novelapdf Chapter 256 Who isn't a baby at heart?
Chapter 256 Who isn't a baby at heart?
Chapter 256 Who Isn't a Baby at Heart? (Second Update)
The wind howled in my ears.
Jiang Mu and the demons sped through the forest, and after about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the view ahead suddenly opened up.
We finally arrived at the center of the blue light burst.
However, the scene before him made Jiang Mu's heart sink.
Ginseng fruit!
Ginseng fruits cover the entire mountainside!
However, these are not fruits from trees, but little demons.
Each one was only half a foot tall.
chubby and fair-skinned.
They have no facial features, only indistinct limbs. Hundreds and thousands of tiny figures hold hands, forming a huge circle, chattering and dancing a strange dance, spinning around as if performing some kind of ritual.
Beneath their feet, a runic array ten feet in diameter was flashing with a blinding, eerie light.
At the very center of the rune array stands a building.
It is a two-story building that is entirely transformed from a giant ginseng fruit.
It is thick at the bottom and tapered at the top, resembling a small pagoda.
At this moment, the ginseng building was swaying back and forth as the array flickered, with explosions and sounds of fighting coming from inside.
"Sister Ling! Yue'er!"
Jiang Mu shouted and drew his sword, ready to charge into the ginseng tower.
"Bang!"
Before he even got close to the gate, a powerful rebound force erupted from the spinning ginseng fruit.
Jiang Mu felt as if she had bumped into an iron wall.
A tightness shot through my chest, and I was thrown back seven or eight steps before regaining my balance.
"A defensive formation?"
Jiang Mu frowned, his eyes flashing fiercely, "I'll chop you all up!"
"Whoosh!"
A dark red blade of energy roared out, cleaving the dozen or so small ginseng fruits blocking its path in two.
However, a surprising thing happened.
Before Jiang Mu could even catch her breath, the ginseng fruits that had been cut down took root on the ground, and in the blink of an eye, two new ginseng fruits sprouted from the soil.
They continued to join the circling procession, singing.
"Can it be refreshed infinitely?"
Jiang Mu's expression changed slightly. He took out the [Buddha Lamp] from his storage ring and poured out a drop of golden lamp oil.
"boom!"
The flames spread and devoured a small piece of ginseng fruit.
The sacred fire of Buddhism, which is supposed to ward off evil spirits, seemed to burn on insulated stones as if it were burning on these chubby little figures.
Not only did it fail to ignite them, it actually made them spin even faster.
"That damn thing is really hard to deal with!"
Just as Jiang Mu was about to mobilize the demonic energy in the demonic trough to forcibly erode it, Elder Xiao Jiu suddenly pounced on him.
A gaping, blood-red maw opened wide.
He swallowed a small, spinning ginseng fruit directly into his stomach.
The spot where the ginseng fruit had been eaten was now empty, and no new one ever grew in the soil!
"The only way is to eat them?"
Jiang Mu's eyes lit up, and she suddenly realized.
Elder Jiu roared at his subordinates behind him, "Stop standing there, you bastards! Eat all of this stuff!"
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The fox demons seemed to awaken from a dream and rushed forward.
In an instant, a pack of foxes danced wildly in the forest, seizing the plump white ginseng fruits and devouring them in a frenzy.
As a large number of ginseng fruit babies fell into the fox's mouth, the light shield surrounding the ginseng tower flickered a few times before finally dissipating completely.
"Well done!"
Jiang Mu gave a thumbs up, and no longer hindered, he rushed into the huge ginseng fruit house with lightning speed.
The space on the first floor is quite spacious.
As soon as Jiang Mu stepped inside, she saw Ling Ye.
At this moment, Ling Ye was locked in battle with eight ginseng fruit demons, each over half a meter tall.
These ginseng fruit monsters are all over a meter tall, and their body structure is exactly the same as that of the ginseng fruits outside, but they have thick legs and arms.
The weapon he held was a long ginseng fruit.
"This scene—it looks really abstract."
Jiang Mu's noodles twitched slightly.
"Whoosh!"
Ling Ye shouted, and the sword light, like an inverted Milky Way, cut a ginseng monster in half at the waist.
The ginseng monster, which had been broken in two, lay on the ground for less than half a breath before countless tiny fleshy sprouts grew from the broken ends, instantly rejoining itself and charging forward again, brandishing its weapon.
Meanwhile, Ling Ye tried to use a talisman, but it was too late.
It seems that, just as Qiu Yuexin said, as long as the monsters in the Black Prison Forest are not completely eliminated, the ginseng spirit will be able to continuously absorb nutrients and possess a near-immortal body.
"Sister Ling, I'm here to help you!"
Jiang Mu shouted and joined the battle.
boom!
A crimson image of the God of Fire rose up behind him.
A massive fiery hand, enveloped in dark red blade energy, slammed towards the nearest ginseng fruit demon.
The monster was smashed into two pieces of minced meat.
When Ling Ye saw Jiang Mu appear, she was overjoyed. With a flick of her wrist, she quickly affixed a talisman glowing with yellow light to the severed part of the demon.
"Imperial Edict!"
With a soft shout, the talisman burst into flames.
The ginseng fruit, which was about to regenerate, suddenly stiffened, then let out a mournful screech, and turned into a pile of withered yellow ash.
"Ghost King Town!"
Jiang Mu slapped at another demon that was trying to rush towards him.
The enormous, pitch-black seal crashed down, crushing the ginseng fruit monster beside it onto the ground, turning it into a flattened pancake.
Ling Ye seized the opportunity and pasted the talisman on again.
Two more monsters were dealt with.
With Jiang Mu's arrival, the battle turned into a one-sided crushing defeat.
In less than the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea, the two worked together seamlessly and killed all eight troublesome ginseng monsters.
Ling Ye sheathed her sword, slightly panting. A fine layer of glistening sweat covered her smooth forehead, and a few strands of hair clung to her flushed cheeks, adding a touch of captivating beauty to her otherwise aloof and icy face.
"Sister Ling, are you alright?"
Jiang Mu quickly stepped forward and asked with concern.
Ling Ye shook his head and pointed upstairs: "I'm fine, don't worry about me, go upstairs and see Qiu Yuexin."
"it is good."
Jiang Mu drew his knife and rushed up the wooden spiral staircase to the second floor.
However, when he got to the second floor, he was stunned.
No one is empty.
The vast two-story space was empty except for a few withered vines.
"Why is no one here?"
Ling Ye followed closely behind, and was also stunned by what he saw, his usually cold expression filled with astonishment.
She looked around at the empty space, her brows furrowed. "Strange, I clearly saw Qiu Yuexin chasing a demon up to the second floor just now?"
Jiang Mu asked, "What exactly happened? Weren't you driving away the little demons?"
Ling Ye explained, "Originally, Qiu Yuexin and I were following the plan to drive away the demons."
But for some reason, the tenth-tier demon king ginseng spirit suddenly awoke, and both she and I were trapped inside this tower.
Qiu Yuexin saw a demon carrying their Qingqiu clan's treasure rush up to the second floor, so she chased after it—
Jiang Mu looked around the attic.
Ling Ye couldn't be seeing things; Qiu Yuexin should have arrived by now. The reason she hasn't is most likely because there's a spatial illusion here.
A sudden inspiration struck him, and he remembered that he possessed a supernatural power.
Jiang Mu put two fingers together and touched the center of her forehead.
[Spiritual Divination]!
In an instant, the surrounding colors faded, and the world turned black and white.
Soon, he saw a scarlet "凶" (ominous) character flashing on the right wall!
"There it is!"
Jiang Mu swung his sword and cleaved towards the wall.
"Boom!"
The originally dim second-floor space seemed to have had a layer of disguise torn away, and suddenly became bright.
Immediately afterwards, the surrounding space distorted like ripples on water.
Once the distortion subsided, the two discovered that not only had the staircase they had come from vanished without a trace.
Even the surrounding walls turned into iron and stone.
In the center of the room, a door appeared, its light shimmering like a curtain of water.
On one side of the water curtain gate, there is also a huge black stone wall.
"Oh no! We've accidentally stumbled into a secret spatial realm!"
Ling Ye, being a woman of wide experience, immediately paled.
Sure enough, there was a secret spatial realm—Jiang Mu tentatively walked to the water curtain gate and reached out to touch it.
"Splash!"
His hand passed through the water curtain, as if passing through a layer of illusory projection.
He then tried to pass through completely.
In the end, they simply walked from one end of the water curtain to the other, still remaining in this enclosed stone chamber.
"Is this door just for show? Or does it require a specific key to activate?"
Jiang Mu withdrew her hand, puzzled.
Ling Ye had already reached the black stone wall and was examining it carefully.
Jiang Mu moved closer.
They discovered about ten patterns carved on the stone wall.
The first picture shows a woman holding a baby being forcibly dragged to the front of a tall tower by several menacing-looking people.
In the second picture, a woman and a baby are locked on the second floor of a tower. The woman is crying and screaming, but the people outside are indifferent.
In the third picture, a woman is huddled in a corner, holding her baby and weeping. The baby is crying with its mouth open, seemingly starving to death.
When Jiang Mu saw the fourth picture, his brows furrowed.
In the fourth picture, the situation has changed.
The woman sat cross-legged, with several bright spots of light appearing on her body, as if she were practicing some kind of martial art.
The following pictures all depict women persisting in their spiritual practice.
Until the very last picture.
In the image on the stone wall, a water curtain gate, identical to the one inside the house, appears in front of the woman.
The woman, carrying the baby, stepped through the door, seemingly having successfully escaped her prison.
What's intriguing is that the baby in the woman's arms looks like a ginseng fruit.
"It looks like this used to be a tower prison cell. A poor woman was locked up here—"
Jiang Mu pieced together a logical line from the pattern: "In order to get out of here alive with her child, this woman must have learned a set of techniques from somewhere."
In the end, although she successfully opened a spatial gate here and escaped, the price was—her child mutated into the ginseng monsters we see outside.
It's even possible that the tenth-tier ginseng demon king was that baby from back then.
Ling Ye didn't reply, his gaze following the drawing to the bottom edge of the stone tablet.
The place was covered with tiny characters.
She examined it closely and said softly, "This seems to be a technique that can construct a teleportation method. Moreover, it says that if you want to escape from here, you must master this technique and communicate with the water elemental energy of heaven and earth to activate the void water curtain."
Furthermore, it is clearly stated above that this method is extremely yin and requires a pure yin body to harmonize with the water element; the practitioner must be a woman.
"What kind of lousy cultivation technique is this, and it even discriminates against people?"
Jiang Mu leaned closer and saw the conspicuous warning line.
In addition, some precautions were also written.
The gist is that one must strictly follow the posture and energy flow of the woman in the mural to succeed in the practice.
Jiang Mu couldn't help but complain, "If only men are trapped here, wouldn't they be trapped here for the rest of their lives?"
"I'll give it a try first."
Ling Ye said.
Jiang Mu grabbed her wrist: "Sister Ling, don't be impulsive. What if this is a trap?"
Ling Ye gently comforted him, "Xiao Jiang, we have no way out, do we? If we don't try, we'll just be stuck here forever."
"Don't worry, I'm at the eighth realm of cultivation, and my control over guiding qi far surpasses that of ordinary people. Even if this technique is fraudulent, I can cut off the spiritual energy in time; nothing will happen."
Having said that, she no longer hesitated and walked to the stone wall to sit cross-legged.
Following the instructions in the first mural, I began to adjust my posture and practice.
Seeing this, Jiang Mu had no choice but to protect her.
As time passed by, second by second.
Ling Ye sat cross-legged in front of the water curtain gate, circulating his star power several times.
She changed her hand seals several times, trying to capture the "water spirit energy" mentioned in the mural, but each time she reached the critical moment, the energy that had just been gathered would dissipate.
"Still not working?"
Seeing that she was slightly out of breath, Jiang Mu couldn't help but ask her.
Ling Ye opened her beautiful eyes, shook her head dejectedly, and wiped the sweat from her temples: "There's nothing I can do. Every time I breathe, my meridians are running in strict accordance with the way shown in the mural, but when it comes to the last step, I just can't cultivate that energy that can break through the void."
Somewhat unwillingly, she stood up and once again approached the black stone tablet for a closer look.
During this time, Jiang Mu also tried cultivating, thinking "it's a last resort".
As expected, not even a trace of spiritual energy was activated.
"That's really strange. How could the exact same movements have no effect? Could this stone tablet have facial recognition capabilities?"
Jiang Mu's brows furrowed into a knot.
The two fell silent for a moment.
Jiang Mu's gaze swept across the murals repeatedly, looking at them from the first to the last, going back and forth three or four times.
Suddenly, his gaze fell on the baby in the mural, which was being held tightly in the arms of a woman.
"etc!"
A glint of light flashed in Jiang Mu's eyes. He strode to the stone tablet, pointed to the fourth picture, and said to Ling Ye, "Sister Ling, look closely at the position of this baby!"
Ling Ye looked in the direction he was pointing, her beautiful eyes narrowing slightly.
On the mural, the several points of light emanating from the woman's body during her cultivation were not circulating solely within her own body.
One of the most secretive pathways for circulating qi was clearly a path that extended from the woman's heart and pierced directly through the child's body.
After circulating through the baby's body once, it returned to the woman's dantian.
"This route—they actually included this child?!"
Ling Ye exclaimed in surprise.
Jiang Mu said, "That woman has been locked up here for who knows how many years. How did the baby survive without food or water?"
She could only hold the child in her arms, nourishing him with her own vital energy. Over time, the child had long since become part of her body, or rather, a part of her cultivation.
Therefore, this "Void Crossing Water Technique" is not a single-person technique at all; it is essentially a "dual-body circulation" formation.
Without that "key point" in your arms, the energy flow can never be closed, and naturally, it won't succeed!
Ling Ye was disappointed after hearing this analysis.
She sighed somewhat discouragedly, "Then it seems we really have no way to cultivate this technique."
Where can she find a baby to keep her company in this enclosed space?
They can't just have a baby right now, can they?
There's not enough time.
The two found themselves in a difficult situation once again.
Jiang Mu glanced at the mural with a bored expression, then at Ling Ye, his gaze sweeping over her slender figure.
After scanning the area several times, the man's gaze gradually became somewhat strange.
He coughed lightly and said, "Actually—I think there is still a way."
"What method?"
Ling Ye raised his head, a glimmer of hope rekindling in his eyes.
Jiang Mu made an "uh" sound, scratched the back of his head, and said, "Although we're currently missing a child—at least we're two people, right?"
"Two people?"
Ling Ye didn't understand at first, until she saw Jiang Mu's eyes and her beautiful eyes widened suddenly.
A blush spread from her neck to her cheeks.
Even her small, delicate earlobes were so red they looked like they were about to bleed.
"No! Absolutely not!"
Ling Ye took two steps back, shaking his head like a rattle drum, his hands tightly protecting his chest, glaring at Jiang Mu with shame and anger.
Are you kidding me!
The baby in the mural is depicted feeding the woman close to her heart.
How can you expect her to hold a vigorous, young man tightly in her arms like a baby?
Do we really have to place it on our chest to allow the Qi to flow freely?
Just imagining those five scenes made her feel like all five of them were about to burst into flames.
"Oh, let's give it a try. We've already kissed before, so we're practically a couple. We're just like any other people in the martial world, not bound by formalities."
Jiang Mu said shamelessly.
"That—that won't do either!"
Ling Ye bit her lower lip tightly, her beautiful eyes filled with embarrassment. "This—this is so inappropriate!"
Seeing that she stubbornly refused, Jiang Mu sighed, turned to look at the tightly closed water curtain door, and said in a low voice, "Never mind, I wonder how Yue'er is now. If that demon king really—"
Seeing the worry in the man's eyes, Ling Ye's heart softened.
She bit her pink lips, struggled internally for a moment, and finally said helplessly, "Okay—then, let's try it once."
"well!"
Jiang Mu was overjoyed.
Ling Ye took several deep breaths and sat down cross-legged as before.
With slightly trembling fingers, he unbuttoned his coat.
At that moment, she was filled with inner turmoil. Finally, she closed her eyes tightly and urged in a low voice, "You—you're not going to order anything new!"
"Here it comes!"
Jiang Mu cautiously moved closer, mimicking the posture of the child in the mural, and gently leaned her head against it.
At that moment, the unique fragrance of a beggar lingered around my nose.
The sound of her pounding heartbeat filled my ears.
"I'm going to start circulating my energy."
Ling Ye bit her tongue, using the slight pain to force herself into a state of clarity. She stretched out her jade arms, embracing the five "giant infants" in her arms, and began to guide her energy by forming hand seals.
A cool, watery aura rose from her dantian and slowly flowed to her heart.
Jiang Mu immediately calmed his mind and released his meridian defenses.
He let the watery energy circulate within his body before returning to Ling Ye's body.
Once — Twice —
Initially, the flow of Qi was very sluggish.
Ling Ye bit her lower lip several times, wanting to remind Jiang Mu not to get wet, but she held back.
As time went on, a miracle occurred.
A soft, shimmering light suddenly appeared around the two of them.
The previously stagnant water energy surged forth, perfectly matching the "dual-body circulation" depicted in the mural.
It really cracked!
Ling Ye was filled with mixed feelings, both relieved to be able to get out and ashamed of this method.
Feeling the man's steady breathing, she was momentarily stunned, and a strange fondness for the scene arose deep within her.
certainly----
It would be perfect if this guy's head could stay still and not move around.
Besides Ling Ye, Jiang Mu, who is currently playing the role of "Baby," also has very complicated feelings.
This is truly a unique treatment in the world.
Jiang Mu muttered to herself, almost as if possessed, "Sister Ling, let's not have any more children. Even if we do want to have one in the future, let's just hire a wet nurse."
Ling Ye, who was immersed in cultivation, suddenly felt a slight twitch in his eyelids.
She kept her eyes closed, pretending not to hear, but her arms around Jiang Mu tightened slightly.
This kid—
They actually want to monopolize it!