In order not to cause trouble for his junior sister, Shang Lin tried his best to calm down. He never expected that his dream would be so real because of Yuan Shang Lin.

Seeing that he had calmed down, Old Man Chai reached out to his junior sister and said, "I'll hold the baby. You should eat quickly. I've heard that new mothers can't go hungry, or they'll easily get sick."

“…Okay.” Although the junior sister agreed verbally, her eyes were full of worry. “Then I’ll eat quickly so the child won’t cry anymore.”

Shang Lin really wanted to say, "I'm really not kidding!"

But the next second, she saw Grandpa Chai carefully take her in his arms, his clumsiness was indescribable, but his eyes were filled with a complex and indescribable pity and love for the child in his arms.

The scene shifts to the junior sister rummaging through drawers and cabinets searching for talismans to "exorcise evil spirits," and secretly brewing bitter medicinal soup in an attempt to "purify" the "ominous aura" brought about by the "demon bloodline" on the infant.

Shang Lin even saw his junior sister feeding him blood, and on countless nights, she murmured to a blurry wooden plaque engraved with what appeared to be demonic patterns, her eyes filled with anxiety and unease.

As time went on, this anxiety and unease became more and more obvious, and even Old Man Chai, who could only take care of his junior sister and her child at night after working during the day, felt it.

But all he could do was silently care. In the end, all he could say to his junior sister was, "Don't feel guilty. Just focus on taking good care of the child. I'll take care of everything else!"

"……good."

Life afterward seemed peaceful; neither the people from Feixian Palace nor Yuan Shanglin's father's side came looking for them. On the surface, it was a truly stable time.

However, in this seemingly peaceful environment, Shang Lin finally saw why his junior sister, a demon cultivator, possessed demonic blood. It was because she had actually used herself as a prison to seal away the demonic energy!

Unfortunately, she fell in love with an ordinary human, became pregnant unexpectedly, and was cheated on. The evil spirits probably wanted to escape or find a new host, so they transferred all their power from the junior sister's body into the fetus's body!

This was also one of the key points that Shang Lin found strange before. Judging from the original Shang Lin's appearance, the child should have died in the womb, so how did he survive?

At first, Shang Lin thought that his junior sister had used some forbidden technique from her demon clan to exchange for it, after all, she was willing to risk her life for her son, but now it seems...

It was clearly a demon trying to use the baby to be reborn, so no matter what method the junior sister used, she couldn't stop its birth, nor could she help her son escape the pursuit of the Heavenly Dao.

Later, the junior sister tried everything she could to get the demon back into her body, but all her attempts failed. In the end, she entrusted her son to Old Man Chai and faced the tribulation with her own body...

This was the third time Shang Lin had seen his junior sister in his sleep, her soul scattered by heavenly lightning. The previous two times were in the lotus mirror, so he didn't have a very real feeling about it, just some感慨 (feelings/reflections).

But now...

Perhaps it was because the dream was so real, as if he were the original Shang Lin—no, even more so than the original Shang Lin, because he possessed the consciousness of an adult. So, when he witnessed his junior sister being struck by heavenly lightning and reduced to ashes, Shang Lin's heart...

A sudden, excruciating pain shot through him, causing him to vomit blood even while still asleep…