After Becoming a High-Risk Master, I Flipped the Script Chapter 249

Gu Baiqing and Mo Xuanli both fell silent for a moment, looking at the woman in the other underground space.

Cracks appeared in the space around her, her long eyelashes lightly trembling, as if she were about to wake up.

Gu Baiqing felt that the Mo Xuanli beside him seemed to step back.

That instinctive sense of avoidance was deeply engraved in Mo Xuanli’s heart.

Gu Baiqing looked at Mo Xuanli and asked, “The Demon-Sealing Mark? Can an incomplete God-Slaying Sword also undo it?”

Mo Xuanli swayed in a daze for a moment, then forced himself to calm down and explained, “With powerful strength plus fragments of the God-Slaying Sword, it can… try to open it. Xuanyue originally should have wanted to use the power absorbed by the Demon-Summoning Formation to slowly open it.”

“But doesn’t that mean we’ve already destroyed one part of it?” Gu Baiqing frowned. How did that instead make this crazy woman wake up faster?

“Because of the backlash, Xuanyue made two preparations. If the Demon-Summoning Formation was destroyed, the backlash power could also break through the Demon-Sealing Mark. In the current situation, Li Xiuran should also be on the other side seizing the final fragment. Master, she is…”

“I saw everything.” Gu Baiqing said in a low voice.

Mo Xuanli’s pupils trembled slightly. As the seal gradually cracked open, his breathing uncontrollably began to quicken.

Gu Baiqing looked at his tense appearance. In fact, he couldn’t quite guess what he was feeling right now.

After all, in the illusion, even though Xuan Ji treated him like that, little Xuanli still begged his mother not to leave. Could it be that… he still wanted to see his own mother again?

But if that crazy woman came out and discovered that Immortal Baili Jin was already dead, she would probably go mad with hatred toward Mo Xuanli again, and would be even crazier than Xuanyue.

Yet Mo Xuanli’s current reaction was…

Suddenly, inspiration flashed in Gu Baiqing’s mind. He remembered something.

Back then at the Taixu Hall, when he first mentioned to Mo Xuanli that the God-Slaying Sword could undo the Demon-Sealing Mark.

Mo Xuanli reacted extremely strongly, firmly saying that he would not allow the Demon-Sealing Mark to be removed.

That kind of attitude… Gu Baiqing quickly understood. At that time, little Xuanli still did not fully understand what had happened to him, but over the long years that followed, as he gradually grew up and gradually understood certain principles, he naturally recalled the entire incident. Some cruel facts were laid bare before him, and he completely understood what had happened to him back then, and how his closest relatives had treated him.

If under such circumstances he still yearned for paternal and maternal love, that would be too pitiful.

Fortunately, Mo Xuanli seemed not to need it anymore. But faced with this situation, he was still at a loss, after all it was his mother, the only person he had faced before the age of six.

From childhood to adulthood, in order to gain others’ favor, he had always worked hard to be the good child in others’ eyes. Naturally, what he absorbed were all upright and positive things. He was the one who raised and taught himself to be this good.

A person like this, when facing the present situation, even if he no longer naïvely believed as he did in childhood that everything was his own fault, would absolutely still be unable to turn all the resentment over his experiences toward his own relatives.

After all, Mo Xuanli was fundamentally completely different from that family.

So when he saw the Demon-Sealing Mark on the verge of shattering, Mo Xuanli merely widened his eyes, tense and at a loss.

Suddenly, Gu Baiqing’s voice sounded by his ear.

“Do you want to save her and let her out?”

Mo Xuanli was startled, turned his head to look at Gu Baiqing, only to see Gu Baiqing looking at him seriously as he said, “Answer me honestly. Do you want her to come out?”

Mo Xuanli was stunned for a long while, lowered his eyes, and gently shook his head, as if he had made a mistake.

He knew this was wrong, unfilial, but… he didn’t want to…

“Then how can we make it so she doesn’t come out?” Gu Baiqing asked. “After all, the Demon-Summoning Formation definitely has to be destroyed.”

Mo Xuanli suddenly raised his head to look at Gu Baiqing. He was truly worried that his answer just now would disappoint Master. He thought Master would lecture him; after all, Master had always been very upright. He thought that…

“Answer me.” Gu Baiqing said with a laugh.

“When the Demon-Summoning Formation is destroyed, use power to refill the Demon-Sealing Mark so it can’t be undone.” Mo Xuanli said blankly. “Master, you…”

Gu Baiqing didn’t say another word and directly struck at Mo Xuanli. Mo Xuanli’s expression suddenly changed drastically, his pupils contracting, a trace of indescribable frenzied anger hidden deep within. But Gu Baiqing only noticed that he still instinctively took a step back, yet in the end his body stiffened.

Gu Baiqing knocked him unconscious and held him in his arms, his face full of confusion. Once or twice, he could already tell, Mo Xuanli seemed to have developed a bit of instinctive wariness toward him.

Although this was a good thing, after all, anyone could disguise themselves as him and approach Mo Xuanli; if he had no guard at all, that would be far too dangerous.

But in the past, no matter how he zapped him, he would get hit every time and never learn his lesson. Why was it suddenly different now?

Gu Baiqing didn’t think too much about it. He just didn’t want to put Mo Xuanli in a difficult position, so he knocked him out.

Holding Mo Xuanli with one arm, Gu Baiqing drew in spiritual power, while with the other hand he slowly transmitted spiritual energy toward the Demon-Sealing Mark. Because he didn’t know how much would be consumed, Gu Baiqing could only use recharged spiritual power. Although there might be aftereffects, Gu Baiqing had also discovered a bug: when system warnings appeared from time to time, the system would definitely forcibly awaken his consciousness and make him choose. At worst, he could exchange for a strategy satchel and wake himself up then. Calculated this way, it was still very cost-effective.

The pressure of the tribulation-transcending stage, approaching the strength of Immortal Baili Jin back then, even though he couldn’t cast the Demon-Sealing Mark, constantly repairing it was still possible.

As long as he held on until Li Xiuran seized the fragment over there. Half-Step Mad was also helping on that side; Gu Baiqing believed Li Xiuran could do it.

But just as the formation was extremely unstable, the woman in that space suddenly opened her eyes. A pair of dark red eyes carried frenzied fury, as if all her memories were still stuck in the past, staring fixedly at the people outside.

The instant she saw Gu Baiqing, she was stunned for a moment. Then she saw what Gu Baiqing was doing and immediately looked at him with hatred and anger.

But the next second, she froze, because she saw Mo Xuanli. After reacting for quite a while, it seemed she understood something from those brows and eyes. Her expression instantly turned ferocious, she probably realized that a very long time had already passed, and the child from back then had grown into an adult.

The moment Gu Baiqing saw her, he thought of the illusion he had just seen.

Although Gu Baiqing was not usually a particularly ruthless person, once he thought of the harm Mo Xuanli had once suffered, even if the person in front of him was his own mother-in-law, he couldn’t endure it.

“He is Xuanli, your son, now called Mo Xuanli. At a young age he is at the late Immortalization stage, a direct disciple of the Zixiao Sect. He has a tribulation Master who dotes on him and raises him with care.”

Xuan Ji seemed to be able to hear, so she quickly revealed an incredulous expression, as if she couldn’t understand how her mixed-blood son could still be living so well.

“He has many friends, each and every one an outstanding chosen of heaven, the rising stars of the future cultivation world. And they all know his special mixed-blood identity, are willing to help him, share hardship and life-and-death together, and stand against the rules of the cultivation world. They all believe that Mo Xuanli will not become a future calamity that endangers the world.”

Xuan Ji’s eyes instantly widened, filled with ferocity and distrust. What she, as his mother, couldn’t do, how could others possibly do it? What the cultivation world was like, she knew all too well. Even her own husband couldn’t do this, so naturally she didn’t believe Gu Baiqing’s words.

Gu Baiqing looked at her, his expression growing colder and colder. “He also has a lover, a dao companion, who knows all his secrets, yet has sworn to never leave or abandon him, to live and die together with him, to protect him completely even if it means being enemies with the Heavenly Dao.”

At this moment, Xuan Ji even seemed to show a disdainful smile. Right, her former lover had been such a righteous and outstanding existence, yet he might not even have been able to accept her, a member of the demon race, let alone a special mixed-blood son.

But right in front of her, Gu Baiqing grabbed Mo Xuanli’s hand and revealed the rings the two of them wore. Because he was holding his hand, Mo Xuanli’s God Nine Transformations also allowed little red strings to extend and hook around people other than its owner.

Xuan Ji was stunned by this scene. Her red eyes trembled slightly in their sockets. She naturally sensed how pure and condensed the spiritual power being transmitted into the seal was, without a trace of impurity, simply the same quality as Immortal Baili Jin back then. And such a person was holding her mixed-blood son’s hand.

“I am his lover, Gu Baiqing!”

After saying this, Gu Baiqing very generously let Xuan Ji appreciate the scene of him kissing Mo Xuanli, making it clear to her just how much he liked her son. The mixed-blood son she regarded as worthless was, in Gu Baiqing’s eyes, the most precious and most beautiful treasure in the world.

And Xuan Ji naturally saw it all clearly. As someone who had experienced love, how could she not see with what kind of gaze Gu Baiqing looked at Mo Xuanli?

But how could she believe this?

She opened her mouth, but no sound came out.

Gu Baiqing, quite satisfied, kissed Mo Xuanli’s forehead again, displaying that sticky, lingering affection to the fullest.

Then, when he turned his head to look at Xuan Ji in a smug, show-off manner, his eyes were once again full of mockery.

Xuan Ji excitedly stood up, seemingly wanting to smash the seal. She roared something from her mouth.

Although it was unclear what she wanted to say, one could vaguely make out the word Baili. Gu Baiqing hadn’t yet finished paying back all of Mo Xuanli’s pent-up grievances, so naturally he still saved a big move for her.

“Oh right, your daughter has become the Saintess of the Demon Realm. In this life, she will probably live for revenge.”

“And also, your husband…”

As soon as he said this, Xuan Ji indeed stiffened, staring at Gu Baiqing with eyes about to split open.

“Long ago, back when you were sealed, he perished together with the Demon Venerable. So do you still want to come out?”

In an instant, Xuan Ji was stunned, the whole person seeming to have her soul extracted, dazed and vacant. Immediately after, she burst into tears, crazily smashing at the surrounding invisible barrier.

In the end, the one that tugged at her soul the most was still only Immortal Baili Jin. Truly a selfish woman.

Gu Baiqing could only sigh that it was fortunate he had knocked Mo Xuanli unconscious; otherwise, seeing this scene, Xuanli would probably still have been hurt.

Until Xuan Ji went mad to the point of having no strength left.

“Xuan Ji, this is your retribution. The one you loved most is dead, and the one you hated most… is living very well. Xuanli is happy now, and in the future he will be even happier, but none of that has anything to do with you. You can stay in there forever. After all, this is the ending your beloved chose for you!”

After Gu Baiqing finished speaking, he increased the output of spiritual power.

Xuan Ji suddenly panicked and struggled again, but the power of the Demon-Sealing Mark gradually recovered, and she could only slowly sink into sleep.

In the end, exhausted, she was forced to sit down, tilting her head up, looking rather wretchedly at the two outside. Finally, her gaze fixed on Mo Xuanli.

At that moment, Xuan Ji’s eyes seemed somewhat complicated.

Gu Baiqing didn’t want to probe whether there was even the slightest bit of guilt in it; that was just as unpleasant as hurting someone and then saying a light, perfunctory sorry.

Xuan Ji once again became the same as when she was first sealed.

Heaven and earth began to tremble. The patterns of the Demon-Summoning Formation on the ground began to twist.

Gu Baiqing knew this was the critical moment; everything depended on Li Xiuran’s side now.

And at this time, Xuanyue didn’t know that her mother had been sealed again.

She led the demon race to guard the God-Slaying Sword fragment in the courtyard, until she was beaten back step by step by Li Xiuran.

Xuanyue knew she couldn’t hold it, so she naturally chose the second plan.

She directly withdrew with her people, giving Li Xiuran the opportunity.

The instant Li Xiuran forcibly took the fragment, the Demon-Summoning Formation that radiated across half of the cultivation world began to collapse, its power so immense that it was simply impossible to resist.

Everyone on the formation was affected. Everyone hurriedly set up protective formations, yet still couldn’t withstand the assault of the power; almost all cultivators and demon race members were knocked unconscious within their own protective formations amid the relentless waves of spiritual energy.

Even Ao Heng above was attacked and reverted to a small dragon form, carried down by Three Bean in his mouth. Then they too all fainted.

Heaven and earth seemed to fall into silence in an instant.

When Mo Xuanli slowly came to, he suddenly wanted to sit up, his mind still stuck on Gu Baiqing’s final strike. But the sensation around him made him freeze instantly, he was being held tightly in someone’s arms. The two of them were entwined by the red strings of God Nine Transformations, making it difficult to sit up.

There was also a barrier set up around them. The outside world no longer had thick fog; all around was a sense of desolation after being blasted by spiritual energy, and there was no longer the constant pulling sensation of the Demon-Summoning Formation.

Mo Xuanli was dazed, his eyes full of confusion, but he still instinctively hurried to check Gu Baiqing beside him. After confirming that he had fainted due to aftereffects, he finally let out a breath of relief. Suddenly, there was a sound nearby. Mo Xuanli instantly became like a crazed wild beast, immediately hugging Gu Baiqing tightly into his arms and viciously staring at the source of the sound, only to see that it was merely a stone rolling down.

A crazed look surged in Mo Xuanli’s eyes; one black and one red turned into both red. With a single strike, the barrier was destroyed, and that stone was blasted into dust and disappeared.

When he realized how abnormal his behavior was, Mo Xuanli immediately released Gu Baiqing. Then he stared blankly for a while, his eyes gradually returning to normal. He slowly leaned back into the embrace again, feeling the warmth and the cool plum fragrance, then reached back and tightly hugged the person again, unconsciously restraining Gu Baiqing’s arms.

After his mind was in chaos for a long time, he finally murmured again, “Is it real?”

It seemed that only now did he soberly recall what had happened before. Turning his head to look, the ground from earlier had already returned to normal; there was no sign of that person. Had she come out, or…

Mo Xuanli’s expression instantly tightened. Suddenly his chin itched, it was Master’s hand unconsciously brushing against his chin.

Mo Xuanli froze, lifted his head to look at Gu Baiqing, and saw that Gu Baiqing looked as though he had taken a midday nap, his whole body exuding a lazy feeling, eyes half-lidded.

Gu Baiqing was holding Mo Xuanli like this, leaning against a rock at the side. The sunlight happened to shine down, truly a leisurely posture.

Gu Baiqing’s fingers gently brushed against Mo Xuanli’s tense chin until he relaxed. Gu Baiqing was in a good mood, because the task had been successfully completed again.

“Stop looking. I sealed her again. You won’t see her.” Gu Baiqing said slowly when he woke up and saw Mo Xuanli staring blankly in that direction.

Mo Xuanli couldn’t help widening his eyes and said, “You knocked me out just now in order to…”

Gu Baiqing said apologetically, “Blame me? I just didn’t want you to do it yourself. And I didn’t want you to see her again. Since you don’t want her to come out, then we’ll let her never come out.”

Mo Xuanli was speechless for a moment, his shattered heart seeming to be wrapped in a soft ribbon. He couldn’t help but be moved and leaned onto Gu Baiqing, wrapping his arms around him.

Gu Baiqing let him hold him, like being covered by a big dog’s fur blanket, gently stroking his head as he said, “Don’t be sad, and don’t be afraid. The things you want to do but can’t, I’ll do them for you.”

A glimmer flashed in Mo Xuanli’s eyes, moisture spilling out. Master had considered so much for him, yet he had just been suspicious…

Mo Xuanli lifted his head and said hoarsely, “Thank you, Master.”

Looking at Mo Xuanli like this, Gu Baiqing always couldn’t help but think of the little Xuanli in the illusion earlier. It was as if no matter how he made it up to him now, no matter how much candy he gave him, it couldn’t cover the bitterness in his eyes. Gu Baiqing couldn’t help hooking Mo Xuanli’s chin and taking the initiative to kiss him.

Mo Xuanli was slightly startled. His hands instinctively wanted to seize Gu Baiqing’s hands, but he still lowered them. One hand held Gu Baiqing’s waist, the other cupped the back of his head, deepening the kiss.

Gu Baiqing’s hands climbed onto his back. He only tensed his body for an instant, then gradually relaxed. The two lay on the grass, locked in a kiss.

As if surviving a great calamity, as if wanting to erase all the pain they had just experienced.

After who knows how long they had been kissing, both of them were a little short of breath, their bodies even more awakened by one another.

Mo Xuanli gazed hazily at Master’s face below him, his heart brimming with emotion. The bitterness in his eyes was replaced by desire. His kisses gently fell on the lightning mark between the brows, the tall bridge of the nose, the pale pink lips, the slender jaw, then followed the jawline down to the Adam’s apple.

Gu Baiqing couldn’t take it anymore and hurriedly called a stop.

If this went on, they would lose control in this dangerous wilderness.

He really had only wanted to comfort him, with no intention of luring him into doing bad things.

Mo Xuanli was considered sensible as well. Although his body was somewhat unable to endure it, he didn’t go too far, only hugging Master and rubbing against him like he was acting spoiled.

The two leaned quietly against each other, slowly calming the chaotic spiritual energy around them, and didn’t get up. After all, their bodies had yet to recover from the earlier impact of spiritual energy, and it wasn’t convenient to move around now. Instead, they could take the opportunity to absorb some spiritual energy and raise their cultivation a bit more.

Mo Xuanli’s eyes were deep, one black and one red eye staring straight at Gu Baiqing, as if focusing on just this one person was enough. After all, everything that needed to be done had been done, and there was nothing particularly urgent now.

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