Bai Qiuran's Childhood Shadow

"What does His Ghost Emperor want us to do?"

The Immortals asked.

They had assumed that Bai Qiuran would allow them to enter that new world and try to control the Consciousness Demon born from their Desire.

They had long been prepared for this, including being abandoned if the experiment failed and perishing along with that world.

Unexpectedly, Bai Qiuran said to them, "You should stay on the perimeter and, if you notice anything amiss, work together to destroy that world."

"Wait, Your Ghost Emperor."

The leading Immortals hurriedly asked, "Do you intend to go in yourself?"

"Yes, I can't just send you all to your deaths."

Bai Qiuran replied, "Moreover, I am the lead researcher of this experiment. I have my own ideas, which you don't understand, so of course I have to try it first."

"But..."

"Peace of mind."

Bai Qiuran comforted him, "This Consciousness Domain is isolated. Even if the Consciousness Demon within goes berserk, it's impossible for them to break free from the Restraint of this Consciousness Domain. You only need to destroy that world to restore order. It's perfectly safe."

And what about you?

The Immortals asked.

"Me? Don't worry, you don't need to worry about me. Just go and destroy the world."

Bai Qiuran waved his hand, and seeing that the Immortals were still hesitant, he emphasized, "This is my order."

"Yes."

The Immortals had no choice but to agree in the end.

Before they arrived, the First Immortal Emperor Bai Li had already instructed them that no matter what the situation, they must obey Bai Qiuran's orders.

So the Immortals rode their Cloud Soaring Flying Boat through the Void to the outer edge of that world and formed Annihilation Formation outside, ready to deal with any unexpected situations.

Bai Qiuran took a deep breath, opened the Spiritual Sense blockade and the World Barrier, and walked alone into that empty, Chaos world.

The Material World of this world was still in its infancy, a Chaos Energy Storm. So, after entering that world, Bai Qiuran directly used Space-Type Divine Ability to enter the dimension of Consciousness Domain.

Before the Material World had evolved beings with the ability to think, the Consciousness Domain was a vast, lifeless void. But this stillness was quickly broken by the arrival of Bai Qiuran, a living being. Sensing this being with extremely high thinking ability and super strong Spiritual Sense, the entire Consciousness Domain immediately began to boil like soup. An endless Sea of Consciousness gathered around Bai Qiuran like waves, seemingly with an urgent feeling.

These waves within the Consciousness Domain, like the soothing caress of a lover, gently lapped against Bai Qiuran's sides, yet within them emanated a very strong yet very subtle temptation, capable of arousing all sorts of distracting thoughts in living beings.

If Bai Qiuran hadn't been prepared and hadn't held her breath and focused her mind before entering, she probably would have fallen into the trap unintentionally.

However, he couldn't conduct his experiment without getting infected; he came here specifically to get infected.

So Bai Qiuran gradually lowered her guard, letting the strange rhythm within her Consciousness Domain stir up her distracting thoughts.

In an instant, a jumble of complex thoughts arose in his mind. Human thought is a wondrous thing. In that instant, even Bai Qiuran himself did not know what he was thinking. In his subjective Consciousness, he was just standing there relaxing and spacing out for a while, but the next moment, a tremendous change occurred in his entire Consciousness Domain.

The Consciousness Domain before him receded like the tide, and the next moment, what appeared before him was a dilapidated Temple, and he stood in front of the Temple gate.

All around was a Wilderness, overgrown with weeds and shrouded in darkness. At the entrance of the dilapidated temple stood a crooked tree, bare of branches and leaves, seemingly dead, yet several crows perched there, emitting piercing and mournful cries in the night.

Facing the cold wind, Bai Qiuran looked around and suddenly felt that the scene was somewhat familiar.

He thought about it carefully for a moment and finally remembered the scene.

This was when he was about five years old, just picked up from the battlefield by Daoist Qingming and became his disciple. In that era, the Ten Lands of Jiuzhou had just been invaded by the Demon Race. People were dying every day in every place, and Yao Mo were everywhere. Even some Mortals countries or small sects in the Cultivation World had difficulty surviving. It could be said that the people were living in misery.

This dilapidated temple was a Demon Cave that Daoist Qingming encountered on the way back to the mountain.

At that time, Bai Qiuran, although possessing the Heaven-Envied Physique and the Wood Spirit Root aptitude at the Heavenly Spirit Root level, had never studied Cultivation and had not even entered the door. Moreover, due to years of eating the dead on the battlefield, his body was extremely malnourished.

Bai Qiuran himself remembers that he was even thinner than the Monkey on Seven Star Peak at that time, practically a walking skeleton covered by a layer of skin.

Although after finding him, Daoist Qingming used his True Essence to help him open up his meridians and acupoints, making him a little more agile, it only made him run a little faster.

That night, because he had no cultivation and was physically weak, Daoist Qingming had to find a dilapidated temple to rest in order to take care of him during the journey. Coincidentally, a group of ferocious Demon Ghosts were entrenched in this dilapidated temple.

Then that very night, while Daoist Qingming was being confronted by the enemy, this Demon Ghosts threw Bai Qiuran a late-night party. Although Bai Qiuran survived the night without incident thanks to Daoist Qingming's protection, the Demon Ghosts still left a deep psychological scar on the young Bai Qiuran.

After he went up the mountain, he was afraid to go to the toilet by himself at night for several years. He needed to drag his Senior Disciple Brother and second eldest brothers along with him. Moreover, the wicked Senior Disciple Brother would often scare him when he went to the toilet at night, either by stealing his toilet paper or by hiding outside the toilet door and making Demon Ghosts.

Of course, given Bai Qiuran's personality, he would definitely take revenge severely once he had the ability. Whether it was his Senior Disciple Brother or the Demon Ghosts, Bai Qiuran made himself a psychological shadow for them afterwards.

For a time, Bai Qiuran was even known as the "Demon Ghosts Killer" in the Cultivation World of the Ten Lands of Jiuzhou.

"I thought that after killing so many Demon Ghosts, I should have overcome my fear of Demon Ghosts."

Looking at the Temple gate, Bai Qiuran muttered to herself, "But I never imagined that what happened back then would still leave a deep-seated fear in my Consciousness."

The crows on the withered tree cried ominously, circling around his head, and a chilling wind blew through the area around the Temple, mixed with faint murmurs.

Bai Qiuran smiled wryly at this, then fearlessly kicked open the dilapidated temple door and stepped over the threshold of the Temple.