After Faking My Death, My Disciple, Who Hated Me to the Bone, Has Gone Mad - Chapter 9

Sheng Muxue never expected to see his own face from his past life. However, he was very clear that this person had absolutely no connection to his past self. It was most likely just a coincidence in appearance.

Based on their attire, the visitor seemed to be a servant from the palace. Upon entering, the servant held a jade tray and knelt down before Sheng Muxue with a fawning and subservient attitude. “Please, Divine Consort, have your meal.”

Sheng Muxue’s eyes were fixed on the snacks displayed on the jade tray. It was his favorite sweet, red bean paste cake. Although he had not tasted it yet, just smelling the aroma was enough to identify it. He was about to grab one to stuff into his mouth when he suddenly realized something was wrong. His hand froze. “Wait, Divine Consort?”

He looked at the person before him who looked exactly like his past life, and a sense of bizarre eeriness arose in his heart. This person was truly too similar to him; even the silver hair and purple eyes were identical. He had always thought that his own peerless looks were one of a kind in the world, yet he never expected to run into a copycat.

The person lowered his head and replied, “The Divine Venerable has already proclaimed to the Nine Provinces of the world that he intends to take you as his consort.”

Sheng Muxue was already chewing on the piece of red bean paste cake he had stuffed into his mouth, but upon hearing this, he suddenly choked and began to cough violently. After coughing for a while, he still felt it was unbelievable. “Is your Divine Venerable brain-dead?”

The person answered calmly, “Please, Divine Consort, watch your words.” Whether it was the voice or the tone, it sounded like a soulless puppet.

Sheng Muxue said no more. He shoved the rest of the cake he had just bitten into his mouth, then squatted down to stare at the person. After about three seconds of staring, he reached out to pull the person’s arm and felt for a pulse. He discovered there was no pulse.

He was a dead man. Puppet art? But this person had body temperature, and their eyes seemed normal. To verify his thoughts, Sheng Muxue used his long, sharp fingernails to forcefully scratch a bloody mark onto the person’s arm. Blood oozed out.

This proved that the sacrificial victim used for this puppet spell had once been a living person. While still conscious, they had been bound by their limbs and forcibly fitted with a human-skin mask soaked in gall bladder bile. Once their original features rotted away entirely, the mask became their new face. Then, the mask would consume their soul, turning them into a living-dead puppet without self-awareness, making them blindly obedient to the master who created them.

This art was one of the three forbidden arts of the demonic path. It used to be popular in the Demon Realm for people to create puppets in the likeness of those they admired, but Sheng Muxue had found it too inhumane and had banned it. He never expected that after his death, it would spread to the Immortal Realm and be stolen by this mentally unstable Divine Venerable.

Wasn’t he a Divine Venerable? With him abusing demonic forbidden arts, did no one care to stop him?

His doubts piled up like a mountain, and Sheng Muxue became increasingly curious about who this Divine Venerable really was. To get an answer, Sheng Muxue asked the person in front of him, “What is your Divine Venerable’s name?” Perhaps it was someone he knew.

However, the person replied, “I do not know.”

Sheng Muxue stopped asking him and instead turned to the system floating beside him. “Do you know?”

The system spread its hands. “I do not know.”

“You cannot sense it?”

“Big Brother, I already told you that the plot is gone. At most, I can investigate the latest data of this world and reveal it to you. Names are too difficult for me.”

“Then can you not leave me to go see what he looks like? Or help me break the barrier so I can go see for myself?”

The system replied helplessly, “I cannot go too far from you because I am powered by your soul. You are essentially my wireless power bank. However, as for this barrier, I can try.”

Saying this, the system stretched out its chubby little hands, dragged its ball-like body to the door, and began gesturing at the barrier array with quite a bit of expertise. During this time, Sheng Muxue could only wait. As for that puppet, it had no self-awareness and showed absolutely no reaction to Sheng Muxue’s seemingly self-talking behavior.

Sheng Muxue ordered him to leave the cakes on the table and then dismissed him. Afterward, he started snacking on the red bean cakes with one hand while resting his head on his palm with the other, watching the system work hard at the door in a lazy manner.

One had to admit, these red bean cakes were actually quite delicious, mostly because they were sweet enough. Sheng Muxue was obsessed with sweets, after all. To motivate the system to work harder, Sheng Muxue gave it an empty promise: “Little System, as long as you can help me escape this time, I guarantee I will never hit you again.”

Upon hearing this, the system immediately said excitedly, “Okay, Big Brother! I will work hard!”

Sheng Muxue smiled, seemingly having forgotten about the time the system made him dress in women’s clothes. And right now, that pink woman’s outfit was still on him, tightly cinching his slender waist.

After Sheng Muxue was full, he found a mirror in the room. He looked at the person in the mirror without much surprise. Sure enough, it was identical to the face he had sculpted. A beauty was a beauty, and it was truly a youthful one. It was just that this pink woman’s outfit looked completely out of place, making his already ambiguous face look even more like a woman’s.

Wait, that brainless Divine Venerable would not think he was a woman, and a beautiful one at that, would he? That would explain why he still sent food even after Sheng Muxue injured his subordinates. He was just a dirty old lecher.

While examining his own beauty, Sheng Muxue did not forget to show off to the system. “Tell me, Little System, how good is the face I sculpted?”

The system was already sweating profusely and panting, but even so, it replied while gasping for breath, “Good-looking… Big Brother was also good-looking in his past life.”

Ah, he loved a smooth-talking system. Sheng Muxue had been making an empty promise earlier, but now he secretly swore to himself that he would hit it at most once a month in the future. Mostly because the system was genuinely infuriating sometimes and needed to be hit.

A quarter of an hour later, the system’s energy was depleted. It drifted back to Sheng Muxue’s side like a ghost. “Big Brother, I did my best. This array is too high-level. I cannot break it.”

Sheng Muxue did not have much hope to begin with, as he knew the level of the Nine Heavens Primordial Array very well. Even his past self would have needed a day and a night to break it by force. “Fine, you go rest.”

The system thought it would be despised by Sheng Muxue for being so useless. It did not expect him to tell it to rest. Immediately, the system regained its spirit. “Then let me try again.”

Sheng Muxue did not stop it and let it continue. As for himself, he lay back on the bed and went to sleep. It was not that he was tired, but in this situation, preserving his energy was the best approach. Even if the Divine Venerable were really lusting after his beauty, those Immortal Alliance cultivators who suddenly appeared in Qingqiu were likely sent by him as well. They had even destroyed his home and slaughtered his clansmen just to catch him.

He wondered if his parents and his brother were still okay.