After Becoming a High-Risk Master, I Flipped the Script Chapter 247

The reason Baili had not discovered little Xuanli’s identity was because Xuan Ji often returned to the Demon Clan to bring back fragments of the Demon God Crystal, using their power to help conceal it.

But such behavior from Xuan Ji ultimately aroused the Demon Venerable’s suspicion.

The scenes that followed were extremely chaotic. Gu Baiqing watched helplessly as the once peaceful little village gradually became panic-stricken and utterly desolate.

Because Xuan Ji was here, this place naturally became a primary attack target of the Demon Clan.

Although Baili arranged for many cultivators to protect this place, they could not withstand the Demon Venerable personally leading people to attack.

And Baili also rushed here to fight after obtaining a divine weapon forged from fragments of the God-Slaying Sword.

Xuan Ji knew she could not escape, nor could she make a move in front of Baili. She could only take the children and hide in the house, hoping that her husband could quell this war, hoping that the Demon Venerable would say nothing, and that everything would return to how it was as soon as possible.

Many refugees whose homes had been destroyed also moved into Baili’s household.

Gu Baiqing stood in the courtyard, watching little Xuanli run back and forth taking care of everyone. Clearly only six years old, yet sensible like a little adult, friendly to everyone, receiving praise and commendation from all. Little Xuanli could still show a smile, completely unaware that danger was rapidly approaching.

But when Gu Baiqing turned his head to look at Xuan Ji in the corner holding Xuanyue and coaxing her, his expression sank.

That woman was looking at little Xuanli with a resentful gaze.

When little Xuanli brought water over to the mother and daughter, upon seeing the look his mother gave him, the sensitive little Xuanli couldn’t help but take a step back.

His unease and fear were written all over his face, which startled Xuan Ji awake, plunging her once more into a kind of self-reproach.

But very quickly, the fighting still spread to this place, and the common people scattered and fled.

Sect Master Baili arrived in time, because it was his younger brother who begged him to come and save his wife and children.

Although dissatisfied with his younger brother secretly marrying and having children, Sect Master Baili, who had doted on his younger brother since childhood, was naturally still willing to help his outstanding younger brother.

Upon seeing his sister-in-law and the pair of children, he felt that his younger brother’s taste was not bad, his wife was beautiful, the children were spirited. Especially little Xuanli; at the time, Sect Master Baili looked at little Xuanli with particular satisfaction, and the only close remark he said to his sister-in-law was, “I also have two sons, but neither of them looks as spirited as this kid. Come back to Tianyuan Sect with your uncle, and get along well in the future.”

Xuan Ji felt some wariness inside. After all, there was always someone better out there, and she didn’t know whether they would encounter someone who could see through them. But under the circumstances, they had no choice but to leave.

Just as little Xuanli was about to be taken away by Sect Master Baili, at this very moment, the Demon Venerable and Baili fought their way here.

Sect Master Baili immediately went up to help.

And in that instant, the Demon Venerable saw his younger sister in the courtyard, along with that pair of children, especially the younger one.

Gu Baiqing was standing right beside little Xuanli, instinctively wanting to shield him, but in the end it was futile.

He only saw the Demon Venerable stare crazily at little Xuanli and burst into wild laughter, saying, “Found him, found him! Finally found him!”

That kind of frenzied gaze frightened little Xuanli, who tried to hide behind his mother.

But the Demon Venerable was like someone gone mad. He quickly knocked down the two Baili brothers and rushed toward little Xuanli.

Baili dragged his severely injured body and rushed madly to rescue him, blocking in front of little Xuanli.

But if he protected little Xuanli, Baili would very likely suffer a fatal wound.

How could Xuan Ji bear to see her husband injured? She rushed forward in a frenzy.

And upon seeing this scene, the Demon Venerable suddenly stopped, seeming to understand something, and burst into loud laughter.

“I thought you were hiding it from me because you wanted independence, but I never expected it… never expected it… my good little sister, you truly disappoint me!”

As soon as these words came out, Xuan Ji’s complexion changed.

Baili was even more taken aback, “What?”

The Demon Venerable raised his brows, smiled lightly, and without hesitation exposed the truth.

Xuan Ji was of the Demon Clan, his younger sister. Many years ago, the Demon Venerable had sent Xuan Ji out to seduce powerful cultivators of the cultivation world, thereby creating powerful hybrids, attempting to awaken the Primordial Demon through a union of the strong. Baili Xuanyue was a hybrid, and Baili Xuanli was an unparalleled special hybrid, the heir of the Primordial Demon whom the Demon Venerable was willing to start a war to seize back.

Baili listened to everything in disbelief. Seeing that he didn’t believe it, the Demon Venerable laughed even more wildly, directly attacking little Xuanli…

And the parents, suffering a devastating mental blow, neither of them went to save little Xuanli this time.

Gu Baiqing watched helplessly as little Xuanli was struck flying and smashed into the wall. The small figure curled up in pain, and finally, as a burst of light scattered from his body, when he lifted his head, the tear-filled eyes were already one black and one red.

The aura of the hybrid spread overwhelming the heavens and covering the earth.

In that instant, Baili as well as his plder brother lying to the side all stared at Mo Xuanli with eyes splitting wide open.

In their generation, there were still some hybrids in existence, and they were also targets they were ordered to eradicate.

They had seen many hybrids turn into members of the Demon Clan, bringing calamity to the mortal world. Hunting hybrids was not an emotional issue, it was habit, instinct, responsibility, a mission.

All cultivators who gave birth to hybrids were nailed to the pillar of shame. Once discovered, not only would they themselves have to die to atone, even their entire sect would be implicated, despised by the cultivation world.

As one of the four great immortal sects of the cultivation world, Tianyuan Sect had even more reason to set an example, and such a disgrace had never occurred within the sect.

So they never imagined that one day, this kind of thing would happen to them, moreover, to Immortal Baili Jin, the most favored of heaven’s chosen.

What was worse was that this was not an ordinary hybrid, but a special hybrid. As direct descendants of the Baili line, they naturally knew the secrets concerning the Primordial Demon. For a moment, Baili truly could not face this fact and turned his head to look at Xuan Ji and Xuanyue.

Xuan Ji cried like pear blossoms in the rain, holding her daughter who was trembling uncontrollably. “Husband, listen to my explanation, I truly love you, I didn’t mean to deceive you, I…”

“You wretched thing, how dare you deceive my younger brother! No wonder I felt your aura was wrong, so you’re from the Demon Clan!” Sect Master Baili roared in fury and directly attacked Xuan Ji.

The powerful attack finally caused Xuan Ji and Xuanyue to reveal their true auras as well, one Demon Clan, one hybrid, no longer able to argue otherwise.

At this, Baili nearly couldn’t stand steady. The family happiness he thought was pure turned out to be a complete deception.

He couldn’t believe that his beloved wife and precious pair of children were actually such existences.

Taking advantage of their unpreparedness, the Demon Venerable immediately snatched little Xuanli away.

Little Xuanli cried and shouted for his parents. Baili instinctively wanted to rescue him, but Sect Master Baili grabbed him firmly. “Second brother, chase him, kill him. He is the Primordial Demon, he must die. You understand!”

This Sect Master Baili really hadn’t changed at all over so many years. Gu Baiqing was furious.

But the scenes shifted too quickly. Gu Baiqing didn’t even have time to be angry before his heart was pierced by one shocking scene after another.

Baili fought fiercely with the Demon Venerable. Little Xuanli, injured, sat on the ground, while Xuan Ji rushed over like she had gone mad.

At that moment, Xuan Ji did something completely opposite, she did not help Baili, but instead chose to help the Demon Venerable.

It wasn’t because she intended betrayal, but because from the last look Baili gave her before he chased out, she understood that her husband could never have a change of heart again. If in this battle the cultivation world won, if her husband won, then she would have nothing left.

For Baili’s sake, she crazily gambled once, helping the Demon Venerable win and rule the three realms. That way, Baili would be completely in her grasp, and she could weave illusions to restore everything.

It could be said that her love for Baili was utterly insane.

Facing the brother-and-sister pincer attack, Baili was naturally furious beyond restraint. At this time, people from Tianzhao Sect also arrived to help. Seizing the chance, Baili first heavily injured Xuan Ji, then turned to face the Demon Venerable.

From below, little Xuanli saw his mother struck down and cried as he crawled over, wanting to save her.

But seeing Xuan Ji in such a crazed state, Gu Baiqing truly wanted to stop little Xuanli from going over.

Don’t go, you’ll get hurt.

Gu Baiqing kept standing by little Xuanli’s side, saying these words in heartache, but little Xuanli still reached his mother’s side.

Yet Xuan Ji only grabbed little Xuanli’s arm in disheveled desperation, madly blaming and questioning him, attributing all her misfortune to little Xuanli. Words of resentment shot out like sharp arrows without end.

“Why… why are you like this? Why is it like this… You shouldn’t have come into this world. You will destroy all happiness. You shouldn’t have come…” Xuan Ji glared in agony, gripping little Xuanli’s arm so tightly that bluish-purple marks were almost pinched out.

But none of that pain compared to the sentence “I shouldn’t have given birth to you” utterly turning little Xuanli ashen-faced, unable even to cry.

Gu Baiqing couldn’t bear to hear it, nor did he want little Xuanli to hear it. His hands trembled as he tried to crouch down and cover little Xuanli’s ears, only able to futilely say, don’t listen to her, don’t listen to her.

But little Xuanli only knew to desperately apologize. Perhaps he couldn’t yet fully understand what had happened, but he felt that he must have done something wrong, so he had to apologize.

Yet Xuan Ji still abandoned him, going to chase after Baili.

Little Xuanli tugged at his mother’s clothes, begging her not to abandon him, but Xuan Ji still pulled free of little Xuanli and left without turning her head.

Xuan Ji alone entangled Baili, while the others went to surround and attack the Demon Venerable.

A once-loving couple loved and killed each other, the battle fierce.

Baili angrily rebuked Xuan Ji to calm down, he was going to deal with the Demon Venerable.

But Xuan Ji only wanted to keep Baili.

The quarrel between husband and wife grew increasingly intense. Xuan Ji directly went mad and said she would activate Xuanli’s Primordial Demon, using this to threaten Baili into submitting to her and listening to her.

Baili felt that the bond between them as husband and wife had been completely exhausted by these words.

As heaven’s chosen, Baili had always been admired and pursued by others, and deep down he firmly believed that his strength was a responsibility to this world.

Xuan Ji’s madness also seemed to remind Baili of something.

In an instant, Baili’s heart sank. He thought of the battles of these days, of fellow cultivators and common people who had died unjustly, of this world steeped in misery, and of what would happen if the Primordial Demon awakened.

He looked at his once deeply beloved wife in pain. He had actually never struck ruthlessly against his wife, and when he truly made his move, Xuan Ji was no match at all and was struck down to the ground.

Baili had originally planned to carry out righteous extermination of kin, but upon seeing his wife’s tearful, anguished face, he ultimately still could not harden his heart.

A blinding light flashed. The highest-level Demon-Sealing Mark was unleashed, and it was seen that the Demon Venerable’s sister, Xuan Ji, was permanently sealed in this place.

Little Xuanli, who had chased after them, saw his mother vanish as if out of thin air, and was instantly frightened. In one burst, he erupted with astonishing power, almost sweeping across the entire Xianzao Village, even sending someone of Baili’s level flying far away from the impact.

Baili clenched his teeth and waited for this wave to pass, then rushed swiftly to Little Xuanli’s side, his gaze gloomy.

The dazed Little Xuanli softly called out, “Dad.”

What followed was, to Gu Baiqing, like death by a thousand cuts.

That father who had tried to build a good relationship with his son ultimately, for the sake of his so-called greater righteousness, laid a killing hand on his own child.

“Don’t blame me for being ruthless, you must die! Just consider it a debt I owe you, I’ll repay it in the next life.”

As Baili grit his teeth and painfully forced out those words, Little Xuanli merely stared blankly, as if his soul had already left his body.

Gu Baiqing, however, felt Baili was hypocritical to the extreme. He despised Baili’s so-called righteousness of the heart, seeing him only as a useless man who couldn’t even protect his own family, his own son!

With that strike, Gu Baiqing painfully closed his eyes, unable to bear watching any longer. But Little Xuanli, seemingly overwhelmed by grief, in the face of death suddenly triggered a half-Primordial Demon state.

Seeing that Little Xuanli had suffered only a light injury, Baili’s eyes filled with struggling red bloodshot veins. This situation once again confirmed Little Xuanli’s special nature, if such an ability were to truly awaken, it would be the end of the world.

Baili’s earlier strike had already exhausted all his emotions. First sealing his wife, then killing his son, as someone raised under orthodox teachings, he was already on the brink of collapse. If not for that sense of responsibility driving him, he truly would not have been able to move anymore.

With the power of the Primordial Demon in him, Little Xuanli was destined to be impossible to kill.

But being impossible to kill didn’t mean it wouldn’t hurt, wouldn’t ache, wouldn’t be heartbreaking.

Little Xuanli came back to his senses and saw his father kneeling before him, but had no time to react. He only clutched his wound, rolling on the ground in pain, unable even to think of escaping.

But when Baili raised his eyes once more, the nightmare descended.

Gu Baiqing had guessed countless times, had wanted to ask countless times.

But he was always afraid of seeing even a trace of painful memory in Mo Xuanli’s eyes, so he never asked. After all, he had truly seen the process of an origin bone being dug out.

He didn’t know when Mo Xuanli’s origin bone had been taken, or who had dug it out.

He would rather believe it was Half-Step Immortal who, in order to help him, had no choice but to dig it out with Mo Xuanli’s consent.

At least thinking that way was a kind of helpless consolation for self-preservation.

But reality was always more cruel than he imagined.

Baili, like Xuan Ji, didn’t refrain from killing his own son to eliminate future trouble because he didn’t want to, but because he simply couldn’t kill him.

Xuanli was immortal; if one wanted to kill him, only special methods would work.

But none of them could do it.

Baili also realized he was at the end of his strength. He still had to go deal with the Demon Venerable, so the only way not to add more trouble to this world was one.

He used a spell to bind Little Xuanli’s hands and feet and said sorry.

Little Xuanli hadn’t even reacted yet when the pain made him scream.

The scream of a six-year-old child was so miserable it seemed to make the surrounding air tremble.

“…It hurts… it hurts so much, don’t kill me, I don’t want to die… Dad, don’t kill me… I hurt so much, it hurts so much…”

Baili didn’t dare look at his son’s face and could only turn his head aside, but his hand had already cruelly pierced into Little Xuanli’s back.

Watching everything before him, Gu Baiqing was so furious that his whole body was filled with crackling lightning.

Yet tears still slid down uncontrollably. He stepped forward and hugged Little Xuanli’s trembling phantom from the front, but couldn’t bring himself to utter even a single false word of comfort.

At this moment, countless details of Gu Baiqing’s time with Mo Xuanli flashed through his mind, so it turned out that behind those details were all blood-soaked memories.

So he had come to his side carrying these memories, seeking a love that would never abandon him.

Gu Baiqing felt deeply ashamed, ashamed that he had come into this world and continuously hurt Mo Xuanli’s feelings.

Why hadn’t he been good to Xuanli from the very beginning? He should have poured his whole heart into being good to Xuanli from the very first glance, soothed all his wounds, and spoiled Xuanli to the skies.

Why had he been so slow to realize that he should treat this child well?

Xuanli’s piercing screams echoed endlessly by his ears, until finally the pale red origin bone inlaid with golden edges was taken out.

Mo Xuanli collapsed weakly to the ground. Just as he had said before, someone like him wouldn’t fall unconscious for days simply because his origin bone was dug out. Because he had experienced it before, that was why he said it could be dug out again without delaying anything.

He was awake, cruelly awake, watching his father take his bone and turn away.

Baili still had many more things to do.

Little Xuanli grabbed the hem of Baili’s clothes, doing the same thing once again.

“Don’t leave me! Dad, please…”

No matter how painful, how torturous, how hurtful it was.

He didn’t want to return to living alone in a cave.

He didn’t want to… lose his family.

But Baili abandoned him and left.

Gu Baiqing closed his eyes, thinking the pain would end there, but a figure approached, almost crushing Gu Baiqing and also crushing Mo Xuanli.

Xuanyue had already cried herself numb. She staggered to Mo Xuanli’s side and, seeing Mo Xuanli lying on the ground, punched and kicked him. Because she had already seen everything and understood everything. She knew who had caused the current situation. She knew who the true culprit was.

Her originally happy family, her loving parents, all of it was gone because of this younger brother who had been around for less than a year.

Her parents had turned against each other, her mother had been sealed, the uncle who had just been all smiles had brought people to hunt her down, and perhaps even her father wanted to kill her. All of this, Xuanyue believed, was Little Xuanli’s fault.

She had heard all the dialogue between Xuan Ji and Baili when they fought, and Xuan Ji’s final hoarse roar, demanding that Xuanli become a Primordial Demon and take revenge on the world, had also drilled into Xuanyue’s heart.

“It’s all because of you! This is all your fault! Why did you have to appear, why didn’t you just die! You should disappear! You destroyed everything, you killed everyone, go die! Go die! Go die!!”

Suddenly, the world changed color. Lightning flashed and thunder roared, as if the world had turned dark in an instant. Everything around grew gloomy, and a torrential rain poured down, madly washing over the world.

Xuanyue looked toward the distant horizon, a premonition rising within her.

Father… was dead.

Xuanyue collapsed into sobs and rushed out.

Little Xuanli dragged his broken body, crawling across the rain-soaked, muddy ground, watching the last glimpse of his sister’s disappearing figure.

“…Please… don’t leave me alone… don’t abandon me, I’m scared… I’m scared…”

It hurt, and he was afraid.

And when Little Xuanli woke up, the war between immortals and demons was over. Before he could even process everything, the operation to capture mixed-bloods began.

At first, some surviving villagers saw Little Xuanli and rescued him back home. But when the people of Tianyuan Sect began their large-scale search, they betrayed Little Xuanli and handed him over. They said to Little Xuanli, “It’s all your fault. We’ve all heard, every one of these disasters is because of you. You killed our loved ones. You deserve to die. Even if you’re not a bad child, you still deserve to die. Because your existence has caused the deaths of many people.”

Seeing the villagers who had once treated him kindly now hate him so deeply, Little Xuanli felt only endless despair. After repeated betrayals, Little Xuanli finally learned to no longer trust anyone, to hide himself forever, like a little beggar, carrying out an exhausting, endless escape.

Gu Baiqing followed all the way, watching him fight dogs for food, watching him drink filthy, polluted water, watching him be bullied by ordinary villains, watching him be hunted by the cultivation world, sick for long periods, thrown into a mass grave as a corpse, watching him on countless pitch-black nights curl up, hugging himself, shivering, crying until there were no tears left.

Gu Baiqing felt utterly exhausted, a single thought repeating endlessly in his mind, why hadn’t he crossed over earlier.

How he wished he had come over the moment Xuanli was born, stolen away Little Xuanli, his treasure, and raised him himself. Never allowing anyone any chance to hurt him, absolutely never.

Watching Xuanli grow up like this only shattered his heart, until finally Little Xuanli encountered the Half-Step Immortal.

That old man was, in Little Xuanli’s memories, the only existence with any light.

Little Xuanli thought he would be killed, but the old man didn’t. He only asked what he wanted to do in the future.

In truth, Little Xuanli didn’t even know why he was fleeing, why he was alive, everything was instinct.

But when someone asked him.

He felt a powerful desire.

Mo Xuanli wanted a family, wanted to return to that period in Xianzao Village that, though he lived under others’ roofs, was also the only time he had ever been happy. He still felt that everything was his fault, that his parents, villagers, and friends had treated him that way because of him. He wanted to change himself, didn’t want to be a demon race, and even more didn’t want to become a Primordial Demon, he just wanted to be a normal person like everyone else. That way, no one would be hurt because of him, and they would be able to accept him.

Half-Step Immortal helped him seal his bloodline and told him the only way. He pointed him in a direction, telling him to go to Zixiao Sect to take a master and cultivate.

Finally, ten-year-old Mo Xuanli arrived at Zixiao Sect, but because his bloodline was sealed, he was unable to properly use spiritual power, and remained in the outer sect for six years.

Fortunately, without the bloodline troubles, he escaped pursuit and lived a relatively peaceful life, until Immortal Venerable Luofeng selected disciples.

Watching the young Xuanli kneeling below the platform, the person on the stage… that aloof immortal venerable slowly nodded and accepted him as a disciple.

All the scenes began to dissipate at this moment.

Gu Baiqing knew the illusion was gone, and everything before his eyes turned into the dilapidated Xianzao Village.

Gu Baiqing once again sensed Mo Xuanli’s location.

Gu Baiqing hurried forward, but his expression suddenly changed, so… everything just now… Mo Xuanli had experienced it all?

The illusion had reopened Mo Xuanli’s wounds, forcing him to feel the pain all over again?

Why? Just to torture him, or…

D*mn it!

All this pain was trying to drive Mo Xuanli mad, to awaken the Primordial Demon!

Gu Baiqing instantly flew into a rage, gritting his teeth as he sped forward. He had to go see Xuanli…

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