Ex-Wife is a Big Villainess
Chapter 75 - 71 The Demon Venerable Who Loves to Make Big Promises

Chapter 75: Chapter 71 The Demon Venerable Who Loves to Make Big Promises

Even though the tragedy was foreseen and you were given the choice to prevent it, you were still not allowed to interfere.

Isn’t this toying with people’s emotions?

It seemed as though he discerned what Jiang Shouzhong was thinking, and Demon Venerable said slowly, "The greatest damage the Water Moon Dream Mirror can inflict is to disturb your state of mind. This is also why it chooses cultivators above the Grandmaster Realm as its masters.

Because once you break through the Grandmaster Realm and wish to continue cultivating, the tempering of the mind is critically important.

Only with a pure heart, a persistent heart, a heart free of thoughts, can you step by step ascend the great Dao.

However, the dream mirror will constantly disturb your state of mind, preventing you from cultivating in peace. No matter how cold-blooded, how ruthless, it will always be like a pot of boiling oil, splashed onto your heart."

Jiang Shouzhong’s expression turned ugly.

Now he was certain that the person who had placed the Water Moon Dream Mirror on him definitely harbored ill intentions, aiming to break his path of cultivation.

Demon Venerable sighed and said, "To pass the trial, the quickest and most effective method is to let whatever scene you have foreseen in the dream mirror happen, regardless of what it is.

If you dream that someone dies, let them die. If you dream that someone gets killed, let them get killed. You only need to be an observer. In doing so, the ten nightmare trials will easily be passed."

Jiang Shouzhong chuckled bitterly, "But no one has ever managed to do that."

Demon Venerable nodded slightly.

The simplest method of resolution has never been achieved by anyone.

This indicates that in the end no one can bring themselves to ignore it.

Even for the most cold-blooded and ruthless people, the Water Moon Dream Mirror will always find their weakness.

Demon Venerable’s expression turned distant as he thought of past events and said softly,

"I’ve seen too many people enter the fray full of confidence, wishing to subdue this mirror, but in the end, all of them met with a tragic fate.

There was an old monk who, in his dream, foresaw a village school attacked by a demonic beast, resulting in the death of many children. He couldn’t bear to watch the tragedy unfold, so he intervened, killing the demonic beast and saving the children.

But afterwards, the monk’s meridians all shattered, and he dissolved into a pool of blood.

There was a sect leader who had barely managed to reach the fifth nightmare trial when he foresaw in the Dream Mirror that his beloved wife was captured by an enemy and suffered humiliation until death. So, he hardened his heart and turned a blind eye, allowing the tragedy to happen.

Although he passed the fifth nightmare trial, his state of mind was severely affected, his cultivation did not advance but fell, and he eventually succumbed to deviant cultivation..."

Jiang Shouzhong felt a chill down his spine and his scalp tingling.

It turned out that the Divine Artifact everyone coveted was so terrifying; no wonder none of the past masters of the Water Moon Dream Mirror had met with good ends.

Jiang Shouzhong asked, "What if you dream that you’re being killed? Since you can’t prevent it, are you supposed to just let it happen? But what’s the point of such a trial?"

Demon Venerable replied, "Then you can only find a way to save yourself since you must let the scene in the dream happen. There was once a woman who dreamed that she and her husband were poisoned to death by her own younger sister, but she still passed the trial and survived."

"How did she do it?"

Jiang Shouzhong showed curiosity in his expression.

Demon Venerable smiled faintly, "The woman took the antidote in advance, then let her younger sister poison her and feigned death. Because the scene in the dream mirror was of her drinking the poison and lying motionless on the ground."

This... works?

Jiang Shouzhong was stunned as he heard.

If this method worked, wouldn’t breaking the ten nightmares be very simple?

Just need to construct a scene.

But then Demon Venerable immediately threw cold water on this notion.

"There was an elder who dreamt that his son was killed, so he hid his son in advance and had others disguise themselves to recreate the scene from the dream mirror. However, the trial wasn’t passed."

Jiang Shouzhong asked, puzzled, "Why was one successful and the other not?"

Demon Venerable shook his head and said, "I’m not sure either. Some trials can be completed by using shortcuts and deception. But others can’t. I think that those who failed probably tried too hard to recreate the scene from the dream mirror, rather than letting it happen naturally."

Jiang Shouzhong fell silent.

Suddenly, he realized he had missed the most important question and stared at the woman with an odd expression, "Since you failed at the tenth nightmare trial, how come you are still alive?"

The Demon Venerable’s lips curved slightly upward, deliberately being mysterious, "Once you pass a trial, you’ll know. There’s definitely a surprise in store."

Jiang Shouzhong curled his lips and couldn’t be bothered to ask further.

"Don’t be too pessimistic. Anyone who gains the recognition of the Taoist River Map can certainly pass the Ten Nightmares trial. You’re the first person who can communicate with me; that alone proves your uniqueness."

Noticing Jiang Shouzhong’s despondent mood and fearing that he might crush the young man’s confidence, the Demon Venerable quickly offered words of comfort, "I see great potential in you. You will surely ascend to immortality, and you’re bound to become the strongest cultivator in the world... Uh, the strongest beside me, of course. You’re the best!"

For some reason, Jiang Shouzhong felt as if a pie had appeared before him.

The pie was drawn larger and larger, higher and higher, completely out of reach.

Jiang Shouzhong said indifferently, "If it were someone else, you would probably feed them the same lines."

The Demon Venerable’s expression revealed a rare touch of embarrassment.

She cleared her throat and said seriously, "That’s not the point. The point is that you need to rapidly improve your cultivation. How can someone who possesses the Taoist River Map be so weak! Focusing on your cultivation is what you should be doing!

Absorb more Yin Yang Qi. If you feel there’s not enough Yang Qi, then go to temples, mountains, or military camps. Right, you should go to academies. There you’ll find the vast vital energy of Confucianism—one day absorbing it there is equivalent to a hundred days elsewhere. You just go ahead and absorb boldly.

As for Yin Qi, you can go to places like chaotic cemeteries or nunneries.

Of course, it’s best to find a few women with an innate Profound Yin physique and roll around in the sheets whenever possible. If you can’t find those with Profound Yin bodies, then sleeping with a few virgins will do—they tend to have heavier primordial Yin.

Don’t feel like it’s immoral. Emperors have their palaces with dozens of concubines. As a man destined to become the Emperor of all, sleeping with thousands, even tens of thousands, shouldn’t bother you—it’s trivial.

When I break free, I’ll be the Demon Emperor, and you’ll be the Human Emperor. We will divide the world between us. I’ll give you all the beauties in the world..."

Jiang Shouzhong felt the corner of his mouth twitching uncontrollably.

The pie before him had grown even larger.

The Pie-drawing Master continued, "There’s a woman named Li Guanshi. Her future cultivation will surely rival mine. Find a way to sleep with her!

You must sleep with her before she ascends. I don’t want to encounter a tough opponent after I emerge.

Back in the day, I was unrivaled under the heavens, and I will not allow anyone to be above me in the future.

You can’t be above me either!

After your cultivation is complete, pay a visit to the Sky Demon Sect and see if that hairless girl has united the Demon Clan. If not, you take the Sect Master’s seat.

As for fox spirits or snake spirits, sleep with whomever you wish.

If you want the girl, it’s up to your own abilities, though she’s not untouched. If you disdain her, a kick in the rear is also an option.

I’ll permit only the existence of the Sky Demon Sect among the Demon Clan. Those who are with me will flourish; those against me will perish. If anyone disobeys, kill them all.

By the way, I planned to retrieve something for you today as a show of sincerity, but that Emperor outsmarted me. I just can’t swallow that insult. When you have the strength, sleep with the Empress..."

Jiang Shouzhong sweated as he listened.

Big sister, it’s always sleep, sleep, sleep with you.

Why don’t you ask me to sleep?

"Let’s just leave it at that for now. I need to properly nourish my soul. Who knows when I’ll be able to go out next time; it’s really troublesome."

The Demon Venerable furrowed her delicate brows in frustration.

As ripples spread across the mirror’s surface, both the person and mirror faded away.

Jiang Shouzhong stared blankly at the dark ceiling, equally worried, "Zhang, how am I supposed to rescue you?"

Could the purpose of the Water Moon Dream Mirror be to make one indifferent to what one sees?

To wear down a person into becoming a cold-blooded creature?

No, that’s not right.

If the Water Moon Dream Mirror gives you a chance to change the future, then it can’t be simply toying with you.

There must be a way.

To let this scene unfold naturally yet prevent the tragedy... there must be a way to do it!