Chapter 129: Heartless Birth of Demonic Corruption and Sacred Blood

【When you wake up once more.】

【There are no longer any traces of wounds on your body; your injuries have been restored as before. Your previous collapse was due to exhaustion from mental anguish, and the relief of seeing her.】

【Liu Moran's eyes are staring at you with tenderness like water.】

【And you finally realize just how terrifying the changes brought by 'Immortal and Indestructible' are; it is invisibly affecting your sanity.】

【This is not just an ability; it is also like some kind of curse.】

【In your heart, you loathe yourself like this, but upon seeing Liu Moran, you immediately open your mouth hoarsely and say: "Moran... you..."】

【Seeing you awake, Liu Moran finally sets down the stone hanging in her heart. She wipes the tears from her face; for her, the torment of these years has finally found a place to rest.】

【"I am here," Liu Moran says, clutching your raised hand. "We are both safe."】

【"But I..." Gu Jiangming says, coughing lightly. "This body of mine..."】

【"I don't care," Liu Moran says coldly. "I will heal you, even if it costs me my life. No matter what, I must have you live before my eyes."】

【《Current Era's Venerable》: Your talent is peerless, you are the Human Emperor. Your comprehension will increase to 120 points, breaking the basic limit of the current Human Race. Your bone structure increases by 20 points, your Fortune increases by 20 points, and your Morality increases by 50 points. (If both your parents are deceased, your Morality will immediately decrease by 50 points, and you will fall into collapse each turn.)】

【Due to Liu Moran's affection index for Gu Jiangming being too high, and Gu Jiangming's intimacy with Liu Moran in daily interactions being too high, both parties will unlock affection lines.】

【And the seven-year term has arrived; Gu Nianmo's parents are still alive, so he will immediately obtain—the Golden Word of 《Current Era's Venerable》.】

【《Two Hearts Entwined》: Liu Moran has a strong attachment to Gu Jiangming. When Gu Jiangming's body suffers heavy damage, she will have a premonition at the first moment and will arrive by his side in the fastest time possible.】

【"I can save you," Liu Moran says, clutching your hand. "I don't want to be alone anymore."】

The next second, Jiu Jiu suddenly remembers that Long Xi also has a series of skins for 【The Only God】, which is also a set with Gu Jiangming.

So it turns out everyone has one, and only she is the one who doesn't.

And compared to Wang Qinghe who still has room to unlock things, Jiu Jiu is the most annoyed one. The skin unlocks between her and Gu Jiangming only include Gu Jiangming's two sets of skins, one named 【Dao Venerable of Mount Shu】 and one named 【Peerless Elegance】, while she herself only unlocked 【Near the Monarch, Fear of Intimacy】, but there are no couple skins, no couple words, and certainly no deep interactions as high as those between Liu Moran and Gu Jiangming.

【You will unlock each other's world map, knowing the location of both parties with extreme detail and precision.】

【"We once saved each other, and now, it is impossible for me to just let you go like this," Liu Moran says softly.】

Why on earth is this happening?

But Jiu Jiu thinks again, if she counts as miserable, then isn't that stupid dragon Long Xi even more miserable? It seems she hasn't unlocked many skins at all.

【"But I am already a dead person, just a walking corpse relying on my soul to hang on; no one can save me," you say earnestly, not wanting to hide your physical condition.】

【Congratulations on unlocking the new word 《Two Hearts Entwined》 together.】

On the screen, the information of Liu Moran and Gu Jiangming's constant interactions is being transmitted in everyone's minds, because the unlocking of such words is public.

【Likewise, when Gu Jiangming faces other women, Liu Moran will feel anxious, and in the process of Gu Jiangming communicating with other women, there is a high probability she will enter a demonized form.】

Wang Qinghe never imagined that in 【Mie Changsheng】, not only are there such matching couple skins, but there are actually couple words and couple dialogues.

It seems she also has such a set of couple skins, but she hasn't unlocked couple words or lines like this; though if one had to say, 【Heart-Pounding】 could actually be considered a type of couple word.

【An indescribable emotional connection has formed between Gu Jiangming and Liu Moran. When the two of them are within a certain range, Gu Jiangming can run quickly toward Liu Moran... and Liu Moran can also run quickly toward Gu Jiangming.】

Why?

By what right can this woman unlock so much content?

She, Jiu Jiu, is like someone no one dotes on.

【"And I don't want you to live forever only in my heart."】

Jiu Jiu's originally somewhat restrained emotions immediately flared up. This Reincarnation is the same; it was supposed to be her and Gu Jiangming's home turf.

As a result, the layout and progress that Gu Jiangming and she should have had were completely disrupted by someone else.

Her daughter Gu Mingyue has now completely turned into a spirit, and to this day, Jiu Jiu still has many complaints and is extremely resentful. In her view, if it weren't for Long Xi ruining things, this Reincarnation would have been the settlement between her and Gu Jiangming.

But a disaster star appeared and disrupted all of Jiu Jiu's plans, leading to the current situation, especially since there is only this one chance for Reincarnation.

Thinking of this, Jiu Jiu has the heart to slaughter this stupid dragon!

As for Liu Moran?

Jiu Jiu doesn't care at all.

Because according to the timeline, this person is 100% dead, and she hasn't appeared in the present world either, which is enough to show that she encountered some special situation in between, one that directly led to her soul being completely scattered.

And for Jiu Jiu to go and bicker with someone whose soul has scattered, that would be beneath her.

On the screen.

The plot is still continuing to unfold.

However, this time everyone's perspective has switched to Gu Nianmo.

【You are Gu Nianmo. When you were born, there was a strange phenomenon; a brilliant star streaked across the sky. In the night, the entire Heaven and Earth were bright as day for the duration of an incense stick because of it. Such a peculiar sight caused you to be eyed covetously by all sides the moment you were born.】

【Your father's name is Gu Jiangming, and your mother's name is Liu Moran. You should have been born into the Liu Clan of Beidi, but the family fortunes declined. Inadvertently, your mother drifted to a small place and met your father.】

【When you were born, you were accustomed to blood and slaughter. For the first two years of your life, you were subjected to varying degrees of pursuit, but you vaguely remember the smiles of your father and mother.】

【You can even recall the smile they shared while fleeing from famine.】

【But in your short memory, the figure of your father soon disappeared. You only know that it rained heavily that day; it was a heart-stopping chase.】

【An old man chased after you. To hold him back, your father fought him to the death, while your mother, full of tear stains, carried you away in the rainy night.】

【Afterward, you returned again, only to see your father's corpse. Your mother stumbled and knelt on the ground, revealing a face of despair, weeping bitterly, almost seeking death, but seeing you, she restrained her thoughts and decided to raise you, then return to seek revenge for them!】

【Before leaving, your mother, holding onto a glimmer of luck and fantasy, cut a wound on your body to feed your father Qilin Divine Blood, hoping to save his life. Regrettably... this method was fruitless; not only did it not succeed, but it also made you feel pain.】

【Young as you were, you didn't know what this meant, but seeing your mother's resolute expression, you thought such a thing must be worth it.】

【Later... you knew that was your father saving you with his life, and in order for you to live, he left his life there forever.】

【If not for your father, you might have already died in that night rain.】

【This was the first time you tasted fatherly love, but it was also the last time you felt the sensation of your father being behind you.】

【At two years old, you didn't know what these things represented, but you gradually felt that emotion.】

【Your mother took you through a life of displacement. She became demonized, constantly attacking the disciples of the Six Harmonies Society, snatching everything they could use to survive from their hands.】

【Many people cursed your mother as a 'madwoman', a 'witch', and a 'harbinger of doom'. Little you never understood the reason for these things, but you knew that all the suffering you had endured, you would make these people endure it all.】

【Because you know that your mother was never a "madwoman," never some "witch"; she loved you very much and was willing to leave everything to you.】

【And you also know that your father was never meant to die; they were being hunted, they were framed by others.】

【A seed of vengeance was planted in your heart.】

【At the age of five, your mother had already been hiding with you throughout the Nine Provinces for five long years; you finally began to understand the world and knew the reason for being hunted all these years.】

【The root cause of everything was you.】

【And the bloodline within your body.】

【You realized that it was greed, endless desire, that drove these people to constantly search for you, and you also realized that the family that should have been happy had changed from the day you were born.】

【You hated your own birth, hated that the blood flowing in your veins could incite the covetousness of so many people; if not for this blood flowing in you, perhaps none of this would have happened.】

【But now, you have no way to change anything; you even have to look at others' faces just to hide and try to survive.】

【And this year, you encountered people from the Qilin Clan; they transformed into human form, found you, and wanted to take you back to Beidi to cultivate.】

【Your mother believed that once you returned to Beidi, you would suffer inhuman torture, so she was determined not to hand over her child just like that.】

【But the Qilin Clan was disdainful of this and couldn't even be bothered to look at her; the leader exerted a little power and injured your mother.】

【Perhaps out of consideration for your face, and the blood flowing in your veins, they did not kill your mother.】

【Of course, their momentary "benevolence" might just be because they felt your mother was truly too weak, so they let her go.】

【And you were very angry, yet in the end, you were powerless against it, because you truly had no way to protect your mother, and even watched your own father die at the hands of the Demon Race.】

【They thought you knew nothing, but your natural talent was astonishing; you saw through all of this, and you knew it all in your heart.】

【But you swallowed it all down and remained silent.】

【Because of this, your character became resilient; having experienced so many things from a young age, you became transcendentally calm about everything, unless you encountered something you could not tolerate.】

【You were taken back to Beidi by the Qilin Clan.】

【They brought you to the ancestral grounds where the Qilin rose, forcing you to acknowledge your ancestors; in their eyes, the bloodline in your body originated from Zhou Kai, and since that was the case, you were his descendant.】

【You were unwilling, you were truly unwilling.】

【That night, you did not lower your head, looking straight at the aged Zhou Kai; when the Qilin Clan forced you to kowtow, you said earnestly, "I will not kneel."】

【"My father's name is Gu Jiangming, and my mother's name is Liu Moran."】

【"My name is Gu Nianmo, because my father misses (nian) my mother (mo); he remembers, he cherishes, he loves my mother."】

【"I am not a member of the Qilin Clan, and I will not acknowledge your Qilin Clan ancestors."】

【"If you insist on making me acknowledge them, then kill me, take your Qilin blood; I don't care for it at all."】

【At such a young age, you spoke the toughest words of your life; your pride would not allow you to be beneath others, this was your most basic bottom line, and you could never forget this identity.】

【But you also knew in your heart that saying such things would bring you no benefit, yet you knew even better that in a person's life, there is only one chance to kneel, and once you kneel, you kneel for a lifetime.】

【You are not a dog picked up by the Qilin Clan, nor are you some other messy thing; you only know that you are the son of Gu Jiangming and Liu Moran, an identity no one can strip away, and you will never accept having your identity taken by others.】

【As you spoke, you rushed toward the tombstone of the Qilin Clan in one breath, wanting to smash your head against it.】

【Zhou Kai exhaled faintly and blocked your movement, "Child, you are very much like an old friend of mine."】

【"Since you do not want to acknowledge your ancestors, then don't."】

【"Ancestor, this brat has the blood of our Qilin Clan flowing in him; are you just going to let him be?" the Qilin beside him hesitated.】

【"I have my mother's blood flowing in me, and my father's blood; it has nothing to do with your Qilin Clan," you shouted loudly, "If you stop me today, I will seek death tomorrow, and I will seek death the day after, as long as you keep making me acknowledge you people-not-people, dog-not-dog things as ancestors."】

【"Qilin Divine Blood, ptooey—"】

【Zhou Kai glanced and said, "Tie this brat up, starve him for a few days, and see if he still has this spirit."】

【You were tied up, but you never lowered your head, because you still held to that one phrase—born a child of the Gu family, die a soul of the Gu family.】

【Even when enduring the most mind-torturing hunger, you were unwilling to "admit your mistake," because you had never been wrong!】

【This instead tempered your character.】

【But you also thought of your mother, and thought of your father.】

【If they were here, you probably wouldn't be hungry.】

【You suddenly wanted to cry, but you held back your tears, still holding your head high and huffing at those Qilin; for you, this was more important than any victory or defeat.】

【Because you knew better than anyone how much your parents loved you.】

【Therefore, you absolutely could not lower your head like this and let them look down on your parents.】

Liu Moran inside the Taiyi Stone was already sobbing uncontrollably.

Even Gu Jiangming was now plunged into a long silence.

This resilient and stubborn brat was, after all, only seven years old.

Yet he was now suffering such hardships, and still unwilling to just swallow his pride and admit defeat.

(End of chapter)