The Miracle of Blood and Rebirth

Li Chunsheng, hearing her words, lifted his head in a daze. His face was etched with confusion.

“What… what do you mean?”

“Chunsheng, you don’t want to see him turn into a Goblin, do you?” Liuxia gazed into his eyes, her tone more serious than he had ever heard.

“Well… yes,” Li Chunsheng replied, his voice heavy with suppressed emotion as he looked at Investigator Liao, who was twisting in agony and transforming. “I don’t want to see anyone else fall into that despair of becoming inhuman, like Senior did in the past…”

“But, all of this is my fault, isn’t it?”

His voice caught in a sob he couldn’t control. A crushing wave of guilt threatened to overwhelm him entirely.

Liuxia watched him silently, a whirlwind of emotions stirring within her.

‘Chunsheng… he truly is still that kind child.’

‘He always pretends to be cynical, using frivolity to mask his true self.’

‘Yet, he can never stand by idly when others suffer.’

‘He saved not only the past me but also the present me.’

‘The wounds in his heart are unhealing scars born because of me. How could I bear to watch them fester? And would I truly wish to monopolize the warmth found behind the pain that bleeds from this wound?’

‘Chunsheng clearly possesses the power to end all of this, a miraculous ability to save that he himself has yet to realize!’

‘I shouldn’t hide it from him any longer…’

The young woman took a deep breath. “Then, listen to Senior’s words… let him drink your blood.”

She took Li Chunsheng’s hand, guiding him before Investigator Liao.

At this moment, Investigator Liao’s consciousness was already clouded. The “human” part of him was rapidly being stripped away.

From the depths of his throat, inhuman roars erupted. Had he not been severely injured, he would likely have lunged at them without hesitation.

Li Chunsheng watched him, tears streaming down his face as he unconsciously murmured, “I’m sorry… I’m truly sorry…”

“It’s alright, Chunsheng, it’s alright,” Liuxia whispered, gently embracing him from behind and offering soft comfort into his ear. “Everything will be fine very soon.”

Her own heart ached with a sharp pang. The young woman’s delicate form enveloped him from behind.

He gripped the black blade tighter.

“Please… bear with it,” Liuxia said, pressing her lips together. She personally guided his hand, cutting an incision across his open palm.

Li Chunsheng remained like a puppet, allowing her to manipulate him without any reaction.

Crimson blood gushed forth like a spring, dripping onto the face of Investigator Liao, who had completely lost human consciousness.

Investigator Liao’s appearance was now indistinguishable from a monster. The blood snaked down his contorted face, adding to his terrifying aura.

As if sensing the most exquisite delicacy in the world, he instinctively extended his tongue, greedily lapping at Li Chunsheng’s blood.

This sight confirmed he was no longer human.

Li Chunsheng couldn’t bear to watch any longer and painfully squeezed his eyes shut.

However, Liuxia’s voice reached him from behind, imbued with an undeniable force.

“Chunsheng, open your eyes and look at him.”

“This is your Authority, the power of hope.”

‘But this hope shouldn’t belong only to me.’

“You will end the tragedy of all Goblins… if only you are willing.”

‘Your wish is also my wish.’

Upon hearing her words, Li Chunsheng struggled to open his eyes. What he saw next was the most absurd, yet unforgettable, scene of his life.

Investigator Liao, having drunk his blood, began to tremble violently.

The next instant, a dazzling red light burst forth from his seven orifices, as if his very life essence had been completely ignited by a mysterious power!

The red light engulfed his entire body in a flash, transforming him into a blazing, humanoid torch.

“This is…!” Li Chunsheng gasped, his voice lost in shock.

Yet, this fiery red light did not last long. It receded like a tide, revealing a newly reshaped form.

The moment he clearly saw the face, an extreme sense of absurdity seized Li Chunsheng’s heart, rendering him speechless.

‘Was this some kind of sorcery? A live transformation?’

‘This middle-aged man, right before his very eyes, had been completely reborn, transformed into *this* woman?’

‘How was this even possible?!’

However, a living example stood right behind him, emanating an undeniable presence.

“Behold your masterpiece,” Liuxia’s voice was low and ethereal, like a witch’s whisper. “Look at him, just as you once looked at me… Oh no, now it’s *her*.”

“Isn’t she perfect?”

Indeed, she was perfect. Before Li Chunsheng stood a tall, beautiful woman, appearing to be in her early twenties.

She possessed long, ice-blue hair, her very eyelashes seeming to be coated in a thin layer of frost. From her appearance to her demeanor, she was like a humanoid block of ten-thousand-year-old profound ice.

Suddenly, those ice-blue eyelashes fluttered gently, and a pair of equally ice-blue eyes snapped open. They stared directly at Li Chunsheng, devoid of any emotion.

But the very next second, a surge of intense fury shattered that icy demeanor.

“Li Chunsheng! I’ll kill you!” the cold beauty shrieked.

A murky black mist began to spread from her, and just as it threatened to coalesce into a deadly light, she suddenly clutched her head, screaming in pain. The nascent black energy instantly dissipated.

“Ahhhhhh—It hurts! My head hurts so much!”

“What did you do to me?! Why does my Authority get forcibly interrupted every time I try to attack you?! Ahhhh, it hurts!”

“Wh-what’s wrong?!” Li Chunsheng panicked at the sight, fumbling forward, unsure how to help.

“Don’t touch me!” the cold beauty cried out in pain, savagely batting away his hand.

Suddenly, she froze, staring blankly at her own fair, slender hands.

“My hands… why are they so delicate and soft? Like a woman’s?”

It was then that she realized her voice was also wrong. “My voice… why is it so high-pitched?!”

“…It truly succeeded,” Liuxia’s faint voice echoed from behind Li Chunsheng. “Welcome to our ranks. Now… how do you feel?”

‘Senior, are you saying… I did this to Investigator Liao?’ Li Chunsheng asked, turning back in a panic.

“Mhm,” Liuxia hummed, neither confirming nor denying.

‘I’m sorry, Chunsheng, I kept it from you… In truth, you should have known long ago.’

‘But you weren’t entirely unaware, were you? There’s always been some mysterious connection between us. You two must have felt it, right?’

Li Chunsheng fell silent.

He had indeed noticed. When Liuxia used her Authority in close proximity, it would directly consume his “gold content.” Conversely, he could borrow Liuxia’s miraculous healing ability through intimate mucosal contact.

He had simply been unconsciously avoiding the truth, afraid that if he confirmed it, Senior would look at him with disdain.

After all, such an ability sounded rather perverse.

Liuxia watched his uneasy expression and suddenly let out a soft chuckle.

“Don’t make that face, Chunsheng…”

“I’m not blaming you. Rather, it was precisely your power that saved me.”

“Though it’s regrettable, the ‘me’ who was a man has already suffered a social death; there’s no going back. But you gave me a chance to be reborn.”

“Senior, I… I truly am so grateful to you.”

“Senior…” A warm current surged through Li Chunsheng’s heart as he looked at her, deeply moved.

A tender atmosphere enveloped the two of them.

However, a furious voice instantly shattered the tranquility, causing both of them to turn their heads.

“So, you’re telling me I turned into this monstrous appearance… all because of you two?!”

“Li Chunsheng! You’re even more wicked than I imagined! Not only did you try to lay hands on my daughter, but you wouldn’t even spare a middle-aged man like me?!”

“Gods, what an evil scheme! Please, send down divine punishment upon these two!”

The cold beauty, horrified, curled into a corner, clutching herself tightly with both hands, her eyes filled with humiliation and rage.