The Daily Life Of A Rich And Vicious Man’S Wife Chapter 10

The immortal maidens started gossiping curiously after the Crown Prince left, gathering around Jiang Linghan: “What was that about the Crown Prince? Steward, do you know? He actually initiated a conversation with an immortal maiden from our Pure Clarity Palace, and he was so polite! Are we sure that’s the Crown Prince of our Celestial Realm?”

“Exactly! Usually, those High Gods, Heaven Venerables, and the Crown Prince look at us like we’re going to harm that rabbit demon for no reason, guarding against us like we’re evil spirits.”

“But seriously, we’re immortal maidens! Who would bother with a rabbit spirit? We have so many important things to do; who has the time to manage him?”

“Why didn’t he blame us for the rabbit demon this time? Instead, he greeted us. Has the Crown Prince been possessed by something incredible?”

“Don’t say that, isn’t it a bit rude to talk about the Crown Prince like that?”

“What’s rude about it? Have you forgotten how you were afraid to let that rabbit demon help you tidy the immortal herbs planted in the Pure Clarity Palace yesterday, and the Crown Prince punished you to kneel in the Celestial Abyss all night?”

“He’s a noble Celestial Clan Crown Prince, yet he harbors such malicious intent just for a rabbit demon. And you’re still defending him? Did kneeling in the Celestial Abyss make you stupid? When we return to the palace, let Azure Lotus Fairy check if your wound has healed.”

“I’m also worried about Qing Ming Fairy’s injury, Steward, let’s hurry back. Otherwise, if the Crown Prince remembers that rabbit demon again, all of us brothers and sisters in the Pure Clarity Palace will face punishment.”

As the immortal maidens returned to the Pure Clarity Palace, they saw Old Lord, who had been missing for a long time, sighing with his back to them: “Alas…”

The immortal maidens were not as pleasantly surprised as he had expected; instead, they were somewhat afraid, hiding behind Jiang Linghan and exchanging nervous glances.

They feared that Old Lord’s return meant Bai Luo was missing some spiritual elixir, wondrous medicine, or heavenly treasure, and Old Lord had come to take things. If not to take things, then he was here to punish them, perhaps for finding fault with Bai Luo again.

But they hadn’t done anything, yet Old Lord always seemed to harbor endless malice toward them because of Bai Luo.

The immortal maidens didn’t even dare to greet Old Lord, only tugging at Jiang Linghan’s clothes and quietly seeking protection: “Steward.”

Jiang Linghan also frowned. This old man, despite being the master of the Pure Clarity Palace, never treated the immortal maidens working inside kindly, claiming it was to protect the young master of the Rabbit Clan from being bullied by them.

But couldn’t he open his eyes and see who was bullying whom?

Would a Chosen One, protected by the Heavenly Dao, be afraid of a few low-level immortal maidens with little cultivation?

Jiang Linghan’s tone was incredibly stiff: “Greetings, Old Lord.”

“As for Luo’er…” Old Lord was full of worry after learning that Crown Prince Xuan had unilaterally broken off the engagement with Bai Luo. After all, Bai Luo was just a rabbit demon with extremely low cultivation. Now that he lacked the Crown Prince’s protection in the Celestial Realm, his life certainly wouldn’t be easy.

How could he, as an elder, bear it?

He had returned this time to discuss with Jiang Linghan and the immortal maidens of the Pure Clarity Palace about registering Bai Luo’s household status into the Pure Clarity Palace’s immortal maiden roster, so he could receive their protection.

“Does Old Lord have something important to discuss with us?” Jiang Linghan got straight to the point.

“What else could it be? It’s about my god-nephew, Rabbit Lord Bai Luo, whom I recognized a hundred years ago.”

“Crown Prince Xuan broke off the engagement with Luo’er for some unknown reason. Ning Hai High God is in seclusion and hard to see, and the various Heaven Venerables haven’t given a clear answer.”

“I just passed through the heartland of the Demon Realm, and the demon in the Demon Realm’s forbidden area has awakened. I am no match for him. Nephew Bai Luo might have been infected by ancient demonic energy; all his originally snow-white fur has fallen out, and he’s contracted a unique demonic disease from the Demon Realm, covered in pustules.”

“I couldn’t bear it, so I brought him back to the Pure Clarity Palace, hoping Azure Lotus Fairy could take a look. But unexpectedly, as soon as we entered the palace gates, Azure Lotus Fairy didn’t even look and immediately fled back to her home, Azure Lotus Mountain, located in the Eighteenth Heaven.”

“The other immortal maidens in the Pure Clarity Palace are the same as Azure Lotus Fairy. As soon as I mentioned Bai Luo, they scattered and hid.”

“What?” The remaining immortal maidens behind Jiang Linghan turned pale upon hearing that Bai Luo had contracted the Demon Realm’s pustules. They didn’t even want to give face to the palace master, Old Lord: “He contracted demon sores, and you still brought him back to the Pure Clarity Palace?”

Qing Ming, Qing Li, Qing Yue, and several other mid-ranking fairies turned white and immediately grabbed Jiang Linghan, pulling her toward the exit of the Pure Clarity Palace: “Steward, let’s hurry and leave! We can’t stay in this Pure Clarity Palace! Even if we have our immortal bones removed and are cast down to become ordinary mortals, we cannot touch that thing.”

“Hurry up, let’s go! At worst, we’ll go back to the Eighteenth Heaven and seek refuge with Sister Qing Lian. That’s better than being infected by demon sores and suffering eternal damnation.”

“Qing Li, Qing Yue, Qing Ming, wait! I am considered your half-master, are you not going to listen to your master?”

Old Lord still wanted to keep them. If all these immortal maidens left, he would truly become a lonely man.

Bai Luo, hiding in the side hall of the Pure Clarity Palace, felt terrible seeing these fairies panic and flee at the mere mention of his name.

Ignoring Old Lord’s instructions, he rushed out of the side hall. Although Bai Luo was wearing a cloak that obscured his view, the sharp-eyed fairies still saw the pustules on Bai Luo’s exposed skin and the filthy aura surrounding him.

One by one, they were terrified: “Ahhh, ahhh!! Don’t come closer!”

Ignoring everything else, the sisters grabbed Jiang Linghan, using the greatest magical power of their immortal lives, ignoring the guards at the South Heaven Gate, and flew toward the higher Eighteenth Heaven.

Old Lord still wanted to chase the immortal maidens, but their will to survive was too strong. When he rescued Bai Luo from the Demon Realm, he was severely injured by the sealed Demon God, leaving him powerless to catch them.

He chased them to the South Heaven Gate, crying out in the direction they had fled: “Qing Li, Qing Yue, Qing Ming, listen to my explanation!”

“My immortal maiden stewards, if you all run away, how am I supposed to live?”

Kind-hearted female immortals who didn’t know the truth came over to ask Old Lord what was happening, as Old Lord was an old figure in the Celestial Realm.

The large-scale escape of the immortal maidens from the Pure Clarity Palace, ignoring the Celestial Palace’s rules, was no small matter, especially for the immortal maidens directly under the Heavenly Empress who managed related laws; they naturally had to inquire.

“Old Lord, what happened at the Pure Clarity Palace?”

Since the immortal maidens in his own palace refused to help him, and he hadn’t said that other immortal maidens couldn’t help, Old Lord tearfully recounted how Bai Luo had contracted the demon sores. Even Azure Lotus Fairy, the chief of the medical immortals, had fled in panic, and the other immortal maidens also realized the severity of the demon sores.

They all cried out in alarm, scattering and rushing back to the Heavenly Empress’s Palace. Without waiting for the Heavenly Empress to ask for the reason, the chief female immortal of the Heavenly Empress’s Palace led tens of thousands of immortal maidens in the Celestial Realm to fly to places Bai Luo could not reach with his cultivation.

Some went to seek refuge with the Queen Mother of the West in Kunlun, the Eastern Emperor Water God in the vast ocean, Empress Houtu in the West, Guanyin Bodhisattva in the South, or simply flew back to their ancestral immortal palaces in the various Heavens.

In just one day, the immortal maidens and fairies of the Celestial Realm vanished without a trace.

Only a few rabbit demon immortals who had accompanied Bai Luo when he ascended to the Celestial Realm remained. The Heavenly Emperor was furious and ordered the fleeing immortal maidens to return, but the immortal maidens all had some background and status, making it difficult for the Heavenly Emperor to easily move against them.

Those without status or background preferred to jump off the Immortal Execution Platform, willingly shedding the immortal bones they had cultivated for thousands of years to become mortals, rather than returning to a Celestial Realm that had harbored malice toward them ever since the Chosen One appeared.

This was because the demon sore Bai Luo contracted was not an ordinary one; it was a disease created by an ancient lust demon for amusement, and it specifically targeted the immortal maidens of the Nine Heavens.

Once a female immortal contracted this disease, there would be no visible difference in her appearance in the early stages, but her desire for lustful pleasure would greatly increase. No matter how cold and aloof the beauty was, she would turn into a lewd object only concerned with indulging in carnal desires, to be manipulated and played with by others.

In the middle stage, to seek greater stimulation, they would voluntarily become pregnant with the lust demon’s demonic eggs, using their body’s nutrients to nourish those eggs.

Once the demonic eggs matured inside the female immortal and were born, it would be the female immortal’s death date. Her soul would not be allowed to enter the Underworld for reincarnation, but would only become a lustful concubine used by the lust demon for pleasure.

They would be eternally immersed in the sea of desire, unable to achieve salvation. It wasn’t that the immortal maidens in heaven resisted facing their own sexual desires.

But they were immortal maidens; normal women knew they should find a man they loved to spend their lives with. Being forced to become someone else’s plaything—what difference was that from forcing them to jump into a sea of fire?

If they jumped into a sea of fire, they could at least die quickly. If they became a lustful concubine, it would be better never to have lived in this world.

This was the reason why the female immortals fled en masse.

After the Qing-generation female immortals of the Pure Clarity Palace fled back to Azure Lotus Mountain in the Eighteenth Heaven, they were still traumatized by seeing the demon sores on Bai Luo. It wasn’t that they were too timid.

Just one look was enough to make someone want to poke their eyes out because it was so disgusting.

The demon sores were already oozing pus. This was the result of Bai Luo not knowing how to restrain his sexual desires, indulging in lustful pleasure with the High Gods and Heaven Venerables in broad daylight. The lust poison had already mutated.

What Chosen One selected by the Heavenly Dao, favored by various male gods and immortals? He was clearly an evil spirit sent by the Heavenly Dao to torment the female immortals of the Celestial Realm.

Any female immortal associated with Bai Luo—such as the Fox Aunt from Qingqiu Mountain, the Peony Fairy who was the head of all flowers, and even Miss Chu Yue, a descendant of the ancient goddess Nüwa—had failed to escape the pain of having their bones removed, eyes gouged out, and hearts devoured.

“Thank goodness we ran fast. That Old Lord’s intentions are truly malicious to the extreme. He clearly knew Bai Luo contracted the lust demon sore, yet he brought him back to the Celestial Realm and even wanted Sister Qing Lian to treat him. Isn’t that equivalent to asking for our lives?”

“What kind of hatred and grievance do we have? We never offended Bai Luo, why is the Heavenly Dao punishing us like this?”

“Steward, we sincerely advise you, don’t go back. Forget about being an immortal or a god; it’s better to be an ordinary mortal than to be a stepping stone for that Chosen One.”

“Exactly,” the sisters pulled Jiang Linghan, “We at least have magic power to protect ourselves. Bai Luo can’t reach this Eighteenth Heaven for now. Please don’t take risks out of temporary soft-heartedness.”