The Young Lady Only Wants to Cultivate Immortality Chapter 106

“Leave it to me.”
The light voice forcibly pulled A’Ling back from a sense of unease. A’Ling looked up.
After hearing the explanations, the person in the image readily agreed with a smile, appearing confident and spirited.
A’Ling had seen that kind of confidence and boldness in Jin Zhuyue as well.
This person truly never changed their original intention even across three lifetimes, always so proud, bold, and facing challenges head-on. Even as a tiny spider, they dared to risk their life to lead suffering beasts away from desperate situations.
Though it ultimately failed, resulting in a broken leg, injury, and torment.
A’Ling felt this second life was even more tragic than the first, and after watching it, she was still shaken.
However, the person in the image, upon seeing the memories of the past life, seemed unaffected. They still wore a casual smile and appeared full of longing for this world.
Even though she was in the putrid Corrupted Corpse Forest of the demon realm, a disgusting and foul place, she was as bright and cheerful as a wild flower swaying in the spring sunlight.
How wonderful, A’Ling couldn’t help but praise inwardly. Seeing someone like this made even her somewhat empty heart feel more grounded.
Someone like her was perhaps the kind of person who could make others feel at ease, knowing that if the sky were to fall, there were people like them who could hold it up.
A’Ling’s heart churned. Perhaps this was a god, a god who could give people strength.
For some reason, at this moment, A’Ling thought of Shi Qingqian. Perhaps she should have been this kind of person too. If their destinies hadn’t been so different, if Shi Qingqian had grown up under Shi Yu’s care, would she have become this way?
But all of that was just speculation now. A pang of sorrow swept through A’Ling, as if her heart had been pierced by a thousand needles, a dense, throbbing pain.
The thought of “what could have been” was always a cruel thing, no matter when it came to mind.
A’Ling took a few rapid breaths, forcing herself not to dwell on it. The current situation must have a deeper meaning. She needed to seize the crucial point she needed to know. She still had to find Shi Qingqian; there were many things awaiting her.
A’Ling collected her thoughts and saw that after Shi Yu left the Corrupted Corpse Forest, she dedicated herself to cultivating the demonic path. It was no different from her own cultivation of the righteous path when she existed as “Jin Zhuyue.” She didn’t slacken her efforts at all just because she was in the demonic path.
She watched as, in less than a hundred years, Shi Yu became the new Demon Lord of the demon realm.
After becoming Demon Lord, she immediately began her mission: purifying the low-grade demonic energy of the demon realm.
The previous Demon Lord had too much resentment. Under his rule, the demons had become more volatile and prone to anger. A thousand years ago, when Shi Yu was Jin Zhuyue, the demon attack at Mystic Crane Mountain was the previous Demon Lord’s doing.
It was thanks to the joint efforts of Venerable Dao Rong and Jin Zhuyue that this demon, who was about to cause great disaster, was eliminated.
After the death of the previous Demon Lord, the demon realm was without a master or a lord. These demons from the demon realm ran rampant, causing chaos. The Heavenly Dao could not directly intervene, and this led to the third tribulation of the Goddess.
Demon Lord Shi Yu appeared, and from then on, the demon realm took on a different atmosphere. While purifying demonic energy, she also rescued demons within the demon realm who genuinely sought goodness.
A’Ling saw Elder Zeng, Yang Xia, Mu Ling, and even Jin Siliu. The names of countless demons were gathered in Shi Yu’s ledger.
A’Ling knew it was the “Demon Lord’s Eternal Covenant.” It was currently in Shi Qingqian’s hands, and Shi Qingqian had shown it to her; it was a thick book.
Looking at the ledger in the image, from its initial thin pages to its final thick volume, it represented the blood, sweat, and tears of Demon Lord Shi Yu, the demons she had rescued one by one from the abyss.
Each page represented a new beginning.
A’Ling watched as Jin Siliu, who was originally just a mass of corpse energy in the Corrupted Corpse Forest, was given flesh and blood by Demon Lord Shi Yu and no longer cowered in a corner. Finally, Jin Siliu could see the sun and moon shining and experience the changing seasons. A’Ling wept along with Jin Siliu’s tears in the image.
She finally understood Jin Siliu’s reverence for Demon Lord Shi Yu, to the point of extending that affection to Shi Qingqian, whom she had never met.
For some reason, at this moment, a knot of turmoil in A’Ling’s heart finally smoothed out. After experiencing so much, she had already let go of much of her stubbornness, but at this moment, she was completely at peace.
A’Ling smiled as she looked at Jin Siliu in the image, who was smiling brilliantly because she knew she could leave the demon realm in the future. It was a pure smile that A’Ling had never seen on Jin Siliu’s face before. It turned out that she had once been such a naive and happy young girl.
Demon Lord Shi Yu spent a thousand years in the demon realm, and the demonic energy had no effect on her. Her will was firm. Together with all the demons she had guided to the righteous path, she purified the low-grade demonic energy of the demon realm.
The low-level demons were no longer affected by the low-grade demonic energy, which made them prone to explosive anger. The demon realm became increasingly harmonious. Seeing the harsh living environment of the demon realm, Demon Lord Shi Yu decided to find a new place for it.
She brought Jin Siliu with her and left the demon realm to search for a suitable location.
What Shi Yu didn’t expect was to encounter her former master, who had now become Saint Venerable Dao Rong. He was still the same as before, with a heart full of concern for the world and burning righteousness.
Seeing him struggling to prevent a flood from submerging a downstream village, Shi Yu, who originally didn’t want to disturb Dao Rong’s trials, rushed to help when she saw him struggling and worried about the downstream villagers.
The two of them worked together to divert the water and successfully prevented a flood.
Shi Yu was overjoyed to see the village, which could have been submerged by the flood, now safe and sound. She liked the current situation where she could directly intervene in disasters without being bound by the Heavenly Dao.
After that, the two of them resolved many of the world’s suffering.
Saint Venerable Dao Rong’s prestige in the human realm was now comparable to a deity from the ninth heaven. His words were far more influential than Shi Yu’s. She had already wanted to help the mortals she encountered along the way.
Many disasters, such as the earthquakes she could sense, were now being dealt with. She was not bound by the Heavenly Dao during her trials, so she directly warned the mortals, but not everyone could believe her words.
Before meeting Dao Rong, she had tried to prevent disasters and man-made calamities several times without success. She had even resorted to forcibly tying people up to prevent them from being crushed by collapsing houses.
The distrust of mortals frustrated her repeatedly. Fortunately, she met Dao Rong. Shi Yu thought that since Dao Rong was also saving people during his trials, even though their identities and positions were different, their underlying sense of righteousness was the same, and they could definitely travel together.
She made up her mind and followed Dao Rong, searching for a suitable place while helping those in need.
Thus, over the years, Shi Yu and Dao Rong saved countless people, and she also heard about a good place.
She sent Jin Siliu to scout ahead. She and Dao Rong encountered a human plague and decided to stay and help the people of a city.
During this plague incident, Dao Rong tested the medicine himself, and after repeated failures, finally refined the medicinal pill to cure the plague.
A’Ling looked at the Demon Lord Shi Yu, who was completely awestruck by Dao Rong in the image, and sighed inwardly. She could only say that Dao Rong’s disguise was probably so convincing that even he believed he was a good person. How could anyone else suspect him?
The Goddess would never have imagined that someone would impersonate being good for three lifetimes. Dao Rong, who appeared to be a good person in all three lifetimes, had completely lowered Shi Yu’s guard.
Or rather, she had no guard against Dao Rong from the beginning. A’Ling watched Shi Yu’s gaze towards Dao Rong transform from respect to admiration, to love, to burning passion. She was certain that Demon Lord Shi Yu had fallen in love with the disguised Dao Rong.
That Saint Venerable Dao Rong, who was dedicated to goodness and righteousness, and who would sacrifice himself to save others.
They got married in the human realm and even had a child. Looking at Demon Lord Shi Yu’s slightly swollen belly, A’Ling’s heart was filled with complex emotions. She knew that the child within was Shi Qingqian.
She hadn’t expected to see Shi Qingqian at this time, still in her mother’s womb.
She might even see the newborn Shi Qingqian…
The warm scene didn’t last long. Soon, as Demon Lord Shi Yu eagerly awaited the birth of her child, she discovered Dao Rong’s true face.
Perhaps because Shi Yu had his child, or perhaps because he was aware of Shi Yu’s deep affection for him, Dao Rong no longer maintained his former image of selfless greatness, always prioritizing the world’s righteousness over himself.
He would speak of his own unwillingness, complain about the unfairness of the Heavenly Dao, and even ask Shi Yu what else he hadn’t done well, and why the divine decree hadn’t arrived sooner.
Shi Yu always comforted him. In her eyes, becoming a god wasn’t that important. The Heavenly Dao’s restrictions often brought a sense of powerlessness, such as witnessing disasters. Gods were not allowed to intervene, and the Heavenly Dao always said that the world had its own balance, and divine intervention would upset that balance.
She felt that being a god was not as good as her current state, being a capable person who could truly change injustices she saw and genuinely save those in need.
Shi Yu truly felt that her current state was good. She hoped this lifetime would last longer and longer, so she could spend it properly with Dao Rong and their child.
But Dao Rong seemed to believe that becoming a god was the only way to prove his worth, and he even harbored some dark thoughts.
When he couldn’t control his emotions, he even uttered some statements about destroying the world. Shi Yu, while worried, also worried that Dao Rong might harbor demonic thoughts and go astray.
While calmly comforting and reassuring Dao Rong, she also became vigilant, often tracking Dao Rong to prevent him from doing anything regrettable in the future.
But she never expected that she would be the one to regret it first.
A’Ling looked at the image of Qi Yu and frowned deeply. Shi Yu had been tracking Dao Rong and overheard a conversation between Dao Rong and Qi Yu.
It turned out that half of the disasters they encountered were caused by Dao Rong himself. This included the trial of testing medicine to save people that had completely captivated Shi Yu; that plague was orchestrated by Dao Rong.
Shi Yu touched her greatly protruding belly as she listened to her “savior” plotting the next salvation conspiracy. She didn’t know how she managed to hide her tracks and return to her residence without revealing anything.
Fake. It was all fake!
The natural disasters were fake, the man-made calamities were fake, and even the savior who was thanked by everyone was fake.
The person she loved was a complete liar. He had deceived her!
For the first time, Shi Yu felt she was so foolish. No, the moment this thought arose, Shi Yu quickly stopped herself. It wasn’t her foolishness; it was the liar’s fault!
Perhaps due to the immense emotional fluctuations, the child in her womb moved.
For the first time, she felt a small protrusion against her belly from within. It was as if the little her within sensed her emotions and was comforting her in her own way.
Shi Yu’s rationality completely collapsed. Although she repeatedly told herself it wasn’t her fault, at this moment, she could no longer control the emotion of regret.
She could console herself, but this child was innocent…
Endless regret surged into her heart, along with an irrepressible anger, causing her to vomit a mouthful of fresh blood.
The demonic energy that had not eroded her heart over a thousand years in the demon realm now seemed to find an opportunity and invade her body.
A’Ling looked at the scene before her, her brow furrowing sharply. Her heart was clenched tightly. It was over; there was no turning back.