12dz Chapter 37, the second half of the novel
Chapter 37, the second half of the novel
In the quiet private room, urged by Su Luo, Chu Wenqing finally began to talk about the second half of "Sealing the Demon".
Before he finished speaking, he gave Su Luo a heads-up: "The second half is practically hell on earth. A perfectly good romance cultivation novel turns into a dark and tragic sad ending, and it even has a terrible ending! So, you should be prepared."
Su Luo's heart skipped a beat; she had a bad feeling.
The second half of "The Demon's Shock" mainly revolves around the story of the male and female protagonists teaming up to fight against the Heavenly Demon and the Demon Clan. However, unlike the typical novel where the protagonist always defeats the villain, in this novel, the male and female protagonists repeatedly lose to the villains.
The villains were far too powerful and cruel. That demon treated them like toys, capturing and torturing them before letting them go. He then dispatched a massive demon army to destroy the male and female protagonists' hiding place bit by bit, leaving the remaining cultivators either dead or fleeing.
Even though the Nascent Soul elders of the four major sects emerged from seclusion early to confront the Heavenly Demon, they were still defeated by its sword. The cultivators who once stood proudly on the Azure Continent were relentlessly pursued and exterminated by the Demon Race, and in the end, they could only barely hold onto that small territory on the border of the Spirit Realm, barely surviving.
Later, the male lead was captured, and the female lead went to rescue him. The second male lead went with her, but was killed while challenging a demon, and the female lead nearly went insane. The male lead took her to the human realm, where the demon army began its attack. The male and female leads fled, enduring all kinds of torture. Their cultivation levels declined, and they gradually developed conflicts.
Finally, the male protagonist couldn't take it anymore and defected to the demon camp, begging for forgiveness, but he was still stabbed to death by the Heavenly Demon. The female protagonist was also utterly devastated and was imprisoned by the demons.
The novel ends with the four Nascent Soul stage monsters, covered in blood, gathering together. They had sacrificed all their spiritual power and lives to activate an ancient and mysterious formation.
At the same time, the Heavenly Demon, who was about to unify the Azure Continent, was holding his demonic sword and leaning back on his high throne. Sensing something, he suddenly raised his eyes to look ahead, his crimson eyes filled with a sinister light.
"..."
After listening to Chu Wenqing's vivid and detailed explanation of the novel, Su Luo sat in her seat in a daze, her face blank.
No wonder Chu Wenqing told her to be mentally prepared; the second half of the novel is absolutely dark, bleak, and cruel! The second male lead is dead, the male lead is dead, the female lead goes mad, and the Canglan Continent is almost completely destroyed. The protagonists are almost entirely wiped out—it's definitely a tragic ending!
Su Luo couldn't hold back any longer and slammed her fist on the table, yelling, "Has the author gone mad? What kind of lousy novel is this?! Why call it 'Sealing Demons'? It should just be called 'Mad Demons'! Now look what's happened, everyone's gone mad!"
"Right! Right!"
"This story not only has a terrible ending, but there are also so many plot holes left unfilled! Putting everything else aside, who exactly is this Heavenly Demon? Where did he come from? Why does he want to destroy the world?! The author doesn't say a word about these things, just letting everyone guess!"
Chu Wenqing was so excited she almost jumped up, completely empathizing. "That's exactly what I thought! After finishing the novel, I was so angry I couldn't sleep, so I jumped out of bed and started tagging the author and giving him terrible reviews. Goodness! I didn't know until I looked, there were so many readers venting their frustrations in the comments section, cursing and swearing, everyone was hoping the author would give us a reasonable explanation!"
Su Luo nodded emphatically. She would have done the same. Aren't readers' bodies important? Who's going to take responsibility if they get so angry?
"and then?"
"Then that dog finally showed up much later than the author, telling everyone not to be too anxious, saying that there would be two extra chapters after the main story ended. The extra chapters would not only fill in the plot holes, but also reveal the true identity of the Heavenly Demon, guaranteeing that everyone would be satisfied."
At this point, Chu Wenqing slammed his fist on the table, gritting his teeth, his eyes blazing with fury.
"I was so curious at the time that I casually asked, 'Where are the extra chapters?' And then! I fainted in the blink of an eye. When I woke up again, I found myself lying on a straw mat. I had transmigrated into the book and was now in the Lingxiao Sect! Later I found out that it was all that hateful Heavenly Dao's fault that I had transmigrated here!"
Just as they finished speaking, a deafening clap of thunder suddenly rang out outside the window, startling the two of them.
Chu Wenqing suddenly jumped up from his seat, "Holy crap! Why is it thundering?!"
Su Luo was also quite frightened, but she keenly noticed that the thunder only rang once and then stopped. A flash of inspiration struck her, and she suddenly realized what had happened.
So she pointed upwards with her index finger, reminding Chu Wenqing, "That was a warning from the one up there. No matter what, don't curse Him directly."
Even if she wanted to curse, she would only do it in her heart. After all, she had cursed that dog Tiandao in her heart several times already.
Although Chu Wenqing's thought process was peculiar, he wasn't stupid. He quickly realized, "Holy crap, they could hear that? Could it be... they've been spying on us all along??"
“I don’t think it was surveillance. The other party is in the distant sky, it’s impossible for them to keep watching us and listening to what we say. I guess you just mentioned Him and even cursed Him a few times, and that’s when the other party sensed it, so they followed your aura and came here, sending thunder to warn you.”
Su Luo explained it very clearly, and after listening to her, Chu Wenqing couldn't help but shudder. "This is too terrifying... It's like there's an invisible eye watching us. I'm going to have nightmares tonight..."
Su Luo's lips twitched slightly, but her eyes were filled with icy coldness.
Who can argue with that? In this novel, the will of Heaven is omnipresent, doing whatever it pleases, even arbitrarily manipulating her and Chu Wenqing's lives, dragging them both into the story...
The two sighed for a while before Chu Wenqing finally returned to her original seat and sat down quietly to drink her tea.
“Let’s continue,” Su Luo tapped the table, signaling Chu Wenqing to go on. “What happened next?”
"Later? Hmm... later was something that happened in the previous life."
Because he dared not speak out against Gou Tiandao, Chu Wenqing had to start carefully choosing his words and spoke more slowly.
"That person... asked me to go to the Tianyi Sect to find the female lead and help her deal with the Heavenly Demon. Although I don't know why, I was extremely annoyed by that voice, and the other party promised to give our Lingxiao Sect countless spirit stones after the matter was settled, so I went to the Tianyi Sect. Unfortunately... I died before I could even get started. I didn't have time to build a good relationship with Ning Wanshuang. Because I accidentally made a mistake, I was kicked out."
Chu Wenqing sighed, "From then on, the Tianyi Sect never allowed me to get close again, and my mission failed completely. Later, the Demon Clan invaded, and I eventually died on the battlefield. But when I opened my eyes again, I was back at the Lingxiao Sect, back to a time when nothing had happened. So I wondered if I had been reborn, and I didn't expect you to be too, what a coincidence!"
Su Luo paused for a moment, then replied, "Yes..."
What a coincidence... It's such a coincidence that if it weren't for the intervention of fate, she wouldn't be surnamed Su.
"Now that you've explained it, I think I understand what happened." Su Luo's throat was parched, so she quickly poured herself a cup of tea to soothe it.
"But there are still two things that cannot be explained."
Su Luo held up one index finger, "1. What secrets do we hold that made that person drag us from the real world into the novel world, and even help us be reborn after death?"
Then she raised her second finger, "2. What is the true identity of that demon, and why did he want to destroy this world?"
"Regarding the true identity of that Heavenly Demon..." Chu Wenqing stroked his chin, then said something startling, "Actually, I do have some clues..."