It Turns Out, They Are the Protagonists
Chapter 553: Turns Out She’s Not My Sister, But My Little Sister…?

After hearing Mu Zhi call Mu Wange ‘Mother’, Mu Zhian was stunned, then looked at the cute and adorable girl before him with a strange expression.

“Mu Wange…?” he repeated softly, his eyes filled with doubt.

“What’s wrong? Don’t you believe me?” Mu Zhi smiled, took Mu Zhian’s arm, had him sit on the throne nearby, then gracefully sat down on his right thigh.

The girl was incredibly light, practically weightless, yet he could still feel the softness of her body, completely different from his initial impression of the ‘god’ who controlled the life and death of all beings.

At least from Mu Zhian’s current, most direct experience, if he didn’t know Mu Zhi’s true identity, he would never associate this girl with the Forbidden Land of Life, a place feared and revered by cultivators.

“It’s not that I don’t believe you…” Mu Zhian couldn’t help but smile. “I just don’t believe I actually have parents.”

Ever since entering the Two Polarities Sect and experiencing the subsequent series of events, Mu Zhian had been suspicious of his origins.

Thinking carefully, his entire life seemed to be shrouded in the shadow of the Primordial Witch.

The techniques he obtained, the Heavenly Court, even the ‘system’, were all inextricably linked to the Primordial Witch.

And he had never met his parents, only hearing about them from the guest elder in his family when he was young.

Therefore, learning that he had parents felt somewhat surreal.

“So I’m not an orphan?” Mu Zhian murmured softly.

Mu Zhi rested her cheek on her hand, looking Mu Zhian’s handsome face up and down, as if observing his expression, “Why would you have such strange doubts? You’re human, you must have been born from someone, right?”

“Legend has it that all living beings in this world were originally molded from clay by that Immortal Ascension Realm Immortal. Don’t tell me you think you were created by her?”

Her tone was playful, her eyes filled with confusion.

She couldn’t understand why Mu Zhian would doubt such a thing.

Mu Zhian, hearing this, felt it made some sense, and said softly, “If you say so, I actually think it’s not impossible.”

Legend had it that the Immortal Ascension Realm Immortal possessed the power to turn decay into magic. All living beings in this world were her ‘children’. It could be said that she created chaos and everything in the Nine Provinces.

If he weren’t in a Xianxia world, Mu Zhian wouldn’t have taken such talk seriously.

But Transcendence Realm experts could rewind time, even change events that had already happened… Then, after Immortal Ascension, even saying she could create life with her bare hands wasn’t entirely impossible.

Hearing this, Mu Zhi gently caressed his face and suddenly said, “Have you always resented Mother for never looking for you?”

Mu Zhian couldn’t help but smile, “I just don’t quite believe your words. You said you’ve met my mother… then where is she now?”

Mu Zhi was silent for a moment, “Actually… I haven’t seen her for a long time either.”

Mu Zhian gave a look of See? I told you so and asked, “When was the last time you saw her?”

Mu Zhi placed a finger against her rosy lips, thought for a few seconds, and said, “It seems like… more than ten years ago.”

Mu Zhian was stunned: “More than ten years ago?”

This was somewhat unexpected. He thought Mu Zhi would make up some distant story, but it was actually just over ten years ago?

If it was more than ten years ago, if he remembered correctly, he had just been born in Tianxuan City…

Mu Zhi nodded gently, “She returned to the Forbidden Land of Life once more than ten years ago and hasn’t been back since.”

Mu Zhian suddenly recalled something important and asked, “Wait a minute, you said you absorbed my Spiritual Energy before… So, we met when I was young?”

Mu Zhi smiled, “Not only did we meet, but I watched you grow up. There’s no one in this world who knows you better than I do.”

“After all, I secretly nourished your meridians every night when you were little.”

A hint of reminiscence appeared in Mu Zhi’s eyes as she spoke, “Speaking of which, you were so cute when you were little. I knew you would grow up to be very handsome.”

“When I was little? Do you have some kind of strange fetish…?” Mu Zhian couldn’t help but ask.

Mu Zhi said matter-of-factly, “I’m Mu Wange’s adopted daughter, so it’s only natural for me to help you, right?”

She extended a small hand, slowly caressing Mu Zhian’s face, down his neck, then gently resting it on his chest, and said softly, “Just like this, I nourished your meridians every night. Otherwise, why do you think you were born with such high talent?”

As she finished speaking, she looked up at Mu Zhian.

Although she looked cute and adorable, the moment his gaze met her clear, black and white eyes, Mu Zhian’s heart couldn’t help but race. There was a strange magic to this girl’s smile, like a soft veil caressing his face, making his heart itch.

“I know you won’t believe me before seeing Mu Wange, but you just need to remember that I’m not your enemy.”

Her soft, murmuring voice lingered in his ears, carrying a captivating charm.

Mu Zhian calmed himself and asked, “Why don’t I have any memories of this?”

Mu Zhi shook her head, “It’s not that you don’t, but destiny has been shielded. Everything about me has been hidden… Mu Wange’s existence has also been shielded from destiny. No one in this world will remember them.”

Mu Zhian was silent.

He believed her.

After all, when he asked the Heavenly Dao’s will to look up information about Mu Zhi and him, she couldn’t find anything about their parents either.

This meant that someone had indeed shielded his parents’ destinies.

“You actually already believe I’m your older sister, don’t you?” the girl smiled and looked up at him.

Seeing her charming and cute smile, although she said ‘I watched you grow up’, her eyes were slightly evasive. Mu Zhian couldn’t help but smile, “If you’re shy, there’s no need to pretend to be so mature.”

“W-who’s shy? I just need some time to adjust,” Mu Zhi’s face instantly flushed red, caught off guard. Sitting in Mu Zhian’s lap, feeling his warm breath, a shy glint flickered in her beautiful eyes.

Then, she puffed out her cheeks slightly, threw Mu Zhian a look, and said defiantly, “I just didn’t expect you to have grown up so much, so I… I just need some time to adjust.”

Adjust to what? You should be more specific, that sounds easily misinterpreted…

Mu Zhian complained inwardly.

“So you’ve been secretly absorbing my Spiritual Energy since I was little?” he asked strangely.

Mu Zhi seemed to regain her composure.

She narrowed her eyes, a playful smile appearing on her face as she looked at Mu Zhian, “Don’t worry, I didn’t do anything too outrageous to you. Your Spiritual Energy wasn’t as dense back then, I just… sampled a little.”

Her words had a subtly suggestive undertone, but Mu Zhian felt she was just teasing him.

“Right,” Mu Zhi suddenly seemed to remember something and smiled, “You should call me Big Sister, right?”

“Big Sister?”

Mu Zhian looked down at the little girl standing before him with her hands behind her back, his tone laced with amusement, “You want me to call you Big Sister…?”

Mu Zhi puffed out her small chest proudly, as if observing some strange creature, “What’s wrong? Is it so difficult to call me Big Sister?”

Mu Zhian shrugged, “Calling a girl who looks younger than me in every way ‘Big Sister’ is a bit strange, honestly.”

He paused, then continued, “And… I still don’t quite believe you.”

He looked into Mu Zhi’s eyes and said, “What does this Mu Wange you speak of look like?”

Mu Zhi, in her small, delicate deerskin boots, walked around Mu Zhian in a circle, “She was a remarkable woman. Everything I have now was given to me by her. As for what she looks like… I don’t quite remember now.”

A shadow flickered in Mu Zhi’s eyes, and her tone lowered slightly, “She adopted me tens of thousands of years ago, then gave me the position of master of the Forbidden Land of Life. She even gave me my name.”

Mu Zhian’s eyes flickered, “So you’re not the first generation master of the Forbidden Land of Life?”

“It’s said that the Forbidden Land of Life is the oldest of the Nine Forbidden Lands, and its master has the longest lifespan… Could this rumor be false?” Mu Zhian asked further.

“Three of the Nine Forbidden Lands have already changed masters,” Mu Zhi said faintly. “When Mother brought me to the Forbidden Land of Life, it was already deserted.”

As Mu Zhi spoke, she sat back down on Mu Zhian’s lap, as if enjoying his warmth.

Swinging her feet, she slowly recounted a little-known secret.

In the beginning of chaos, the rules of the Nine Forbidden Lands covered the entire Nine Provinces. They were like lofty gods, able to freely take the essence of living beings for their own use. Back then, there were no ‘rules of heaven and earth’ in the Nine Provinces, only the forbidden rules.

Any cultivator who reached Soul Transformation would have their essence harvested by the Forbidden Lands.

It was a true dark age, with no hope for cultivation.

But shortly after, a woman appeared.

Her consciousness was intermittent, her mind often in chaos.

And the master of the Forbidden Land of Life at the time, taking a liking to her powerful essence, attacked her.

This attack awakened her. In that battle, the Forbidden Land master’s spiritual sense was almost annihilated. The usually omnipotent forbidden rules seemed ineffective against this woman.

Shortly afterward, the woman single-handedly suppressed the Nine Forbidden Lands, humbling the nine gods who were supposed to rule the Nine Provinces. They chose to restrain their forbidden rules and lie dormant, waiting for the woman’s lifespan to end before emerging again.

Twenty thousand years later, a lord from a Forbidden Land attacked, intending to cover the Nine Provinces with forbidden rules once more.

Because there was no ‘Emperor Medicine’ back then, a Dao Integration Realm expert living for twenty thousand years was already quite impressive.

However, when he attacked, he discovered that the devastatingly beautiful Empress, like a nightmare, was still alive. Upon awakening, she slapped the lord back into his Forbidden Land with a single blow.

Every twenty thousand years after that, a lord from a Forbidden Land would try to test her… But every time, without exception, that Empress remained.

Since then, the Forbidden Lands chose to remain reclusive, hoping to outlive this mysterious Empress.

It was also from that time that the Nine Provinces gradually evolved into the Eastern Continent, the Demon Realm, and other regions.

Human cultivators, demonic cultivators, Southern Wilderness Heretic Gods, and other great powers emerged, making the Forbidden Lands even more wary and frustrated.

They were supposed to rule over all beings in the Nine Provinces, to control everything, yet the appearance of a single woman changed everything…

And not only that, but this woman wasn’t even interested in the Nine Provinces, as if she only intervened because she was bored.

“If I remember correctly, the strength of the Forbidden Lands’ lords should be beyond Dao Integration, right?” Mu Zhian suddenly asked.

Mu Zhi nodded gently, “Every lord’s strength is beyond Dao Integration. Although not as strong as Transcendence Realm, with the strengthening of the forbidden rules, their combat power is extraordinary.”

“So some lords suspected that woman was beyond even Transcendence… During her time, the Path to Immortality appeared more than once. At first, some thought she would leave after the Path to Immortality appeared, but unexpectedly, she remained in the Nine Provinces.”

“Actually, if she wanted to, she could have become the sole ruler of the Nine Provinces at the time, but she didn’t do that either,” Mu Zhi said.

An otherworldly Empress, her strength enough to suppress nine lords beyond Dao Integration, yet her purpose wasn’t to replace them, nor to ascend. Similarly, she wasn’t interested in the faith of all living beings…

Not wanting to become a god of the Nine Provinces, nor interested in ascending… then what exactly did she want?

This was something the lords still couldn’t understand.

Mu Zhi said with a giggle, “Of course, I also heard these things from the original servants of the Forbidden Land of Life, so I don’t know the specifics.”

Mu Zhian thought for a moment, then suddenly asked, “You said Mu Wange brought you to the Forbidden Land of Life tens of thousands of years ago, but I’m not even twenty this year, doesn’t the timeline not match up?”

“Is your brain not working?” Mu Zhi glanced at him sideways, “You were already in the Forbidden Land of Life before she adopted me, but I rarely saw you… Mother said your situation was special, so you needed to be sealed within a formation.”

“I was already in the Forbidden Land of Life before she adopted you…” Mu Zhian murmured, then as if realizing something, he looked at the little girl, “Then you can’t possibly be my older sister, right? After all, I was there first… You should be my younger sister.”

Mu Zhi’s eyes twinkled mischievously. She sat on his lap, her small hand gently caressing Mu Zhian’s face, her voice crisp and sweet, “Your mental age is less than twenty, so of course I’m the older sister.”

Mu Zhian didn’t argue, murmuring, “I was sealed within a formation for tens of thousands of years since I was little, only released in this life… After that, Mu Wange brought me to Tianxuan City? Or did she use some technique to let me be born like an ordinary human?”

Mu Zhian looked at the small black book in Mu Zhi’s hand.

The forbidden object of the Forbidden Land of Life.

As long as she knew someone’s name, anything written in this little book would come true.

The stronger the user, the stronger the forbidden object.

So, she probably used the forbidden object of the Forbidden Land of Life, arranged everything, and turned Mu Zhian into the profligate young master of Tianxuan City.

If that was the case, then him meeting Sister Mengrou… might not have been a coincidence.

Mu Zhian fell silent. He had received too much information today and needed some time to process it.

“It seems it’s not possible to have Big Brother play with me anytime soon.”

Seeing Mu Zhian’s contemplative look, Mu Zhi smiled brightly and cheerfully, looking up at the faintly rippling void ahead.

A rare, emotionless indifference appeared in her eyes.

“Since when do the servants of other Forbidden Lands have the audacity to spy on my conversation with Big Brother?”

Although just a clone, Mu Zhi’s aura had changed at this moment. She gracefully stood up and walked down from the throne, passing through the rippling void like a flitting butterfly, her small hand gently brushing through the air.

Every spot her delicate hand touched, a scream echoed.

This scene was completely different from the gentle and adorable little loli from earlier. Mu Zhian, snapping out of his thoughts and seeing this, couldn’t help but feel a chill.

His casual chat with Mu Zhi almost made him forget that this girl was the master of the Forbidden Land of Life. Even if this was just a clone, she wasn’t someone to be trifled with.

Mu Zhi blinked at Mu Zhian and said, “Although this isn’t the Forbidden Land, since the enemies have been dealt with, you can meditate peacefully for a while. I’ll come back and chat with you later, and also try how the Innate Celestial Furnace tastes now.”

If it were the usual Mu Zhian, he would have understood the implication in Mu Zhi’s words, but he was still processing the massive amount of information he just received.

Only after Mu Zhi’s petite figure vanished from the hall did Mu Zhian come back to his senses.

He beckoned slightly towards the shadows ahead.

A figure appeared out of thin air. Looking closely, Wei Mengrou was already sitting beside his throne, looking down at him.

Mu Zhian admired the maid’s beautiful, long legs beneath her skirt, reached out, held her soft hand, and pulled her into his embrace.

Seeing Wei Mengrou not resisting at all, Mu Zhian couldn’t help but say in surprise, “How rare, Sister Mengrou is actually taking the initiative today.”

Wei Mengrou sat beside the young master and said calmly, “Your emotional state is unstable… I’m just offering you a little comfort.”

Mu Zhian: “Did you hear our conversation just now?”

Wei Mengrou hummed softly in agreement.

Mu Zhian was silent for a moment, gazing at her cold and beautiful side profile, then suddenly asked, “Sister Mengrou, do you remember what Mu Wange looked like?”