Yuxin slowly raised her eyes and looked at Gu Baiqing. “You even know about hybrids. Looks like… you really aren’t an ordinary person. I knew my taste couldn’t be wrong. You must be top-grade.”
Gu Baiqing moved his arms slightly, and the chains clinked.
“Does it make a difference? Aren’t I already caught by you? Just take it as satisfying my curiosity,” Gu Baiqing said with a faint smile.
“You could say there is, or you could say there isn’t,” Yuxin said enigmatically.
Gu Baiqing frowned slightly and was about to ask more when he heard Yuxin continue, “But you’re about to die anyway. What curiosity do you need? How about before you die, you have some fun with me. I’ll help you enjoy ultimate pleasure, and you help me enjoy the finest flavor. We help each other.” Yuxin let out a light laugh and slowly leaned toward Gu Baiqing, one hand pulling open his collar, the other sliding up along his abdomen.
That hand was so cold that goosebumps almost rose on Gu Baiqing’s skin. He barely managed to grab Yuxin’s wrist. Help each other, my *ss.
“You’re a man-eating demon, not a succubus, right?” Gu Baiqing said, enduring it as much as possible while trying to probe for more information. He could sense that this man-eating demon’s strength was absolutely not ordinary.
“I am a man-eating demon. I respect my food very much and hold gratitude in my heart. So before my food dies, I always make them happy and joyful, then use my demonic qi to season their bodies… only then can their flesh reach the most delicious state.” The more Yuxin spoke, the more excited she became, and Gu Baiqing could even hear the sound of her swallowing.
No wonder this man-eating demon insisted on concocting some dual-cultivation scam. It was all for processing her food.
“If you eat me now, aren’t you afraid you won’t be able to hide your identity? After all, the demon realm sent you here with a purpose, right?” Gu Baiqing asked again.
At this moment, Yuxin had already completely pressed herself onto Gu Baiqing, using her nose to sniff him incessantly, seemingly becoming dazed by the fragrance of her food.
“What’s there to be afraid of? Everything that needed to be done, I’ve already done. It’s time for me to eat properly. After I finish eating you, I’ll go eat those few others… ah, right, there’s one that’s a pity. Only discovered that it can’t be eaten.”
Gu Baiqing’s gaze flashed. Without any more hesitation, he instantly rose and made a move. Ordinary iron chains should have been impossible to restrain him and should have shattered into fragments the moment he acted. However, Gu Baiqing’s wrist stiffened as he cast his spell and was instantly yanked back by the chains.
Gu Baiqing was startled. He had clearly mobilized his spiritual power. Turning his head to look, he saw runes spreading along the chains, all the way to a flash of formation light beneath the white fur blanket.
“Oh? Spiritual power? Appearing and disappearing, strange.”
Yuxin’s voice sounded beside his ear. Gu Baiqing’s expression changed slightly as he turned to look.
Yuxin raised her brows and said, “Fortunately, what’s least lacking here are formations to trap people. Even if you’re an expert from the cultivation world, escaping won’t be that easy.” Then Yuxin laughed extremely happily and said, “Did you end up lifting a rock only to smash your own foot? You let yourself be caught on purpose just now, didn’t you? Tsk tsk tsk, baby, you’re really cute. This is the first time I’ve seen food deliver itself to my mouth. Don’t worry, I’ll treat you well.”
The surprise on Gu Baiqing’s face gradually faded. He clenched his hand into a fist, lightning gripped in his palm. In a place Yuxin couldn’t see, cracks were forming in the chains at Gu Baiqing’s wrist.
“Is that so? Experts from the cultivation world have a hard time escaping?” Gu Baiqing said calmly.
Yuxin reached out a finger, curled a lock of Gu Baiqing’s long hair around it and played with it. “Still want to try? Forget it. Why waste time? A moment of spring night is worth a thousand gold.” As she spoke, she suddenly pressed down hard on Gu Baiqing’s shoulder and forced him back down again. In an instant, Yuxin’s clothes also faded away with her spiritual power, half-covered and half-revealed, seductive and alluring. That kind of elegant, decadent, corrupted aura was fully revealed.
Yuxin did not give Gu Baiqing a chance to speak. She lowered her head and was about to kiss him, and Gu Baiqing naturally also did not give Yuxin a chance to escape and was just about to make a move.
Yuxin suddenly stiffened, then suspiciously raised her head to look at Gu Baiqing.
Gu Baiqing was taken aback. For caution’s sake, he also did not make a move.
He saw Yuxin twitch her nose and say very unhappily, “No way, you just dual-cultivated with someone? Didn’t that interfere with the most original flavor of my delicacy?”
Gu Baiqing’s mind went blank for a moment. When he reacted, he was immediately extremely embarrassed and blurted out a rebuttal without thinking, “No… no way, I didn’t, no dual cultivation!”
Yuxin narrowed her eyes. “Could it have been with him?”
“No, we didn’t do anything.” Gu Baiqing panicked so much that even his cheeks turned red, as if some unknown secret had been exposed.
Yuxin instantly became displeased. “D*mn it, someone beat me to it.”
Gu Baiqing: …Hey, did you hear what I said? No… no dual cultivation, okay!
“Forget it, I’ll keep you for now. Once his scent on you fades, then I’ll eat you. Forn good food, one isn’t afraid of waiting!”
Gu Baiqing: …D*mn it.
“But… let me take a bite first, just to satisfy my craving!”
Yuxin made as if to bite Gu Baiqing’s shoulder. At that very moment, the chain on Gu Baiqing’s right hand shattered into dust, and he was just about to grab Yuxin by the throat.
Suddenly, the entire space where they were seemed to shake. Gu Baiqing felt a flash of light on the ground not far to the side. He swept his eyes over and saw that it was the storage pouch he carried on his body.
The next second, a third figure appeared in the underground cave.
Time seemed to freeze for an instant.
Immediately after came overwhelming killing intent sweeping in.
Nine streaks of firelight and nine wind blades attacked Yuxin simultaneously from eighteen different directions.
Gu Baiqing felt the figure on top of him flash. The red-clad figure moved so fast it became an afterimage, instantly dodging the attack, while another white figure arrived in front of Gu Baiqing in the blink of an eye.
It was Mo Xuanli.
Gu Baiqing hurriedly sat up and looked somewhat guiltily at the newcomer. He thought it would be resolved quickly, but he hadn’t expected Mo Xuanli to arrive even faster.
But because of his movement, his already disheveled clothes slipped down more than halfway, making Gu Baiqing flustered as he quickly grabbed them.
At this moment, Mo Xuanli’s expression was somewhat frightening. He stared at the person before him with eyes about to split apart, his gaze seeming to sweep over every inch of his Master’s body. Although he saw no terrifying marks at all, his demonic corruption value still began to climb. His eyes were red but not fully red, as if he had been greatly stimulated. His entire being was shrouded in killing intent, every movement capable of taking a life in an instant.
Although he stood rigidly there, the killing aura of God Nine Transformations behind him grew heavier and heavier, chasing Yuxin into a miserable retreat. In the blink of an eye, she was injured in several places.
Yet he himself began to tremble all over, as if extremely afraid. He stared blankly at the person before him, unable to imagine the scene he had just arrived to see: Master’s clothes half-open, bound atop a white fur blanket, being held intimately by an almost half-naked female demon.
How long had Master been gone? What had Master experienced here?
Clearly, just moments ago, Master had been in his arms, yet because of his own carelessness, someone else had…
Mo Xuanli dared not think further. Now there was only one thought in his mind. He wanted to kill… kill… the one who dared to touch Master!
The red in his eyes deepened more and more. At this moment, a sudden shout shattered the demonic obsession.
“Mo Xuanli! I’m fine!”
Mo Xuanli was startled and looked at the person before him in shock.
“Ma… Master.”
Gu Baiqing wanted to put on an annoyed, stern expression, but still ended up defeated, not daring to meet his gaze.
Alright. Actually, ever since the afternoon, after Mo Xuanli had said those words by his ear, he had suspected that Mo Xuanli might have recognized him long ago. No matter how he thought about it, even if his disciple had developed feelings for a stranger, he shouldn’t have said such things in front of them. So in that instant, he had almost confirmed it for the most part.
When Mo Xuanli used the Void Spirit Space to find him just now, he was certain.
This kid was quite good at acting. When did he find out? Could it have been… that time they soaked in the medicinal pool together?
After that, there was arranging to stay together, and then… cough cough. Fortunately, Mo Xuanli probably didn’t remember what he did while demonized, so Gu Baiqing could still remain somewhat calm.
“Don’t space out. Capture the man-eating demon alive first. She knows a lot of things!” Gu Baiqing said seriously while trying to pull his clothes together.
“Master… Master…” But Mo Xuanli was still dazed, his voice trembling, like a little ghost who had done something wrong but didn’t know where he went wrong.
Gu Baiqing used the temporarily free hand to pat Mo Xuanli on the forehead. “I’m here, I’m here! Be good, hurry and go!”
It was as if Mo Xuanli had been slapped back to his senses. He naturally grabbed the hand that came down from his forehead.
At first, Gu Baiqing didn’t understand what he was about to do. Then he saw Mo Xuanli take his hand, place it by his lips and kiss the back of it, then bring it to his forehead and press it there.
These movements were extremely quick, as if he were facing a treasure he had regained after losing it. When he raised his eyes again, the red in them had already dispersed. He then rushed out and began fighting Yuxin.
Gu Baiqing stood there dumbly, his hand still frozen in midair, until he felt the heat spreading from the back of his hand, as if it instantly swept through his entire body, making him unbearably hot.
Gu Baiqing coughed awkwardly and forced himself to calm down. Just treat it as being licked by a puppy. Resolving the current situation was the real priority.
The formations here were indeed formidable, and they were of a type he had never seen before. Just now, Gu Baiqing had concentrated his power to break one chain, and now he still had to break three more. At the same time, he kept observing the battle. If Mo Xuanli was overmatched, he could step in to help instantly.
Watching, Gu Baiqing knew his judgment had been correct. This man-eating demon was indeed extremely powerful, and during the fight she repeatedly changed forms, sometimes male, sometimes female, sometimes old, sometimes young, with different combat modes as well. Although she was not considered a combat-type demon, she was extremely troublesome. There was only one possibility: she was a very old demon.
During the immortal–demon war, many of the demon race perished, but some were left behind. The demon race they had encountered before were all very young, but this one was different…
Gu Baiqing snapped another chain on his wrist. He could finally stand up, and immediately brought out Morning Snow, which had been disguised all along, to provide long-range support.
In a flash of lightning, the man-eating demon, who had barely been holding on, was instantly done for.
“Two against one, that’s unfair!” Yuxin jumped out of the battle circle. Though she was already covered in wounds, she still spoke coquettishly.
Mo Xuanli didn’t bother with her. With a flick of his long whip, he intended to capture Yuxin. He suppressed his killing intent and obediently planned to take her alive.
Yuxin, however, seemed to have no intention of running anymore. She let the long whip coil around her, but the next second, she revealed a strange smile. A wisp of black smoke began to spread along God Nine Transformations toward Mo Xuanli.
Mo Xuanli’s pupils shrank. As if burned, he hurriedly withdrew his hand and shook off the demonic qi.
Gu Baiqing understood, this was how Yuxin infected those people, turning them into her own kind.
“What are you afraid of?” Yuxin raised her brow with a smile. “Don’t you like it?”
Mo Xuanli’s expression changed the instant he flung off the demonic qi. His mind fell into chaos, and when he looked at Yuxin again, he could no longer suppress his killing intent.
Yuxin quietly shifted her steps. “I’m helping you. You really don’t want it? Oh, right, that person turned out to be your master. You’re afraid he’ll find out.”
Gu Baiqing frowned slightly, just in time to see Mo Xuanli charge forward like a blade leaving its sheath, his killing aura even stronger.
Gu Baiqing was about to call out for Mo Xuanli to calm down, but suddenly several rays of light enveloped his body. When he looked up, an array light flashed down from the top of the cave.
There were still chains on Gu Baiqing’s feet. He couldn’t break free from the array below, and naturally couldn’t avoid the array above either.
At this critical moment, Mo Xuanli forgot about pursuing Yuxin and flashed directly to Gu Baiqing’s side, pulling his master tightly into his arms. God Nine Transformations transformed into an umbrella to block above them. In an instant, the impact of spiritual power reverberated throughout the cave. This familiar sensation was actually somewhat similar to a spirit-gathering array?
The two of them were not injured, but when they opened their eyes again, they found themselves surrounded by a wall formed of mist.
Mo Xuanli held Gu Baiqing with one arm as God Nine Transformations transformed into a fan, summoning a fierce wind. The mist was blown apart, but quickly gathered again. It seemed to have no offensive power, only confusing their vision so they couldn’t easily get out.
“Don’t waste your effort. Three arrays have been activated here at the same time. You won’t be able to get out in a short while.” Yuxin’s voice rang out, but it was impossible to determine her position. There was no way to attack. “Let me think about it, how I can eat Immortal Lord Luofeng, and not kill you in the process.”
“Dream on!” Mo Xuanli tightened his hold on Gu Baiqing, only to be pushed away by Gu Baiqing.
Mo Xuanli froze and looked at Gu Baiqing. Gu Baiqing silently pointed in the direction of the three arrays, signaling him not to engage in pointless verbal sparring, solving the arrays was the priority.
Gu Baiqing also really wanted to say that his combat power was stronger now, okay? Why did his disciple always want to shield him behind his back? Although… this kind of behavior did make him a little happy.
“I am dreaming beautifully.” Yuxin muttered to herself. Seeing that the two inside were no longer paying her any attention, she felt bored. But in the next instant, she thought of a brilliant plan. “I’ve got it.”
Inside, the two were fully focused on resolving the arrays, when they sensed the surrounding mist begin to flow in a strange way. Just as they grew alert, they heard Yuxin ask loudly and casually, in an easy, offhand tone, “Hey, Immortal Lord Luofeng, didn’t you ask me a question just now? I have a new answer now.”
Mo Xuanli froze and looked at his master in confusion.
Gu Baiqing also didn’t react in time, and then heard Yuxin laugh. “Yes. Isn’t there one right in front of you now?”
Gu Baiqing’s expression changed. There was no time to stop her.
And Mo Xuanli, completely unprepared, heard Yuxin say, “Isn’t your disciple a hybrid? A dignified immortal venerable elder of Zixiao Sect taking a hybrid as a disciple, shouldn’t you clean house?”
In an instant, within the mist, there was an eerie silence.
Mo Xuanli’s face turned deathly pale in a flash. He stiffly crouched down. In that moment, it felt as though all the blood in his body surged into his heart, then rapidly cooled and froze there. Even a single breath in or out was difficult. He was suffocating to the point of nearly fainting.
The second time already, and said by a demon elder, would Master…
He suddenly turned to look at the master behind him, wanting to argue, but the moment he saw Gu Baiqing’s clear eyes, all his words jammed in his throat.
Because in his master’s eyes, he saw the reflection of his own pair of red pupils.
It was as if a blood-drenched tidal wave crashed over him, instantly drowning all his hope.
The beautiful dream shattered in an instant. Master had seen it. There was no excuse of losing control to demonic deviation. Those vivid, filthy red eyes. He… had been exposed.
But in truth, Gu Baiqing could only see Mo Xuanli’s panicked, flustered state as he completely lost his composure.
Mo Xuanli felt as though all the sounds in the world were drifting away from him. Only the sound of something gradually shattering echoed endlessly in his ears. His head felt like it was about to explode. Countless thoughts flashed through his mind. His eyes were bloodshot, his gaze wild. In the end, he could only say with great difficulty, his voice trembling and clumsy, “Master… don’t listen, don’t… look.”
Then, in a flurry, he tried to cover his master’s ears and block his master’s eyes, but he only had two hands and couldn’t manage it all. In the end, his hands could only fall limply. Even when he wanted to reach out to hold Gu Baiqing’s hands, he was afraid they would pull away. He finally let his arms drop, not even daring to lift his head to look at Gu Baiqing again.
The scene he had seen countless times in nightmares had finally appeared. What were the endings of those nightmares?
Without exception, they were all the same, the ending he dared not face.
What to do? What to do? Who would help him? He couldn’t… couldn’t let Master find out… couldn’t… Master would be disappointed… would feel disgust… Clearly… the moment he learned that Master might be wearing the ring he had given him, he had been so happy, thinking he saw hope. Why… why treat him like this?
If only he were given a little more time. Once he finished collecting the fragments, he could start anew. He would be qualified to be with Master then. Why did it have to be like this?
“By the way, given your current relationship, how should one put it? Hehe, Immortal Lord, you’ve really been deceived so thoroughly. Mo Xuanli, you are truly despicable and shameless, hiding such a secret to deceive someone’s feelings, was it fun? If I hadn’t exposed you today, were you planning to keep deceiving him? Or is it that even now, you still don’t dare admit that you deceived your master?”
This sentence directly shattered Mo Xuanli’s last line of defense, turning his face ashen white, like a corpse. It was like the last leaf falling from a withered tree in winter, irretrievable, able only to sink into endless despair, letting himself fall into the pitch-black abyss and be completely devoured.
It was as if it had stepped squarely on Mo Xuanli’s deepest fear, the one thing he dared not face. He had clearly been killed with a single sword strike just moments ago, yet now he was made to experience the scattering of his very soul.
He had once fantasized that one day he would tell his master, that his master would accept him and view him fairly. But… how could something so good ever happen to him? So he continued to hide it.
Yet he… did not want to deceive his master… he should not have deceived him. All the beauty between him and his master had clearly been stolen by him. He was despicable and shameless, and his master had endured so much suffering and grievance for his sake. He remembered that night, the scene of his master yielding himself to him, and even earlier, each and every instance, his master teaching him, protecting him, indulging him…
How could he, a hybrid, be worthy?
At this moment, Gu Baiqing finally realized something was wrong. Mo Xuanli did not refute, did not argue, as if he had instantly fallen into some kind of emotional state. Those mists were curling around him. Gu Baiqing struck the ground with a palm, fine electric currents dispersing the mist, but Mo Xuanli still could not come back to his senses.
Suddenly, the demonization value began to rise, and those black eyes that had only just recovered turned red once more.
Even the ring he wore around his neck reacted, yet that kind of electric shock had already completely lost its effect and could not draw his attention at all.
“Mo Xuanli!” Gu Baiqing anxiously slapped Mo Xuanli’s face, but Mo Xuanli showed no response. It was as if he had fallen into some kind of demonic fixation, sinking himself deep to the very bottom, unable to see or hear the outside world.
Outside, Yuxin laughed when she heard the sound. “What, Immortal Venerable planning to make a move? Yes, make a move, kill him! The existence of a hybrid ruins your reputation and he toyed with you for so long, he deserves to be killed to vent your anger!”
“Shut up!” Gu Baiqing cursed loudly. As he turned his head, he saw two clear streams of tears slide down Mo Xuanli’s face without warning, while his expression was utterly blank. And God Nine Transformations, which had originally been used to rewrite the array, fell straight down from midair, silently hitting the ground and transforming into a ring, as if a warrior had abandoned his weapon.
Gu Baiqing froze, his heart aching.
Then he heard from outside again, “Ah, I know you feel stifled. After all, he’s a hybrid. Such a filthy existence has sullied you. Don’t worry, I won’t tell anyone.”
“I said shut up. Don’t keep calling him a hybrid. He has a name. He is Mo Xuanli, the direct disciple of Zixiao Sect’s Gu Baiqing,” Gu Baiqing roared, barely able to suppress his fury. He turned to look at Mo Xuanli, as if he saw a flicker in Mo Xuanli’s eyes, but they quickly returned to utter dead silence. That was the gaze Gu Baiqing most did not want to see.
And beneath that dead silence was a suppressed madness.
This was the prelude to demonization.
Warnings kept coming from the system, the demonization value skyrocketing. Gu Baiqing had always thought it would be the kind accompanied by rage; he had never expected that one day he would witness such sorrowful demonization.
Was Little Mo-dog really that afraid of him knowing the truth?
Why? Because he… was important to him?
Gu Baiqing’s heart thudded violently a few times, and then he heard a voice from outside again. “Listening to that tone, what? You don’t believe your disciple is a hybrid?”
Gu Baiqing looked at the Little Mo-dog he had raised, seeing the despair in his eyes, his heart aching unbearably.
“So what if he is!”
“What?!”
“I’ve long known he is a hybrid.” Gu Baiqing said it in one breath. Seeing that Little Mo-dog still had no reaction and only the demonization value continued to rise, he truly panicked.
“You knew!” Yuxin’s voice changed pitch for the first time.
“Yes, I knew. I should have told you earlier. I wanted not to burden you psychologically, but it ended up becoming your psychological burden instead. I’m sorry.” Gu Baiqing apologized, yet it still did not retrieve someone’s sanity.
“You actually don’t despise it? Don’t mind it!” Yuxin seemed incredulous.
Gu Baiqing was truly panicking now, acting without thinking. Looking at Mo Xuanli in front of him and hearing Yuxin’s questioning, in a sudden impulse, with his mind blanking out, he cupped Mo Xuanli’s face and kissed him.
This time, Mo Xuanli’s eyes finally moved. As if in disbelief, he lowered his gaze to look at the person before him.
Within his sea of consciousness, stormy waves raged.
It was a very short time, yet it felt exceedingly long.
Gu Baiqing slowly pulled away, suddenly lifting his head to meet Mo Xuanli’s gaze directly. “Xuanli, if I minded, could I… be like this?”
After saying this, Gu Baiqing’s face flushed instantly under Mo Xuanli’s gaze. It was as if his mind buzzed, filled with thoughts of what he was doing. Even if he wanted to express that he didn’t mind or despise it, he couldn’t…
Just as he was about to retreat in a panic, someone suddenly followed the momentum, wrapping an arm around Gu Baiqing’s waist. Like a vicious wolf seizing its prey, he fiercely kissed him, pressing him directly down onto the white fur blanket. Like being pounced and embraced by a big dog, unable to push away, unable to block, he could only let the other express his emotions.
The near-desperate kiss made Gu Baiqing’s heart race, leaving him almost unable to breathe. His resistance was like half-hearted, token movements, utterly ineffective, merely giving someone an excuse to restrain him while touching every part. When he came back to his senses, the clothes he had only just barely managed to straighten were torn apart again. A pair of large hands carrying searing heat brought a feeling completely different from Yuxin’s earlier teasing. The clinking sound from the iron chains by his feet added even more to the atmosphere.
Gu Baiqing felt as if he were about to catch fire, panicked beyond measure, his body rapidly…
Until one hand stopped in a place it should not have stopped. Gu Baiqing jolted awake. D*mn it, without even looking at what situation this was, how could they mess around like this!
Moreover, he was only expressing his own stance; he didn’t… didn’t mean that!
He still hadn’t… heavens, how was he supposed to make this little mad dog stop?
Right… right, don’t panic, he could shock him!
Just as Gu Baiqing was about to make a move—
The lips that had kissed their way to his ear stopped, and low, hoarse sounds rang out beside Gu Baiqing’s ear, one after another.
“Master… Master… I like you… I like you… I truly… like you.”
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