Chapter 1148: Begging for Mercy for Her? Show Her Leniency?

As for her, Lu Lin was so furious his teeth itched.

He wished he could just kill her outright!!!

But he always had to consider Lu Ding. Although Lu Ding had said they had no connection now, to be safe, Lu Lin still couldn't take such an extreme action.

Moreover, looking at Luo Qingshi's years in the Lu Family, she had been... acceptable.

Just not good enough.

So he spoke: "Lady Luo!"

"You never truly belonged to the Lu Family, never truly belonged here. Therefore, I will strip your cultivation, cast you into the Sinking Illusion Realm, and from your current age onward, you will live the ordinary life you were meant to live, until you die!"

"The world of Qi Refiners is not something you can touch. You forced your way in, and I can force you out."

This punishment.

For Luo Qingshi, it was worse than death.

She raised her head in disbelief, staring at the Lu Family Founding Ancestor.

She couldn't bear to imagine how difficult life would become if she lost her cultivation and became an ordinary person again.

After all, she was already forty years old.

She had been with Lu Teng since she was nineteen.

Because of her cultivation, she had frozen her age, looking as young as nineteen. But if she lost that cultivation, she would just be a forty-year-old woman. No matter how beautiful she was in her youth, an ordinary forty-year-old was just... that.

And she wouldn't even be able to find a job. She had no idea what had happened to her parents.

If someone like her was thrown back into the Sinking Illusion Realm to live out a simulated ordinary life, just how miserable would she become?

Luo Qingshi knew that begging Lu Lin for mercy now was useless. She screamed: "Lu Teng!!!"

"Say something!!!"

"I've been with you since I was nineteen!!!"

Luo Qingshi's voice cracked with tears, and the sound made Lu Teng freeze in place. He struggled to kowtow once more: "I beg the Founding Ancestor for mercy!!!"

Lu Lin looked at him: "Mercy? Fine, then you can go accompany her. I will seal your cultivation, and you will go spend your remaining years with her, grow old and die together. After she dies, you can return to the Lu Family and receive your punishment!!!"

You like begging for mercy?

Then you can go live an ordinary person's life too.

Unlike Luo Qingshi, if Lu Teng's cultivation was sealed, his actual age would be far, far older.

At that point, he would be nothing but an old man.

And he had no insurance, no money, no place to live, no identity.

If he went to the Sinking Illusion Realm, back to the life of the Third Circle, he wouldn't even get a job sweeping streets.

Lu Teng had lived in the Third Circle before. He knew that if it really came to this, an old man like him would live a life of pure agony in his final years.

He would suffer more than those other elderly people, more than he could even imagine.

And Lu Lin's words had just made it clear that he wouldn't let him die. He would only die, only be released, after Luo Qingshi died.

That meant if Luo Qingshi lived another thirty years, he would have to live thirty years in there........

Lu Teng turned his head and instinctively glanced at Luo Qingshi.

Before he could say anything, or even change his mind.

Lu Lin directly commanded: "Guards!!!"

"Send them to the Sinking Illusion Realm!!!"

With that, he raised his hand and ripped the cultivation out of both of their bodies. In an instant, Luo Qingshi collapsed unconscious.

Lu Teng tried to shout something, but the enforcer stepping forward to carry out the family punishment immediately clamped a hand over his mouth.

They dragged him away, kicking and struggling.

Lu Lin stood up: "Meeting adjourned!!"

Then he strode out after them.

He was going to confirm the situation.

Confirm that these two wouldn't have an easy time of it.

Watching the two being thrown into the Sinking Illusion Realm.

Lu Lin circulated his qi and began his divination.

Inside the illusion, most of Luo Qingshi's memories were sealed, but her marital relationship with Lu Teng remained unchanged.

A forty-year-old woman with fading beauty, paired with a seventy-eight-year-old old man.

At first, when they returned, the two could still help each other. Through their efforts, they found Luo Qingshi's parents, but they had long since passed. Fortunately, the house was still there and returned to their hands.

At least they had a place to stay.

But soon, problems began to surface. Making a living became a problem.

Lu Teng was too old to work. They could only rely on Luo Qingshi to support the household alone.

The daily grind of rice, oil, salt, and endless household chores plagued them. Their arguments grew more and more frequent. Although Luo Qingshi was no longer young, she still had her foundation. She might not attract young men anymore, but couldn't she attract old ones?

One suitor after another appeared, each one making Lu Teng look utterly pathetic by comparison.

At first, Luo Qingshi remained steadfast in her feelings for Lu Teng.

But reality was ruthless.

Luo Qingshi began coming home later and later. Then she started coming home once every day or two. Eventually, she stopped coming home altogether.

Lu Teng, now an old man, was left alone at home, howling with hunger, starving until he was too weak to move. And yet, he couldn't die. He soiled himself, lying in his own filth, forced to watch himself rot in that bed.

Until one day, Luo Qingshi came back and kicked him out. But to her credit, she still had some regard for their marital bond. She spent a little money to send him to a nursing home.

After that, Lu Teng was beaten by the nurses every single day.

Every morning he opened his eyes, it was a real-life brawl.

Sometimes, before he was even fully awake, a slap would ring across his face to wake him up for his medicine and meals.

His days were filled with humiliation and pain. Lu Teng cried every single day, screaming: "Founding Ancestor, I was wrong...... let me go back...... I was wrong......."

Meanwhile, Luo Qingshi had initially latched onto an old man and was living a decent life. She would occasionally feel a pang of guilt toward Lu Teng, a sign that life was simply too good for her. But as time passed.

Her life gradually grew harder. The old man lost his novelty, and he had children of his own. Slowly, Luo Qingshi's suffering began to outweigh her guilt toward Lu Teng.

Until her later years, when the last traces of her fading beauty were completely erased by time.

Luo Qingshi returned once more to her parents' old house to live out a difficult existence...... With no children, life became a struggle. Moving became a struggle. Everything became a struggle........

Seeing all this, Lu Lin smiled with satisfaction.

Karma!!!!

How satisfying!!!

How refreshing!!!

He cast his spell, recorded it all. If the opportunity ever arose, he would show it to Lu Ding. Maybe it could ease their strained relationship, make things less hostile!

"This is your fate from now on. Relationships built without external foundation can never withstand the test of reality. Love? Affection? In the face of daily struggles and circumstance, they're worth nothing!"

"Enjoy it slowly."

Lu Lin turned and walked away, leaving one final order: "Keep an eye on them."

Meanwhile.

On the other side.

Lu Ding had arrived at the Demon Continent.