Seven desires return to the eldest maternal uncle above
"Mother—"
The grasshopper son's voice was like a snapping string, sharpened with sparks that pierced the abyss.
All the spirits awoke, with the grasshopper son being the first to be affected. Despite the heavy burden of the seven desires parasitizing his body, he carried spiritual threads all over his body.
It flew out of the abyss, floated over the Void Realm Mountain, merged into the Fourteen Strings, and flew joyfully towards me and Xie Jinhui.
Following closely behind, the various children who acted as spirits, upon hearing their parents' call, all soared into the sky and sea like multi-stringed kites or mayflies in the sea, some fast and some slow.
As we looked down from the fourteenth string, the children's figures gradually grew from the size of fireflies to becoming clearer and closer.
However, when the slowest and heaviest earth spirits entered the celestial realm, I saw all the spirits suddenly stop moving and their bodies tremble.
There is a force that simultaneously restricts the progress of every spirit, pulling it downwards, while the spirit child's belief in reaching its parents resists it.
The power dispersed among the spiritual beings is none other than the hidden seven desires.
The seven brothers floated in the air, their bodies instantly turning golden.
Sure enough, as soon as the Seven Desires showed themselves, the brothers sensed and locked onto them.
Then, the brothers moved to the edge of the barrier, opened their arms, and faced outwards.
A hand pulls the spirits down, the spirit threads twisting and turning.
With its other hand, it unleashed a powerful force that drew the barrier inward like a whirlwind.
The spirits give the children strength through their calls.
Xie Jinhui protected the integrity of each spiritual thread and then peeled them off one by one from the spiritual object.
However, those threads bound the lifeblood of the spirit children, making each one extremely difficult to peel off. The slightest carelessness would damage the children's spiritual veins.
Xie Jinhui frowned, his expression focused.
At this moment, the immortals released the divine beasts that had replaced the spirit creatures in taking over the guarding duties.
Once the seven desires are forced out and the entanglements of spiritual objects are broken, the spiritual thread will be purified once again.
At that time, the divine beasts will be adorned with their own suitable spiritual threads and take on the responsibility of maintaining peace in the lower realm.
At this moment, the spirit beast roared, bared its claws and fangs, and flew in the air, threatening the Seven Desires who were still resisting within the spirit line.
My magical power, through the barrier, is distributed equally among each child.
The current situation could erupt into conflict at any moment, resulting in injuries and deaths among innocent people.
“Those seven lads are quite skilled, but they're scattered too much. If we don't lure them into the barrier, it will be difficult for us to pull them all out at once.”
If even a tiny fraction of them manages to escape, they could cause even more trouble in the future.
Sixth Brother's voice came from above.
The spirits echoed in response, "Mmm-hmm-hmm-hmm..."
Are they tacitly allowing that horrific situation to occur?
Xie Jinhui and I told them that the worst outcome would be for them and their child to be trapped in the furnace and unable to get out after entering the barrier and waking the child.
Xie Jinhui thought of a possibility: if the separation of the spirits could be completed outside the barrier, these children could survive!
But now, even the seven brothers' super strong senses and attraction cannot directly pull out the seven desires.
Relying solely on children's childlike desire to return to their parents' embrace is also extremely difficult.
The spirits froze in mid-air as two evenly matched forces clashed on the spirit line.
Xie Jinhui sighed heavily and looked down at me.
"It seems we have no choice but to do it that way!"
His gaze swept over the divine consciousnesses in the air, and he nodded to them in thanks.
I also looked around the barrier, inside and out, and then met his gaze, like two swords being drawn at the same time.
I nodded to him with a wry smile.
Xie Jinhui swept one hand across his chest, then spun his palm and snapped it back.
He grasped all the spiritual threads in his palm.
Having made his decision, he didn't hesitate and grabbed the spirit object and the spirit thread together towards the barrier.
Thousands of spiritual objects and countless spiritual threads, which were still suspended in mid-air one moment, were thrown together onto the edge of the barrier the next.
Immediately afterwards, the spirit thread struck the barrier, and mist after mist of white water vapor shot out, condensing into a thin ring of ice outside the barrier.
The ice was about to melt and escape in the blink of an eye, but it was too late. It was pushed out of the spiritual line, and then the barrier silently opened up deep abysses on its surface, swallowing them up.
As the water mist entered the barrier, the spiritual threads binding the spirit instantly loosened.
The spiritual threads, like the silver hair of an immortal and as dense as my master's thick beard, drifted through the air.
The mythical beasts leaped into the air: phoenix, crane, flying pig, spirit dog, Dudu bear, Fuzhu, lightning purple leopard, ghost wolf, peach blossom cat...
In an instant, the divine beasts appeared as if they had grown white fur, trailing long spiritual threads, moving up and down in the air, absorbing every spiritual thread of the various guardian places into themselves.
They moved very fast, and once the white fur floated within their spirit cores, the spirit beasts' pupils emitted a dazzling white light.
His expression turned solemn, as if he had suddenly grasped many profound mysteries. He calmed down, raised his head, bent his hooves, and bowed his wings to me and Xie Jinhui.
The spiritual threads that were crucial to the stability of the lower realm were all left to the celestial realm, while the Seven Desires Water Mist clung to the barrier wall, constantly bulging outwards like tiny, large pockmarked bubbles.
The moment the spirits came into contact with the barrier, they all fell in and cheered as they rushed into the arms of their respective parents.
My grasshopper son landed on my shoulder. After he learned who his parents were, a look of dominance ignited in his tiny beady eyes.
"Father, Mother," he said, "I want to stand with you, Father and Mother, I am willing."
He also said that he remembered Xie Jinhui and I spending a happy time with him, and although it felt like a dream, he felt it was real.
Xie Jinhui is always meticulous, so why didn't he erase his son's memories of the past?
He coughed lightly, having unexpectedly become a father.
“Yuanhe and I can only have this one son in our lives. I’m soft-hearted, okay?”
Inside the barrier, there was a cacophony of noise—the sounds of spirit parents and children recognizing each other, embracing and weeping, sleeping, being bewildered, feeling emotional, and making all sorts of joyful noises.
Xie Jinhui's brows were still furrowed, and so were mine.
We both raised our hands, and my son also raised his tentacles. The two streams of immortal power and my son's help converged on the barrier wall.
Those tiny, boiling bubbles instantly froze.
Drop by drop, they rapidly merged and converged towards the location of the immortal power.
Soon, a layer of ice film on the barrier wall formed a pool of sticky, black water that kept shouting "No, no, no, no!" and splashing water in all directions, but could no longer be broken apart.
This pool of water is like murky bile, slippery loach. When it is scattered as a drop, it is white. But when it transforms into its true form, you will find that every drop of its whiteness is actually soaked in venom.
When the immortals outside saw that the Ice Realm was gone, they hurriedly looked inside.
I smiled at them and made a gesture that said, "Fellow immortals, rest assured, the immortal realm is at peace."
Any further excitement will only be a struggle within the furnace, and will no longer involve the outside world.
The expressions on my fellow cultivators' faces make me feel smug if I look at them even once more; they're almost crying.
The matter inside the barrier isn't over yet; we can't let them interfere.
I looked up at the pool of sticky, dark mudfish, their claws outstretched, and grimaced.
I thought to myself: This goddess is actually related to this thing. Thank goodness I don't have to sleep anymore starting today, otherwise I'm afraid I'll start dreaming about this poopy thing calling me my sister goddess or something.
It's so awkward.
My brothers didn't let them torture me for too long. After Xie Jinhui and I gathered them into shape, my seven brothers stretched out their hands, which were swirling with golden light, and sucked them into the black water.
They appeared as if they were pulled from the water like several black mud radishes, revealing seven figures dripping from the black soup.
To be honest, after pulling out the seven radishes—no, the seven desires—if they weren't so dark-skinned, just looking at their eyebrows and eyes, they were just as handsome as my older brothers and even Emperor Su Ling.
As soon as this mud of seven desires took shape, it became particularly loud, cursing a bunch of old slang.
Anyway, it's all slang about Suo Ling, and it's even more sinister when it comes out of their mouths.
They were naked, and when they saw me, they treated me much like that fake Heavenly Emperor did.
Seeing that they were about to pounce on me, I realized that I had to go along with them.
The liquid and silver light from the brothers' feet flew up and landed on the seven mud figures.
It turns out that the wine and liquor road was not only a rope that bound and restrained people, but also a series of tailor-made bodysuits.
The seven older brothers, holding one end of the road, wrapped themselves in black mud and, with a gentle pull, led them on their way.
Qi Yu floated in mid-air, staring intently at me. Suddenly, they remembered something and realized something, and they all glared at Xie Jinhui and started cursing.
"Su Ling, you bastard, you have no conscience whatsoever! Why did you drag the goddess Yuanhe into this!"
She was just your infatuation, and you even killed that infatuation. You bastard.
Xie Jinhui rolled his eyes, as if it were none of his business.
Qi Yu could see that Xie Jinhui was harder than dog shit, so he figured their mouths were even stinkier than dog shit.
"Goddess Yuan'e, you're blind! How could you fall for him and not for me?"
If you had agreed to be my empress back then, you wouldn't be a prisoner today.
This celestial realm, this throne of the Heavenly Emperor, this entire world, it's all yours, all yours! Hahahaha!
I rolled my eyes at them. Qi Yu was being drawn closer to them by the golden pull of her brothers.
I have a bad feeling. If Qiyu meets her brothers, will they still exist?
The brothers' faces were flushed; they were quite drunk.
Their smiles gradually brightened, and as the seven desires drew closer, the brothers seemed to blossom more and more.
Qi Yu complained that my eyesight was bad, and then went to scold Xie Jinhui for not even lifting his eyelids. His voice sounded like black mud splashing out.
"Su Ling, are you trying to kill us? If you can't kill us, then what, are you willing to sacrifice yourself to accompany us in death?"
“Are you willing to give it up?” Xie Jinhui finally spoke, his tone so arrogant it was almost inviting criticism. “Aren’t we family? I love my Qinggen Yuanhe, but we’re at odds with you seven desires.”
Are you happy?
Qi Yu was speechless for a moment as they drew closer to their seven older brothers.
"Goddess Yuan'e." I was called on again.
"Look at us, look at us, and remember us well!"
For some reason, their seven pairs of eyes suddenly became sorrowful and melancholic. I glanced over at them casually and my heart suddenly ached.
Qi Yu sensed the slight ripple in my heart and suddenly burst into laughter, saying in a strange voice, "Very good, very good, Goddess Yuan'e, you remember us, you have us in your heart."
As long as you live, sooner or later we will be reborn through you.
"Goddess Yuan'e, we are one, one! Hahahaha!"
I laughed twice, interrupting the hoarse, dry voices that came out of their broken throats.
They coughed, their voices transforming into dark raven feathers, like a curse, which condensed into a drop of black ice before my eyelashes, shattering with a thud at my feet, scattering seven tiny wisps of black smoke.
Climbing up my shadow, their energy and beliefs gently flow into my body.
A sense of irritation flashed through my mind.
But I don't care about these implanted consciousnesses; I'll just wait for the dust to settle in the future.
Without even taking any precautions, he laughed and said, "Seven Desires, I didn't plan to live. We're all on the same path. It's such a pity."
Your last hope has also been shattered.
"Su Mio!" Qi Yu's voice, twisted like a dry rag, erupted in a fierce rage.
The latitude and longitude lines were shattered, and dirty water flew everywhere.
"What the hell have you done to your brain? Love, romantic love? This is the biggest joke of your life."
If I hadn't made that wrong move, I would have destroyed Fei Kong Mountain long ago! That would have exposed your twisted and crooked thoughts, and you would have hanged yourself.
Feikong Mountain? Feikong Mountain collapsed!
Seeing that my brothers and Qiyu were about to collide, I quickly asked a question that was actually none of my business.
"Seven Desires, was it you who caused the collapse of Feikong Mountain that day? Why? Feikong Mountain is the foundation of the Immortal Realm. If it is destroyed, you will not survive either."
The brothers' pull was irreversible once they made their move, and they didn't seem to care whether they heard the truth or not, since it was all going to end anyway.
Before encountering her seven brothers who were radiating golden light, Qi Yu turned around and revealed a sinister smile.
"Heh, how can we establish our order without destroying the foundation?"
Besides, that Fei Kong Shan is the one Su Ling longs for day and night…
What the heck? The one Sumi has been longing for day and night? Who is it?
Who is it?
Before she could finish speaking, Qi Yu deliberately paused before getting along with her seven older brothers.
Immediately afterwards, the seven golden bodies of the brothers suddenly swelled up, first revealing Su Ling's face, which was instantly torn to pieces by the golden fire and swallowed up the black Seven Desires.
At this moment, the two sides of the same coin suddenly merged from fourteen individuals into seven.
The outlines of my seven older brothers had not yet faded. They turned to look at me and smiled mysteriously: "Eighth Sister, in the end, your brothers will definitely protect you."
As they spoke, the forms of the brothers vanished in the blink of an eye, replaced by seven orbs of light, emitting hissing, golden-white intertwined, violent vibrations and flashes as if they were locked in a fierce battle.
The fight subsided quickly, and the seven orbs of light settled down, forming a color that was somewhere between clear and turbid.
Immediately, the orbs of light lined up, casting a single shadow that resembled a seven-petaled lotus flower, with tiny golden flames burning along the edges of each petal, before slowly converging into one.
Their shadows were cast on the barrier wall, reflecting off the scattered stars that fell upon the spirits, who looked up and gazed around.
"Brother!" I managed to utter a single word, but then I covered my mouth again. I couldn't stop them, nor could I let our feelings hinder their progress.
My son whispered in my ear, "Mother, uncles..."
"Shh!" I said, "Seven uncles have become one."
I pointed to the sky, to the new sphere of light formed by the combination of seven spheres of light, and said very realistically, "Son of a grasshopper, in the end, you only have one uncle."
His name is Seven Desires.
The grasshopper's son twisted his head, looking somewhat confused, and said, "Oh, then I'll call him, Uncle?"
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