Fox Demon Cultivation Manual [ BL ]

Chapter 46

Song Ci stood alone in the darkness for a long time before he calmed down. Just as he was wondering why there was no scene yet, he heard the clatter of footsteps.

He looked towards the sound and saw a man walking out of the darkness, his face becoming clearer with each step.

“Mirror Old Man?” Song Ci asked doubtfully, “Why are you…”

It was indeed Mirror Old Man. He walked up to Song Ci, looked him over carefully, and wondered, “Where are your eyebrows?”

Song Ci touched his eyebrows, but could not feel them. He almost shed tears of sadness. “What am I to do if there’s a need to shave my head?”

“How many scenes have you been through?” Mirror Old Man changed the subject on seeing how sad he was.

His mention of this jolted Song Ci’s memories. Instead of answering, he asked, “Is there a connection between that Jiang Liang and you? Are you old friends?”

He had already sensed something off when he saw how Mirror Old Man protected Feng Yingqiu earlier. No matter how you put it, Mirror Old Man was old. It was impossible for him to have any kind of relationship with a little maiden. The only possibility was that he knew the man who had possessed Feng Yingqiu, Jiang Liang.

On hearing his question, Mirror Old Man looked at him with heavy eyes for a long time before he sighed and said, “Little Song, do you know that out of so many people in the City of Qinchuan, you are the only one I don’t want to learn of the truth.”

Song Ci looked perplexed. “Why?” 

“Because you look timid, but in fact, you have lots of guts.” Mirror Old Man said, “You are always able to break away from the plan.”

Song Ci did not know whether Mirror Old Man was praising him or belittling him, so he stood akimbo and said, “What plan do you have? Let’s hear it.”

“Loving someone who would never be yours, and loving someone but falling out with him in the end, which is the most painful?” Mirror Old Man asked.

“How would I know?” Song Ci furrowed his bald eyebrows and clicked his tongue. He said, “Answer my question first!”

“As you know, I’m a mirror demon.” Mirror Old Man said in a heavy voice. “I’m Ah Liang’s dressing mirror. He had performed for decades, but he had never changed his dressing mirror, so I have been by his side all these times. I saw with my own eyes how he fell in love with Feng Zhuojun, was heartlessly cast aside, and ended up humiliated by the Fengs. I saw him heartbroken, secretly wiping his tears in front of the mirror in the middle of the night unbeknownst to anyone else…”

“So… you love Jiang Liang?” Song Ci guessed.

“That’s right.” Mirror Old Man’s eyes lit up in a smile, as if he was recalling the past. “I love him, so I pray day and night to be able to evolve into a human form so that I can protect him from being humiliated. I want him to walk out of Feng Zhuojun’s shadow. Every single day for decades, I watched him grow and age.”

“So did you turn into a human later?” Song Ci asked.

This was obviously a stupid question. Mirror Old Man speechlessly cast him a look and sighed. “I took on a human form, but it was too late. The fire burned Ah Liang’s body clean and left nothing behind. I cultivated a human form in that great fire, but I failed to save him.”

Mirror Old Man’s tone was not that sorrowful, but Song Ci’s heart sank. He said softly, “It can’t be helped.”

“You can never imagine the despair of seeing the one you love die before your very eyes. The day he died coincided with Mo Zun’s return to the world. Both the Demon and Devil Realms were in turmoil. A large batch of demons came to Qinchuan, and their demonic aura scattered his soul. I thought it would be good to send him for reincarnation even if I could not resurrect him, that’s why I have been looking all these years for ways to gather his soul. It was only after I heard that there was a Devil Seal that can gather a scattered soul in Mo Yao Sect that I risked my life to get on Yu Shi Peak.”