Fairy, Don't Be Afraid, I Am Blind

Chapter 124 - 105: Born to Be a Furnace Vessel

Ji Xueruo read from the book that the beginning of all living things is the embryo. What was in her sister’s belly was not a demon pill but an embryo!

She was furious, her eyes glaring fiercely at Ji Lingruo.

Ms Liou, standing nearby, was also so shocked that her old eyes widened. In the mundane world, getting pregnant at seventeen wasn’t so rare, but for the second young lady, whom she still saw as a child, it was hard to accept.

Ji Lingruo stared blankly at her sister’s cold, moon-like, frosty face. She never expected her sister to think of such a thing. Becoming a mother was something she hadn’t even considered!

"What nonsense are you talking, sis!" Ji Lingruo blushed with shame. She crossed her hands over her own lower belly and couldn’t help but gently rub it.

She couldn’t help but carefully feel this lively blue demon pill. It really had the flow of Qi like a living creature. She began to wonder: was this really a demon pill?

From Taisui’s memory, it was known that this demon pill, together with her intact meridians, was an apology gift from Taisui. However, the way it was given was for her to perform dual cultivation with her senior brother, sharing some of the Power of Taisui that was supposed to entirely merge with her senior brother into her own body.

Hearing her sister say this, she felt that this demon pill truly seemed like a crystallization between her and You Su...

When Ji Xueruo saw her sister gently stroking her belly, she was even more enraged, clenching her teeth and wishing she could tear that beastly blind man to pieces.

"I’m talking nonsense? Then what exactly is in your belly?!"

"It’s really a demon pill, sis!" Ji Lingruo argued, her face flushed, and shyly turned her head slightly. "Besides..."

"Besides what?!"

"Besides, that... that thing from my senior brother, I already refined it away, so how can it be a child?"

Ji Lingruo, already familiar with the Human Scroll Skill, naturally knew that the essence from a man is most precious. She never intended to become a mother so early, considering her mother’s vengeance still unavenged. Hence, on that day in the coffin, after she and You Su both reached a harmonious state, she used her cultivation technique to refine that essence away.

Later, on the day of parting with You Su, he had subtly queried about it with concern. She mischievously deceived him into forgetting it, which startled him quite a bit. He even seriously said he would take responsibility and started coming up with names for the children, boy or girl, which amused her greatly.

Could it be that she fainted suddenly afterward and didn’t finish refining it? But when she woke up, there were indeed no residual traces.

Ji Lingruo shook her head. After all, it was something inside her body, so she had the most authority to speak on it. She added:

"If it weren’t a demon pill, how could it help me store Profound Qi and aid me in breaking through to the Spirit Platform Realm? Ask Ms Liou if you don’t believe me. Which demonic mother’s child has the power of a demon pill?"

Ms Liou, suddenly brought up, was momentarily stunned, then said, "In the history of the Snake Race, there is indeed no precedent."

Ji Xueruo’s cold face remained unchanged, and she sighed, "A thousand years ago, our Snake Race was at its peak, but due to some inexplicable reason, male infants became increasingly rare, leading to decline and falling out of the Divine Mountain. Soon, our Snake Race was filled with only females, relying on the Snake Ancestor’s Snake Blood Pool to propagate, yet it only birthed females. Our Snake Race’s infants have always been different from other races. What use is the history of the Snake Race? What about the entire Demon Race’s history?"

As the Clan Leader, Ji Xueruo was naturally more aware of the cursed plight of her clan. Her surprise and anger at her sister’s unexpected pregnancy were partly because her family’s precious cabbage had been plundered, but also because this child would inevitably be an incomplete child doomed to die young and unfortunate.

Different demon races intermarrying cannot produce offspring, or if they do, the offspring are also deformities. Hence, the Snake Race, in order to change the only-female situation, once set its sights on the Human Race, but the offspring born from mating were also incomplete. Since then, the Snake Race has been using Snake Race blood to propagate, until seventeen years ago when the clan leader at the time, Ji Muyan, was deceived by a human cultivator and gave birth to a pair of conjoined twins.

For a thousand years, Ji Xueruo and Ji Lingruo could be said to be the only two who were not born from Snake Ancestor’s blood and managed to live past six, but they each had their own shortcomings.

Ms Liou recalled for a moment, then replied, "Indeed, there’s no precedent. At most, the mother uses a secret technique to nurture the fetus with Profound Qi. The idea of the fetus nourishing the mother is unreasonable in both terms and logic."

The girl in the black flowy dress sighed softly, her heart slightly relieved. She was secretly glad it wasn’t a fetus. Bringing an inevitably unfortunate child into the world was a kind of cruelty, wasn’t it?

"Then how exactly was your demon pill formed?" Ji Xueruo’s voice also calmed a bit.

"It’s... it was formed by refining that thing from my senior brother..." Ji Lingruo diverted her beautiful eyes slightly back and felt that saying this wasn’t really lying. This demon pill was indeed formed from the Power of Taisui shared by her senior brother. It’s just the specific ’thing’ letting her sister guess.

Hearing this, the whole room fell into deafening silence. Ji Xueruo and Ms Liou exchanged glances, shock in their eyes even greater than when they thought the demon pill was a fetus.

"Lingruo, do you know what you’re saying?" Ji Xueruo inhaled sharply before solemnly saying each word deliberately.

"Yeah, Miss Second, you shouldn’t speak carelessly." Ms Liou also chimed in.

"I know, why would I deceive you?" Ji Lingruo decided to attribute all credit to You Su, naturally speaking confidently.

Ji Xueruo exhaled slightly and said, "Lingruo, do you really want to deceive your sister and Ms Liou for an outsider? When have you heard of a man’s essence being refined into a demon pill?!"