Liu Qiao was dead.
His throat was crushed by Little Yellow.
Seeing this, Little Yellow’s mother could only sigh helplessly.
At the same time, two powerful auras suddenly emerged at the foot of the mountain, rapidly approaching the peak.
“Mother, now we no longer have to endure the bullying of these annoying people in silence!”
After killing Liu Qiao, Little Yellow was visibly excited, as if the pent-up frustration in his heart had been instantly relieved, making him feel at ease.
However, he noticed that his mother’s face showed no trace of a smile.
“Mother, what’s wrong?” Little Yellow asked, frowning.
The white-haired woman looked at her son by the door, beckoning him with a wave of her hand.
Little Yellow hurriedly walked to the bedside.
“Yellow, you’ve grown up, you know how to choose your own path now.”
The white-haired woman looked at her son with affection, then reached out to touch his cheek, asking, “All these years, have you ever resented Mother?”
“You’re my mother, how could I ever resent you?”
Little Yellow smiled, his expression free of any falsehood, his clear eyes filled with joy and longing.
He truly cherished this moment.
Since his earliest memories, his mother had never treated him so gently.
This feeling was so warm!
“Yellow, Mother has let you down!”
The white-haired woman’s face was full of sorrow, then she spoke softly, “I shouldn’t have vented the grudges of adults on you!”
“It’s not fair to you!”
“Mother, don’t say that, I’ve never blamed you for anything, I only wish for you to recover so we can cultivate immortality together in the future!”
“No, don’t speak, listen to Mother first!”
“Mother fears if I don’t say this now, there won’t be another chance!”
The white-haired woman said, pulling out a canine tooth tied with a red string from the quilt, hanging it around Little Yellow’s neck, saying, “This is the first baby tooth you lost, I’ve always treasured it.”
“Mother was born into a prominent family, the daughter of an official in Hundred Tides Kingdom, deeply cherished by my parents.
More than ten years ago, an alchemist from the cultivation world came to our home, saw that I had dual fire and wood spiritual roots, said I was a natural-born alchemist, and took me as a disciple.
Later, I learned my master had another disciple named Dao Yuan.
Senior Brother Dao Yuan was kind, extremely handsome, and highly cultivated, with a heavenly spiritual root, his talent far surpassing mine.
Over time, I fell in love with Senior Brother Dao Yuan.
Later, Master suddenly fell ill and needed a specific herb to refine a pill, so Senior Brother and I ventured into the Ten Thousand Mountains to find it, only to encounter a powerful canine demon.
The herb was guarded by that demon, so to cure Master, we had no choice but to fight it, but we were no match and were both captured by the demon.
I begged the canine demon to spare Senior Brother, and in the end, I had no choice but to agree to marry it.
Later, Senior Brother was released, but I was kept behind.
The next day, I planned to take my own life, but the canine demon let me go.
When I returned to the residence, I found Master had already passed away.
After burying Master, I went to find Senior Brother Dao Yuan with joy, hoping to live happily with him, but he didn’t ask about what happened with the canine demon, only pressed me about where Master’s legacy was.
How would I know?
That night, I gave up on him, realising all he cared about was Master’s legacy.
That night, I was heartbroken, crying at Master’s grave, where I met a woman in red who said she was Master’s old friend and, per his instructions, gave me his legacy.
Only then did I understand that the so-called legacy was Master’s inheritance.
When I returned home, I found it gone… everyone was dead, their throats brutally slit!
The culprit was my Senior Brother Dao Yuan!
He stood in a white robe on blood-soaked ground, calmly looking at me, demanding I hand over Master’s legacy.
Only then did I realise he killed my entire family because he wanted Master’s legacy, never believing it wasn’t in my possession!
That night, I was terrified and instinctively fled into the Ten Thousand Mountains.
That beast Dao Yuan chased me, until… your father appeared before me again…
That was the last time I saw him.
Dao Yuan was no match for the canine demon and was chased off, disappearing without a trace…
From then on, they both faded from my life, and I left Hundred Tides Kingdom, living in hiding, cultivating the techniques from Master’s legacy.
But soon, I was shocked to discover I was poisoned, the same poison as Master.
By then, I knew how to detoxify, but the terrifying thing was, when I looked within to expel the poison, I discovered your existence!
I was terrified and wanted to abort you immediately.
But I couldn’t bring myself to do it, because by then, you had a complete form, a life of your own.
But fate loves to toy with people.
While discovering you, I also found your body was riddled with poison!
That left me with only two choices.
One was to ignore your survival, focus on expelling the poison from my body, so I’d live and you’d die.
The other was to focus on expelling the poison from your body, letting the poison in mine accumulate, seeping into my organs, making it impossible to remove.
The result, you know.
You lived, and I was left paralysed on this bed.
Only then did I realise the poison in Master didn’t kill him quickly, so he must have been killed by Dao Yuan, and even the poison in me was likely his doing!
Because of all those past grievances, I hated everything in this world, including your father, believing he defiled me!
I never had any love for him!
So, from the moment you were born, I never gave you a name, only called you ‘dog demon’ as a form of revenge.
But now, I see it was my twisted mind!
Sometimes, I don’t know how I feel about you, hating you, fearing you, but worrying about you even more…
So, from a young age, though I taught you skills, I never allowed you to show them in front of others, hoping you could live a normal human life, surviving among humans, not demons.
But now, that’s no longer possible, that beast Dao Yuan is coming for us!”
The white-haired woman finished, then looked outside, saying gravely, “Since Senior Brother is here, why not come in and talk?”
Her words instantly made Little Yellow tense, and he too looked toward the door.
Then, a middle-aged Taoist stepped through the doorway.
“Junior Sister Red Moon, long time no see!”
At the same time, a cloud of black mist finally drifted over the Demon Spirit Mountain Range…
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