This is it. Bingge will find out the answer to his question.

Unexpectedly, no big monster came along with the Endless Abyss, but someone he knew very well. What is his right-hand man, Mobei-Jun, doing in this story all of a sudden? What is his relevance to this convoluted plot?

Shang Qinghua advanced a step forward, questioning sternly: "Who are you? Why are you here?"

........His acting sucks. Bingge criticized internally. I know Shang Qinghua is bad at the art of betrayal ,but he possibly can't be this horrible? Ol' Mobei really should teach this lap dog of his to bark better.

Sure enough, Mobei-Jun lifted Shang Qinghua up in the air and made him cough up blood, unknown if it's all part of the act or he genuinely wants to hit his servant for being such a horrible actor. Shen Qingqiu thought it was the earlier while Bingge knew it's absolutely the latter.

"Is Your Excellency a Demon Realm mediator?" Shen Qingqiu blocked Mobei-Jun in front of Young Binghe with a wary expression.

Yet the kid was definitely stubborn, and with a silver flash blocked in front of his master. "Binghe, stand down." Shen Qingqiu knitted his brows.

He worries about this kid too much. He doesn't know that the brat can and will definitely protect him. Bingge sighed, an ache coming to his inexistent chest again.

"Running wild! Since when does a disciple block in front of the master?" Shen Qingqiu raised his voice but Young Binghe wouldn't stand down.

"You are a Cang Qiong Mountain sect disciple?" Mobei-Jun never showed any expression, as expected from an ice prince of hell.

"Cang Qiong Mountain sect's Qing Jing Peak disciple, Luo Binghe, greeting Your Excellency." Young Binghe did not show any respect in that tone.

Mo Beijun suddenly smiled coldly: "Immortal, yet not immortal. Demonic, yet not demonic. Interesting."

Young Binghe was just mildly confused, while Bingge became frozen all over. So is this how it's going to be? This right-hand of his, the one who supported him in all his dark deeds, will destroy the 3 years worth of good relationship he had with his Shizun?

Karma is a really unfathomable thing, chasing him even in this alternate reality.

"Binghe, this master's words, will you listen or not? Right now, I want you to quickly leave and bring all the other sect elders nearby to here. Will you go or not?"

While Bingge see Mobei-Jun as a ghost from the past, Young Binghe just regarded him as an unknown demon that pose as a threat, not knowing this demon can wreck his relationship with his master in just a few words. "Shizun, he won't let any of us leave. We might as well pit our strength together and do battle."

"Staying here is only vainly giving up your life."

"Whether it's dying for Shizun, or dying with Shizun, this disciple is perfectly happy to do."

But would this kind Shen Qingqiu really just throw him away by learning about his demonic bloodline? Bingge felt a bit of shining light from seeing this Shizun's worry. A light like..... hope. Perhaps, no blackening would happen. Perhaps this him lived an easy life same as before, staying at his benevolent Master's side, and Bingge can continue the sweet daydreams of the life he never had.

Mobei-Jun and the young him fought, an inhumane battle that would make it obvious to any on-looker that neither of them are normal humans. Even when Young Binghe's sword broke, he charged full speed, exciting Mobei-Jun.

"First I'll finish off this meddling shifu of yours, then fight again!"

Black swords lunged toward the beloved Shizun, and even Bingge felt tremendous anger in this past comrade of his, all his emotions bursting for Shen Qingqiu. He wouldn't allow this man or anyone to touch a single hair of his, no one! But being so caught up in battle, the Binghe's were caught off-guard when Mobei-Jun flicked his forehead, revealing a fiery mark......

The seal suppressing his demonic blood was opened, right in front of his Shizun!

"Not bad." Mobei-Jun remarked. "The Human Realm is not where you should stay. Why do you not return to your origins?"

Young Binghe collapsed, half-mad in confusion. He only regained clarity when Shen Qingqiu also fell on his knees beside him, injuries making him loose blood.

Yet he still calmly said, with blood dripping from his mouth, "Awake?"

Young Binghe was absolutely wide awake from the scene in front of him, and so is Bingge.

"If awake, we can have a good talk. Luo Binghe, tell the truth, how long have you been cultivating demonic techniques?"

The two Binghes were petrified beyond belief, as if thrown in a frozen lake.

He.... he usually calls him Binghe.....

Shen Qingqiu's expression was unreadable and cold, and brought waves of flashbacks to our poor protagonist on how exactly his old enemy looks like. It was as if the same man and the same horrible scene were about to be relived again.

"Shizun, this disciple can explain."

"Shut your mouth!"

Bingge can feel this child's fear and bewilderment, multiplied by his own insecurities and doubts, truly the most horrible feeling in the world. He never had experienced demon blood crawling on his stomach, but this must be how it felt, only that it reached to his heart and lungs as well.

"From when did you start?

"......Two years ago."

Dimwit, must you answer truthfully to everything he asks!? The horrible feeling overwhelmed Bingge's annoyance, and his blood went cold.

Shen Qingqiu was silent. He hates me, he hates me, he hates me, he must have felt I betrayed him, hiding this for so long, he definitely hates me.... Young Binghe's thoughts burst like a waterfall from that silence, and Bingge didn't dare to agree or disagree.

"Two years. No wonder you advanced by leaps and bounds to this degree. Luo Binghe, Luo Binghe, you are worthy enough. You truly have a natural talent."

Young Binghe knelt, pain suffocating him deeply. What Shen Qingqiu meant as praise, all the Binghes thought as mockery, disgust and hatred.

"Don't kneel to me!"

Even kneeling is unacceptable, Shen Qingqiu must hate him to the core!

"But Shizun, you've said before that people can be good or evil, and that demons can also be good or evil." Young Binghe was grasping at his wits, and Bingge was occupied from fighting off the flashbacks and deja vu of this scene to his own personal downfall. His mind is having double sights, the scene from his own world and the scene of him kneeling overlapping and driving him to insanity.

"You are not an ordinary demon." Shen Qingqiu calmly related: "You are an ancient Heavenly Demon. This family has always killed countless people in the Human Realm. They have caused countless sins, no matter how things are said. They cannot be mentioned in the same breath as other demons."

Then, he drew Xui Ya in front of Luo Binghe.

"Shizun, you really want to kill me?"

Bingge was beyond stunned, he was apathetic. What better world? What 'kind Shen Qingqiu'? This man is more evil than his enemy, brought more pain that a cold-hearted monster. To treat him with momentary kindness and throw it away just like that?

"I don't want to kill you."

Shut up.

"Only, what that person said earlier wasn't wrong. The Human Realm is not where you should be. You should return to your place of origin."

SHUT UP!

"Will you go down yourself, or do you need me to make a move?"

JUST PIERCE ME RIGHT HERE AND NOW, DON'T HIDE YOUR HATRED WITH PETTY EXCUSES AND FAKE CONCERNS! BE THE HEARTLESS MONSTER THAT YOU ARE, STOP STARING AT ME LIKE I MATTER TO YOU WHEN I DON'T!

But Young Binghe didn't give up. This can't be. His master cherish him, he can't possibly.....?

He had himself pierced.

And with a strike, Shen Qingqiu sent him down. Our protagonist, the steel hearted Bingge inhabiting the fallen body, once thought that there was nothing more revolting than evil Shen Qingqiu's maniacal expression when he pushed him in the abyss.

But this kind Shen Qingqiu was much, much worse. A pitiful, remorseful expression, as he was struck and pushed down.

Bingge hates him more than the old enemy he turned into a stick. The vile Shen Qingqiu made him want to destroy the world in anger, but this man, this Shizun....

..... made him want to perish in despair.

[The memory unlocking dreamscape is finished. This is just a tenth of 'Luo Binghe's memories with Shen Qingqiu. If you want to experience more memories, earn more than 125 pearls to exchange-]

"No more."

Bingge returned to his normal dreamscape, the god voice booming all over him. Now that the hellscape is over, he contemplated in thought before continuing.

"Great God, what is it really that you plan to do?"

The god voice is silent, then replied. [Weaving fate for everyone's satisfaction, that's my job.]

"Satisfaction?" Bingge cruelly laughed. "Just who includes 'everyone' that I'm not part of it?"

[........Your goal is to be with Shen Qingqiu.]

"No." Bingge replied. "After all that good, sweet illusions and his pitiful stare as he pushed me..... no, never.'

[.......You will die if you harm him.]

"I won't." Bingge replied blankly. "And I don't want to. But if your goal for giving me these memories is to make me the Binghe who loves Shen Qingqiu, I refuse. I also don't want to be the Binghe he loves, so stop making me live in an illusion."

[...................................]

The System never anticipated this.

[What do you plan to do?]

"If I can't push him away, the only choice is to make him push ME away. I don't need or want to know more about this Luo Binghe's past. I'm not him. Therefore, I'll write my own story over his own, blurring the lines as much as I can to nullify everything. I'll make Shen Qingqiu not bear to see 'him' again."

[I'll deduct pearls if you do that.]

"You can't." Bingge smiled. "Because I won't do anything wrong. I'll just make everyone think that all of this is wrong. I'll act exactly as 'Luo Binghe' does, and use it to push him and Shen Qingqiu apart."

For a very long time, the god voice didn't answer, because the system was buffering. Such development was beyond itself, and the gears went overdrive.

Finally, it worked again.

[Are you sure this is the path you want to take?]

"Mn."

[Proud Immortal Demon Way's Luo Binghe, the path you're going to take is a painful one, filled of heartaches and suffering. Do you want to continue?]

"Yes."

And so, the system update Bingge's status into 'Angst Route'.