Jiang Minghuang Gradually Turned Sinister

Inside the Bronze Ancient Mirror.

Gu Changqing slowly came to.

The filthy boy broke into a brilliant smile. "Hey, do you remember me? In the mountains, when I was surrounded by wolves, you saved my life..."

Before the young Jiang Minghuang could finish speaking, he saw the boy before him close his eyes once more.

Whether he had fainted or died, no one could tell.

Through the haze, Gu Changqing only heard the boy murmuring.

"I thought I had it bad enough, but I never imagined you had it even worse. Your Divine Meridians and Dao Palace have both been destroyed..."

Gu Changqing's consciousness sank into slumber once again.

His condition was exactly as Gu Youwei's master had said before leaving.

Nine deaths, one chance at life!

His Dao Palace and Divine Meridians had nearly completely collapsed. The power within his body had long since drained away like a flood, and now he was not even as strong as an ordinary mortal.

On top of that, his Immortal Root had been removed, and blood still flowed within him.

Without the finest spiritual materials and miraculous medicines in the world, he likely had no hope of ever recovering.

Several months passed in succession.

Gu Changqing slowly awoke many times, but each time, he was lucid for only a brief moment before sinking back into sleep.

Yet even so, the young Emperor Jiang still did not give up on him.

Not because of some so-called debt of gratitude for saving his life.

He had long since repaid that favor.

He merely thought that after working so hard to carry this fellow back and caring for him for so long, he had to make this fellow repay him.

After investing so much, he could not let this fellow simply die. As the young master of an aristocratic family from the Upper Realm, he could not possibly make a losing deal.

Besides, as the young master of the Jiang Family, a colossal aristocratic house of the Upper Realm, while traveling through the Lower Realm, he naturally needed a lackey to take care of his food, clothing, shelter, and travel, didn't he?

All those things he did not want to do himself, all those underhanded scams that did not suit his status—he had to find someone to do them.

Otherwise, what was this young master supposed to eat every day?

And so, with that attitude, he cared for him for ten months.

Fortunately.

Gu Changqing did not disappoint Jiang Minghuang. Aside from his ruined Dao foundation, his wounds actually began healing bit by bit.

If there was anything Emperor Jiang did not understand during that time—

It was Gu Changqing clutching that wordless Heavenly Book to his chest and murmuring Gu Youwei's name.

Outside the mirror.

The cultivators fell silent.

In their original assumptions, when the Young Heavenly Emperor met Jiang Minghuang, Jiang Minghuang had used his family's supreme foundation to save the Young Heavenly Emperor.

But no one had expected that, a year later, Jiang Minghuang would be living like this in the Lower Realm.

One meal, then three hungry days.

And he was always too proud to beg or swindle others.

His survival skills could only be called negative.

Yet Gu Changqing had stubbornly endured for ten whole months.

"His veins were severed. The pain that stayed with him every moment for ten months could only have been more intense than the pain of having his Immortal Root dug out."

"How did he manage to wake up at all?"

The cultivators were somewhat moved.

Such a will to survive was simply too terrifying. Even they did not dare claim that they could endure ten months of torment under those circumstances. Perhaps after merely a few days, they would have completely given up.

How had a child endured it?

"His younger sister—and his parents' Blood Feud, perhaps."

Someone murmured.

During these days, everyone had seen Gu Changqing muttering Gu Youwei's name in his dreams and clutching that Heavenly Book tightly in his hands.

Other than that explanation, they could think of nothing else that could have given the boy a reason to persevere.

"His becoming the Heavenly Emperor must have had much to do with that kind of will..."

Someone sighed softly.

From beginning to end, Ye Chen's expression had been somewhat gloomy.

Especially after hearing the crowd's final praise for Gu Changqing, he could not help but speak. "And it is precisely because of that will that he has now become a true great demon, one who brings calamity upon heaven and earth!"

Everyone looked somewhat dazed.

"Yes. If the Heavenly Emperor had died there back then, none of what came afterward would have happened."

Jiang Minghuang was also visibly moved. "If I hadn't brought him back back then, if I had let him die there, my sister wouldn't have..."

Six months later.

Gu Changqing could finally be considered mostly recovered. His wounds remained, but the amount of time he stayed awake had greatly increased.

At that moment, Jiang Minghuang was even more excited than Gu Changqing himself, nearly bursting into tears.

As though the one he had saved was not someone else, but himself.

Then, Gu Changqing heard the first words this fellow said after he woke up.

"I, Jiang Minghuang, have never liked owing others in my life, nor do I like others owing me."

"Before, you saved my life, and I gave you a cultivation technique. Now, I've saved your life too, so give the cultivation technique back to me."

Gu Changqing recognized Jiang Minghuang and knew he was the one who had cared for him for ten months.

He merely shook his head indifferently and laboriously uttered two words: "Lost it."

At that moment, a generation's Emperor Jiang—the future existence who would tread upon the River of Time and Space and make heaven and earth tremble, the Jiang Family's towering young master—completely broke into tears and wept bitterly.

The reason he had cared for Gu Changqing for ten months was merely because of an obsession.

He wanted to get that cultivation technique back and exchange it for some money in the Lower Realm.

To buy a comfortable house, find a few maidservants who could uphold his status, and eat a few bites of steaming hot meat.

But now...

The dream had shattered!

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After dissolving Cao Yuwei's attack this time, Mei Gongzi did not rush to counterattack. She simply stood where she was without moving.

Cao Yuwei frowned slightly. Was this little girl's perception really so sharp? After he had formed armor from flames, he still had other methods at his disposal. If Mei Gongzi had pressed her attack, he was confident he could use that method to restrain her. The PC version updated slowly; please download the app to read the latest chapters for free. But Mei Gongzi did not advance, forcing the ability he had poised to unleash to be interrupted.

The war blade slashed out once more, its surging blade intent several degrees stronger than before. Cao Yuwei moved with the blade, man and blade becoming one as he charged straight at Mei Gongzi.

The Heavenly Secret Plume in Mei Gongzi's hand unleashed the Heavenly Mysterious Circle once again, and with an instantaneous shift, she switched positions. While dissolving her opponent's attack, she also broke his lock-on. In the next instant, she was already on the other side. The golden-red light around Cao Yuwei flashed and vanished. Had she not evaded so quickly, another ability would undoubtedly have descended upon her.

A battle of attrition! She seemed determined to outlast Cao Yuwei.

Yet no one questioned the origin of this ability. After all, the Peacock Demon Race's greatest innate gift was Stellar Transposition. Her technique bore the same marvelous resemblance to Stellar Transposition despite taking a different path.

After dissolving Cao Yuwei's attack this time, Mei Gongzi did not rush to counterattack. She simply stood where she was without moving.

Cao Yuwei frowned slightly. Was this little girl's perception really so sharp? After he had formed armor from flames, he still had other methods at his disposal. If Mei Gongzi had pressed her attack, he was confident he could use that method to restrain her. But Mei Gongzi did not advance, forcing the ability he had poised to unleash to be interrupted.

The war blade slashed out once more, its surging blade intent several degrees stronger than before. Cao Yuwei moved with the blade, man and blade becoming one as he charged straight at Mei Gongzi.

The Heavenly Secret Plume in Mei Gongzi's hand unleashed the Heavenly Mysterious Circle once again, and with an instantaneous shift, she switched positions. While dissolving her opponent's attack, she also broke his lock-on. In the next instant, she was already on the other side. The golden-red light around Cao Yuwei flashed and vanished. Had she not evaded so quickly, another ability would undoubtedly have descended upon her.

A battle of attrition! She seemed determined to outlast Cao Yuwei.