Chapter 162 The prophecy comes true
In the blink of an eye, the baby in the cradle grew up.
Qiu Qianling saw that the eighteen-year-old Murong Ci had entered the Golden Core Realm in just three months, a realm that ordinary cultivators would need decades to successfully break through.
He is extremely talented and has a unique charm.
Just as the leader of Yuque Sect had expected, Murong Ci, with her amazing talent for cultivation and comprehension, quickly became a leader among the young cultivators. She was even able to stand on her own and share the important tasks of the sect with her.
Ten years later, Murong Ci successfully advanced to the Nascent Soul stage and became one of the top cultivators of the immortal race.
In order to form a strong alliance with the Jinmen Immortal Mansion, Murong Ci and its leader Gongsun Xiong entered into a marriage contract.
However, on the eve of her wedding, she had a strange nightmare. In the dream, she died at the hands of her future partner and the man!
Murong Ci broke out in a cold sweat, but she was not the kind of person who would change her mind because of a nightmare. She regarded this dream as the result of her excessive thinking in recent days.
After all, she married Gongsun Xiong because she was attracted by his talent that was comparable to her own, as well as the superior spiritual resources of the Jinmen Immortal Palace.
She hopes that through this alliance, the Yuque Sect will achieve better development.
How could an absurd dream possibly shake her determination?
In the end, the wedding took place as scheduled.
At the beginning, everything was fine. The two groups had close contacts and shared what they had.
But gradually, Murong Ci discovered that Gongsun Xiong's original promise was just empty talk. The spirit stones and magic weapons were never delivered, and the interests of the Yuque Sect were constantly exploited by him.
She questioned Gongsun Xiong about this, but he turned the tables and accused her of having ulterior motives, saying that she married him in order to steal intelligence from the sect so that he could seize the opportunity to annex the Jinmen Immortal Palace.
Murong Ci then realized that Gongsun Xiong had no intention of helping Yuque Sect from the beginning, and was even afraid that she would take advantage of him.
She was furious and immediately broke off her engagement with Gongsun Xiong and left the Jinmen Immortal Palace overnight.
Murong Ci, who had always had smooth sailing since birth, had never been in such a state of distress. She didn't dare return to the sect to face her mother's disappointed gaze, so she had no choice but to wander around alone.
But when she returned to Yuque Sect again, what she saw was a horrific scene of everyone in the sect being slaughtered.
Murong Ci felt as if she had fallen into an icy cave, her whole body shivering. She hugged her mother's body and cried until her tears dried up.
She felt extremely guilty and regretful. If she had returned to the sect earlier, or discovered Gongsun Xiong's cruel face earlier, perhaps the tragedy would not have happened.
Murong Ci wanted to avenge her mother, seek justice for the sect, and avenge the innocent monks who died in vain.
However, people say that it was the Yuque Sect that was greedy and wanted to annex the Jinmen Immortal Mansion. Fortunately, the master of the Jinmen Immortal Mansion, Gongsun Xiong, was resourceful and saw through their scheme early on. He acted on behalf of heaven and destroyed the Yuque Sect first.
They clapped their hands and cheered, "Serves them right! The Yuque Sect deserves it!"
"Murong Ci is a femme fatale. When she was trying to get close to Sect Leader Gongsun, she should have thought this day would come!"
"Those who do evil will eventually perish. Seeing these vain women suffer the consequences is truly heartwarming!"
Murong Ci could only repeat and shout over and over again, you all have been deceived by Gongsun Xiong's clumsy lies, he is a liar, a shameless person who is seeking fame and reputation!
But no one was willing to believe her, instead they thought she was scared crazy.
What's even more ironic is that because she luckily survived, people actually began to praise Gongsun Xiong, the evil ghost who killed an entire family, saying how kind he was.
Even if she begged the entire immortal race, none of those cultivators who claimed to be righteous and benevolent were willing to stand up and help her.
The nightmare she once had was played out in reality.
Qiu Qianling widened his eyes when he saw all this. Is this the truth?
Then the version she heard from the cultivators of Jinmen Immortal Palace was the rumor spread by Gongsun Xiong.
Even though she had long known the hypocrisy of the immortals, she was still shocked by their shameless behavior.
It was Gongsun Xiong who had the evil intentions, the one who wanted to annex the other sect, right? Truly the wicked complaining first. The irony was that Gongsun Xiong was still hailed as the immortal master, and the Jinmen Immortal Palace had even taken over the three states of Qian, Bei, and Zhong, becoming the immortal race's largest sect.
What happened next? What happened to Murong Ci? She knew Gongsun Xiong and Fentian would kill her, so why did she become like this?
Qiu Qianling wanted to continue watching, but Murong Ci floated away first.
Her voice was no longer gentle, and she asked anxiously: "What did you see?!"
Qiu Qianling lowered his eyes and glanced at the hand suspended in the air. The fingertips still retained the coldness that had touched the soul.
Because Murong Ci only has this thin soul left, she can easily see her memories, but obviously, the person involved does not want her to see them.
Why? If one no longer clings to the world, then why should one attach such importance to memory?
Qiu Qianling raised his eyes and looked at Murong Ci. In just a moment, her spirit body had become completely transparent, disappearing from the waist down. Through her shoulders, one could even see the fallen tree behind her.
Just as Murong Ci said, if she didn't do something, she and her soul would immediately disappear from this world.
Qiu Qianling paused for a moment before responding, "I've seen your memories and know that the Yuque Sect, which was exterminated by Gongsun Xiong, was innocent. What happened afterwards? If you don't want me to read on, then tell me yourself."
She reached out and grabbed Murong Ci's shoulders, and her magic power poured into the other's spirit from her palms.
In an instant, Murong Ci's spirit became more solid, and her disappeared legs grew back.
Qiu Qianling looked at Murong Ci and curled his lips slightly, "We still have a lot of time, don't we?"
Murong Ci's eyes froze, a mocking arc appeared on the corner of her mouth, and then she said softly: "Don't get me wrong, I'm not laughing at you, I'm just... laughing at myself."
She raised her eyes, looked past Qiu Qianling, and looked at the dark sky in the distance, and her eyes dimmed.
"When I realized that the dream was some kind of real revelation, I decided to change the cruel fate that God had inflicted on me. But the more I struggled, the deeper I fell. No matter how hard I tried, the only end that awaited me was a cold grave."
Murong female murmured softly, "Can you understand this feeling? You won't understand."
"After I fell into demonism, I found myself pregnant. I certainly didn't want to give birth to a child related to Gongsun Xiong, but I tried many ways and couldn't kill him."
"When Fen Tian was born, I had already ascended to the throne of the Demon Lord. I didn't even look at him before I had him thrown into the abyss of Snake Prison Mountain. That's how the lower half of his face was ruined."
"But ten years later, he came back alive. He survived by feeding on the monsters in the abyss and even recognized me as his mother. Is he a monster, or perhaps the Son of God, blessed by God? I don't know, I really don't know."
Murong Ci raised her hands and covered her eyes in pain, as if she was back to the day when she saw the monster crawling back from the abyss, calling her "mother" and walking towards her.
Qiu Qianling didn't say anything, just looked at her quietly. For some reason, he felt a kind of sad madness from her.
Murong Ci quickly calmed down and continued, "The day he returned, I had just lost to Fentian in the battle between immortals and demons. Seriously injured, I never had the chance to avenge the Yuque Sect. So when I saw him, I went completely crazy, almost desperate, because I realized that my opponent was not Gongsun Xiong or Fentian, but God, the God who predicted that I would die at the hands of Gongsun Xiong and Fentian!"
"But I don't understand why God treats me like this? Did I do something wrong, offend Him? I locked myself in the palace and pondered for decades before I finally understood..."
Qiu Qianling asked: "What have you figured out?"
In fact, she wanted to know more whether there really were gods in this world. Although the immortal cultivators all wanted to ascend to become gods, as far as she knew, no one had ever succeeded in ascending to heaven for thousands of years.
The corners of Murong Ci's mouth curled up even more, and the mockery was even stronger. She stared at Qiu Qianling and said word by word: "I have figured it out. In the eyes of God, I am not Murong Ci, but Fentian's mother. The value of my existence in this world is to allow Fentian to be born, so in the end, I can only die for Fentian!"
She laughed wildly and said, "I must give my life for him with a smile! I want him to step over my corpse and recognize his great and noble father! I want to use my death to complete his heroic journey!"
Qiu Qianling's eyes were shaken. She seemed to understand something, but also seemed to understand nothing.
If it is true as Murong Ci said, that there is a god who manipulates her fate, then what does Burning Heaven mean to the god?
Why did he have to let Murong Ci sacrifice himself to fulfill Fentian, a loser? Just because she was his mother?
But Murong Ci hadn't finished speaking yet. She continued, "I don't want to let this foolish god get his wish, but my health is deteriorating. I can't kill Gongsun Xiong and Fentian on my own. I thought, since both of them are under the protection of the gods, why don't I take Fentian's body and use him to kill Gongsun Xiong? Wouldn't that be the best revenge?"
"So, I set up a magic circle to possess another body and inserted the evil bone that housed my soul into Fentian's heart. But for some reason, I still failed. Fentian absorbed my cultivation and imprisoned my soul in his sea of consciousness. I can only occasionally emerge to control his body."
Qiu Qianling raised his eyebrows, "Is this why I killed Fentian, but you came out to oppose us?"
Before Murong Ci could speak, a questioning voice came from the side, "I'm also very confused, Murong Demon Lord, if you really hate Fentian so much, then why did you do such a cruel thing to us?"
She turned around and saw that Yinghuang, Wuhai and the others had surrounded her at some point. The four of them were supporting each other and glaring at her angrily.
Murong Ci lowered her head with a guilty conscience and whispered, "Just now... I was just too angry. After all, if you killed Fentian, it would be equivalent to destroying my only hope of revenge against Gongsun Xiong, and I would not be able to survive. I lost my mind for a moment... I'm sorry, I really want to break that curse-like fate."
"But no matter how hard I struggled, I still lost in the end. I really don't want to die... I haven't seen Gongsun Xiong's reputation fall to ruin yet, and I won't resign myself to that..."
The more she spoke, the lower her voice became and her head drooped little by little.
Suddenly, Murong Ci seemed to have thought of something. She raised her head and grabbed Qiu Qianling's hand. "Wait, you killed Fentian, and the curse is invalid! Do you understand? You broke the prophecy!"
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