Chapter 55. The Answer to the Riddle (It’s best not to skip this chapter, the origin of everything, very important…)

“At that moment, the formation disk sealing the Fallen Sky Secret Realm suddenly shattered, and the cracks spread.”

“Then what?”

Gu Sui was listening intently when Mu Jiulu’s voice suddenly stopped. He became a bit displeased.

“How can you leave it on a cliffhanger? The cracks spread, what harm will that cause? Continue!”

Mu Jiulu looked at him deeply.

“It’s very late, let’s sleep first. I’ll continue telling you tomorrow.”

“No way! I won’t be able to sleep if you don’t finish!”

He was gradually understanding who the so-called Immortal Lord and Demon Lord really were, and now he was very eager to know what happened next.

“Didn’t I ask you earlier why it was split into two parts? You talked a lot before, how can you leave me hanging at the crucial part? Hurry up and tell me!”

Gu Sui put on a stern face, looking utterly insistent. Mu Jiulu let out a light sigh.

She really didn’t want to recall this part of the past in detail.

“Do you remember the first time the little Demon Lord entered the treasury in the Immortal Lord’s divine palace?”

“Mm, why are we back to that again? Didn’t he just exchange a piece of obsidian for some pearls and seeds? I don’t think the Demon Lord would be that silly, I suspect you’re making this up.”

Gu Sui criticized. Mu Jiulu’s train of thought was slightly interrupted by him, and the emotions she had been brewing became somewhat subtle.

“That’s not the point. At that time, the little Demon Lord said he was bitten by a seed, but the Immortal Lord didn’t find any seed, and the wound healed quickly, so they didn’t pay attention to it. However, it was at that moment that the little Demon Lord was already inhabited by an ancient demon seed that had escaped from the ebony box.”

“Ah?” Gu Sui’s mouth gaped open. “Isn’t that a hidden danger?”

Mu Jiulu nodded: “Indeed. It lay dormant for three long years, subtly influencing the little Demon Lord. Later, it could even briefly control his body when the little Demon Lord was sound asleep.”

“So one day, he came to the Fallen Sky Secret Realm and buried several strands of demonic energy under the formation disk. A month later, the demonic energy exploded, the formation disk was destroyed, and the seal was broken.”

Gu Sui angrily pounded the table.

“Is he sick in the head!”

“Alright, don’t hurt yourself. It’s just a story.”

Mu Jiulu held his hand and gently rubbed the red marks on it, patiently coaxing him.

Gu Sui was still very angry: “I’m empathizing and getting angry, what’s wrong with that!”

Mu Jiulu: “……”

“It’s not good to anger yourself. If you keep this up, I won’t continue, lest I upset you.”

Gu Sui became anxious: “That won’t do. I’m not angry anymore, please continue.”

“The aftermath… the aftermath was that the Immortal Lord entered the Fallen Sky Secret Realm alone, found its source, destroyed it, and successfully sealed the cracks permanently, but paid a price.”

“What price?”

“Her immortal power was damaged, she fell into a coma, and was about to lose her soul.”

“Wait, I think I dreamed about this part.”

Mu Jiulu: “?”

“Just a few days ago, in my dream, it felt like there was a black mist squeezing around inside my body, saying things like ‘She’s about to die’, ‘Do you want to save her?’, ‘If you want to save her, listen to me’.”

Mu Jiulu fell into silence, while Gu Sui was still recalling that nightmare.

“When that black mist was drilling into my body, it was so painful, it woke me up from the pain. Then I saw Suisui lying on my chest, at that time I thought it was because of it that I had the nightmare.”

Suddenly, Gu Sui was embraced, and a warm hand covered the back of his head, gently caressing.

“Was it very painful?”

Gu Sui didn’t expect her reaction to be so intense. He blinked his peach blossom eyes.

“Not really, it was just a dream. Thanks to Suisui bouncing on my chest, I woke up quickly.”

“Please continue.”

Mu Jiulu pursed her lips, her voice extremely low.

“The Immortal Lord didn’t reach a dead end. The power of the Immortal Lord could help her slowly coalesce her soul, it just needed time. But the little Demon Lord didn’t know this. He thought she was really about to die, and was deceived by the demon seed, committing some mistakes.”

“Mistakes? What mistakes?”

Gu Sui asked hesitantly. Mu Jiulu’s responses were getting slower and slower.

“The demon seed told him that only an infant pill could save the Immortal Lord, so he tried to find ways to collect the ingredients and refine the infant pill.”

“What… are the ingredients?”

A moment of silence.

“What are they? Tell me. You said you wouldn’t lie to me.”

Gu Sui’s tone became firm. Mu Jiulu’s lips quivered several times before finally uttering a powerless and cruel sentence.

“The brain marrow of ten thousand newborn babies.”

Gu Sui’s mind suddenly exploded, his hands and feet turning cold, as if he had fallen into an endless abyss.

“What… did you say?”

“Sui Sui, don’t ask anymore. It wasn’t you who did it, you were bewitched. You love children so much, how could you bear to do it? It’s not your fault.”

She was so heartbroken and panicked that she forgot she was telling a story and directly called his name.

“Ten thousand… newborn babies…”

Gu Sui felt like he couldn’t breathe.

He suddenly remembered the fortune teller he met on the overpass, who said his life was full of hardships and he carried bad luck.

He also recalled Wan Qi Xing Yin’s life reading, saying he bore half of life’s eight sufferings.

He gave a cold laugh, his voice floating through the flickering candlelight.

“So, I really did commit sins in my past life, that’s why I’ve always been so unlucky.”

“Cause and effect, karma, it turns out it was all my own doing.”

Mu Jiulu’s heart felt like it had suddenly been torn open, cold wind rushing in, frosting over.

“It’s not your fault. You didn’t want to. The pure and kind little Demon Lord never thought about taking lives. You did it for me.”

Gu Sui couldn’t accept her words. Whether he was bewitched or not, whether he did it for someone or not, those ten thousand innocent lives were ultimately taken by him.

So now, he also had to pay the price for it.

“I committed a mistake, then what?”

He asked almost cruelly. Mu Jiulu couldn’t lie to him. She closed her eyes painfully and slowly said:

“After I woke up and learned what you had done, I didn’t know at the time that you were inhabited by a demon seed. I thought you had killed indiscriminately. I was both heartbroken and disappointed, and questioned what you had done.”

“You took out the refined infant pill and gave it to me, but the demon seed in your body didn’t want to hand over the infant pill to me for nothing, so it seized control of your body and confronted me.”

“I realized something was wrong and wanted to drive it out of your body, but I couldn’t. During the time I was unconscious, it had firmly occupied your body, even attaching itself to your heart bone.”

“At that time, its demonic energy was soaring to the sky, almost covering the entire celestial realm. I could only use a plain gold sword to slay demons and eliminate evil.”

“Actually, the demon seed had a chance to escape, but you seized control of your body for a moment and actively met my plain gold sword, causing it to be unable to escape.”

“But Sui Sui, I also killed you.”

She looked into his eyes, her tone extremely sorrowful, full of regret.

“Your soul was split into two parts by my own hands, dissipating between heaven and earth, leaving only a piece of heart bone, which still had the remnant demonic energy of the demon seed attached to it.”

“I was grief-stricken at the time. How could I let its remaining demonic energy continue to defile your things? So I completely erased the demonic energy attached to it with my immortal power, and then refined the heart bone into this ring.”

“That’s why I said it’s your thing, the only thing you left for me.”

Gu Sui took a deep breath, looking at the bone ring he held in his palm, an indescribable palpitation coming from his chest.

No wonder he always felt this ring was familiar, no wonder he would have nightmares when wearing it, so that’s why.

It was formed from his heart bone.

In other words, it was his heart.

He put on the bone ring again, and at that moment, he seemed to see the devastated appearance of the little Demon Lord being questioned in the celestial palace.

His hands were stained with blood, overwhelmed by slaughter. He had committed countless sins with his own hands, never to be washed clean again.

He held a milky white infant pill, which was irrefutable evidence of his crime.

His immortal elder sister was going to kill him.

He seemed to know that he was tainted, so he didn’t want to live anymore.

But he still wanted to leave something for her to remember him by.

The Demon Lord’s heart bone, which could have dissipated with him, was thus delivered into her hands.

He thought, he was still by her side, always.

The story told to this point, Gu Sui seemed to understand why he was split into Gu Sui and Gu Sui Er, but something still seemed very vague.

But he was truly exhausted and didn’t want to think about anything for the moment. He actually fell asleep right in Mu Jiulu’s arms, his delicate brows still tightly furrowed.

In his sleep, he vaguely felt himself being picked up and placed on a soft bed, and then a hand helped him cover himself with a blanket. He grabbed that hand.

Mu Jiulu’s eyes trembled.

“Mmm, baby…”

The young man murmured in his sleep. Her sour heart suddenly surged with a different kind of satisfaction. She lay down beside him and tightly embraced him, her warm breath brushing against the tip of his nose.

“I’m here, I’ve always been here.”

*

Gu Sui seemed to have another dream.

This dream wasn’t as dark as the last one, but rather in a world of birdsong and fragrant flowers, with a fresh aura enveloping him, extremely comfortable.

He walked along the path, gradually seeing an octagonal pavilion. Inside the pavilion were two people at a table, with a floating triangular pyramid-shaped object on the table.

A familiar ethereal voice gradually sounded.

“Have you made up your mind? He’s already dead. Even if he reincarnates, it won’t be easy.”

“That’s why I must find him.”

“But…”

“No buts. This is the Creation Prism I found in the Fallen Sky Secret Realm. I will use all of my immortal power to create a world for him to reincarnate into. I only hope you will help me find him.”

The woman in red robes, wearing a silver hairpin and a milky white bone ring on her thumb, spoke softly but irrefutably.

“If you disperse all your immortal power, it means giving up your identity as the Immortal Lord.”

“Yes, I have already fulfilled my responsibilities as the Immortal Lord.”

“In the six realms of reincarnation, you may not be able to find him.”

“I will find him.”

The person opposite sighed: “…Why must you be so obsessed?”

“If you don’t help me, I’ll overturn your Mount Kunlun.”

“……”

Gu Sui, who had been somewhat melancholic, couldn’t help but laugh. Suddenly, everything went dark before his eyes, his feet faltered, and the scene abruptly changed to the appearance of the Imperial Advisor’s mansion.

“To what extent are you going to be crazy? His fate is as such, I told you!”

“I also said I don’t believe in fate. With my Purple Star fortune, I don’t believe I can’t offset his misfortune.”

“You’ve dispersed all your immortal power, given up the position of Immortal Lord, and now you want to scatter even your remaining fortune to him?”

“He committed those sins because of me in the first place, so it’s my duty to redeem him.”

“Don’t think you can act so recklessly just because you created this world. From the moment you entered with your original form, you lost the ability to control or change this world. It already has its own laws of operation. All you have left is the favor of Heaven’s Way and your Purple Star fortune!”

“I know.”

“You know and you still want to continue? If you scatter your fortune as well, you’ll be nothing but an ordinary person in all your future lives!”

“I don’t care. I only want him to be safe and happy in all his lives, and for me to be able to marry him in every life. That’s all.”