Baby Serendipity: The Whole World Fell In Love With Me-Chapter 743 - 742: Forcing Su Mianmian to Fight the Heavenly Demon?
Chapter 743: Chapter 742: Forcing Su Mianmian to Fight the Heavenly Demon?
Po Tian couldn’t understand why this was happening, why they had failed.
Everything seemed perfectly planned; he had the Life-and-Death Brush and had largely freed himself from the influence of the Heavenly Dao. Why then did this well-devised plan still fail?
Seeing Po Tian’s bewildered face, Fen Tian looked up at the sky.
Resisting the Heavenly Dao was possible, just fractionally so, one ten-thousandth of a chance.
When he changed his name to Fen Tian, he believed in this one ten-thousandth of a chance, believed that he could achieve it, even gradually expand this slim possibility. Indeed, he managed to increase the odds, but what good did it do?
The Heavenly Dao, seeking to restore balance, created a Su Mianmian.
Su Mianmian was an uncertainty in their odds, yet, wasn’t she also a variable chosen by the Heavenly Dao?
Her performance in the Mountain River Sheji Map proved this point. Su Mianmian was not at all what the Heavenly Dao had in mind; when the time comes... haha, perhaps the Heavenly Dao would regret allowing Su Mianmian’s birth.
Fen Tian glanced at Po Tian.
If it weren’t for Po Tian urging him to act, he would have liked to watch a while longer, to see what else Su Mianmian would do in the Little World. As for that Divine Consciousness, it must have been Black Tortoise who helped eliminate it, as characters in the Little World couldn’t be that powerful.
Outside the Mountain River Sheji Map, Black Tortoise fiddled with the Demon Refining Pot in his hands, eyes fixed on the figures, both large and small, inside the Map.
After the Heavenly Demon claimed it could revive endlessly, Mianmian fell into a prolonged silence.
Infinite resurrection meant that even if she killed this Heavenly Demon, once she died, there would be another Heavenly Demon to emerge.
"Is the resurrected you still you?"
After pondering, the Heavenly Demon shook its head, "Probably not, those low-level creatures don’t retain their memories after death."
In the Demon Realm, the Heavenly Demon trained its low-level Demon Clan subordinates. After achieving results, it killed one of the demons to let it be reborn.
The reborn demon had forgotten everything it had been taught before.
So, if it were to be reborn again, it guessed that it would no longer possess its current thoughts.
"Let’s call a truce, then," Mianmian extended her little finger, "Mianmian won’t kill you, and you shouldn’t harm others. Let’s have a truce."
The Heavenly Demon hesitated.
Surging emotions emanated from Su Mianmian, complex yet not negative. Mianmian couldn’t bring herself to hate it, nor could she fully like it, but while speaking, she still conveyed her concern about it no longer being itself, and the fear of it killing again.
The Heavenly Demon couldn’t help but retract its previous thoughts!
It had thought that the taste of emotions it savored when giving Su Mianmian the Candied Hawthorn was the best. But now, the complexity it felt from Su Mianmian was even more tantalizing than before.
Within the negative emotions, there was something called greed.
The Heavenly Demon took a deep breath in a moment, "Alright, I won’t kill them. I’ll spare everyone in the world, but you must always stay with me."
Mianmian agreed.
The illusion was lifted, and Mianmian’s family and friends, who had other memories implanted by the Heavenly Demon, also came back to their senses.
When Mianmian shared the agreement reached with the Heavenly Demon with everyone, Ling Xiao frowned, "But there have been so many people killed throughout the world..."
Indeed, many had been killed due to the Heavenly Demon’s orders.
As Mianmian struggled with this, Jiang Yao interjected, "Then let those bigwigs out there die. They were the ones who took action, weren’t they?"
As a mother, Jiang Yao was prepared to support whatever decision her daughter made. Even if her daughter was making a mistake, as long as it was not a grievously consequential error, she believed her daughter should experience it herself and then judge.
Jiang Yao had already spoken, and Ling Xiao looked up at the sky, then at the Heavenly Demon. Even though he still clearly disagreed, he had nothing more to say.
What else could he do? Force Su Mianmian to fight a life-or-death battle with the Heavenly Demon?
He couldn’t make Su Mianmian act according to his will. Even after Master Liaoji sacrificed himself, it still didn’t inspire in Su Mianmian a firm resolve to obliterate the Heavenly Demon.
So be it, he thought. Let’s see what the outcome would be with Su Mianmian making her own choices.
The Heavenly Demon reverted to the appearance of Noble Consort Xian and still let everyone call him Atian.
Those from the Demon Clan became scapegoats, executed in front of the surviving demons and humans.
Atian didn’t have much affection for the low-level demons since they really only followed his commands and were lifeless without them. Aside from when they killed, which was the only time the demons showed any emotional fluctuation, Atian couldn’t communicate with them at all.
Everyone thought the Heavenly Demon was dead and that there would be no more problems in the future, enabling them to live in peace and contentment. Thus, they were grateful to Mianmian.
The Human Emperor was dead, as were the Palace Maids and eunuchs in the Palace.
Since there was no one to take charge, after some consideration, the Officials even nominated Mianmian to become the new emperor of the Human Clan.
Mianmian didn’t want to, but they cited examples of chaos and increased casualties that would ensue if the Country were without a ruler.
Moreover, these ministers insisted on having Mianmian as emperor—no one else would do.
With no alternatives, Mianmian reluctantly agreed.
Being one emperor was just as demanding as being two.
She was busy every day dealing with various governmental affairs, with no time to communicate with the Heavenly Demon.
Su Senqi and Jiang Yao then took on the responsibility of taking the Heavenly Demon out to play. Others who knew the truth were still frightened upon seeing the Heavenly Demon, but only this couple dared to get close to him.
Seeing this, Ling Xiao thought Mianmian and her family were all mad.
He himself was nearly driven mad.
After Master Liaoji passed away, once the effect of controlling the demons with the Relic for a single day passed, everyone seemed to forget Liaoji’s sacrifice, still expressing their heartfelt gratitude to Mianmian.
When did the world turn out like this?
Unable to accept the situation, Ling Xiao drowned his sorrows in drink every day. For a while, he couldn’t even tell what was real anymore. He had memories from his time in Xinghua Village, where he drank daily as well.
Alcohol couldn’t fully numb a cultivator, and Ling Xiao vacillated between lucidity and despair every day.
A sense of mission kept him following the Heavenly Demon daily, to see whether the Heavenly Demon would ever turn over a new leaf.
The Heavenly Demon knew Ling Xiao was following him, but showed no reaction.
Because Su Mianmian’s parents genuinely treated him as their own child.
They took him through many experiences, and during some of them, they would muse, "Mianmian was just like that when she was young, haha."
"Atian, you’re doing well, learning so quickly."
"Ah, you’re so smart. If you had always been with our family, perhaps by now you could have earned an Official Position, and we’d have another Scholar in the family."
Such affectionate parents!
Was this the life he was always curious about, the one he always wanted?
But why did it feel so empty?
