“The Haotian Mirror can rewind time and discern past Karma.
Since you are all arguing, you will all enter the Haotian Mirror and return to see the truth of that year.”
Murong Bing said definitively.
Before everyone could react, the Perfectly Beautiful Sect Leader cast her profound Nine Heavens Immortal Power, once again activating the Haotian Mirror before her, sending Xia Changqing and Gu Miaojun into the mirror world.
“Wuwuwu, I’m finally back at Yao Mountain Manor!
Xia Changqing, you’ll never stop me from going home again!”
Beside the handsome young man stood a rosy-lipped, white-toothed, naive young girl, who was overcome with emotion, weeping tears of joy.
Under the Divine Might of the Haotian Mirror, an Emperor Weapon, the two returned to a secluded valley in front of Yao Mountain Manor two hundred years ago.
Xia Changqing possessed the Immortal Demon Dao Body, so his strength was not affected, but Gu Miaojun had no special Physique and could only have her cultivation and magical power suppressed by the Haotian Mirror's Karma. At this moment, she was just a Mortal with no magical power.
Their Karma began here, and it would also end here.
“Get out of my way, you stinking, overconfident woman! Don’t you dare disturb this Master’s Cultivation!”
Xia Changqing kicked Gu Miaojun away, then sat down cross-legged to Cultivate.
He had been knocked down two major Realms by Chen Ji and others, and his whole body was riddled with wounds. He needed to seize the time to heal and had no intention of caring about Gu Miaojun's life or death.
“Xia Changqing, I will expose your inhuman, monstrous face of massacring my entire family to the higher-ups outside!
You will never become the next Sect Leader Supreme!”
Gu Miaojun wiped away the blood from her cut lip, speaking with venomous hatred.
Then, with tears streaming down her face and uncontrollable excitement, she rushed towards the “home” she had been separated from for over two hundred years.
My extremely loving father and mother, and my adorable younger brothers and sisters, I, Gu Miaojun, miss you all so much!
“Master, how could Senior Brother treat Junior Sister like this? He even made her bleed, and she’s just a Mortal now!”
“Yes, yes!
How could the formerly gentle, considerate, and hardworking Senior Brother become so cruel?”
“Was Senior Brother always pretending before?
Is this his true nature?
Hiss! He’s truly terrifying.”
Lin Xinyue and the other three looked at the scene in the Haotian Mirror, all expressing their dissatisfaction.
“All of you, shut up!”
Murong Bing’s expression was impatient, and she scolded them coldly. Then, with a gentle flick of her jade hand towards the Haotian Mirror, a large amount of rich Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, along with a trace of the Emperor Weapon’s Origin, continuously poured into Xia Changqing’s body within the mirror world.
“Emperor Weapon Origin!
This Master is so much better than the previous Master.
Given how good she is to me, I’ll temporarily not rebel against her.
Hehehe, if she doesn’t behave well in the future, I’ll push her down and brutally humiliate her.”
Xia Changqing, sitting cross-legged on the green grass, secretly chuckled with evil thoughts.
“Xia Changqing, you turtle bastard, you Wicked Disciple who can’t change his ways!
You actually still think of bullying your Master? What do you mean by ‘if she doesn’t behave well, I’ll push her down and humiliate her’?”
Murong Bing, whose fair cheeks were flushed with two pink clouds after catching Xia Changqing’s inner thoughts, wished she could rush into the Haotian Mirror and slap Xia Changqing to death.
“You fools, how dare you lose my Cauldron vessel for procreation!
To conceal the Yao Race Bloodline and avoid the pursuit of Cultivators, to step onto the glorious Dao.
Each generation of my clan interbreeds with the Human Race to produce the strongest offspring.
On the surface, it’s Yao Mountain Manor, but in essence, it’s a Yao Breeding Manor!
This King finally found a Cauldron with a High Grade Spiritual Root, and you actually lost her!”
A middle-aged man dressed in luxurious robes revealed a rat-like face with a pointed mouth and monkey-like cheeks, his eyes crimson. He spoke fiercely to the trembling half-Yao who were kneeling in rows.
His sharp, piercing voice was like a shovel scraping against hard concrete.
“Your Majesty, spare our lives! We’ve already done our best.”
The half-Yao trembled and begged for mercy.
Although they were all sons of the Rat King before them, the Yao Race lacked the Human Race’s sense of propriety, shame, ethics, and morality. Interbreeding and chaotic procreation had long been commonplace, and the number of brothers and sisters bitten to death and eaten by the Rat King was countless.
“Your Majesty, there’s a powerful Cultivator occupying our Manor. That little one, Miaojun, was abducted by him.
The children were afraid of being punished by you, so they didn’t dare to tell you the truth.”
A beautiful Human Race woman with a pleasant face walked in and spoke up to help them.
Once she entered the Demonic Den, it was like a deep sea; she only hoped that Gu Miaojun would never return.
“Hmph, you humans are truly cunning!
If this King finds out that the Cauldron for my strongest offspring was released by you,
Even if you once saved my life, I will not hesitate to bite off your neck and eat you alive.”
The middle-aged man grabbed the beautiful woman’s neck, opened his gaping maw, and revealed his green face and fangs, speaking viciously.
The Realm fluctuation of Nascent Soul Peak, accompanied by dense Demonic Qi, also surged out.
“Your Majesty, you should know that I’m not afraid of death.
If it weren’t to protect these children from being eaten by you when your demonic nature flares up, I would have ended my own life long ago.”
Gu Hongyu’s face was expressionless, showing neither joy nor sorrow.
During the five hundred years she had been imprisoned by this Rat King, she had given birth to thousands of half-Yao. Besides those who died young innately, the rest were cruelly hunted and devoured by him.
“Hahaha, what great maternal love!
When you killed my mother and dug out her Demonic Core, you weren’t soft-hearted.
It’s pitiful that our Treasure-Seeking Rat clan was massacred by you humans to the point where we can only survive by interbreeding our Bloodline.
The world has forgotten that our Yao Race are the true descendants of Gods and Demons; we are the true Masters of the Xuanxiao World!
You should still take these lowly half-Yao and find new Yao breeding Cauldrons for me.
If you can’t produce the strongest Bloodline offspring, I will certainly not let it go.”
The King of the Golden Haired Rats laughed incessantly, his voice growing more mournful, even shedding tears.
“Your Majesty, it is now a world ruled by humans. The glory of the Yao Race is long gone.
We have been unrestrained, capturing female children with Spiritual Roots in Jin Yang Prefecture, which has clearly drawn the attention of Qingyun Holy Land.
The Cultivator outside is likely a Qingyun Disciple. We should take advantage of the night to leave Jinyang County with the children and go to the Yao Race Holy Land, the Hundred Thousand Mountains.”
The beautiful woman repeatedly advised.
“Father, Mother, older brothers and sisters, younger brothers and sisters!
Wuwuwu, I’m home!”
Gu Miaojun, disheveled and in ragged clothes, with large patches of delicate skin scratched by thorns, finally arrived at the entrance of Yao Mountain Manor after a day and a night of effort, weeping tears of joy.
She was now without any magical power, just an ordinary person, and managing to return to Yao Mountain Manor had exhausted all her strength.
“Seventh Brother, Thirteenth Sister, I’m back!”
Gu Miaojun shouted with immense excitement and surprise at the two Foundation Establishment Cultivators guarding the main gate.
“Where did this little beggar come from? Get out of here quickly!
Our Manor has no leftover food for you to eat.”
The sword-wielding young man suddenly turned his head, his face stiff, then he disgustedly shooed her away.
He kept using anxious and fearful eyes to signal the naive young girl to leave the place immediately.
Gu Miaojun’s mind had been altered by the King of the Golden Haired Rats’ illusion, making her mistakenly believe them to be a loving family.
“Younger Sister, this little one is too pitiful.
As long as you are willing to spare her life, you can absorb my cultivation as much as you want. Even if you eat me, I will have no complaints whatsoever.”
Gu Hai saw Gu Qing beside him beaming with joy, about to report to their father, the King of the Golden Haired Rats, and pleaded continuously through Divine Sense transmission.
“Is this true?”
The green-clad woman licked her red lips, her eyes turning into demonic eyes as she smiled. She had long been drooling over the cultivation and magical power of her Seventh Brother, who was at the Foundation Establishment Peak.
“I don’t want her to become a slave to that tyrant like Mother, and I’ve long stopped wanting to live.
In my next life, I want to be a true Human, not a disgusting half-Yao.”
Gu Hai said with a deathly pale, bitter smile.