The mugwort was awakened by the swaying light.

She had clearly closed her eyes tightly, but the sunlight and shadows cast haphazard, flickering spots of light before her eyes. She was no longer in the drowsy state she had initially described, but she was still somewhat tired.

It was like... a part of her was taken away.

She didn't want to open her eyes.

But as if sensing that she had regained consciousness, the light spots shimmering in front of her became even more intense.

Artemisia barely opened her eyes.

Very close to her—right in front of her—two women's faces were squeezed together. To her left was Nuwa's enormous, cold, beastly gaze; to her right was the Eight Swords, which was trying to push Nuwa away.

"Ah, you're awake." Baojianba carefully examined the mugwort from head to toe and breathed a sigh of relief.

She found no wounds on the mugwort.

Nuwa snorted softly, "I wouldn't do anything to my child..."

She slowly straightened up.

Ai Cao wanted to sit up. But as soon as she moved, her bones creaked and groaned.

Ai Cao was taken aback and asked, "How long have I been asleep?"

"Three days?" Baojianba said. She helped Aicao to her feet.

Artemisia stretched its stiff body and asked dryly, "How come I slept for so long..."

"If we hadn't come looking for you, you would have slept even longer." Baojianba glared at her. "Don't you dare run around like that again!"

Her warning paused.

Baojianba stared at the mugwort and asked, "I have no memory of you leaving my side back then. How did you end up here on your own?"

If she and Nuwa hadn't discovered that the mugwort was gone, they wouldn't have been able to stop fighting.

Did Nuwa want to use her to mend the sky?

No way.

Nuwa glanced at Sword Eight and knew what she was thinking. She wasn't annoyed, but simply asked Artemisia: "Tell me, what have you been through?"

Ai Cao thought for a moment. She picked up on the important part first and said, "I found the five-colored stone."

Nuwa was taken aback.

Ai Cao pointed to the Mother Goddess Stone behind her: "That's it."

“Everything around me stopped moving, except for me. I don’t know why, but I ran back here to look at it,” Artemisia explained briefly. “Then I touched the colorful part underneath and fell asleep.”

“No wonder,” Hokenpachi said thoughtfully. “When we found you, your sleeping posture was really strange.”

She casually demonstrated how to use the mugwort.

Sword Eight's right hand extends forward, while his left hand firmly supports him on the ground; his right leg extends backward, while his left leg is tucked under his body.

It doesn't look like the sleeping posture of a small animal, nor does it look like the sleeping posture of a person.

But since Ai Cao said she fell asleep suddenly, that explains her strange sleeping posture.

Nuwa raised the corners of her mouth. She pointed her finger at the Mother Goddess Stone, and the huge stone seemed to be grasped, shaking violently.

Nuwa looked at the stone with a leisurely air.

The surface of the stone has cracked.

The black soil and tiny grass sprouts were shaken off. The black outer shell on its surface also fell to the ground during the shaking.

It reveals a dazzling core.

It's difficult to describe it with a single color. It seems to have a black base, but within that black are many different colors mixed in. They all flow freely within the stone, like the stone itself.

Ai Cao looked around nervously.

Artemisia asked, "This place might attract my people."

Located in the center of the Jiang tribe's historical residence, the Mother Goddess Stone, which has been worshipped by many generations of Jiang tribe chiefs, is now also located in the center of her kingdom.

If others see this, how will she explain it?

Sword Eight reassured her, "Don't worry, Nuwa has put everyone to sleep. They won't know what happened here."

I'm somewhat relieved about the mugwort.

Nuwa reached out and grasped. The five-colored stone that had been on the ground appeared in her hand. The Mother Goddess Stone, which was much taller than a person, was just a slightly larger stone in Nuwa's hand.

Nuwa flicked her snake tail to leave, then turned around and lightly touched the fragments of the Mother Goddess Stone's outer shell that had fallen to the ground.

In the blink of an eye, the fragments returned to their original place, forming a new Mother Goddess Stone with only one outer shell.

Although it only has one outer shell, it is not something that humans can break through.

Artemisia finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Nuwa smiled and said, "I will use this five-colored stone to mend the sky, and then the sky will be able to expand outwards."

She was trying to swim away, wagging her tail, when she was stopped by Ai Cao's loud call.

With bright eyes, Ai Cao asked, "Does that mean I can go to other continents?"

She hadn't forgotten that she wanted to be the "king" of the world. Ever since she learned from Nuwa that the world had more than one continent, she had always been itching to be the "king" of just one continent.

Anyway, if the male protagonist were still alive, he would definitely be able to rule the whole world.

If that's the case, why can't she try ruling the whole world?

Ai Cao thought of the land she had cultivated in the past and felt very confident.

Nuwa laughed.

Nuwa said, "If you want to do it, then do it."

She flicked her tail and moved closer to Ai Cao. Her icy beastly eyes were almost pressed against the tip of Ai Cao's nose.

"I must mend the sky first," Nuwa said.

With that, she flicked her tail and swam away. She swam very fast, leaving a winding trail on the ground with her tail. A gust of wind blew by, and the trail she left behind disappeared.

Sword Eight looked at the mugwort, then at the Mother Goddess Stone. She said, "Now there's nothing for me to do..."

Her sleeve was caught by the mugwort.

Sword Eight: "?"

Artemisia extended a sincere invitation: "Would you like to travel to another continent together?"

Swords Eight tugged at his sleeve, but couldn't budge it. Artemisia was practically using her weight to suppress Swords Eight.

Artemisia continued her invitation: "Your sword can fly! That means I can postpone building the ship!"

Baojian Ba ​​stared at her intently. Her left eye seemed to say, "You just said that," and her right eye seemed to say, "Are you crazy?" She tried to pull her away but couldn't, so she simply reached out and summoned a sword, tossing it to Ai Cao.

Swords Eight said, "You use this." She rolled her eyes and added, "I've discussed it with it. Whether you want to step on it or use it to transport goods or people, it's fine."

Ai Cao thanked her with a smile.

"Let go, I'm going back to sleep." Baojianba tugged at his sleeve. "I haven't settled accounts with you for giving me so much cultivation power all at once..."

"Wait!" Ai Cao held onto her tightly. "There's one last question!"

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"When Nuwa said that this pendant originally belonged to her, was she telling the truth or lying?"

Sword Eight rolled his eyes again.

"She's a goddess, why would she need to lie to you?"

Ai Cao was stunned.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Sword Eight snatched the clothes from her hand and quickly disappeared.