Chapter 185 Jinjiang Debut

The firewood was burned out and the yard was filled with the aroma of meat. The mother-in-law had already prepared a bowl and was waiting by the side. The husband lifted the lid of the pot and a giant snake flew out and pounced straight at his face. The husband was so frightened that he had no power to fight back and was dragged away by the giant snake.

The giant snake bit his head, but did not kill him. Instead, it used its tail to wrap around his feet and hung him upside down. The husband was slowly hung above the pot with his feet up and his head down. The broth in the pot was still boiling, and the hot steam burned his face. The husband was now scared, and he shouted for help and begged for mercy:

"Qingqing, please forgive me. I love you, and I had no choice. I know I was wrong, I really know I was wrong. Please forgive me, and I will work like a slave for the rest of my life to make it up to you! Qingqing, please forgive me..."

Qingqing ignored her and slowly lowered her tail, enjoying the pleasure of playing with her prey. Her husband watched his scalp getting closer and closer to the boiling water. He collapsed and began to wail incoherently.

In the end, the husband's head was soaked in the soup pot. He let out a shrill scream and struggled violently. Qingqing saw it all but just smiled slightly.

The mother-in-law couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so she picked up the kitchen knife on the table and chopped at the giant snake, but the snake's body was as hard as iron and the kitchen knife broke after a few hits. The mother-in-law then picked up a stool and smashed it at the giant snake, but the giant snake didn't react at all, and just focused on playing with the man in its hand.

Qingqing didn't let her husband soak in the soup pot for too long. It would be too easy for him if he drowned. Qingqing lifted her tail and hung her husband up again so that he could catch his breath. His face had been burned so much that a layer of skin had melted, and it had become a bloody mess, making it impossible to see his appearance.

The husband had just taken a few breaths when Qingqing playfully dipped his head into the soup pot, scalding him again. This time the husband couldn't even make a sound. This happened several times until the husband was finally scalded to death by the pot of broth.

"Hehe, since we are a family, we should be cooked in the same pot--"

Qingqing turned her head and looked at her mother-in-law with a pair of snake eyes.

Grandma pretended to be calm and was still making her last resistance. Qingqing blinked, and the ground under grandma's feet turned into a swamp. The harder grandma moved, the faster she sank. Soon most of her body was sunk in the soil, leaving only her neck and head outside.

"Oh, I used the earth-transforming magic. I forgot that I said I would reunite your family," Qingqing said angrily, "Since you can't enter the soup pot, then only the soup pot will come to find you."

As she said this, she swung her tail and overturned the big pot with it. The pot fell on her mother-in-law's head, pouring all the hot soup on her. Her mother-in-law let out a heart-wrenching scream.

When she looked around again, her father-in-law was gone, leaving only a wet mark on the ground. It turned out that her father-in-law had been so scared that he had wet his pants, and his legs were weak and he could not walk. While Qingqing was dealing with her mother-in-law, her father-in-law supported himself on the ground with his arms and dragged his lower body away.

Qingqing twisted her body and flew in front of her father-in-law in a few seconds. Her father-in-law was so scared that he was babbling nonsense and was unconscious. Qingqing was too lazy to tease him, so she just rolled up his feet with her tail and threw him to the side of the stove. His head was thrown into the stove, which happened to be filled with firewood that had just burned and was still warm.

"That's it. I avenged myself," Qingqing said. "I watched them die, and then tore their souls apart on the spot. I wanted them to turn into ashes and never be reborn!"

"After I finished doing all this, I saw my child, who was already dead. Then I went berserk and slaughtered people from several villages. I don't remember the details, but I remember seeing red everywhere, people's terrified faces, and their shrill screams... I killed for two days and two nights. Everywhere I went, even the ground was red, and blood was splattered everywhere, as if it had rained blood between heaven and earth."

"You ask me why? I didn't care about that at the time. My child died, and they had to be buried with me! Besides, they were not innocent either. Most of the people who survived the famine had eaten human flesh."

"After that incident, I retired to the mountains and usually hid deep in the mountains. Every year, I would come out to eat a few people in order to survive. After all, my physical energy consumption is very high," Qingqing said helplessly. "Meeting this snake can be said to be my luck, or my misfortune. It turned me into a snake demon and gave me all my cultivation, allowing me to have the ability to take revenge, but it also turned me into a monster that is neither human nor ghost. I am trapped in this body and can never get out. I can't reincarnate or go through reincarnation. I can only survive by eating people."

Although the green snake had some cultivation before its death, it has now merged into Qingqing's body, transformed into a demon, and has even killed people. It can no longer cultivate and become an immortal, and the green snake is unwilling to accept this.

"It shouldn't be," Bai Mian frowned and said, "You have been a snake demon in the human world for five hundred years. The heavens should have noticed a big demon like you a long time ago. Why hasn't they sent anyone to subdue you yet?"

Qingqing said dimly: "How could there not be? Every hundred years, there will be fairies who have encountered tests and come to kill me, but my resentment is too heavy. Even if I am killed, I will not disappear. Although my body is rotten, my resentment can still be reunited. After I practice for another hundred years, I can cultivate a complete demon body. So, I can never be killed or cut off..."

So that's how it is. Bai Mian understood that if he only relied on force to attack, he would never be able to completely kill the snake demon. Only by resolving her resentment could he make her disappear from the world.

No wonder there was no system broadcast in Bai Mian's ears after he killed the snake demon, because killing the snake demon does not really count as completing the task. This intermediate test is testing whether the challenger has compassion for all living beings. If one wants to become an immortal, one must care about all living beings, and the so-called living beings also include this snake demon.

Even if you are facing a snake demon, you must be able to listen carefully to her thoughts. Only with such a broad mind is you qualified to become a god.

Fortunately, Bai Mian stayed for a while after killing the snake demon and saw her become resentful. If Bai Mian turned around and left, this mission would be a failure. She would not pass the test and naturally could not ascend to become a god. She could only wait for the resentment of the green snake to condense and take shape before challenging her again.

And the next time will be a hundred years later.

"What are you still grumbling about?" Bai Mian asked, "You've torn the people who hurt you to pieces with your own hands, and even killed all the people involved in this matter. Do you still resent them?"

Qingqing sighed, "What I am most unwilling to accept is my child. He has clearly shown his head. If we had a few more minutes, we could have seen each other, but that beast wouldn't even let me give birth!"

"That's my own child. He lived in my belly for several months. I felt his heartbeat and fetal movement. I worked so hard to carry him, but I didn't even see his face. I just wanted to see him—"

Qingqing's voice became sad: "Although I know that the dead cannot be resurrected, I want to know where my child has reincarnated. Five hundred years have passed, and he should have been reincarnated many times. But no matter how many times, to me, he is my child! As long as I can see him once, just see him once!"

"But I can't find it no matter how hard I try. The six reincarnations are managed by the heavens, and only immortals are qualified to inquire about a person's reincarnation. What can I do? I can only risk my life and give it a try."

"In the tenth year after I became a demon, I tried to reach the heavens, but was beaten half to death by the heavenly soldiers and generals. I was also cast into a spell by an immortal. He knew that I could be reborn over and over again, so he built a barrier specifically for me, preventing me from leaving this barrier in this lifetime."

"This barrier is the area you see now. I can't walk out, but I can find a way to attract people in. I transformed into a mountain called Fuzhu Mountain. I made it so that everyone who came in would never return. This has become a gimmick, attracting more tourists. With them, I won't have to worry about food anymore."

"But my life is hopeless during the days I am trapped, because I am trapped in this hellish place and I will never know the whereabouts of my child. How long will I be trapped?"

Qingqing's voice was very miserable, and Bai Mian was a little surprised: "You... just want to find out about the child's reincarnation?"

It was so simple to dispel her resentment.

Qingqing replied unwillingly: "Yes, it is that simple, but in the past five hundred years, no immortal has ever been willing to listen to me. Every immortal who has come, as well as those heavenly soldiers and generals, are so high and mighty, looking at me with contempt, as if I were the dirtiest thing in the world, but no one has ever asked me why I became like this!"

"So I hate, I not only hate those mortals, I also hate you cold-blooded gods! Only by killing and eating people can I vent the hatred in my heart!"

Qingqing's every word was heart-wrenching. Bai Mian understood what she heard. She said no more and directly summoned the system:

"Ling Di, help me find out where her child is reincarnated now."

[Received, checking for you...]

This time, in order to let Qingqing hear it, the system played the sound publicly.

[The following content was found: He was reincarnated as a human in this life, gender: male, name: Yao Xingyu, birthplace: Beijing, destiny: wealthy family, happy life...]

Just as Qingqing was feeling relieved, the system changed the subject:

[He has a short life span and can only live to the age of 20. His death date is today.]

Qingqing immediately became nervous, and Baimian also planned to take action. She wanted Yao Xingyu to meet Qingqing before he died: "Where is he now?"

[He is right next to you. His characteristic is that he has green hair.]

Bai Mian was silent. She tightly grasped the package in her hand, and Qingqing's resentment was rampant in the golden talisman:

"That person is my child? Impossible, you must be lying to me, you are all lying to me! I killed my own child, I actually killed my own child with my own hands? Impossible, it's all fake!"

Bai Mian could only sigh. It seemed that Yao Xingyu and Qingqing had met once before, but this meeting was too short. Qingqing swallowed Yao Xingyu not long after he entered the mountain.

"I - killed my own child? After so many years, I saw him die in front of me again, and this time I did it myself? It's fate, even God is playing tricks on me!!!"

Qingqing repeated these words, her spirit completely broken.

"You killed innocent people in the past, and what happened today is karma," Bai Mian said cruelly, "It's understandable that you killed those people for revenge, but the victims later were all innocent. They were also the children that their mothers carried for ten months and gave birth to with great difficulty, but they died at your hands and were separated from their families. I'm afraid that God arranged it this way just to warn you of this."

"I killed innocent people indiscriminately, and God punished me...so I killed my own child?"

Qingqing pondered, and the ideas in her mind began to waver.

Bai Mian took the opportunity to say, "If you continue to be stubborn and kill people, sooner or later you will be reduced to ashes, and then you will never see your child again. If you repent now and let go of your hatred, I can apply to the heavens, and after you have redeemed your sins in purgatory, I will let your child be reincarnated into the same family as you, and then you will still be mother and son."

"Really?" There was a glimmer of hope in Qingqing's voice.

Bai Mian stretched out his hand: "I guarantee it with my life. If I lie to you, let me be struck by lightning and never be reborn."

Gods are not like mortals. Every oath made by gods is effective. With the guarantee of heaven, Qingqing finally believed Bai Mian.

"well--"

Qingqing sighed and thought about her previous life. Although it was tragic, it was all past five hundred years ago. It was time to let it go.

Bai Mian felt that the weight of the package in his hand was getting lighter. It was Qingqing's resentment that was dissipating. The resentment that had accumulated for five hundred years was blown away like dust.

"Master, I know I was wrong. I am willing to go back to the underworld with you to be punished."

The resentment dissipated, and Qingqing's soul appeared in front of Bai Mian.

Bai Mian's mission has not been completed yet, and she cannot leave the human world for the time being. She calls out Ling Di and asks Ling Di to transmit Qing Qing's soul to the underworld. She also personally writes a divine letter to plead for Qing Qing, begging the King of Hell to let her be reunited with her child when Qing Qing is reincarnated.

Before leaving, Qingqing took off a green scale from her body and placed it in Baimian's palm.

Bai Mian touched the cold scales, wondering what her intention was.

"This is a thank you gift to you," Qingqing said, "Every scale on my body represents a memory, and also an experience I had in the mortal world. This memory is related to you."

After saying this, Qingqing's soul disappeared.

Bai Mian held the scales, and they quickly melted, turning into a pool of clear water in her palm.

Bai Mian saw the memories Qingqing was talking about, which were memories about her parents.