Chapter 36 036 Cage Child, do you want to leave this place...?
When Yu Meng realized that she was still alive, she was extremely shocked.
The divine lightning of the Nine Heavens struck down in front of everyone; even a Heavenly Venerable would perish.
unless……
"Oh, you're awake?"
Yu Meng opened her eyes and saw that she was locked in a beautiful golden cage, and the person standing outside the cage was none other than the God of Fu Luo.
"You have been unconscious for half a year. Although I moved you away before the divine lightning struck down, you were still inevitably affected by the lightning's pressure. Fortunately, I have no shortage of rare and precious materials here, which saved your life."
Fu Luo looked at Yu Meng with extremely gentle eyes, and spoke with a hint of careful flattery. However, to Yu Meng, that smile was sticky and disgusting.
“Lord Fu Luo, you must be insane! Releasing a death row inmate in full view of everyone is a capital offense.”
"For you, I'd risk even death! Yu Meng, don't you believe in my feelings for you? It was me, it was me who saved you. Looking across the entire realm, who else would do this for you? Can't you...can't you even look at me?"
Yu Meng sneered as she looked at the golden cage that imprisoned her, and said sarcastically, "I've only heard that the God of Fu Luo loves to keep birds. Now, congratulations on getting another new favorite."
Fu Luo's expression changed, and he said rather uncomfortably, "Yu Meng, don't blame me. I was afraid you would run around and cause trouble, so I locked you up here. This golden cage is made of Kunshan gold water. Even when your divine power was at its peak, you couldn't break free, let alone now. So don't have any other thoughts. Just stay here and recuperate. I will protect you very well, and no one will find out."
Yu Meng ignored Fu Luo, sat cross-legged, closed her eyes, and examined her own spiritual energy.
Fu Luo refused to leave, seemingly guessing what she was worried about, and quickly said, "Don't worry, I haven't taken you as my demon pet. How could I do something you don't like?"
Yu Meng scoffed, "Lord Fu Luo, you can use that to fool those young fairies. We are both thousand-year-old foxes, who can fool whom? You didn't take me as your demon pet, isn't it because my divine essence is too weak to withstand your refinement? Rather than taking the risk, you should leave me alive. After all, what you want is a living one."
Fu Luo never expected that Yu Meng, who had fallen to such a state, would still be so arrogant and disrespectful, and that her first words were aimed at tearing off all pretense of civility.
"Lord Desire Dream, no matter what, I am now your savior. Do you really not even want to give me the slightest bit of kindness?"
Yu Meng stopped speaking, as if she had sealed off her five senses, and remained oblivious to everything around her.
Fu Luo tried to coax Yu Meng a few more times in a low voice, but seeing that she wouldn't respond no matter what, he left in a huff.
After that, he would come every now and then, either to persuade her with kind words or to coax her with benefits, just so that Yu Meng could accept him and be willing to be his woman.
But after repeated trips, he came full of enthusiasm only to leave disappointed, and Fu Luo gradually lost patience.
That day, Yu Meng sensed something amiss beside her. She opened her eyes and found that Fu Luo had somehow opened the golden cage and entered, closing in on her with lustful eyes.
"Yu Meng, if I get you, will you fall in love with me...? I really like you so much, I want you..."
Yu Meng's eyes narrowed, her face showing disgust, and she kicked Fu Luo in the heart.
Fu Luo was completely consumed by lust and had lost his senses, so he was caught off guard and kicked backward, crashing heavily against the bars of the golden cage. Fortunately, his power of the Dream of Desire was almost gone; if he had been hit like that normally, he would have needed to spend decades in seclusion to recover, even if he didn't die.
But Fu Luo's dignity was greatly challenged. He almost viciously charged forward again, grabbed Yu Meng's wrists with both hands, pressed her to the ground, and gritted his teeth, saying, "With your current divine power, if I use force, do you think you have the ability to resist?"
Yu Meng stopped making futile resistance. Even though she was pinned down, her eyes still revealed a contemptuous look of superiority. She laughed and said, "I am indeed powerless to resist, but, Lord Fu Luo, have you ever heard of divine essence self-destruction?"
Fu Luo's expression changed drastically, "You...you can't do that!"
Even though the divine power of a god at the level of a deity was low at this time, the destructive force generated by the self-destruction of his divine essence was enough to kill him.
Yu Meng's smile vanished instantly, replaced by a blank expression. "Why don't you give it a try?"
Having worked together for many years, Fu Luo naturally understood Yu Meng, the strongest female deity in the entire Heavenly Realm. She was strong-willed and fierce, and could not tolerate any injustice. Otherwise, she would not have been so audacious as to provoke the entire Heavenly Court. After being wronged, she went all out and completely severed the Heavenly Pillar.
Fu Luo finally chickened out; he didn't want to perish together with Yu Meng.
His thinking was simple: since the person was in his hands, given time, with persistent persuasion, even a stone would be warmed.
But he soon realized that his plan was too idealistic, because he simply didn't have the opportunity to "give him time".
Yu Meng refused to use any rare and precious materials to delay the dissipation of divine power, and as her reputation in the mortal world worsened day by day, her incense offerings were completely cut off.
No one in the mortal world worships her anymore, and her divine essence is about to dissipate.
Fu Luo was furious and stuffed handfuls of the miraculous medicines he had painstakingly acquired into Yu Meng's mouth.
But it didn't work.
Even if he fed her until she died, it wouldn't have any effect as long as Yu Meng didn't want to regulate her breathing and refine these pills.
"Do you want to die that badly? Do you want to leave me that badly?" Fu Luo roared and cursed, his face contorted with rage.
Yu Meng, however, became increasingly calm. "Fu Luo, don't waste your energy on me. Living like this is nothing but torture for me. I would rather be reduced to ashes by the divine thunder of the heavens."
"Do you hate me that much? Do you look down on me that much? If it were someone else, would you have agreed?" Fu Luo laughed and cried at the same time, finally saying fiercely, "You want to die, don't you? Heh, I won't let you have your way! I will find a way to keep you by my side forever!"
For several days in a row, Fu Luo was nowhere to be seen, until this day, when he brought a mortal boy to Yu Meng.
The boy was about eleven or twelve years old, dressed in tattered clothes like a little beggar. Upon closer inspection, there was blood on his brownish-gray tattered linen pants, indicating that his Achilles tendons had been severed!
The wounded boy was left outside the golden cage of Desire by Fu Luo, barely alive.
Seeing the boy's miserable state, Yu Meng glared angrily at Fu Luo: "What are you doing?"
"Ah Meng, you've finally opened your eyes to look at me," Fu Luo said with a beaming, sickly smile. "I went to great lengths to find this for you! His destiny is exceptionally good. Don't let his status as a beggar fool you; he has the countenance of an emperor! I brought him here so he can burn incense and pray for you every day. With his good destiny, the power of his incense is equivalent to that of a hundred or a thousand people. Although it won't restore your divine power, it will at least keep your spiritual essence from dissipating!"
Yu Meng looked at Fu Luo as if he were a madman, "Fu Luo, are you a god or a demon?"
Fu Luo gazed at Yu Meng with tender affection, his tone sweet and gentle, "As long as I can keep you by my side, what does it matter if I become a demon or a ghost?"
As the two were talking, the boy woke up.
The boy seemed to be trying to stand up, but when he realized that he had lost all feeling in his legs, he remained silent for a moment, then twisted and struggled again, and with all his might, he lifted his head.
Yu Meng met the boy's pair of dark, deep eyes.
It must be said that even though the celestial realm is never short of beautiful people and people have long been numb to them, the young man's appearance still truly amazed Yu Meng.
Despite the dirt on his face, his exquisite and perfect features were still visible. His skin was as white as snow, and his lips were as red as if they were about to drip. In particular, his peach blossom eyes seemed to be both angry and reproachful, full of affection even before he spoke, as if they could bewitch one's soul.
If a man has feminine features, he is destined for great fortune and high status, either by luck or by being an exceptional person.
The boy was slightly taken aback when he saw the goddess in the golden cage, and then looked around. After all, he was only an eleven or twelve-year-old child, and being brought to such a completely unfamiliar place, despite his efforts to remain calm, the unease in his eyes still betrayed the fear in his heart.
Fu Luo placed a shrine outside the golden cage, with the four characters "Heavenly Gods Desire Dreams" embossed in gold lettering.
He then placed an incense stick in the boy's hand, saying, "Here, from now on, you will stay here and be solely responsible for offering incense to this shrine, understand?"
The boy glanced coldly at Fu Luo and casually pinched it.
Snap!
He broke all the incense sticks in his hand.
Fu Luo had been suffering from Yu Meng's temper every day, and now even a mere mortal boy, as insignificant as an ant, dared to cause him trouble. He was furious and cast a spell on the boy.
The boy's body convulsed, clearly tormented to the point of unbearable pain, yet he endured it without uttering a sound.
Fu Luo took another incense stick and put it in the boy's hand, thinking that he would learn his lesson this time.
Unexpectedly, the boy clenched his fist and broke the incense stick again.
"You little brat, you're asking for it!"
Fu Luo was completely enraged. As the God of Weather and Rain, he was most skilled at manipulating lightning, so he used lightning strikes to teach the boy a lesson.
The boy's already tattered clothes were made even more tattered by the lightning strike, revealing patches of scarred skin.
There were hardly any good pieces of meat left, and after being struck by lightning, they were charred black, making it extremely cruel to look at.
"Enough, Fu Luo! Do you want him dead?"
Fu Luo breathed a sigh of relief and calmed down. He really didn't want to kill this mortal boy. After all, the gods in the heavenly realm were seizing every opportunity to recruit followers in the mortal world. Every extra minute wasted meant handing over a portion of the followers to others.
He's already wasted many days trying to catch this kid, so he can't afford to waste time looking for someone else.
So he cursed and summoned a rope, tied it around the boy's neck, and chained him to the golden cage like a dog.
"Hmph, brat, I'll teach you a lesson after I've finished my business."
After Fu Luo left, Yu Meng tried to use a tiny bit of her divine power to check on the boy's injuries.
It was clear that the boy had been tortured by Fu Luo before coming here. In addition to having his Achilles tendons severed, he had thousands of wounds all over his body, but fortunately, these wounds were all superficial and did not damage his internal organs.
The boy seemed to sense a benevolent force working to heal his wounds, so he turned to look at the woman in the cage, like a wary yet curious little wolf.
Yu Meng forced a smile; she hadn't smiled in so long that she wondered if her smile looked strange.
The boy looked at her indifferently.
Encouraged, Yu Meng pressed on, making her smile even brighter and kinder. Then, like a strange aunt trying to lure a child, she softly asked, "Little one, do you want to leave here?"
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