[Honghuang] That River Is Poisonous

New book: People of the Underworld, Affairs of the Underworld. The full blurb is below this story's blurb. Of the fifty paths of the Heavenly Dao, one escaped. As that "one," Su Li, the spirit of the Mother-Child River, has something to say. How is it fair that the other "forty-nine" became the Heavenly Dao, with people even pulling strings for them, while she, the Heavenly Dao's only child, is still a good-for-nothing at magic and struggles to cultivate? Until one day, she discovers the proper use of her ability: whoever she curses gets pregnant, regardless of rank or status. Even a Sage can fall victim! The first to fall victim, and the only one to give birth after accidentally drinking the water of Su Li's true form, is a certain future Sage: Don't ask who gave birth to the child. If you do, we can't be friends anymore. Blurb Two: A tribulation is a means by which the Heavenly Dao restores balance when the world lacks spiritual energy. Whenever a tribulation begins, living beings are inevitably devastated and rivers of blood flow. Even Sages are powerless to stop it. After witnessing the end of the primordial Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation, when Yuan Feng became pregnant and gave birth to Kongque and Dapeng, then died at Luofeng Slope, Su Li fell into deep thought. She had some bold ideas. Death isn't the only way to return spiritual energy to the world. New life can do it too. During pregnancy, the mother's body cannot cultivate and her cultivation may even decline, as she must nourish the child in her womb with spiritual power. Su Li discussed the plan with her big brother, the Heavenly Dao. It was feasible! Di Jun, who became pregnant with ten babies during the Witch-Demon Tribulation: I've got something to say, but I don't know if I should say it. Xihe, free of burdens: All I can say is, I feel refreshed. From then on, tribulations meant the Heavenly Dao encouraging births. With yin and yang blurred, between a dao companion and their spouse, whoever is stronger gets the other pregnant, and whoever is stronger loses cultivation. Having no dao companion is no protection either. If you bounce around too energetically, you might become "pregnant through sheer inspiration." An unknown victim stared in terror. "Isn't the doctrine of the Jie Sect 'seize a chance of survival'? Sage, hurry up and seize your dao companion! Help! Su Li, don't come over here!!" Su Li: "..." A million years later, looking back on the past, Su Li sighed: I have given too much for the Primordial World. Her reputation as "a chance of survival" had been ruined until it became "a chance of system failure." Notes: 1. Several people cursed by the female lead become pregnant, but except for the male lead, who becomes pregnant after directly drinking water from her true form, the children of the others have no karmic or blood ties to the female lead. 2. The male lead is Shangqing Tongtian. This is a story about giving birth, and the blurb makes it obvious who gives birth. 3. The female lead's ability is rather unusual. If that's not your thing, please proceed with caution. 4. The Dao Ancestor and the Demon Ancestor will briefly have a dao-companion relationship because they share a child. They do not end up together, and nothing improper happens between them; it's only due to special circumstances. Nothing actually develops between them, and they are not truly dao companions. Both are focused on their careers. There may be a little ambiguity, but it is only a temporary expedient on the Demon Ancestor's part. Please proceed with caution if that's not your thing. Original light novel: People of the Underworld, Affairs of the Underworld Blurb: Earth has been occupied by aliens. Humans are randomly selected to participate in a documentary-style livestream program, CCB Presents the Real Earth, with their consciousness sent into a low-dimensional world. This is a reality show using the real world as its stage. Under the banner of truth, it exposes Earthlings as "primitive and backward" and "inherently violent and inferior." In the new season, Gu Yin, a patient in Bed 2 of Room 404 at the Binhai City Psychiatric Hospital, is one of the lucky people selected. Gu Yin realizes that her condition has gotten worse. Now she can actually hallucinate an entire, realistic world! It's hard to hold fast to one's principles through a series of carefully engineered setbacks. Again and again, the participants act out scenes of "Earthlings really are inferior," and so... A girl abducted into the mountains turns around and sells her trafficker. The heroine, who miscarries and has her eyes gouged out in an old-school CEO romance, kills the male lead and steals his kidneys. In a world overrun by demons, people invent 108 ways to cook demon meat. The cruel world of infinite-flow survival games becomes a nightmare the evil spirits and monsters can never escape. Principles? Sorry, I don't have a heart. :) The alien invaders issue wanted notices across the globe, frantically searching for the owner of this consciousness. Earth's resistance forces stake everything on finding her before the invaders do. Meanwhile, Gu Yin, lying in her hospital bed, knows nothing about any of it. She crosses her legs and enjoys the air conditioning: Thanks for asking. I was just having a little meltdown. Notes: The female lead isn't entirely mentally ill. There are clues foreshadowing this. A wildly cathartic story about going off the rails. Theme: Build a harmonious society; don't resort to violence.