Chapter 79: Seventy-Nine Cuts "You're Not a Qualified Male Mother"...
No matter how much that immortal lord thought about it, he never expected that it would be Xie Changming who came.
If it were Shui Heng, the Demon Emperor of the Demon Realm, who appeared here, he might be able to fight him for two or three moves.
But he couldn't beat Xie Changming.
After all, one of the Four Immortal Lords had already perished at his hands back then.
He acted decisively and fled to the edge of the Heavenly Realm before Xie Changming recognized him.
Xie Changming gave chase, and the two caused quite a commotion in the Heavenly Realm, yet no cultivator dared to intervene.
The immortal lord never expected it to be Xie Changming. Now, he could only flee, but where could he flee to? No matter if he flew to the celestial realm or the mortal realm, he would eventually be caught by Xie Changming.
Unless he severs his spiritual connection with the outside world, where can he sever the connection of his spiritual connection?
So... that was the only place left, and the immortal lord flew straight towards the star shore.
Xie Changming was initially some distance away from him, and although that distance kept shrinking, in the end he could only watch as the white light flew into the Misty Star Sea.
Once cultivators reach the level of ascension, the Misty Star Sea will no longer strictly match them with teams, but it will still take some time for the Misty Star Sea to create a suitable environment for cultivators at that level.
Xie Changming didn't have the patience to wait for him to come out. He wanted to go to the Misty Star Sea to continue searching for him. His current consciousness was still attached to the Spirit Network, and he still needed to abide by the rule that the two of them had to go to the Misty Star Sea together in the lower realm.
He immediately sent a voice message to Luo Mingshu: "Shushu, come to Xing'an."
As soon as Xie Changming finished speaking, he drew a teleportation array under his feet and arrived in front of Luo Mingshu.
At this moment, Luo Mingshu was lying in the grass recording information when Xie Changming suddenly appeared, startling her so much that she took two steps back.
Xie Changming's murderous intent hadn't subsided, but Luo Mingshu wasn't afraid at all. She glared at Xie Changming and said, "What are you doing, acting so fiercely?"
"I didn't do anything. I found the people in the Celestial Realm," Xie Changming said.
"Who is it?" Luo Mingshu wanted to see who was trying to frame her.
"I can't see clearly yet, but I can confirm that it is one of the Four Immortal Lords." Xie Changming shook his head. "He has already escaped into the Misty Star Sea."
"Then why don't we hurry up and go to the Heavenly Realm to see who's missing?" Luo Mingshu suggested.
A teleportation array quietly appeared beneath Xie Changming's feet, and he directly led Luo Mingshu to the Star Shore: "We cannot currently determine whether he has any companions in the Celestial Realm, so let's go directly to the Misty Star Sea to capture him."
Luo Mingshu was very excited: "That's good, I think it's feasible, but with my current cultivation level, am I a match for him?"
"You don't think just anyone can be matched with me in the Spirit Network's matching system, do you?" Xie Changming didn't expect Luo Mingshu to still not recognize his own strength.
“Without you, I wouldn’t be able to find teammates,” Xie Changming told her.
Luo Mingshu was taken aback. Before stepping into the Misty Star Sea, she grabbed Xie Changming's sleeve and asked, "You can go to the Heavenly Realm, Xie Changming, what exactly is your identity?"
Xie Changming was eager to track down the immortal lord, so without much thought, he answered directly, "Naturally, it is the Demon Lord of the Demon Realm."
"?" Luo Mingshu was taken aback.
At this moment, the two had already arrived inside the Misty Star Sea where they were waiting to be matched. Xie Changming was leading her toward the selection point in the direction of the Immortal Lord's divine sense. However, just as they were matched and the scene was generated, Luo Mingshu made her move.
She still remembered the ending she read in the original book, and she recalled how, after reading that ending, she had boldly declared that she would punch the demon lord who had betrayed her.
Although the content in the original book is false and cannot be believed, Luo Mingshu still feels uneasy about the plot of the original book.
So, as the surrounding scene was generated, Xie Changming took a solid punch to the face: "So it was you who betrayed me in the original book, you stinking demon lord."
Xie Changming was stunned, but the surrounding scene had already become heavy and oppressive, and both of them temporarily lost consciousness.
Because their exploration of the Misty Star Sea was too fast during their second exploration, the depth of the Misty Star Sea they were experiencing was already very deep. The escaped Immortal Lord's exploration progress was also very high, so he had not yet been matched with any other cultivators of the same level. When Luo Mingshu and Xie Changming arrived, their scene began to be generated.
The immortal lord hadn't expected Xie Changming to track him all the way here, but he saw it as a good thing. Within the Misty Star Sea, Xie Changming's strength could be brought to the same level as his own, and if he were in danger, the Misty Star Sea would find a way to protect him.
Since Xie Changming has chosen to come in, let's just wait it out here," the Immortal Lord thought as the surrounding scenery was generated.
The match was rushed, but fortunately Luo Mingshu had nothing to worry about outside. Yingtian Palace already had a very complete mechanism that could operate on its own. As for the Earth Moon Mole, she handed it over to Shui Qingnian and Shui Qingsi, asking them to take it back to their clan.
In fact, according to the original plan, she also intended to go to the Misty Star Sea to look for Liu Hongying again in a few days.
She calmly accepted the unexpected turn of events and turned to look forward to the exploration of this misty starry sea.
She had a good experience in the Little Heavenly Realm last time, so what will she encounter this time?
Will she wake up surrounded by a room full of gold and jewels? That divine throne made of divine bone wood last time was really something else.
This was Luo Mingshu's first time experiencing an advanced exploration scenario in the Misty Star Sea. What she didn't know was that the stronger the cultivators participating in the trial, the closer the exploration scenario presented by the Misty Star Sea would be to reality.
Many high-level cultivators who have entered the Misty Star Sea choose to enter it when their old friends and relatives have slowly died or left, and when they have no more attachments. This is because they can experience past scenes and recall the past times here.
In this Misty Star Sea exploration scenario, there are at least one escaped Immortal Lord, Xie Changming, and Luo Mingshu. The Immortal Lord and Xie Changming are naturally top cultivators in the cultivation world. Although Luo Mingshu has not yet fully awakened her bloodline, her exploration level in the Misty Star Sea is already very high. Therefore, the Misty Star Sea will create the scenario according to her full-form strength.
Therefore, influenced by the shared memories and thoughts of the three of them, a scene that almost resembles the real heavens unfolds.
Luo Mingshu, who fantasized about waking up amidst mountains of gold and silver, found herself in complete darkness when she opened her eyes.
She hadn't expected to be in this situation. Was she currently being locked up somewhere? Luo Mingshu thought to herself.
Luo Mingshu tried to break through the darkness before her. She attempted to use magic to shatter the walls that were trapping her, but her meager spells were clearly ineffective.
The wall trapping her remained unmoved, and her vision remained completely dark. Enraged, Luo Mingshu shouted, "Xie Changming!!!"
Xie Changming didn't reply, either because he himself didn't know where he was, or perhaps Luo Mingshu's voice hadn't reached outside this dark space.
It was pitch black, so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. Luo Mingshu tried to walk forward to explore the surrounding space, but she fell down after taking only two steps.
The reason she fell was simple: her legs were too short, and they hooked together, causing her to fall face-first into the mud, her forehead hitting the wall in front of her.
Luo Mingshu wanted to reach out and touch her feet, but her hands were too short and could only reach her waist.
She felt tiny scales on her waist, and an ominous premonition washed over her.
Could she have been tricked by this Misty Star Sea? Luo Mingshu thought in shock. She thought of her dream where she had become a little dragon and Xie Changming was the despicable human who had captured her and forced her to take a bath.
Luo Mingshu touched her entire body again, accepting the fact that she had turned into a little dragon. The little dragon horns on her head were still there.
She was so angry that she plopped down in the dark space. She should have known better than to fall for Xie Changming's trick. After she turned back, Xie Changming would definitely find a way to bully her.
Moreover, she couldn't even break through the dark space in front of her. Frustrated, Luo Mingshu used the small dragon horn on her forehead to push against the wall, hoping to break through.
Xie Changming heard the sound of her hitting the wall, and at that moment, he was standing on a grassy field, holding an egg in his arms... Yes, a beautiful pale purple dragon egg, inside which was Luo Mingshu.
Xie Changming was surprised to find that a similar scene and similar events had occurred again. He quickly realized that the Misty Star Sea must have replicated his memory with Luo Mingshu.
He held Luo Mingshu in his arms—Luo Mingshu was the egg, and the egg was Luo Mingshu—and stood there thinking about what to do now.
When he first saw this egg, he never thought he would treat it well.
——
He was not born in the Heavenly Realm; when he was born from the chaos of the Demon Realm, he was taken away by the people of the Heavenly Realm.
The Demon Realm has always been a coveted land of the Celestial Realm. The cultivators of the Celestial Realm have become obsessed with pursuing greater power, and it is true that the demon blood that Luo Mingshu saw helped the cultivation of the Celestial Realm cultivators.
The Celestial Realm has never stopped plotting against the Demon Realm, but the Demon Lord of the Demon Realm has always been an object of their fear. After the previous Demon Lord fled into the Misty Star Sea, the chaos of the Demon Realm began to conceive the next Demon Lord, and the newly born Xie Changming is the future Demon Lord.
He was still very weak at that time, so when he was unable to resist, he was taken away by the Heavenly Realm and imprisoned in the Black Prison.
He was originally supposed to be controlled by the Heavenly Realm in the Black Prison, with chains binding his limbs. The power of these demon-binding chains would increase along with his strength, and he would never be able to escape.
Deceived by the Celestial Lord, the Demon Realm still believed that their Demon Lord had not yet been born, and therefore did not rush to find Xie Changming.
Xie Changming was imprisoned here, but in the face of crisis, he made a desperate decision.
His guardian was a minor deity from the Heavenly Realm. The gods of the Heavenly Realm are like machines; they are more like plants that operate according to certain rules. Xie Changming escaped into the body of a minor deity from the Heavenly Realm and hid himself using divine bone wood.
He left behind only a useless shell in the dark prison, and no one would discover that he had escaped for over a hundred years.
However, the body enveloped by the divine bone wood must abide by the rules of the celestial realm and obey the commands of every ascended cultivator. Before he grows up, he is completely unable to resist the mission bestowed upon him by the divine bone wood.
Xie Changming had no choice but to remain in the Heavenly Realm, temporarily playing the role of an ordinary minor god, until his strength increased and he was able to rebel.
Of course, things took a turn when he was assigned a mission.
"You are to take care of the Yinglong egg in the Immortal Mansion of Immortal Lord Shixu," an immortal instructed. "The last batch of minor gods took care of it for a hundred years, but it still hasn't hatched. It seems we have no choice but to destroy the last batch of minor gods and plant a new one. You will take care of it for the time being. I'm only giving you ten years. If you fail to hatch it, you will also be destroyed."
From the immortal's words, Xie Changming could tell that the Heavenly Realm valued that egg highly, and that they had not hatched it for a long time after obtaining it.
Xie Changming didn't think he could do it, and even in ten years he couldn't raise his strength to a level where he could fight back. So he thought he might as well find a way to smash that egg that was so important to the Heavenly Realm.
Therefore, he initially disliked Luo Mingshu, and even harbored some resentment towards her because of her.
Xie Changming failed to smash Luo Mingshu because he ran out of the magnificent hall with the egg in his arms and found a blue stone, intending to smash her.
However, the Yinglong egg was too hard, and he failed.
Since that failed, they used fire. Xie Changming used demonic fire to burn the Yinglong egg for three days.
The egg wasn't cooked, but Luo Mingshu hatched.
This is the whole story of Luo Mingshu's birth.
A crack appeared in the Yinglong egg, and sunlight streamed in. The first person she saw after hatching was Xie Changming.
——
Xie Changming held Luo Mingshu's egg in one hand. He raised his hand and touched the bridge of his nose. Before entering the Misty Star Sea, Luo Mingshu had punched him.
It's true that the original book Luo Mingshu read was written by a Celestial Lord. In that Celestial Lord's understanding, he did indeed have a grudge against Luo Mingshu, so it seems that it's not a problem for him to write that he would ultimately be detrimental to her.
Xie Changming dared not smash the egg anymore, fearing that Luo Mingshu would punch him again after she came out.
When Luo Mingshu was still an egg, he wasn't very kind to her, so Xie Changming plans to hatch her properly this time.
Luo Ming never imagined that she had been trapped in that dark, enclosed space for several days because of Xie Changming's "kindness".
This time, Xie Changming carefully warmed her egg with demonic fire, and when he went to sleep at night, he didn't forget to tuck her into the quilt.
Luo Mingshu was getting impatient waiting inside the egg. Finally, one night, Xie Changming was holding her while she slept, and she hatched.
The bedchamber was dark at night, so Luo Mingshu didn't react when the crack appeared.
In the end, it was the cold wind blowing into the crack that excited Luo Mingshu.
She stretched out her two little paws and frantically pried open the crack in front of her.
Xie Changming also noticed the commotion. He opened his eyes and looked down at the egg in his arms.
Luo Mingshu extended one of her claws, and at the same time, her exasperated voice rang out: "Xie Changming, do you even know how to incubate an egg? It's been so many days and I'm only just hatching!"
Xie Changming felt that Luo Mingshu, this little dragon, might respond better to force than gentleness, after all, he had used demonic fire to temper her and it took him three days to hatch her.
He bent down and carefully removed the eggshell next to Luo Mingshu's paws, and Luo Mingshu finally crawled out.
She is devastated because Xie Changming was still in human form, so why did she turn into a little dragon?
The worst part is that she was initially inside an egg and had to wait for Xie Changming to hatch her.
If Xie Changming can't hatch eggs, when he goes to deal with that immortal lord, will he have to hold an egg in one hand while she watches the whole thing?
Luo Mingshu stomped her foot on Xie Changming's chest in anger, wanting to turn back into human form.
Xie Changming patted her head with one finger and chuckled, "You're out?"
Luo Mingshu was so angry that she lowered her head and bit his finger; this was the only way she could attack now.
"Why are you so slow?" Luo Mingshu asked. "I'm still Little Dragon, is it because of you?"
Xie Changming felt somewhat innocent. He himself hadn't expected the Misty Star Sea to generate such a scene. After all, apart from the time he spent with Luo Mingshu, the other memories in this period weren't very pleasant.
"Of course it wasn't me who caused it," Xie Changming said righteously, easily grabbing Luo Mingshu with his large hand and holding her in his palm. "Your memories are also from this."
"Me?" Luo Mingshu's vision went black, and she almost fainted. "Xie Changming, you mean, you were the one who hatched me?"
Xie Changming nodded slightly, feeling a little guilty.
"Actually, strictly speaking, it's not really. I just burned you with demonic fire a couple of times, and you came out," Xie Changming answered honestly.
"Xie Changming, are you incubating eggs? You clearly want to cook me and eat me." Luo Mingshu realized what was happening and paced back and forth in Xie Changming's palm. "You're going too far. You even want to burn the eggs."
"Yes, so it's not burning anymore," Xie Changming explained.
“This is an emergency. I’m screaming myself hoarse inside. Why are you incubating so slowly?” Luo Mingshu said angrily and started biting him again.
Luo Mingshu's bites didn't hurt; instead, they caused a fine, ticklish itch. Xie Changming then held out his fingers for her to nibble on, explaining, "I was afraid you'd get burned to death."
"You did this on purpose." Luo Mingshu found it hard to accept.
She should have realized what was going on when Xie Changming asked her if she didn't have a mother either.
Would a normal person ask her that question? It was this despicable Xie Changming who hatched her. The first thing she saw when she opened her eyes was him, and he actually dared to ask her if she didn't have a mother!
"What do we do now? I want to change back!" Luo Mingshu rolled around in Xie Changming's palm in anger.
Perhaps because she has regained this form, she has become much more willful and spoiled.
Xie Changming, being good-natured, sat up and supported Luo Mingshu, saying, "I don't know how to help you take human form."
“You were able to hatch me, but you don’t know how to make me take human form? You’re not a qualified male mother,” Luo Mingshu accused her.
She has no memory of this period, nor does she know how she took human form.
"So what was the first thing you did after you hatched?" Luo Mingshu tried to get Xie Changming to repeat what he did back then.
She looked up at Xie Changming and thought to herself how hateful this Misty Star Sea was. She had already turned back into a little dragon, but Xie Changming was still the same as before. He still maintained the alluring demeanor of a demon.
Luo Mingshu couldn't resist sticking her head out and biting Xie Changming's nose. Xie Changming looked down at her and then released her without hesitation.
Losing her support, Luo Mingshu fell straight down. She subconsciously used her flying spell, and the rising air currents lifted her body up again.
“That’s it, you can fly now.” Xie Changming said confidently, and then picked Luo Mingshu up again.
When he first saw Luo Mingshu, he was indeed surprised and threw her away, because he didn't expect that he would actually hatch something.
Xie Changming was a rather immature young boy back then, so it's normal for him to be a bit reckless.
Luo Mingshu, whom he had abandoned, learned to fly without a teacher. In her anger, she flew straight at him, her dragon horns hitting him directly in the face.
Their first meeting was just like that... full of childlike wonder.
"You dare to throw me away, Xie Changming, how dare you?" Luo Mingshu twisted in Xie Changming's hands, trying to break free of his grasp.
Xie Changming touched her little dragon horns: "I didn't expect anything to hatch either, I was quite startled."
"How could you be so scared of someone as beautiful as me?" Luo Mingshu asked.
At this moment, Xie Changming had her in his eyes. She could see her reflection in Xie Changming's beautiful pupils. She was slender, and her dragon scales shimmered. Even as a little dragon, she was still so beautiful.
Xie Changming chuckled helplessly, his laughter low, without answering Luo Mingshu's question.
Who could have imagined it would turn out like this? For many nights afterward, he questioned himself: how could he like a little fish, especially one with such a bad temper?
Luo Mingshu's memory was blank, so she continued to ask Xie Changming, "And then?"
Xie Changming was taken aback. He answered Luo Mingshu's question: "After you hatch, my position will be a low-level minor god, so I will be transferred."
“Yes, yes, I can’t keep someone like you to take care of me. I need a more handsome and attentive man to take care of me.” Luo Mingshu nodded in agreement.
Xie Changming shattered her beautiful illusion: "It's just a change of a group of minor gods of higher rank."
"Those little gods formed from divine bones and wood aren't very good-looking," Luo Mingshu commented.
“I had a divine bone and wood body back then, just like that,” Xie Changming said. “But you left me behind.”
Luo Mingshu felt that she must have been like a duckling that had just hatched, not knowing who its parents were, and following whoever it saw first after hatching.
"And then?" she thought to herself, lamenting how foolish she had been.
"Later, because of you, I got a name," Xie Changming said.
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