Chapter 203: Magic Continent Mu Xue’s Inner Demon
Mu Xue’s Illusionary Realm
“Lin Mu Xue, don’t be ungrateful. It’s your good fortune that I fancy you, yet you dare to play hard to get. Hmph, believe it or not, if you don’t comply with me today, I’ll make sure your family and friends all die here!”
Mu Xue, who was meditating and cultivating, suddenly heard a familiar voice in her ear, but wasn’t she cultivating inside a magic array?
How could she still hear someone else’s voice?
She opened her eyes and found herself back at Zhao Feng’s base. That disgusting Zhao Feng was standing right in front of her!
Beside him, Grandmother, Sang Chu, Sang Jing Wen, and Lu Min Feng were all locked in golden cages, with sharp blades pressing towards their bodies.
Mu Xue was momentarily unsure if this was real or a dream, and she shouted, “Zhao Feng, stop!”
Zhao Feng walked slowly towards Mu Xue with a lewd smile. Under his control, the golden sharp blades in the cages pierced Sang Chu’s shoulder blade. “You and Sang Chu have depended on each other in my base for many years, haven’t you? Then let’s start with her. It’s fine if you don’t care about her life. It was Lu Min Feng who saved you, right!”
As he spoke, the sharp blade in Lu Min Feng’s cage also moved towards him. He desperately blinked at Mu Xue, his eyes seeming to say: Run!
She understood, but how could she run!
Sang Chu is here, Grandmother is here, Brother, and also, Lu Min Feng. Everyone she cared about was here!
“Zhao Feng, what exactly do you want!”
Zhao Feng leaned close to Mu Xue, his old, dry cheek rubbing against Mu Xue’s tender skin. “Of course, it’s to finish what we left unfinished. You don’t want your friends and family to die before your eyes, do you? Then be obedient and be my dodder flower.”
Dodder flower?
Mu Xue lowered her head, a sinister and terrifying expression flashing across her face.
“You want me to be a dodder flower? Fine!”
She smiled faintly and raised her head, her slender hands slowly wrapping around Zhao Feng’s neck.
Zhao Feng thought Mu Xue had compromised and laughed wildly, “Hahaha, Lin Mu Xue, I thought you…”
“Ugh…”
A muffled groan of pain came.
Zhao Feng’s voice abruptly stopped. A strange white light flickered continuously on Mu Xue’s fingers. The white light, as fine as a thread, coiled around Zhao Feng’s neck.
The smile on Mu Xue’s face was eerie, as if she were possessed. She whispered into Zhao Feng’s ear:
“I, Lin Mu Xue, am merely a dodder flower to my family. What are you? Do you deserve me to cling to you! My sister and brother both think I need protection, so I told myself I needed their protection. But that doesn’t mean I can be bullied by anyone.”
“I’ve been cultivating diligently, precisely so I wouldn’t be a burden, so that one day, I too could protect Grandmother, my brother, and my sister. And so that they could believe me, that I could also fight alongside them. But before that day comes, I don’t mind hiding to put their minds at ease. Yet you dare to threaten me with them!”
She glanced at Sang Chu, who was locked in the cage. Her shoulder was still bleeding. Mu Xue’s hand slid to Zhao Feng’s shoulder, her slender fingernails digging into his skin.
“Ah—”
“Stop, stop it!”
Blood flowed out little by little. Zhao Feng cried out in pain, but Mu Xue didn’t care. She even looked at him with a hint of madness in her smile:
“Do you remember the first time I killed you? Back then, I wasn’t driven mad or lost my mind; I did it on purpose. If Lu Min Feng hadn’t stopped me, I would have cut off your head, severed your limbs, skinned you, and then chopped you into pieces, so you would know what happens when you hurt me, when you hurt my family!”
Zhao Feng: “You demon, they’ll discover your disguise sooner or later. When that happens, they’ll all be afraid of you and distance themselves from you!”
Mu Xue suddenly felt a chill run through her body. She looked up in horror and saw Sang Chu, Grandmother, and the others coming out of the cages.
“Grandmother, Sang Sang, Brother Wen, Senior Student…”
Grandmother Lin: “Little Xue’er, how did you become like this! You’re not my granddaughter!”
Sang Chu: “Xiao Xue, I always considered you my best friend, my sister. I never expected you to be this kind of person. I’m so disappointed in you!”
Sang Jing Wen: “Xiao Xue, how could you be like this?”
Lu Min Feng: “You’re not the innocent and kind Mu Xue I knew!”
Lin Mu Xue didn’t notice that Zhao Feng in front of her had disappeared. Her eyes red, she staggered towards them: “No, it’s not like that, I, I was lying to him, I, I didn’t…”
At this moment, Lin Shao Qing suddenly appeared. He held a scalpel and looked at Mu Xue. “They don’t like the real you anyway, so why do you have to keep hiding yourself? Come on, kill her. As long as you kill her, you’ll be free. Then, you’ll be the master of this base, and everyone will bow at your feet.”
Sang Chu was tied to a table, her mouth gagged with cloth, but her eyes were fixed on herself. In those eyes, Mu Xue saw fear.
“Sang Sang, please, don’t be afraid of me, okay? I haven’t changed, I’m still me!”
But the bound Sang Chu’s eyes remained full of fear. Mu Xue looked at Sang Chu with disappointment. “Why are you afraid of me? Why are you afraid of me? Do you know that even when I saw you and Lu Min Feng experimenting with zombies, I wasn’t afraid of you. Why are you afraid of me!”
She took three quick steps towards Sang Chu, her eyes filled with madness. “Since the apocalypse, I’ve been protecting you. Your skills are good, but you’re not a supernatural ability user. Do you know how hard I’ve worked for us to survive! Haven’t I treated you well enough? Why are you afraid of me? Tell me!”
Lin Shao Qing handed her a knife from the side. “She’s disobedient. As long as you kill her, everything will be resolved. Your weakness will be gone. Look, your weaknesses are all here. As long as you kill them, you’ll be free.”
Following where he pointed, Grandmother, Sang Jing Wen, and Lu Min Feng were all tied to the table. Their eyes, which were once full of love, were now filled with terror and disgust.
Mu Xue trembled as she took the knife from Lin Shao Qing’s hand. “You’re all afraid of me? Why? Grandmother, are even you afraid of me?”
As she spoke, tears streamed from her reddened eyes. She walked in a daze towards Lin Shao Qing. Just as Lin Shao Qing was about to speak and continue deceiving her.
She looked down, and the knife was plunged into his chest.
“You killed me…”
“Even if they’re afraid of me, I won’t lay a hand on my own family. Why should an outsider like you command me!”
“I remember, you dug open Sang Sang’s stomach!”
Lin Shao Qing looked at the frenzied Mu Xue and shook his head repeatedly. “No, it wasn’t me, I didn’t!”
“You did, I remember, I saw it!”
“You cut open Sang Sang’s stomach and took out her intestines. You really like doing things like that, don’t you? Then you can experience it too!”
Saying this, Mu Xue pushed Lin Shao Qing down, and with a swift movement of the knife, she cut open his abdomen. The moment her blood-covered hands pulled out his intestines, the entire illusion vanished.
She was now standing in a field of ice and snow, as if there was no place left for her in the vast world!
Outside the Illusionary Realm
Sang Chu and Xue You stood in the cultivation room, watching Mu Xue’s magic array tremble violently, the formation patterns looking as if they would shatter at any moment. Sang Chu asked with confusion, “Is this magic cultivation array malfunctioning?”
