Finally arriving at the Azure Pool, the Old Man had been anxiously waiting there for some time.
Kua Fu carefully placed me into the Azure Pool, his gaze fixed on the water as it gradually enveloped my body.
I opened my mouth and desperately gulped down the water, trying to extinguish the unbearable fire raging within me.
After I had nearly drained the water from the Azure Pool, I felt significantly more comfortable.
I looked down at my belly, swollen as if I were ten months pregnant, and burst into laughter at Kua Fu. However, he could only manage a weak smile before collapsing to the ground.
"Kua Fu!" I exclaimed, rushing to his side.
His back was charred black, and his lips were slightly parted, from which white smoke continuously billowed out.
The Old Man looked on in confusion for a moment before diving into Kua Fu's mouth without a second thought. But the next second, he seemed startled and quickly flew back out.
"His throat is filled with smoke! How is that possible?" the Old Man exclaimed in shock.
I was frantic, immediately draping the Qian Kun Bag over Kua Fu and holding him tightly as I wept.
Meanwhile, the Old Man remained fixated on investigating Kua Fu's cause of death.
"What happened? His back isn't completely burned! How could the fire reach his stomach?"
I was both angry and anxious as I pushed the Old Man into the already dried-up immortal pool.
Due to the depletion of immortal pool, the entire Heavenly Court's diet and daily routines were greatly affected.
And we were thus caught in a calamity.
I looked worriedly at Kua Fu's body; two hours had passed, yet he remained feverishly hot, showing no signs of improvement.
In my desperation, I suddenly thought of a way. I stuck my fingers down my throat, trying to force myself to vomit some water in hopes of saving Kua Fu.
To my surprise, I ended up spitting out a fiery red pearl.
Upon seeing the pearl, the Queen Mother instantly erupted in fury, her eyes bulging wide as she fixed a deadly glare at the Jade Emperor, blood vessels visibly straining in her eyes.
Meanwhile, the Old Man's eyes sparkled with excitement as he shouted, "Scorching Pearl! Kua Fu is saved! Quick, feed him half of it!"
Without a moment to think, I crushed the Scorching Pearl and carefully placed half of it into Kua Fu's mouth before swallowing the rest myself.
"The water from immortal pool was consumed solely by me; it has nothing to do with anyone else! I plead for the Queen Mother to punish me!" I straightened my back and declared loudly.
"Good!" The Queen Mother seethed with rage as she shouted at me, "Throw this wretched girl into the Underworld and hand her over to Yama for punishment."
I forced a bitter smile, thinking that now I would truly have to face the tortures of hell.
I had always known that one day, this kind of ending would come.
When I learned that I had crossed over to become the illegitimate daughter of the Jade Emperor, I realized that my life would not be easy.
I once heard the Old Man say that the Sun God and the nine Sun Princesses could shine brightly because they contained a Scorching Pearl within them. This Scorching Pearl was something only royal descendants possessed.
Now, this pearl had confirmed my identity.
The sudden heat that surged through my body earlier was due to being burned for a long time in the canyon, which had released the seal on the Scorching Pearl inside me.
I forced a bitter smile as I watched the Heavenly Soldiers fastening chains around me, pulling me step by step out of Lingxiao Palace.
It turned out that I had crossed over from the Twenty-First Century just to become a scapegoat!
I helplessly glanced back at the Jade Emperor, who was cowering beside the Queen Mother, afraid to even breathe too loudly, lest his wife erupt in anger again and direct her wrath at him.
Meanwhile, Kua Fu lay quietly on the throne, still unconscious.
With such a useless father and an unconscious lover… at this critical moment, men were always unreliable!
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