were strangely harmonious, creating a unique beauty.
Because no one had ever seen her Spirit Severing form in these past decades, no one in the world knew that the Jade Elder had such a strange little figure inside her.
Seeing its appearance, Gui Mian’s eyes reddened even more. She thought of the tribulation at the edge of the Demon Realm abyss decades ago, not understanding what this person was trying to prove.
“Why are you showing me this?”
Gui Mian closed her eyes, wanting to say “Your disciple is long dead” again, or to finally ask the question that had been buried in her heart for so long: If you knew this would happen, why did you hurt me in the first place? What’s the point of making amends now?
“Now that things have come to this—”
Her cold words were suddenly interrupted by Su Mingxiu: “Now that you’ve spent decades in the Demon Realm, I see that they don’t seem to be preventing you from leaving. There must be a reason why you have to stay.”
Su Mingxiu wanted to reveal everything. Ever since Gui Mian returned, she had been expecting the system to interfere with their interactions, to make things difficult for her like it did in the last world.
But the system was silent, as if it didn’t exist. If it weren’t for the ninety-day countdown still ticking, Su Mingxiu would have thought it was gone.
It was better that it didn’t speak up.
Su Mingxiu decided to investigate the system later. Right now, the most important thing was the person in front of her.
Su Mingxiu pointed at the Nascent Soul and said to her disciple gently: “I kept it and nurtured it well, just to tell you that now you understand human emotions and have become strong enough. Nothing in this world can threaten you. If you want to be a demon, be a demon. If you want to be a monster, be a monster.”
After a pause, she said the most important line: “And if you want to be human, my sword bone, my Nascent Soul, they’re all yours. Gui Mian, you must remember, there’s nothing in this world that you ‘should’ or ‘must’ do.”
Within the nine continents, I want you to be free from all constraints, to come and go as you please, to follow your heart. Only then will our time as master and disciple not be in vain.
Gui Mian naturally understood the meaning behind her words.
Or rather…
She understood all of Su Mingxiu’s unspoken intentions for the first time. She could discern the love and care in her master’s tone, all the good emotions contained within those words, even the ugly desires had disappeared.
The crack in her heart widened, and the walls she had built up to protect herself crumbled in an instant.
Drip.
It was the sound of water dripping in the cave, echoing in Su Mingxiu’s sea of consciousness.
Gui Mian’s vision blurred. With her walls crumbling, her soft inner self was exposed, all the fragments that had been carefully offered up and then shattered.
She asked: “Then why did you…”
“Why did you abandon me?”
Why didn’t you want me? Why didn’t you come looking for me?
Do you know how much I missed you?
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