Above Mount Mu, the air was dead silent.
Lingxuzi let out a long sigh. A three-thousand-year obsession, shattered in a single day.
Bai Lumian's eyes flickered. Although she loved watching drama, even she felt that Zhang Mingyuan's strong medicine was far too ruthless and harsh.
The Heavenly Dao's avatar stood by on high alert, ready at any moment to stabilize Shen Ningyan, deeply afraid that this newly ascended Red Dust Immortal might do something out of line.
Zhang Mingyuan still held Su Jinxue in his arms.
The delicate body in his embrace was warm and soft, but a piercing pain repeatedly shot up from the soft flesh of his waist.
Go ahead and pinch... pinch away...
It was still better than having to sleep on the floor once they got home.
He let out a long sigh of relief in his heart.
Finally... it was over!
The wind began to flow once more.
Shen Ningyan lowered her head, her purple cloud flowing immortal gown fluttering.
“Brother Mingyuan...”
Her voice was hoarse, thick with a nasal quality from crying.
Zhang Mingyuan hardened his heart and said coldly, “Shen Ningyan, I've said all there is to say. Leave, go pursue your own Great Dao, and stop wasting your thoughts on me.”
Shen Ningyan slowly raised her head.
There was no madness, no heartbreak.
Her purple eyes, still wet with tears, burst with an unprecedented, spine-chilling... absolute tenderness.
She looked at Zhang Mingyuan as if looking at a rare, priceless treasure, her eyes filled with pity, heartache... and a certain conviction that she had seen through everything.
Zhang Mingyuan's heart skipped a beat. An ominous premonition shot straight to his head.
“Brother Mingyuan, your lying skills are still as clumsy as they were three thousand years ago.”
A poignant smile curled at the corner of Shen Ningyan's lips. She stretched out her slender finger and pointed from afar at Su Jinxue's lower abdomen.
“You say she is pregnant with your child?” Shen Ningyan's voice suddenly rose, carrying a trace of mockery and heartache. “Do you take me for a three-year-old mortal child?!”
“There isn't even a single trace of fetal breath inside her body! How could she possibly be pregnant?”
Looking at the stunned Zhang Mingyuan, the heartache in Shen Ningyan's eyes almost overflowed.
She put away her Illusory Epiphyllum Purple Jade Umbrella and crossed her hands over her chest, as if embracing some illusory warmth.
“Brother Mingyuan, you don't have to act anymore.”
Her voice was as gentle as if she were coaxing a child.
“I know that you only kissed her just now to put on a show. You know very well that I have only just attained the Red Dust Immortal realm, and my cultivation is still unstable. You were afraid that in my anger, I would risk my life to fight an established Red Dust Immortal like Su Jinxue, and you feared I would damage my origin and destroy my immortal foundation.”
Boom!
The moment those words were spoken, the air at the summit of Mount Mu instantly froze.
Lingxuzi's nostrils flared, completely dumbfounded.
Bai Lumian sucked in a sharp breath, her amber pupils contracting violently.
The Heavenly Dao's avatar slapped his thigh, exclaiming that it was absolutely brilliant!
As for Zhang Mingyuan, he felt as if he had been struck by lightning, freezing right on the spot.
Are you kidding me? This actually worked???
According to his script, shouldn't Shen Ningyan have seen the reality and then left with a dead heart?!
Why did it turn out like this?!
If it were him, hearing his nemesis admit to being in love with someone else and having an actual physical relationship with them, he would definitely give up!
Where on earth did things go wrong?!
Shen Ningyan's eyes reddened once more, tears welling up.
“To force me away, to keep me safe, you actually didn't hesitate to sacrifice your own reputation just to kiss the nemesis you've fought for five thousand years! You even fabricated an absurd lie like 'pregnancy' that could be easily exposed with a single poke. You would rather bear the infamy yourself just to sever my longing...”
She took a deep breath, her purple eyes flashing with an unshakeable fanaticism and determination.
“Brother Mingyuan, your feelings for me run so deep. Yan'er... could never repay you even with ten thousand deaths!”
!!!
Silence.
A deathly silence.
And then—the fruit on the dumbfounded tree had completely ripened at this moment, crashing down heavily upon everyone's heads.
Bai Lumian covered her mouth with both hands, her entire body trembling.
She wasn't afraid—she was excited!
This earth-shattering logic of wild overimagination, this perfect closed-loop self-convincing, was simply a god-tier scene that couldn't be written in any romance novel!
Lingxuzi silently turned around, gazing at the distant sea of clouds, beginning to wonder if his five thousand years of cultivating the Dao had all been wasted on a dog.
Zhang Mingyuan's mouth hung open, meaningless clucking sounds escaping his throat.
His brain had stopped functioning.
The Dao of Annihilation... at this moment, he felt as if he had truly been annihilated.
He looked at Shen Ningyan, who was so deeply moved by her own delusions that she was on the verge of falling into madness, and felt the entire world spinning around him.
He finally understood that in front of this woman, all explanations and proofs were utterly meaningless.
A god-tier person who could imagine a passionate kiss as 'protecting me' was already beyond saving.
“Shen Ningyan... let's just fight.”
“I'm completely out of options...”
Zhang Mingyuan's voice was as weak as a mortal old man's. He released Su Jinxue, shielding her behind him once again.
“Brother Mingyuan, Yan'er won't fight you!”
Shen Ningyan urgently interrupted him, then swept her sharp gaze toward Su Jinxue.
“Su Jinxue! You despicable woman! You used leverage to blackmail Brother Mingyuan and forced him to do something so against his will. You are simply unworthy of being a Red Dust Immortal! If you have even a shred of shame left, fight me!”
As soon as she finished speaking, the laws of disillusionment manifested into thousands of purple epiphyllums. As the petals opened and closed, the aura of the immortal Dao origin flickered within.
Su Jinxue took a step forward, standing in front of Zhang Mingyuan.
In an instant, the sky and earth changed color as heavy snow began to fall.
This was no ordinary snow; every single frost flower not only chilled to the bone, but was also wrapped in the most pure laws of annihilation.
The flying snow and the purple epiphyllums intertwined in mid-air.
Wherever the snow fell, the purple epiphyllums withered and died instantly upon contact, as if they had met their natural enemy.
Her three thousand white hairs cascaded down like a waterfall, and Su Jinxue stood barefoot in the air.
Merely by standing in the void, she suppressed the violent laws in the space, causing them to wail and tremble.
Her red eyes were completely calm, looking down on the purple-clad figure like a deity gazing upon an ant.
“You are not worthy.”
With those few words, Shen Ningyan's rage was instantly ignited.
The laws of disillusionment erupted violently. A sky-blotting sea of purple epiphyllums surged upward, carrying the power to crush all things, and clashed fiercely with the freezing frost and snow filling the sky. The sky tore open, and the chaotic void poured down like a waterfall.
In the midst of this world-destroying collision, a crisp snap of fingers suddenly echoed.
Snap.
There was no earth-shattering pressure, yet the rampaging laws that were enough to tear the world apart silently melted away like spring snow at this very moment.
Zhang Mingyuan took a step forward, cutting off the phenomenon. “Enough.”
His expression was solemn, his eyes harboring a suppressed rage of being pushed into a dead end.
“Shen Ningyan, didn't you say that Little Xuexue has no fetal breath inside her?”
He laughed, laughing out loud. Then, his laughter grew wilder and wilder, increasingly carrying a reckless, self-abandoning madness!
“Very well... very well...”
“Then I'll make a fetal breath for you to see!!!”
Zhang Mingyuan's voice resounded through the sky of Mount Mu, carrying a tragic and solemn determination to face death.
He suddenly spun around and grabbed Su Jinxue's wrist. Facing Su Jinxue's shocked expression, her eyebrows twitching wildly and her eyes wide with disbelief...
He, with absolute righteousness, spat out the universe-shattering declaration—
“Little Xuexue, let's make this fetal breath right in front of her!”
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